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The Scottish golf courses I most want to play in 2020: Ardfin
It still isn’t entirely clear exactly where Ardfin is going to position itself between being quite simply the back garden to end all back gardens and some sort of Hebridean equivalent to Skibo Castle.
It’s on the tiny island of Jura, which is just to the north of Islay. It’s an island with a population of just a couple of hundred people, most famous for its whisky and George Orwell coming here to write 1984.
The golf course is owned by Australian financier Greg Coffey, who commissioned his countryman Bob Harrison to design it back in 2011. There’s also luxury accommodation on site with the lucky residents enjoying the golf course to themselves.
Harrison has by all accounts done an exceptional job so all I need to do now is wangle myself an invite.
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Dan Murphy
Dan loves links golf, which doesn't mean he is very good at it. He is a four-handicapper at Alwoodley. A qualified journalist and senior editor with 25 years’ experience, he was the long-time editor of NCG. His passion is golf courses and he is the founding editor of NCG Top 100s course rankings. He loves nothing more than discovering and highlighting courses that are worthy of greater recognition.
