The stunning four-star development on the Mull of Kintyre, which only opened in 2009, came out on top in the magazine’s Scotland’s Best Experience competition, run in conjunction with the national tourism organisation, VisitScotland. Readers were asked to nominate the Scottish golf club or resort that they believe offers the best day out for visitors, with Machrihanish Dunes finishing […]

Scotland, the Home of Golf, is blessed with dozens of superb options for your next golf getaway – places with illustrious names, historic pedigrees, and unforgettable links golf courses. But when it came time to select the one golf resort in Scotland that offered the very best of everything, the members of Golf Tourism Scotland […]

The most important ingredient in any buddies trip is the mix of players. But after that, it’s the destination. We recently surveyed Golf Digest subscribers to find out their favorite destinations for buddies-golf getaways. Here are the top-36 places they’re hoping to visit again this year.  » View PDF

The ethos of Machrihanish Dunes is that “true links golf courses are not created, they are born of the land.” As such, there are few better places for a new links to be born than within the Kintyre dunes. Designed by Scottish architect David McLay Kidd, construction of Machrihanish Dunes required only tees and greens […]

The Village at Machrihanish Dunes announced today that it was the winner of two top awards at the Golf Tourism Scotland Excellence Awards, which were presented at the group’s annual dinner held on Friday, 22 November.  The two awards it received were the ‘Resort Experience of the Year’ award and the ‘Golf Tourism Scotland GEO […]