Few awards are as exciting and satisfying to us here at The Village at Machrihanish Dunes as those that come from our guests.  That’s why we were ecstatic when Bunkered Magazine readers voted us “Scotland’s Best Resort Experience for 2013”, and why we’re now thrilled to receive TripAdvisor’s “2014 Certificate of Excellence” for The Royal […]

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Our monthly golf course update from our Head Greenkeeper, Simon Freeman: I am usually the first to moan about the weather, but in truth it has been quite kind to us during the past month. The result of this favourable spell (and a lot of hard work by the Dunes greenkeeping team, of course!) is […]

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Photo Courtesy of Pinehurstnumber2.com With the U.S. Open being contested this week over the recently redesigned Pinehurst No. 2 course—and the U.S. Women’s Open being played on the same course a week later—much is being said about the changes that were made to the course at the hands of golf architects Bill Coore and Ben […]

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David: I know this is an impossible question to answer for anyone who’s involved in the golf design business, but do you have a favorite golf hole on the Machrihanish Dunes course? Jimmy: Number three, par 3. Number three is one of the most beautiful par 3s. Since we took the mound down in the […]

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A Machrihanish Dunes course update from the club’s Head Greenkeeper, Simon Freeman: As many of you are keenly aware, the winter of 2013-14 will go down in the record books as one of the worst that Great Britain and Ireland have ever experienced.  Storm after storm rolled in off the Atlantic and the resulting wind, […]

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