Golf for Argyll

A new links course, desined by David McLay Kidd is to open in May 2009 at Machrihanish. Machrihanish Dunes Golf Club is an 18-hole links course beside the Machrihanish Golf Club. The two courses, a plush clubhouse for the new course (due 2010) and some luxury accommodation will put together a fantastic golfing complex for [...]

We all know the gory details - a glorious and feted European team snatching, as they say, defeat from the jaws of anticipated victory. Nuff said. But look at the Zinger’s tactics. Magic. A new logic altogether and what a successful one. He put - and kept - groups of players together on the basis [...]

Faldo has spoken. The wild cards go to Ian Poulter and Paul Casey. The rumour mill’s been saying they’d both been given the nod in advance - explaining why Poulter went to the States instead of proving his place at Gleneagles. Darren Clarke’s got reason to feel put out. He’s done the business. Poulter and [...]

Open champion, Padraig Harrington has asked to have Coin Montgomerie as his partner but what will Europe captain Nick Faldo do? Justin Rose has had the bottle to go to Gleneagles to prive his worth. Ian Poulter has preferred to look after his own interests, has cancelled Gleneagles, where he was down to play and [...]

Yesterday was the day. Old Tom Morris would have been relieved to see the course he designed at Askernish on South Uist and described as ’staggering’, now back from serial use as croft and airfield and restored as one of the world’s best links courses. Kenny Dalglish, beloved of Scotland’s football fans, opened the course [...]

It’s not Argyll but it’s a big addition to the Scottish Golf scene. The lost eighteen-hole links course designed in 1891 by the legendary Old Tom Morris at Askernish Golf Club on South Uist has finally been restored and is to be opened by Kenny Dalglish on Friday 22nd August. The discovery and the restoration [...]

Bute’s Port Bannatyne Golf Club hosts its Standaloft Open Greensomes on Sunday 17th August.

With the Gents Open in July and the Ladies Open last weekend, The Gents Open Doubles (the Medal Doubles)  is on Sunday 17th August and the Mixed Doubles Open on Sunday 7th September. Entry forms available online.

You can check the results of golf competitions at Islay Golf Club online now. Great initiative. Have fun.

Just time to enter for Helensburgh Golf Club’s Ben Bouie Mixed Foursomes competition on Sunday 24th August.