Castle Stuart set to wow!!
03rd December 2008
My last visit to Castle Stuart Golf Links, Nr Inverness Scotland, provided brilliant weather and a real opportunity to capture images of a course that I am sure is going to cause a flood of positive comments and that is understating it.
Generous fairways allow the golfer to get off the tee but there is a definite risk and reward position to be on each one. The bunkering is quite simply stunning, partially revetted and partially collapsed they give it a real old world feeling but the safe advice is "stay out" and some of them will sneak up and provide a painful surprise.
Greens are also generous and although with some angles, humps and hollows there really is nothing extreme and nobody to blame but yourself!
I have only photographed this course but spent some time doing this and draw my conclusions from all that I see, how I play and what I expect I will get from this course. Put together I can't wait to get on there next year and just hope I don't get crushed in the stampede. Opening mid July 2009.
I am not employed or paid by the course its owners and only derived income direct from magazine work.
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Generous fairways allow the golfer to get off the tee but there is a definite risk and reward position to be on each one. The bunkering is quite simply stunning, partially revetted and partially collapsed they give it a real old world feeling but the safe advice is "stay out" and some of them will sneak up and provide a painful surprise.
Greens are also generous and although with some angles, humps and hollows there really is nothing extreme and nobody to blame but yourself!
I have only photographed this course but spent some time doing this and draw my conclusions from all that I see, how I play and what I expect I will get from this course. Put together I can't wait to get on there next year and just hope I don't get crushed in the stampede. Opening mid July 2009.
I am not employed or paid by the course its owners and only derived income direct from magazine work.
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