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Our First Golf Trip to Scotland

I have waited a long time to summarize our two golfing trips to Scotland. The first one was back in the summer of 2001. The second was in late June of 2003. My memory of some of the details is a bit clouded, but the most outstanding bits are as clear as if they happened yesterday. Our first trip was the result of a house swap I did with an acquaintance who lived in Linlithgow -- roughly halfway between Glasgow and Edinburgh. I had registered our Florida house (we have since sold it -- just before the hurricane in Aug 2004) for swaps on holswap.com and was getting a fair number of inquiries from people from England and Scotland.

The Linlithgow trade sounded perfect. I had done a fair bit of research and had already decided I wanted to be near enough to St. Andrews to visit, but was more interested in seeing a few of the more obscure, remote courses. Linlithgow is roughly 50 miles from St. Andrews.

I was not counting on playing The Old Course this time around because Judy would not be able to play with me (official handicaps required), and you have to book too far in advance. I was more interested in just seeing the town of St. Andrews and walking a bit on the course.

My real objective was to visit Royal Dornoch three or so hours north of Edinburgh, and Macrahanish over on the Mull of Kintyre about as close to Ireland as you can get on mainland Scotland. So I had booked a two night stay at the Dornoch Castle in the first week, and another two night stay at a beautiful B&B in Campbelltown about ten miles from Macrahanish.

We spent the first couple days at Linlithgow seeing the local sites. The first night there just happened to be a jousting match on the grounds of the Linlithgow Palace -- an historic ruin that was once the home of Mary Queen of Scots.

Before leaving for Dornoch on Wednesday I wanted to play at least one round in the south. The father in law of our host recommended we go over to North Berwick just south of Muirfield on the east coast (the St. Andrews side). This gave us the opportunity to scout out the terrain along the East Lothian coast between Edinburgh and Gullane -- the home of Muirfield.

We played our first round in Scotland at North Berwick. This is considered a "primitive" links course with quirky features such as blind shots and walls you have to shoot over. It is the home of the original "Redan" par three -- which at the time I thought was fairly unremarkable -- a hole which has been copied more than any other in the world. My most memorable shot was the approach at #13, "The Pit". I hit what I thought was a beautiful iron just over the wall onto the green. When we got there it was down in the "pit" behind the green and required a massive uphill putt. I think it took about four more strokes to get it near the hole. Judy got her first par in Scotland on #17!

The next day we visited St. Andrews. Having played at North Berwick I was accustomed to the "public" nature of these courses. People were perfectly free to walk across the fairway to and from the beach. So this gave us the opportunity to walk parts of The Old Course. We walked out a couple holes along the beach side, then came back along the famous "Road Hole" (17) and along the road to the even more famous Swilcan Bridge over the "burn" on 18.