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At Faraway Fairways we’ve become increasingly aware that a number of you want to ‘get away from it’, but don’t necessarily want the commitment of a long ‘tour’. In other words, you want a top golf break over a weekend with a true world class course as the focus, but have so many other things going on around you that time is a real problem. It shouldn’t come as any surprise to learn therefore that Faraway Fairways have just the answer with our Turnberry weekend golf break, one of six options we’re excited to offer.
The Turnberry weekend golf break is designed for someone who can leave work mid-day Friday, or even early evening, so long as they can arrive in Scotland (Glasgow or Edinburgh) early on Saturday. Anyone taking it from the UK or continental Europe will be back at work by Tuesday morning. But here’s a twist, by virtue of flying back across time zones, so will anyone from North America.
The Turnberry weekend golf break isn’t exactly a new concept you might suggest? True, we’ll give you that ‘short putt’! But most weekend golf packages tend to be resort first and golf second. Faraway Fairways’ big weekend golf breaks put the golf first. Well to no small extent in Scotland you have to, Spain we ain’t!
So it might sound a bit ambitious at first, and sure it’s probably not completely unfair to think that this type of Scottish weekend golf break is more likely to appeal to those who have fast moving lifestyles and a bit of ‘go‘, but this needn’t be an exclusive requirement. Ultimately the world is becoming a smaller a place, and it’s becoming increasingly possible to pull-off these types of long-distance weekend golf breaks. The more you think about it, the more you’ll come to realise it. When you walk back into work on Tuesday and someone enquires whether you “did anything interesting at the weekend?” it would perhaps be nice to reply “played golf at Turnberry, Scotland. And you?”
3 Nights
Scotland
Transport
Self-drive works best. Involves car ferry to ArranLogistics
Single hotel baseNon-Golf Offer
Limited - Culzean CastleMileage
Low - Approx 250 miles Approximately 7 hrs 45 mins (includes ferry & touring Arran)Travel Class
Luxury - based exclusively on TurnberrySaturday - 'the Bruce' Course
Since it first opened in 2001, the old Kintyre course was very much Turnberry’s ‘other course’. Good enough to host Open qualifying, but that was probably the ceiling. Redesigned and renamed in 2017, the middle section is still the most charismatic run of holes. The redesign makes full use of Bains Hill and has successfully squeezed four new stunning holes out of the landscape, making for a massive cumulative net gain. Other major alterations to the personality of the course have seen the removal of gorse bushes and introduction of waste areas to encourage more shot making and recovery rather than simply writing off an old ball! The Bruce course now finds itself bettered only by the St Andrews New Course in the rankings of ‘second links’
Sunday - Turnberry Ailsa Course
The iconic Stevenson lighthouse sitting on its craggy headland in amongst the ruins of Turnberry castle, and with views of Ailsa Craig and the Isle of Arran out to sea, plus a tendency to put on spectacular sunsets, Turnberry is the most aesthetic of all the Open venues. In modern golfing legend Turnberry is forever etched in the pages of history as the location for the ‘duel in the sun’ from 1977 when Tom Watson narrowly prevailed over Jack Nicklaus with the rest nowhere. Myths are made in moments, but legends last a lifetime. In 2016 the course finished it’s stunning redevelopment. The new holes 9-11, look set to become the signature stretch. Not so much Amen Corner, as perhaps a Rocky Horror! The fifth is the hardest on the course and has been toughened up further. The fourteenth, an infinity hole out to sea might become the most awe inspiring.
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Monday - - Shiskine
Shiskine is a 12 hole gem on the Isle of Arran, long known about but rarely played due to its accessibility. It possesses some of the most spectacular holes in all of Scotland and is wonderous testimony to the harmonious blend of golf and landscape. It’s very much an old school course with plenty of blind shots and elevated tees playing into plunging coves below. The word that keeps coming back time and time again about Shiskine is “fun”. If you have a part-time golfer in your party, or someone who perhaps lacks length off the tee, but can otherwise be relied upon to make a clean contact Shiskine is where they could join in and play. It’s a really enjoyable and liberating course
Some known issues to consider
A day-trip to play on the Isle of Arran might be disrupted by a ferry failing sail. In truth, if the weather has stopped a ferry, it's probably stopped golf anyway. We can usually manage around this however as we simply stay on the mainland and play elsewhere
This trip does work a bit better if you're able to fly into Glasgow. It saves about 2 hours in total
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