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    Best golf courses: Inverness

    Inverness: the table below provides brief details about the top golf courses in and around this city. Each golf club has been visited and/or researched by Where2Golf. Click on the course name below to discover more. The course ratings below range from 5 highest, to 2 lowest. They attempt to provide an indication of the golfing experience you might expect at the course (based on its design, condition and surroundings). Hover your cursor above the Rating Key below for the rating definitions.

    Rating key

    5-PLUS: In the world’s elite - has few peers; one of our top-rated 5s! 5-star: Fabulous – courses don’t get much better than this. 4-PLUS: Must play course - excellent standard; worthy of 4½ stars. 4-star: Above average course - well worth a visit. 3-PLUS: Good course - several memorable features; worthy of 3½ stars. 3-star: Good course – an enjoyable test for your game. 2-star: Reasonably okay course - if better courses not available. Unrated: Well regarded course not yet visited by the Where2Golf team. Private: A course for members and their invited guests only. Stay & Play Golf Resorts: Golf Clubs and resorts with onsite accommodation

    Course name

    Rating

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    Boat of Garten
    3-PLUS: Good course - several memorable features; worthy of 3½ stars.
    Visitors welcome
    Inverness
    Braid, James

    Visitors?

    Visitors welcome

    Nearest city

    Inverness

    Designer

    James Braid

    Brora
    4-star: Above average course - well worth a visit.
    Visitors welcome
    Inverness
    Braid, James

    Visitors?

    Visitors welcome

    Nearest city

    Inverness

    Designer

    James Braid

    Carnegie Links, Skibo Castle
    5-star: Fabulous – courses don’t get much better than this.
    Restricted access
    Inverness
    Steel, Donald

    Visitors?

    Restricted access

    Nearest city

    Inverness

    Designer

    Donald Steel (a coincidence that Andrew Carnegie made his fortune in steel!).

    Castle Stuart
    5-star: Fabulous – courses don’t get much better than this.
    Visitors welcome
    Inverness
    Parsinen & Hanse

    Visitors?

    Visitors welcome

    Nearest city

    Inverness

    Designer

    Mark Parsinen & Gil Hanse

    Cullen Links
    3-PLUS: Good course - several memorable features; worthy of 3½ stars.
    Visitors welcome
    Inverness
    Morris, Old Tom

    Visitors?

    Visitors welcome

    Nearest city

    Inverness

    Designer

    Old Tom Morris

    Elgin
    3-star: Good course – an enjoyable test for your game.
    Visitors welcome
    Inverness
    Macpherson, John

    Visitors?

    Visitors welcome

    Nearest city

    Inverness

    Designer

    Originally a 9-hole layout, extended to 18-holes in 1924 by its long-serving greenkeeper John Macpherson.

    Fortrose & Rosemarkie
    3-PLUS: Good course - several memorable features; worthy of 3½ stars.
    Visitors welcome
    Inverness
    Braid, James

    Visitors?

    Visitors welcome

    Nearest city

    Inverness

    Designer

    James Braid designed the current layout in the early 1920s.

    Golspie
    3-PLUS: Good course - several memorable features; worthy of 3½ stars.
    Visitors welcome
    Inverness
    Braid, James

    Visitors?

    Visitors welcome

    Nearest city

    Inverness

    Designer

    James Braid

    Grantown-on-Spey
    3-PLUS: Good course - several memorable features; worthy of 3½ stars.
    Visitors welcome
    Inverness
    Park & Braid

    Visitors?

    Visitors welcome

    Nearest city

    Inverness

    Designer

    Original 9-hole course laid out by A.C. Brown (1890); extended to 18-holes by Willie Park Jr (1911) and modified by James Braid (1921).

    Inverness GC, Scotland
    3-star: Good course – an enjoyable test for your game.
    Wkends restrictd
    Inverness
    Smith, Fraser & Braid

    Visitors?

    Wkends restrictd

    Nearest city

    Inverness

    Designer

    George Smith and J J Fraser with alterations made by James Braid.

    Kingussie
    3-star: Good course – an enjoyable test for your game.
    Visitors welcome
    Inverness
    Vardon, Harry

    Visitors?

    Visitors welcome

    Nearest city

    Inverness

    Designer

    Harry Vardon

    Moray
    4-star: Above average course - well worth a visit.
    Visitors welcome
    Inverness
    Morris, Old Tom

    Visitors?

    Visitors welcome

    Nearest city

    Inverness

    Designer

    Old Tom Morris

    Nairn
    5-star: Fabulous – courses don’t get much better than this.
    Visitors welcome
    Inverness
    Morris, Old Tom

    Visitors?

    Visitors welcome

    Nearest city

    Inverness

    Designer

    Original layout by Old Tom Morris. Later modifications made by James Braid, Tom Simpson and Ben Sayers (1920).

    Nairn Dunbar
    4-star: Above average course - well worth a visit.
    Visitors welcome
    Inverness
    Robertson, Peter

    Visitors?

    Visitors welcome

    Nearest city

    Inverness

    Designer

    Current course designed by Scottish course architect Peter Robertson (1936).

    Royal Dornoch
    5-PLUS: In the world’s elite - has few peers; one of our top-rated 5s!
    Visitors welcome
    Inverness
    Morris, Old Tom

    Visitors?

    Visitors welcome

    Nearest city

    Inverness

    Designer

    Extension from original 9-holes to 18 designed by Old Tom Morris (1886). Later improvements made by John Sutherland, Donald Ross (born in Dornoch) and JH Taylor.

    Spey Valley
    4-star: Above average course - well worth a visit.
    Visitors welcome
    Inverness
    Thomas, Dave

    Visitors?

    Visitors welcome

    Nearest city

    Inverness

    Designer

    Dave Thomas

    Tain
    4-star: Above average course - well worth a visit.
    Visitors welcome
    Inverness
    Morris, Old Tom

    Visitors?

    Visitors welcome

    Nearest city

    Inverness

    Designer

    Old Tom Morris

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