Golf courses in Scottish Highlands

The Scottish Highlands offer golf in one of the most majestic settings the game can claim, a vast region of mountains, glens, lochs and a long, indented coastline reaching up towards the far north. With around 23 courses, the Highlands are less about quantity than quality of experience: many of its links lie along the Moray Firth and the shores north of Inverness, where firm seaside turf, gorse and sea air create classic Scottish golf in remote and beautiful surroundings. This is the historic home of the game played in its purest form, far from the crowds.

The roll-call here is a strong one. Nairn Golf Club and its neighbour Nairn Dunbar line the shores of the Moray Firth with renowned championship links, while Fortrose & Rosemarkie sits on a slender peninsula reaching out into the water and Forres offers a more sheltered, heathland-style round inland. The northern latitude brings cooler conditions and famously long summer evenings, with the playing season at its best from late spring into autumn. For the travelling golfer, the Highlands reward the journey with uncrowded tee times, warm local welcomes and golf set against scenery that is hard to match anywhere in the world.