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SCHLOSS Roxburghe Championship Golf Course

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SCHLOSS Roxburghe Championship Golf Course

07/02/2026

Yellow Tees

Jamie Fleming

Golf Sherpa Founder

The course gives you vast fairways that you can be afford to be aggressive teeing off into. The real test comes on the approaches, where sloping greens narrow entrances and steep runoffs punish the wrong shot selection.

Being around the green leaves you with uneven stances, tricky runoffs and varying sizes of rough and bunkers to content with. As such, you are often better off playing to an approach distance that you are comfortable with and can rely on, rather than trying a bomb and gouge strategy.

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WindCalm

GreensMedium

Insider Tip

Winter greens here are proper greens - pace and roll need full respect

Signature Hole

This is where the tone of the round shifts. The fairway tightens, the visuals change, and suddenly everything feels a bit closer than it did for the previous 12 holes. The water down the right isn’t dramatic - it’s just there, quietly messing with your head. Even with a 5 iron that I felt I hit down middle (nearly a club twirl) I was only only 10 feet left of the water. Left is your friend.

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Golf has been played at The Machrie since 1891 and you quickly realise what every other golfer who visits has, that brute strength isn’t the main currency here. Distance helps, as it does anywhere, but the Machrie is really about imagination and control. The wind is almost always present, and the ground game is your friend. You’ll need to accept that sometimes the ball will kick in directions you didn’t quite plan but that’s half the fun. Play like Tom Morris, keep it low and keep it rolling & you'll be surprised with the results given how playable the course can be. Regardless of the score you’ll shake hands on 18 with a smile on your face.

WindGusty

GreensQuick

Insider Tip

Hole 2 (par 5) - The wind off the sea will blow your ball towards the burn, play more safe to the right that you would expect to.

Signature Hole

A narrow test of precision with huge swale before a tricky to navigate three-tiered green - don't be short!

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WindGusty

GreensMedium

Insider Tip

Hole 4 (Par 4) - While a bail out left might look like the play, aim too far left and you’ll be lost in the knee-high heather.

Signature Hole

216 yard par 4 and is a par 4 for a good reason with a long narrow green impossible to land perfectly if you approach straight on from the tee.

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WindBreezy

GreensSlow

Insider Tip

Hole 4 (par 4) - Longer hitters may have a risk-reward opportunity to drive the green from the tee. If you can split the trees protecting the dogleg left fairway

Signature Hole

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WindCalm

GreensMedium

Insider Tip

Hole 3 (par 4) - Don't be brave & look to cut off too much of the pond. The banks all slope to the water, resulting in balls kicking or spinning back into the water.

Signature Hole

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Insider Tip

Hole 3 (par 5) - Aim as far left as you can without risking hitting the trees, everything will kick right and being in the wrong spot means a long carry over some of the biggest bunkers around.

Signature Hole

Your faced with a severely sloping fairway & strategic trees to be carefully navigated all before an approach shot over a pond guarding a tough to reach green.

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This is not a course where pulling out the driver and hitting it as far as you can is the smart play. Standing over many second shots, you quickly realise the danger isn’t just around the green and you'll wish you played sensible fairway finding golf. The undulating greens themselves make certain areas a complete no-go. Miss in the wrong spot and you’ll be fed down into a position where even Phil Mickelson would be proud to get up and down.

WindCalm

GreensVery quick

Insider Tip

Hole 17 (par 4) - Going for it requires you to bend one round the trees, over the bunkers and up the hill to the raised green. If you play the safe shot our left you still have to judge your run out perfectly or have a tough blind second shot.

Signature Hole

Risk and reward hole, pond to the left, out of bound field with angry bulls to the right... pick your poison.

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Dundonald Links

Dundonald Links is a masterclass in risk and reward. Designed for major events like The Open Final Qualifying and the Scottish Women’s Open, it’s tournament-ready yet surprisingly playable. Well placed contours, clever bunkering, and shifting winds create a constant chess match between ambition & caution. If you can trust it this is a course to let the driver go to work, if you can shape shots your day is going to geta whole lot easier. If not, then focus your attention on your approach shots, being on the right tier of the green will be the key decider between a birdie and a double bogey.

WindBreezy

GreensQuick

Insider Tip

1. Hole 3 (par 5) – A burn cuts across the fairway, demanding a smart lay-up or a risky carry; playing left is the safer choice.

Signature Hole

Dundonald doesn’t wait long before its initiation test, with a tricky first par 5 that leaves many asking’ so… where’s the miss?’ A focus grabbing burn snakes its way across the fairway for nearly 300 yards of prime landing area, forcing you to bail out left into a waiting fairway bunker, thick fescue or risk an early bath. Golf Sherpa’s guide: Not the sexiest option but lay-up short of the bunker & leave the hero shot for your second, aiming over the bushes or take the more conservative route & play one more shot on the left side of the ditch. Either way your approach should be to the left side of the green where you’ll have plenty of room to play with on a miss or if you’re lucky your ball feed nicely into the centre of the green from the raised slope.

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WindBreezy

GreensVery quick

Insider Tip

Greens were quick and pure, so always stay below the hole

Signature Hole

Trying to hit a green with the clubhouse behind is always an exhilarating experience, and hole 9 delivers in spades. A solid drive off the tee gives you a good look at the green and you can't help but go for it.

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WindWindy

GreensMedium

Insider Tip

Hole 8 (Par 3) - Back left is your friend. Short left and you have a steep up and down, go too long and your OOB on Kilspindie's 17th.

Signature Hole

Leads back to the lodge and is peppered with pot bunkers and a long narrow multi-tiered green. This is a key match-play hole where strategy is just as good as courage and confidence in a lasered shot.

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Easy

Kilspindie

Don't be fooled by the length of the course, as the wind and natural terrain makes this more complex that it initially looks, particularly the opening 4 holes. These are some of the toughest on the course and all run parallel to the ocean. Get to hole 5 with your original ball and your going to have a good day.

Elsewhere on the course an errant shot can easily result in a triple or quad being made, making every hole an opportunity for dramatic shifts in momentum. This is especially true of the closing 16/17/18th holes, which seem specifically designed to decide the outcome of a Ryder Cup style competition all in view of the clubhouse patio.

WindWindy

GreensQuick

Insider Tip

Hole 3 (par 4) - Blind tee shot with Aberlady bay becoming to the right. Don't feel bad about bailing out left. Its very playable, you'll just be hitting out of the fescue... and you'll still have your ball.

Signature Hole

The opening hole is one of the best in Scottish golf. A short par 3 to the water that looks simple but is devilish due to a well protected green & prevailing wind & elevation to all consider.

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