Updates
Traigh Golf Club Open 2023
The Traigh Golf Club Open was held on Saturday 23rd July 2023. The gents scratch prize (the Jack Shaw Stewart Cup) was won by Ian Hill from Muckhart with a score of 77 with his father Neil runner-up. The ladies scratch prize was won by Donaldina Johnston.
Video of Traigh GC shown at Scottish Golf national conference
A video made by Duncan Kane was shown to over 500 delegates at Scottish Golf’s national conference in 2018. Kane described it as a ’Homage to the beautiful Traigh golf course in Arisaig Scotland. Built on the side of a hill with the most beautiful views from a golf course in the whole world.’
Martin Dempster’s report for The Scotsman newspaper can be read here.
NEW BOOK - all proceeds to Traigh Golf Course
Views from the Tee (published October 2018)
David Shaw Stewart (one of the co-owners of the course) has written and illustrated a book about his 37 favourite golf courses in Britain and Ireland. All proceeds from sales of the book are going to Traigh Golf Course. The book is available for £9.99 plus £2 postage and packing from www.viewsfromthetee.com .
Excerpt (about an Irish nine hole course, very similar in many respects to Traigh, remote with spectacular seaside views):
Pronounced ‘Critch’, Cruit Island is a stunning nine hole course in Donegal. It sits on the very edge of the world, thrust out into the Atlantic in the teeth of every roaring westerly gale. The course has views stretching over miles of islands and coastline and the soaring hills of the mainland. What a day we had, taking on leaping chasms over the boiling Atlantic amidst sunshine, gales, crashing breakers and the bluest of seas. Cruit has more rocks and cliffs than my beloved Traigh, and is a fiercer course overall, but it is another real seaside experience, with all its defences in the bones of the land and the howl of the wind.
PRESS RELEASE 2nd February 2017
24 hours in the Highlands
The two photographs (attached and below) were taken 24 hours apart by one of our members, Matthew Waterston.
PRESS RELEASE 3rd November 2015
GOLF IN THE WILD – A BOOK THAT CAPTURES THE REAL SPIRIT OF GOLF
Robin Down has written Golf in the Wild, a book about some of the fabulous remote and undiscovered nine hole courses from the Borders to the Scottish Highlands. It does of course include Traigh.
Of course we are biased at Traigh as our own course features on the cover, but we loved this book by Robin Down - it can only be described as a cross between Bernard Darwin, Kate Atkinson and Jeremy Clarkson if such a thing can be imagined. A wonderful picaresque golfing tour through the loveliest parts of Northumberland, the Borders and the Highlands. By turns entertaining, funny and moving, it is a book whose scope ranges from the challenges of blind shots over dunes and through trees, the high-handicap frustrations of short putts and long irons, the heroic days of Formula One in the 60s and 70s, the ferocity of a mother-son relationship in another age and of course all the beautiful nine hole golf courses the author wove into the tapestry of his tale.
PRESS RELEASE 31st July 2015
Sinkhole News - Repairs are now complete!
On the night of the 27th of October 2014, after three days of very heavy rain, the ground gave way on the 7th fairway, and a large sink-hole appeared on the near the green. The hole was roughly seven meters long, four meters wide, and four meters deep.
Gavin Johnstone, our green-keeper, was the first on the scene: 'I couldn’t believe the size of the hole that appeared in just one night. The run-off from all the rain we had shifted about 200 tons of sand and peat, and dumped it on the beach'.
He felt a little bit nervous when his dog Corrie jumped into the hole – Corrie seemed to be trying to figure out what kind of rabbit had made this extra-large burrow. 'I just hoped he wasn’t going to get stuck – because I would have had to go into that hole to fetch him out'.
It turned out that a drainage pipe had been unable to cope with the exceptional rainfall of the previous few days, which had swept away the sandy soil.
The good news is that we're all set to replace the drainage pipe as soon as the weather clears. The modern plasic pipe will be installed at a very deep level in order to take water from the back of the course to the sea and the course will be back at its best once we have done so.
We are passionate about the course, which we believe is an important facility for both local and country members of the golf club and for the many visitors who play it in the summer. But we find once people have played here they always want to come back, there can be few golfing experiences anywhere in the world to compare with teeing off on the ninth towards Eigg on a golden summer day.
PRESS RELEASE 1ST February 2015
The Traigh Golf Course 'Giant' Sinkhole (01-02-2015)
On the night of the 27th of October 2014, after three days of very heavy rain, the ground gave way on the 7th fairway, and a large sink-hole appeared on the near the green. The hole was roughly seven meters long, four meters wide, and four meters deep.
Gavin Johnstone, our green-keeper, was the first on the scene: 'I couldn’t believe the size of the hole that appeared in just one night. The run-off from all the rain we had shifted about 200 tons of sand and peat, and dumped it on the beach'.
He felt a little bit nervous when his dog Corrie jumped into the hole – Corrie seemed to be trying to figure out what kind of rabbit had made this extra-large burrow. 'I just hoped he wasn’t going to get stuck – because I would have had to go into that hole to fetch him out'.
It turned out that a drainage pipe had been unable to cope with the exceptional rainfall of the previous few days, which had swept away the sandy soil.
The good news is that we're all set to replace the drainage pipe as soon as the weather clears. The modern plasic pipe will be installed at a very deep level in order to take water from the back of the course to the sea and the course will be back at its best once we have done so.
We are passionate about the course, which we believe is an important facility for both local and country members of the golf club and for the many visitors who play it in the summer. But we find once people have played here they always want to come back, there can be few golfing experiences anywhere in the world to compare with teeing off on the ninth towards Eigg on a golden summer day.
Yes, to the relief of the nation, the wee dog did escape...
