Hole-by-hole flyovers

Get to know the course and start to plan your strategy

The Machrie Links provides a great variation of holes, which include risk and reward driveable par 4s and strategically challenging par 5s. The playability and variation can very much change on a daily basis with the moving of the pin or the slightest change in wind direction.

The yardage on the scorecard can at times be very misleading. However with a choice of four sets of tees the Machrie Links is playable and more importantly enjoyable for all.

Stand-out holes include the 5th, where you play downhill towards Laggan Bay, aiming your drive at a marker post to bring a green quite stunningly located in a large, bunkerless hollow into view.

The next three holes run parallel to the sea before the playful short 9th – just a clip with a short iron in the right conditions to the green below.

The back nine begins with a long par 4 that climbs gently uphill towards a green nestling in some low dunes. It is the first of three challenging yet exceptionally attractive two-shotters on the inward nine.

The course concludes with a par-4 that is a nod to The Machrie as it was – a dogleg that turns sharply right towards a green completely obscured until you get to within  150 yards or so of it – and then a par-5 heading back up towards the hotel, the kind of hole that you might reach in two one day and then come to grief on the next.

Click on the hole numbers below to begin your course tour.

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Front Nine

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Back Nine