Stay at Machrihanish Dunes Golf Club & Resort

World-class, natural links golf paired with relaxed, cottage-style accommodation

🏗️David McLay Kidd Design

🌊True Links Golf

🎯Sherpa Reviewed

About Machrihanish Dunes Golf Club & Resort

Machrihanish Dunes sits quietly at the edge of Scotland, where the golf feels like stepping back into the game’s origins. The course is a true masterpiece of natural design, carved directly through protected dunes & ranked among the UK’s top courses.

When the round ends, the village offers warmth & comfort in classic Scottish style. Stay steps from the famous opening hole of Machrihanish golf club at the characterful Ugadale Hotel, unwind in a cottage near the beach, or enjoy a livelier experience at the Royal Hotel in Campbeltown.

Evenings bring fine local food, a good dram by the fire, or quiet walks along the shore. Machrihanish Dunes is more than a golf break, it’s how golf was meant to be enjoyed & stays with you long after you’ve left.

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Sherpa Review

by Jamie Fleming

✓ Highly Recommended

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!

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💡 Best for:

Low handicappers, Mid handicappers, Mixed groups, Golf societies, Links golf lovers, Scenic golf, Walking preferred

Courses at Machrihanish Dunes Golf Club & Resort

Machrihanish Dunes Golf Course

The 7,082 yards links course is a true masterpiece of natural design, carved directly through protected dunes and ranked among the UK’s top courses. It’s golf at its most authentic, just wind, natural dunes, and creative shot making. The fairways twist through wild contours, the greens flow with the landscape, and every shot demands imagination. It’s the kind of course that humbles you & thrills you in equal measure: unforgettable, untamed, and completely exhilarating. Constructed within a protected dunes ecosystem, it uses the natural landscape almost entirely untouched. Expect blind tee shots, dramatic dunes, and firm fescue fairways offering a traditional links challenge.

Tee	Par	Yardage	Rating	Slope
Black	72	7082	143	75.1
White	72	6349	137	71.8
Yellow	72	5835	129	69.7
Red	72	5076	112	66.6

The Machrihanish Golf Club

Machrihanish is as remote, rugged and natural as exists in golf. A regular feature on GB&I and world lists, the Championship Course is a collectors item for purists.

The iconic Championship layout is one of the great unaltered links the world over. The course is a traditional out-and-back links that wraps around Machrihanish Beach heading out away from the village, before turning back for home at the halfway mark.

The round begins with one of the most exhilarating opening tee shots in golf played over the corner of the beach. The excitement, however, continues for the entire round. A par 70 from the regular tees, the course features just two par 5s, both early in the back 9.