Castle Stuart Golf Club

Castle Stuart is in Northern Scotland, just on the east side of Inverness on the Moray Firth with views out over the Firth, the Chanonry Lighthouse, Kessock Bridge, out to the Black Isle. From the tips, it's 7,009 yards, down to 5,148 yards from the shortest tees. It was designed by the same group as developed Kingsbarns,just south of St Andrews, Mark Parsinen and Gil Hanse, and has been in development for 3+ years. Rumpled fairways, rippling throughout the course, where the idea of a perfectly flat lie is impossible. They also incorporated a collection of bunker designs, open waste areas, some strategic, but mostly cosmetic, unless you're very aggressive with your line of play. Others, the revetted, pot, stacked, sod, are built right up to the greens edge in some cases, others appropriately place throughout the fairways and greenside. Another design feature is the infinity edges, much like you've seen with the swimming pools which seem to mold into the landscape, they've done with the settings for the greens and landing zones in some areas. The fairways are lined and interspersed with heather, marram, and gorse, the view is incredible, the setting stunning, very well could become one of the best courses in the world in very short order. Now another reason to base in Inverness where Nairn, Dornoch, Brora, Moray, Spey Valley+many others are all close to play.