Thursday, September 30, 2004
Royal Dornoch - English spoken here
Yes the natives are friendly and bilingual and the caddies at Royal Dornoch are very well behaved and only require modest recompense.
It's a Royal Burgh
It's on record that golf was played at Dornoch in 1616 and that makes it the third oldest golf course in the world after St Andrews and Leith
And it's where Madonna got hitched
Here's a wee glimpse of my ancestral home near Dornoch
Well to be honest, not my home but there's a connection.
It belongs to the Chief of the Sutherland Clan -The Countess of Sutherland
Lorne Rubenstein decided to spend a summer in Dornoch to clear the muddle from his golfing mind and to rediscover the natural charms of the game he loves and came up with
A Season in Dornoch
And how about this from Sir Robert Gordon of Gordonstoun
Mind you it was written a wee while ago
The links at Dornoch were ‘the fairest and lairgist links (or grein fields) of any part of Scotland’ and ‘They do far surpasse the fields off Montrois or Saint andrews’. (sic)
Quite by coincidence, yesterday I borrowed from the city library -
Golf's Greatest Moments: An Illustrated History by the Game's Finest Writers
and there's a chapter about Dornoch
Bob Weisgerber had this to say about this very fine book - Are you listening Santa Claus?
The second article that I’d like to point out is Herbert Warren Wind’s article titled North to the Links of Dornoch. Wind is arguably the greatest American golf writer of all time and Royal Dornoch is a course in the north of Scotland that nearly defies description with a 270 degree view of the North Sea and copious amounts of yellow-blooming gorse that presents eye-candy while threatening your golf game.
Aren't you glad this is just a blog? I could go on for ages and pages
It's a Royal Burgh
It's on record that golf was played at Dornoch in 1616 and that makes it the third oldest golf course in the world after St Andrews and Leith
And it's where Madonna got hitched
Here's a wee glimpse of my ancestral home near Dornoch
Well to be honest, not my home but there's a connection.
It belongs to the Chief of the Sutherland Clan -The Countess of Sutherland
Lorne Rubenstein decided to spend a summer in Dornoch to clear the muddle from his golfing mind and to rediscover the natural charms of the game he loves and came up with
A Season in Dornoch
And how about this from Sir Robert Gordon of Gordonstoun
Mind you it was written a wee while ago
The links at Dornoch were ‘the fairest and lairgist links (or grein fields) of any part of Scotland’ and ‘They do far surpasse the fields off Montrois or Saint andrews’. (sic)
Quite by coincidence, yesterday I borrowed from the city library -
Golf's Greatest Moments: An Illustrated History by the Game's Finest Writers
and there's a chapter about Dornoch
Bob Weisgerber had this to say about this very fine book - Are you listening Santa Claus?
The second article that I’d like to point out is Herbert Warren Wind’s article titled North to the Links of Dornoch. Wind is arguably the greatest American golf writer of all time and Royal Dornoch is a course in the north of Scotland that nearly defies description with a 270 degree view of the North Sea and copious amounts of yellow-blooming gorse that presents eye-candy while threatening your golf game.
Aren't you glad this is just a blog? I could go on for ages and pages
