Castle Stuart

Published:

Inverness, Highlands.
Par 72, 7,009 yards.

Designers: Parsinen & Hanse.
Green fee: £175 all week.
Tel: 01463 795440.

Four years after opening, Castle Stuart is already on the cusp of the top 10. Man of the moment Gil Hanse, who has been handed the task of laying out the Olympic course in Rio, certainly made a fine job of producing a championship course here, one which is exceptionally playable for the majority of golfers. If you can get the ball airborne off the tee, there is a good chance you can find the fairways here – they are as wide as a runway. But then the real challenge begins, because the green complexes reject all but the most pure approaches from the ‘wrong’ side of the fairway. A second-shot course if ever there was one.

 

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