▦ hero—Low tide on the Moray Firth at Castle Stuart
Destinations / Cabot Highlands / Castle Stuart
Castle Stuart
Hanse & Parsinen · par 72
Designers
Gil Hanse & Mark Parsinen
Par
72
Yardage
7,009
Style
Links · panoramic
Green fee
from $360
Gil Hanse and Mark Parsinen built Castle Stuart to make golfers feel brilliant: wide infinity fairways that seem to hang above the Moray Firth, greens that gather rather than repel, and four Scottish Opens' worth of championship pedigree.
The trick of the place is the framing—bridge, lighthouse and castle sit behind the greens like aiming posts. It's the rare championship links that's pure pleasure for a mid-handicapper.
Scorecard
Hole
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
OUT
Yards
434
550
305
191
447
560
461
218
364
3,530
Par
4
5
4
3
4
5
4
3
4
36
Hole
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
IN
Yards
405
144
528
441
386
421
335
224
595
3,479
Par
4
3
5
4
4
4
4
3
5
36
Caddie notes
01The fairways are wider than your eye believes—swing freely off the tee.
02Miss short. Nearly every green accepts a running shot, and long leaves the firth-wind chip of nightmares.
03In June you can tee off at 8pm and finish in daylight—the evening wind is usually the day's gentlest.
Dining on-property
Book a tee time
Reservations portal
Visitor rounds £285–385 by season; 36-hole tickets cover both courses. Season late March – mid November.
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Tee-time watch
Club members put Castle Stuart on watch—when a time opens on their dates, they hear about it first.
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