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Local Knowledge: David Owen's itinerary
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5. Tarbat G.C.
Tarbat Golf Club, in the microscopic village of Portmahomack, was founded in 1909. It's a links course on a sandy promontory on the southern side of Dornoch Firth, and on a clear day you can look across the water to Dornoch.
4,657 yards; par 68 / 862-871486 / $36
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6. Strathpeffer Spa G.C.
My playing partners did not doubt where I should go next: Strathpeffer Spa Golf Club, about 40 miles southwest. Strathpeffer's designers included Willie Park Jr., who laid out the original nine in 1888, and Old Tom Morris, who expanded the course to 18 holes in 1900. The course is quirky in the extreme.
4,617 yards; par 65 / strathpeffergolf.co.uk / 997-421011 / $40
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7. Cullen G.C.
My next destination was Cullen, in Morayshire, on the southern coast of the Moray Firth. A number of golfers I'd met had recommended Cullen, along with several other courses in the same general area, and I had found a tantalizing photograph in Scotland's Golf Courses. The book describes the terrain at Cullen as "not typical linksland because on several holes the golfer has to negotiate abandoned sea-cliffs and stacks.
4,376 yards; par 63; cullengolfclub.co.uk; 542-840685; $40-$51
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