Castle Stuart G C
17th May 08The new Castle Stuart Golf Course (nr Inverness Scotland), by Mark Parsinen of Kingsbarns and Granite Bay, is going to get a few heads turning.
Set on the southern coast of the Moray Firth, with the advantage of mature gorse on site, and already grown-in but not opening until June 2009. Concise labelling is difficult as there is no other links course like it(to my knowledge)on these isles. Traditional risk and reward links course but grown on nearly pure sand(no topsoil) with large areas of natural/growing sand wasteland, playing over or around the sides and backdrop(Pine valeyish)and revetted and naturally formed style bunkering. Add to this stunning views up and down the coast and across the Moray Firth to the Black Isle (giving a great sense of scale).
Photographs at this early stage only provide brief idea and the next 6 months of mature growing-in should be a revelation.
Very exciting prospect.
Set on the southern coast of the Moray Firth, with the advantage of mature gorse on site, and already grown-in but not opening until June 2009. Concise labelling is difficult as there is no other links course like it(to my knowledge)on these isles. Traditional risk and reward links course but grown on nearly pure sand(no topsoil) with large areas of natural/growing sand wasteland, playing over or around the sides and backdrop(Pine valeyish)and revetted and naturally formed style bunkering. Add to this stunning views up and down the coast and across the Moray Firth to the Black Isle (giving a great sense of scale).
Photographs at this early stage only provide brief idea and the next 6 months of mature growing-in should be a revelation.
Very exciting prospect.
