We invite you to join us for an authentic Scottish sporting holiday. "It’s much more than golf." Link to Golf and fishing the River Tay Slideshow From your base at stately Balathie House Hotel, you can golf on St. Andrews links, see the Royal and Ancient town and learn its history, fish salmon in the famous River Tay, visit Scottish Castles, see how uisge- batha (Scotland’s water of life - its whisky) is produced and sample a dram or two, on-the-house . Take a train ride to Edinburgh, Scotland’s Capital City, visit King Robert the Bruce’s Magnificent Edinburgh Castle, shop elegant Princes street street stores, march to Pipe Bands, watch brawny Scots throw the hammer, toss the caber, kilted dancers perform the Highland fling and best of all taste Scotland’s best country fare, at nearby village of Birnum's Highland Games. There’s also plenty time for golf at Scotland’s best links under the watchful eye of your tour director, David Paterson, PGA golf professional and Yale University Golf Coach Emeritus who will help you play your best golf on Scotland’s ancient links, catch a fish or two and keep you up-to-date on Scottish history. |
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This is the classic Irish Golf Tour for first-time visitors as well as returning golfing veterans. You will fly into Shannon on the west coast of Ireland at dawn and make your way to Dooonbeg to play Greg Norman's Doonbeg. The a short trip up the road to lahinch to play the championship course; you can pause here to visit the Cliffs of Mohr before heading south to play the best- known of all Irish course, the world - famous Ballybunion.
includes Tralee, an audacious dunes layout built by Arnold Palmer, Dooks, a pleasant less exacting links but with magnificent scenery, then drive the Ring of Kerry to play Waterville, a majestic links just past Caherciveen, where you can buy the best Irish tweeds in the country. Killarney's Killeen Course completes the tour, or spend an extra day and head south into County Cork to play the dramatic, cliff-top Old Head Golf Links on a peninsula jutting two miles into the Atlantic You lodge in traditional Irish Country Hotels offering excellent country fare in a pub setting, patronized by locals who willingly supply golf advice during a chat over a pint of Guinness or Simthwick's, Ireland's oldest ale. |
This is a rare opportunity for fathers, grandfathers, mothers and grandmothers to play the famous St. Andrews links together with their children or grandchildren, boys and girls, and learn the history of the Royal & Ancient Game of golf as it grew to dominate a town with a history reaching back to the Bronze Age and to the time of Roman legionaries. A town once known as the ecclesiastical heart of Scotland’s Roman Church, ruled by Bishops and visited for centuries by Kings and Queens is now celebrated for golf. Along with playing the great links, participants will visit St. Andrews historical sites including the ruins of the 12 century Cathedral where the great champions of golf, Auld Tom Morris and his son Tom Jr., winner of five Open Championships, lie in the graveyard among the great Bishops. Participants will visit the nearby British Golf Museum, founded in 1990, which is an important resource for golf historians and displays a huge collection of documents and implements related golf history and the foundation of St. Andrews as the birthplace of golf. Historians claim golf was played in St. Andrews earlier than the 1400s. Join us in the 'Auld Toon' of St. Andrews for a very special week of golf accompanied by Coach Paterson, Yale's distinguished Golf Coach Emeritus who will help bring your game into shape on the Royal and Ancient links. |
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This extraordinary 12-day golf and sightseeing adventure to New Zealand offers you much more than golf. In addition to playing many of New Zealand’s finest courses, from Auckland's scenic Gulf Harbour to the latest Jacks Point Club in Queenstown with a backdrop of the Remarkable Mountains, along the way you will visit New Zealand’s historic sites and see, first- hand it’s magnificent countryside. Auckland, New Zealand’s gateway city, portrays a green, clean image of forest and sea views and is Dominated by Waitemata Harbor, Maori for “Sea of Sparkling Waters.” that supports the New Zealander’s addiction to outdoor life. You travel to Paihia in the Bay of Islands with sparkling beaches and shimmering harbors, important as the place where Westernized New Zealand came into to being with the signing of the Treaty of Waitangi in1840. Then onto the great Lake Taupo, the largest freshwater lake in Asia with gigantic trout and bubbling thermal pools and baths for your relaxation. Finally Queenstown on a glacial lake beneath snow capped peaks, the adventure capital of the country, with easy access to rivers, lakes, ski fields and the glacial Fjordland National Park. You will see when you fly onto the glaciers and sail the fiords to the farmland why New Zealand is renowned for its beauty. Indeed there is much more than golf on this adventure. |
Golf, Wine, Dali and Picasso are only part of this exciting adventure in Catalonia. The eight day tour to Barcelona offers an amalgam of activities four top Barcelona courses; Golf Llaverones one of Spain's first courses, Golf Torremirona , facing the Pyrenees, Golf El Prat offering a choice of five- well designed, nine-hole layouts and finally Golf Terramar with magnificent views of the Mediterranean. Although, as far as we know, neither played golf, but perhaps you will be inspired in some way by a visit to the home of the renowned surrealist, Salvador Dali in nearby Figures and to cubist, Pablo Picasso’s Museum in Barcelona. An unusual turn of events will have you collecting ingredients and creating your own lunch under the eye of Catalonian chef and in Penedes, the Cava Capital, prepare a personal bottle of wine to enjoy during the trip or take home as a souvenir. Barcelona’s magnificent Gran Hotel de Florida overlooking the city is your lodging for the majority of the tour, finishing with two tranquil, leisurely days at the Hostal Castell De Gimenelles in country hotel near the exciting seaside town of Sitges. |