Machrihanish Dunes was offering a two night three day all you care to golf package for a stupidly low price of 80 pounds. Impossible to pass up as one round of golf on this course is 95 pounds! The Dunes is an SSPC protected site so there was very little done to the landscape. Very natural links course. They call it "the way golf was". We played 3 rounds on it and one round on the Old Course at Machrihanish. I still prefer the old course but the new course was extreme. With a 30 mph wind all three days it was difficult but enjoyable. The greens were long and had not yet been seeded with bent, so it will be a couple of years for this course to come into its own but the layout is spectacular.
Straight down the middle.
I was disappointed not to be in a bunker until the 15th hole, then I found out just how deep they are.
None of the bunkers were dug. They are all 100% natural!
Our cottage. Livin' large!
View of town from the beach off the Old Course.
Where's my longboard when I need it!
Bathrobes and whiskey in the evenings. Oh, yeah.
1st tee at the Old Course. Hit over the Atlantic ocean.
Nice form. Aoum made par on this par three.
Someone was watching over us. The sun shone on the course and town and nowhere else in the country!
