Heritage Classic in Scotland: Create a lifetime experience
(SIMSBURY, CONN., Feb. 25, 2020) – There are golf trips … and then there are golf experiences, days spent on faraway links that paint a canvas of memories that will last for a lifetime. Fairways to Heaven Golf Travel has created a bucket list trip to Scotland for its third Heritage Classic, a six-day, five-night summer adventure that includes rounds at famed Turnberry Ailsa and Royal Troon, two of the most famous links in the world.
Dates for the trip are June 23-28. This five-day extraordinary golf trip includes the third Heritage Classic, a 54-hole team Stableford competition to be staged across the links at Royal Troon, Western Gailes and Dundonald Links along Scotland’s scenic Ayrshire coast. Golfers also will experience an opening round at Prestwick, home to the very first Open Championship in 1860, and play a closing round at Turnberry’s Ailsa course, one of the most heralded links in the world.
The 2020 Scotland West Coast/Heritage Classic trip includes five nights lodging (three at Gailes Hotel, two at world-renowned Turnberry Resort); a welcome reception; a farewell dinner at Turnberry; clubhouse lunches each day; a private Scotch Tasting event near Troon; and transfers to/from golf each day, as well as to/from Glasgow Airport. (Airfare not included.) The Heritage Classic will feature prizes for the winning two-person team and a daily skins game. To maximize the experience, golfers are encouraged to travel and play with a buddy or family member. The price per player (double occupancy) is $3,190, a bargain for a Scottish sojourn that will create lifetime memories. Single occupancy is $3,995.
About the golf:
• Turnberry’s Ailsa Course is widely regarded as the most beautiful course of the nine used most regularly in the Open Championship rota. It was at Turnberry in 2009 that Stewart Cink edged 59-year-old sentimental favorite Tom Watson, who had outdueled Jack Nicklaus at Turnberry to win 32 years earlier. A renovation by Martin Ebert in 2015 transformed the par-4 ninth hole into an ocean-edge par 3 that is one of the most breathtaking holes anywhere in golf. Golf Digest ranks the Ailsa as its 10th-best golf course in the world. The enchanting Turnberry Resort offers views of the Irish Sea and Isle of Arran.
• Royal Troon, which dates to the late 1880s, will host the Open Championship for the 10th time in 2023. It is where Henrik Stenson outshined Phil Mickelson to win a Claret Jug in 2016. The traditional out-and-back links is home to one of the most famous par-3 holes in the world (No. 8, the Postage Stamp), and the links where Arnold Palmer won his second (and last) Open in 1962. It ranks eighth among Golf Digest’s Best Courses of Scotland.
• Prestwick, situated next to the railway, is a classic links where Old Tom Morris was “Keeper of the Green, Ball and Club Maker” in 1951-1864. Six original greens still are used by the course. The first Open Championship was played at Prestwick in 1860, with eight golfers competing across the-then 12-hole loop three times for the Championship Belt. (Willie Park Senior was the winner.) Only the Old Course at St. Andrews has been host to more Opens than Prestwick, which has hosted 24 times.
• Western Gailes long has been respected as one of the truest and most demanding links in all of Scotland. The first nine holes were opened in 1898 with the second nine opening a year later. The course sits in the dunes not far from the Firth of Clyde, situated between the railway and the sea. Geoff Ogilvy, 2006 U.S. Open champion and keen architecture aficianado, said of Western Gailes, “Beautiful holes, on great land, make it endlessly interesting and challenging.”
• Dundonald Links is a newer addition to the rich Ayrshire golf tradition, designed by Kyle Philips, who also designed the wildly popular Kingsbarns near St. Andrews. Dundonald Links was host to the European Tour’s 2017 Aberdeen Asset Management Scottish Open and twice hosted the Ladies Scottish Open.
Five full, fantastic days in the Home of Golf, sure to create some lifetime memories. In establishing Fairways to Heaven Golf Travel, partners David Reid and Michael O’Toole have intertwined great golf travel with a genuine understanding of travelers’ needs to deliver unforgettable experiences. So why put together a “trip” on your own when you can save the hassle and be part of an enriching experience delivered by a company that is as passionate about the game as you?
Spots are limited and will fill quickly. To register for the 2020 West Coast of Scotland/Heritage Classic trip, or to discover other Fairways to Heavens experiences, visit go.f2hgolf.com; call (888) 272-3179; or email: info@f2hgolf.com.
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