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Your Hotel |
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Stay at a four star hotel just outside Irvine for 6 nights. Irvine is surrounded by some of the most picturesque countryside in
Scotland, and is a great
base for a golf tour, and from which to discover the area. |
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Day 1 |
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The Irvine Golf Club is a favourite, as it has everything that the Links type courses should offer.With heavy gorse and heather spread around the course some say this is the trickiest of the Open Championship Qualifiers in the area. Although slightly shorter than the others there are deep bunkers and numerous blind shots, so you'll need to be on top of your game.
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Day 2 |
Glasgow Gailes |
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Like many links courses that are not immediately beside the sea, heather lined fairways make the finding of the fairway from the tee essential. A true test of golf with a few blind shots to greens hidden in the natural contours. There are a number of demanding par 4's where an accurate drive and well struck long iron are required to reach in the regulation 2 shots.
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Day 3 |
Barassie |
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Kilmarnock (Barassie) Golf Club is to be found on the outskirts of Troon on Scotland’s west coast and has been offering the golfer a magnificent links golf challenge for over an hundred years. The course itself is a Open Championship Final Qualifying venue with a well deserved reputation for some of the best maintained greens in Scotland. It is typically what Scottish Links golf is about - large undulating greens, deep bunkers and doglegs. |
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Day 4 |
Old Prestwick |
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The course is a traditional monument, an authentic affair with a layout of holes that snake to and fro through rugged dunes and rippled fairways. There are numerous blind holes and cavernous sleepered bunkers with wooden steps to take you down to the bottom. The greens are notoriously firm and fast – some are hidden in hollows whilst others are perched on raised plateaux. The majority are quite small and all of them have wicked borrows to negotiate
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Day 5 |
Western Gailes |
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The Western Gailes golf course is wedged between Irvine Bay and the railway tracks on one of Ayrshire’s narrowest strips of links land. Western and its next-door neighbour, Glasgow Gailes, are the northernmost of the exceptional links courses located on this prodigious stretch of Ayrshire coastline. The fairways undulate gently, interrupted occasionally by three meandering burns that dissect this thin strip of land. The greens are cleverly located in naturally folded ground; some are protected by burns whilst others are in hollows guarded by sand dunes.
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Day 6 |
Depart |
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