Dundonald Links Key Information
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| Address | Ayr Road, Gailes, Ayrshire, KA11 5BF |
| Phone | 01294 314000 |
| Website | dundonaldlinks.com (opens in new tab) |
| reservations@dundonaldlinks.com | |
| GFs | £195 (£155 Resident) peak season |
| Visitor Times | Any day subject to reservation |
| Par | Men 72, Women 72 |
| Slope | White/M 130, Red/W 134 |
| Opened | 2005 |
| Architect | Kyle Phillips |
Dundonald Links Golf Course
Golf Monthly Verdict
(Image credit: Mark Alexander)
This modern, championship links is actually on historic golfing territory and manages to combine a more traditional setting with a newer look and feel. Since the new owners arrived, everything here has stepped up a gear or two making this an excellent course either just for a game or for golfing stopover.
Reasons To Play Dundonald Links
– A challenging and memorable links that has hosted the Scottish Open
– A complete golfing destination with an excellent new clubhouse, accommodation and practice facilities
– Part of an extremely strong golf offering on the Ayrshire coast
Rankings
UK & Ireland Top 100 Golf Courses 2023/24 – 99
The modern Dundonald Links golf course on the exposed Ayrshire coast has all the components to challenge every facet of a golfer’s game. Immediately surrounded by the excellent Top 100 and Next 100 courses at Western Gailes, Glasgow Gailes and Kilmarnock Barassie, it is in prime Open Championship and historic links territory and manages to stand up with its neighbours as one of the best golf courses in Scotland due to the variety and challenge on offer.
Originally known as Southern Gailes, golf here actually dates back to 1911. However, the land was claimed as a military camp during WWII, following which it lay dormant for decades. It was bought in 2003 by Loch Lomond whose members wanted a playable winter escape from their immaculate parkland course.
Kyle Phillips, designer of The Grove, was taken on board to complete what has since matured into a superb and challenging links with a decidedly contemporary feel. At many links courses, the strength of the design and golfing examination is in the whole rather than in individual holes. Here, it is in both. There are many memorable holes such as the testing par-3 6th where anything short or left may find the burn, and the par-4 13th which hugs the railway line and where there is another ditch waiting short of the two-tiered green. Phillips has a reputation for stylish and strategic bunkering, and this is a…
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