This trip has been filled with great golf on great golf courses and even though I am against tour-bus-courses, we have played a few this time. All that said, we booked Carnoustie for the second time in two years because we truly enjoyed the variety of holes and layout of this course. Expecting to be…

Today started leisurely. Our starting time was for 10:37 at the Buddon Course, a smaller course at Carnoustie. We were so delighted with our round yesterday that we booked a round on Buddon just so we could look longingly over the fence at the Championship course as we played.  The Buddon Course is shorter, but…

Today was our day to play Panmure, a little-known golf course on the east with Carnoustie very near and Monifieth sharing an OB(out of bounds) line. We were welcomed like old friends (no tour buses) and given lovely bag tags and a coupon for Kümmel after our round! I learned about this course from a…

Today was moving day. We were going to drive all the way from Golspie above Inverness down to the Arbroath area below Aberdeen on the east coast. The drive would take four hours. On the recommendation of Janet McKay from the Croft Fair yesterday, we decided to visit Cawdor Castle because of two things. She…

We had a slow start because we didn’t have a plan for the day besides our very precious game of golf scheduled for the only time we could manage, 4:50pm. Trying to play 18 holes before dark was going to be tricky— and the Tain parade would start at 8 pm. To fill the hours…

Our tee time was 10:10, and we were scheduled to play with Janice from the pro shop, but sadly, Janice has recently developed two bad knees. She said neither of them felt up to the game. Plus, she’d forgotten and was scheduled to work today! So, it was just us on our own today (Scottish…

Today was our moving day, but first—breakfast. There’s something I like to do in Scotland, and that’s eat haggis in different regions. I had a couple of samples in the Glasgow area, but now that we are in the Highlands, I wanted to make sure to have another taste, this one from the local butcher….

Today was a late start for a late starting time at a very special Speyside golf course called Boat of Garten. There used to be a small ferry across the Spey River and so the town and golf course were named for the boat. We have known about this course since our first visit when…

We started the day too late!  Had breakfast and said a heartfelt goodbye to Garry, our host at the Fox House Third Part Farm. We had a date with Peter Nevens, our second friend in Scotland, whom we met on our first trip and who is now seriously ailing. Our trip from Beith to Wishaw…

Does anyone remember the British show from the ‘70s—“Danger UXB”? It was short-lived but certainly had a catchy title. Well, today we met up with a possible scene from that old show!!  But back to the beginning…we started the day early because our starting time was 9 am at the Troon Portland course, their second…