North Coast 500: Scotland’s Ultimate Golf Road Trip
Scotland’s North Coast 500 is the anti-tour-bus golf trip. The 500-mile route takes you through some of Scotland’s most rural stretches of coastline and past some of its most beautiful golf courses. The drive begins and ends in Inverness, Scotland which is considered the base of the Scottish Highlands. The circular route can be driven […]
Wisconsin – America’s Next Great Golf Destination

The national spotlight doesn’t fall on Wisconsin very often, and when it does the subject invariably seems limited to cheese, beer, or the Green Bay Packers. This week though, the Badger State is front and center—in golfers’ households anyway, as the U.S. Open unfolds at Erin Hills, a dramatic 650-acre, glacier-formed course 35 miles northwest […]
North Coast 500 Day 6: Gairloch to Inverness
This is a series of articles about the North Coast 500, a 500-mile road trip through the Scottish Highlands. Associate Editor Graylyn Loomis is making the journey and will be posting here every day of the trip. Follow along on the website and on LINKS social media as he drives ever-further into rural Scotland! […]
North Coast 500 Day 5: Durness to Gairloch
This is a series of articles about the North Coast 500, a 500-mile road trip through the Scottish Highlands. Associate Editor Graylyn Loomis is making the journey and will be posting here every day of the trip. Follow along on the website and on LINKS social media as he drives ever-further into rural Scotland! Click […]
North Coast 500 Day 4: Wick to Durness
This is a series of articles about the North Coast 500, a 500-mile road trip through the Scottish Highlands. Associate Editor Graylyn Loomis is making the journey and will be posting here every day of the trip. Follow along on the website and on LINKS social media as he drives ever-further into rural Scotland! Click […]
North Coast 500 Day 3: Brora to Wick
This is a series of articles about the North Coast 500, a 500-mile road trip through the Scottish Highlands. Associate Editor Graylyn Loomis is making the journey and will be posting here every day of the trip. Follow along on the website and on LINKS social media as he drives ever-further into rural Scotland! Click […]
North Coast 500 Day 2: Dornoch to Brora
This is a series of articles about the North Coast 500, a 500-mile road trip through the Scottish Highlands. Associate Editor Graylyn Loomis is making the journey and will be posting here every day of the trip. Follow along on the website and on LINKS social media as he drives ever-further into rural Scotland! […]
North Coast 500 Day 1: Edinburgh to Dornoch
This is a series of articles about the North Coast 500, a 500-mile road trip through the Scottish Highlands. Associate Editor Graylyn Loomis is making the journey and will be posting here every day of the trip. Follow along here and on LINKS social media as he drives ever-further into rural Scotland! __________ I’ve […]
Will Golf’s Future Emerge from Iceland?
By Tony Dear Lost among recent news items that included the long-awaited sale of TaylorMade, Rory McIlroy’s signing with the Carlsbad-based company, surprise wins on the PGA Tour by Brian Harman and Si Woo Kim, and the European Tour’s rather contrived but undeniably enjoyable Sixes event in England, was an announcement from the Golf […]
A Golf Trip to the Himalayas
By Oliver Horovitz Nepal is a land of wonderful extremes. Library-like quiet in its mountains and chaotic energy in Kathmandu, the capital. Spirituality is everywhere: Multicolored prayer flags flutter in the breeze and Buddhist lamas pass you on mountain trails. The beauty of the country is topped only by that of the Nepali spirit, all […]