Open Challenge
Duration: 3 days
Ayrshire is home to the Open Championship
with the first ever "Open" played at the historic Prestwick Golf
Club around its original 12 holes.
Royal Troon hosted to the Open
in July 2004. Why not take the opportunity and test yourself across
some of the qualifying courses in the area using the Open Qualifier
Card?
The Western Gailes golf course
is a true links course with spectacular views of the Firth of Clyde
right across to the Isle of Arran. Just next door to Western Gailes
along the coast is Glasgow Gailes, a championship links course with
fairways lined with heather.
Further south down the A77 is another famous Open
Championship course at Turnberry. The Open
Qualifier Card allows you to play a round on the Kintyre
course.
Anybody struggling to get to grips with the
challenges of playing Links golf, take the opportunity to benefit
from some expert tuition at the Colin Montgomery Links Golf
Academy.
Alternatively you could try and book a round on
the famous Ailsa course at Turnberry that was
scene of the very famous 'Duel in the Sun' between Jack Nicklaus
and Tom Watson. In 2006 it played host to the Weetabix British
Women's Open and the British Seniors Open Championship, and in 2009
it hosted the Open when Tom Watson came so dramatically close to
winning again.
Returning north on the A77, play at
Kilmarnock (Barassie) GC which has 27 holes of
which the latest nine holes were designed to host Open Championship
qualifying rounds before moving on to Irvine
Bogside, another highly reputed links course to complete
your tour of Ayrshire's qualifying courses.
