When Bandon Dunes opened, in 1999, it patterned itself on golf across the pond, with a Scottish-style links along the Oregon coast. Twenty-five years later, the script has flipped. Many far-flung ...

When Jack Nicklaus calls a course's first hole "the best opening hole of golf in the world," you can bet the place belongs in the World Top 100 conversation. At Machrihanish Golf Club, the opener - ...

Machrihanish is a legendary links course on the Kintyre Peninsula, in western Scotland. Part of the routing was created by Old Tom Morris in 1879, when what was then called the Kintyre Golf Club ...

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The word machair is also preserved in a number of places in Ireland and Scotland: Magheramore, Maghera Strand, Machair Bay, Macharioch, and Machrihanish. Those last two are villages on the Kintyre ...

MACHRIHANISH, Scotland -- A window seat on the early morning descent into Edinburgh Airport is always a treat; fields below burst with emerald green, peppered with roaming, little white dots. The view ...

When Jack Nicklaus calls a course’s first hole “the best opening hole of golf in the world,” you can bet the place belongs in the World Top 100 conversation. At Machrihanish Golf Club, the opener — ...