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Traditional links golf, tranquillity, solitude and outstanding natural beauty - the Highlands of Scotland provides some of the best championship golf courses in the country, to suit every budget and ability. The Highlands and Islands is home to many of the most remote and scenically beautiful courses to be found anywhere. Here are just some of the courses you will enjoy.
Inverness Golf Club - www.invernessgolfclub.co.uk
- A well maintained 18-hole parkland course with a par of 69 and an SSS of 70. Modern club house.
Torvean Golf Club - www.torveangolfclub.co.uk
- Torvean holds the title of being the only municipal golf course in the Highlands. Thanks to an extension in the late eighties it became and 18 hole layout and has been welcoming hoards of enthusiastic golfers ever since.
Loch Ness Golf Course - www.golflochness.com
- 18 hole parkland course with superb views of Inverness and Moray Firth.
Fort Augustus Golf Club - www.fortaugustusgc.webeden.co.uk/
- Very scenic 9 hole course with outward and inward holes of different lengths and aspects, with par of three, four and five over each half.
 Aigas Golf Course
- Large greens and wide undulating fairways Aigas 9 hole Golf Course near Beauly is renowned for being challenging for experienced golfers.
Brora Golf Club - www.broragolf.co.uk
- 18 hole layout which remains a fair and challenging test of true links golf.
Muir of Ord Golf Club - www.muir-of-ordgolfclub.co.uk
- 14 miles from Inverness. Muir of Ord is a typical heathland/moorland course which has steadily improved and lengthened throughout the years.
Strathpeffer Golf Club - www.strathpeffergolf.co.uk
- 21 miles from Inverness. Arguably, the most scenic golf course in the North of Scotland. The drive on the first hole from tee to green features the longest drop on any course in Scotland.
Nairn Dunbar - www.nairndunbar.com
- This world famous championship links course is just 16 miles from Inverness. The highly rated course represents a formidable challenge.
Nairn Golf Club - www.nairngolfclub.co.uk
- 16 miles from Inverness. Nestling on the shores of the Moray Firth this traditional Scottish links course was created from a Highland wilderness of gorse and heather, and tests the talents of professional and amateur alike. Founded in 1887, it is now one of the best courses in Scotland, and has hosted a large number of important championships.
Alness Golf Club - www.alness-golfclub.co.uk
- 21 miles from Inverness. This beautifully situated 18 hole golf course is probably one of the "Best Kept Secrets of the Highlands". The Club offers a warm welcome to both beginners and seasoned players alike and is open to visitors all year round. The course is surrounded by natural beauty with the rolling hills of the Highlands to the north and scenic Cromarty Firth to the south.
Royal Dornoch - www.royaldornoch.com
- - 43 miles from Inverness. Formed in 1877, Dornoch has now been a Royal club for over 100 years, and records show that the incredible natural landscape that defines golf in Dornoch has hosted golfers since 1616. The responsibility for actually designing the Championship course fell to the legendary Old Tom Morris who used the unique links-land features to create a magical golfing experience.
Grantown on Spey Golf Club -www.grantownonspeygc.co.uk
- 35 miles from Inverness. A challenging 18 hole course situated in the Cairngorms National Park.
Fortros& Rosemarkie Golf Club - 14 miles from Inverness. Course architect James Braid's remarkable achievement in designing 18 challenging holes within the narrow Chanonry peninsula is instantly obvious and admired by first-time visitors. Modern-day golf writers enthuse over the course layout and condition, with accolades such as 'a gem of a course by the sea' - 'the smallest but perhaps the brightest jewel in the Highlands' golfing crown'.
- 14 miles from Inverness. Course architect James Braid's remarkable achievement in designing 18 challenging holes within the narrow Chanonry peninsula is instantly obvious and admired by first-time visitors. Modern-day golf writers enthuse over the course layout and condition, with accolades such as 'a gem of a course by the sea' - 'the smallest but perhaps the brightest jewel in the Highlands' golfing crown'.
Kingussie Golf Club - www.kingussie-golf.co.uk
- 44 miles from Inverness. The 18 hole course in the Spey Valley in the Scottish Highlands. A very scenic highland golf course in the Cairngorms National Park.
Newtonmore Golf Club - www.newtonmoregolf.com
- 47 miles from Inverness. The 18 hole golf course, which mostly lies along the banks of the River Spey in the heart of Monarch of the Glen country is surrounded by some of the most dramatic and beautiful highland scenery, a definite hazard for those trying to concentrate on their golf.
Golspie Golf Club - www.golspie-golf-club.co.uk
- 51 miles from Inverness. Golspie offers a unique blend of seaside links, heath and parkland golf.
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