Carne's €100 Winter Golf Offer

Carne Golf Links introduced its Winter Deal a few weeks ago... and it's a seriously fabulous offer. Play Carne as many times as you like, from now until March 2018, for €100.  

To quote Tom Coyne, author of A Course Called Ireland, "In any string of words I might pen over the rest of my life, I might never write a more true sentence than this: Carne is absolutely brilliant. Front nine,

Scotland’s North Coast 500… The Top Ten

The opening hole at Durness Golf Club

Nineteen days, 920 miles, 26 golf courses… this day last week I rolled home with  Scotland’s North Coast 500 under my belt… done and dusted… finished… never to be forgotten. What started out as a golfing odyssey to play these courses (Royal Dornoch and Brora in particular) turned into something so much bigger. The landscape is majestic, the history haunting (the Highland Clearances have refrains not dissimilar to

Tom Coyne's Scottish Golfing Odyssey

Tom Coyne on the 9th tee at Cruden Bay

“I brought five balls with me,” I said to Tom, as we stood on the 4th tee at Cruden Bay, just north of Aberdeen. “You’re welcome to have whatever I’ve got left at the end.”

Tom Coyne is doing one of the fastest tours of Scottish links golf in history. 107 courses in 57 days. The day I met him and played Cruden Bay, he had already played 18 that morning – at Newburgh-on-Ythan.

Tom is in the process of writing a book. It’s