The five Scottish courses I most want to play for the first time
The Scottish golf courses I most want to play in 2020: Royal Troon (Portland)
This is another curious omission. Actually, more of an asterisk than an omission. I have played the Portland course at Troon once before, as a child. But that was, ahem, a few years ago and I couldn’t really tell you much about it. I have since then been fortunate enough to play its neighbouring sibling, the Championship course, on several occasions, as well as watch the Open there twice.
What I do know is that it’s an Alister MacKenzie design and it come highly recommended by Troon member and BBC commentator Andrew Cotter. So that’s good enough for me.
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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.