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Scotland

No. 35
Architecture
Covesea Golf Links Scotland No. 35

Through the Fire

A tale of true love, tragedy, perseverance and golf in the Scottish Highlands

 
Films
whim & fancy scotland golf the old course

Playing 36 at St. Andrews

The Old Course played in the championship and reverse routings

No. 32
Adventures
Season in Scotland and St. Andrews No. 32

The (Adopted) Home of Golf

What happens when a wife convinces her husband to spend a season in St. Andrews

No. 31
Adventures
Carradale No. 31

Caledonian Dream

Carradale and its staggering sixth hole deserve a place among Scotland’s Kintyre greats

 
Architecture
Lido Channel hole 4 square

The Broken Tee Society Composite Course: 2024

The votes are in—these are the 18 best holes that the BTS played in 2024

 
Adventures
The Last Queue St. Andrews

The Last Queue

What is earned, and lost, on the final night of the Old Course Singles Queue

No. 29
Adventures
Dunaverty Scotland tgj 29

The Pilgrim and the Scot

An American traveler and a lifelong local on the magic of Dunaverty

No. 27
Adventures
The Second Kingdom Anstruther Scotland

The Second Kingdom

Anstruther is much more than one famously brutal hole

 
Architecture
Broken Tee Society composite course 2023

The 18 Best Holes of 2023

A par of 67 and a collection of some of the world's top par 3s highlight the Broken Tee Society's 2023 Composite Course

No. 25
Opinion
But Now I See Brora No. 25 Lipping Out

But Now I See

Finding an elevated plane in the Scottish Highlands

No. 24
Opinion
23 The Lang Way Round Christian Hafer Scotland

The Game Keeps Spinning

A grandmother's lessons on and off the course

No. 23
Adventures
the lang way round

The Lang Way ‘Round

A single-lane road trip in search of nine-holers off Scotland's tourist path

 
Art & Culture
Tom Shaw portfolio rugby

Portfolio: Tom Shaw

A celebration of the British sporting photographer's finest work from on and off the course

 
News
St andrews

Open Secrets

Finding new angles on the Old Course

No. 20
Adventures
The Price We Pay

The Price We Pay

Playing through the wreckage of an unimaginable loss in the Scottish backcountry

No. 19
Characters
Royal Dornoch

Hard Forged

Dornoch’s harsh winters and unrelenting gorse shaped one of the world’s great courses and a friendship found only in golf

No. 15
Essay
1954: General view of Dutch Harrison's golf bag along with many other golf bags are shown circa 1954. (Photo by Hy Peskin/Getty Images

Half Full

Taking some clubs out of the bag might be the answer to your biggest golf questions

No. 14
Characters
St. Andrews ladies' putting club

The Grandes Dames of the Himalayas

Age be damned: The St. Andrews Ladies’ Putting Club is still thriving

No. 12
Adventures
Tom Shaw

A Day at the Dunvegan

A snapshot of the random and beautiful collisions that occur at one of the game’s iconic watering holes

No. 9
Architecture

Landfall

Welcome to Montrose Golf Links, the front line in the battle against the game's most frightening enemy: climate change

No. 7
Opinion
Spanish golfer Seve Ballesteros on the 17th green during a Ryder Cup match at The Belfry, Warwickshire, 15th September 1985.

Dormie?

Theories abound on the term’s origin, including one from Scotland’s most famous queen

No. 6
Essay
Colf Lessons

Colf Lessons

The facts of our game’s history are clear—as a Scottish fog

No. 5
Adventures
Landscape shot. Photo by Kevin Markham.

The Tao of Garth

Learning some of golf’s greatest lessons from one of its worst players

No. 2
Interview
Alan McPherson

Alan McPherson

One man's impossible quest to play every course in Scotland—even the secret ones.

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