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 to be formed new; fairways were simply the original terrain with the grass cut shorter.