Sherpa Reviews

Golf has been played at The Machrie since 1891 while sheer power occasionally has its place The Machrie is more about creativity, shot making, imagination and feel for distance is key. Play like Tom Morris, keep it low and keep it rolling & you'll be surprised with the results.

This isn’t a course you come with a scorecard in hand and desperately try to shoot a score, none of your go to modern golf shots will work here anyway, this is golf of a bygone era and is best enjoyed trying to play the way old Tom Morris did. So, get creative with your shots, play match-play and try not to hit any sheep!

Mature trees, strategic bunkering, and elevated tees deliver challenge with elegance. The course is very playable but never passive, as soon as you take a hole for granted it will come back to bit you with hazards waiting where you can't see them off the tee and wind capturing your ball as soon as it escapes the shelter of the trees. Aim away from trouble and then aim further that way, and you might just get the ball to find a safety.

Each 9 holes plays like a completely different course. Use the low road front nine to dial in your irons and play smart, sensible golf. On high road back 9 it opens up and plays more links style, letting you open your shoulders and have some fun with the driver, all while enjoying spectacular views. Its a tough but rewarding course and the perfect setting for it.

This is a course to play with a game plan, use our app, know your distances, what hazards await you and play smart. Guaranteed this will help you beat the bomb & gougers.

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.