Overview
The extended Highlands circuit adds Brora and Tain — two courses that very few visitors ever play, and both worth making the detour. Six days in the north, with Royal Dornoch as the centrepiece.
Day 1: Arrival & Inverness
Fly in, settle in. A good dinner in the city. This trip starts slowly on purpose.
Day 2: Nairn Golf Club
The Moray coast, a championship links, and a reminder that this part of Scotland gets far more sunshine than its reputation suggests.
Day 3: Castle Stuart Golf Links
Scottish Open venue. Cliff-top holes. Hanse design. Everything you want from a modern links.
Day 4: Tain Golf Club
Founded in 1890. Old Tom Morris came north to advise on the layout. Tain is a traditional links in a small town on the Dornoch Firth — understated, honest, and completely charming.
Day 5: Royal Dornoch & Brora
Morning at Royal Dornoch — the course that justifies the whole journey. Afternoon (or the following morning) at Brora, a links that has remained essentially unchanged since James Braid revised it in 1923. Cattle wander the edges of the fairways. It is extraordinary.
Day 6: Departure
North of Royal Dornoch, the next course is in Iceland. South, it’s Inverness. Head south.