18 - Sundays. March 26, 1989 - North Shore News

Scotiand’s isle of Muli
perfect for a golf holiday

TOBERMORY — The Isle of Mull is a romantic’s dream of
Scotland: castles and rugged scenery, and at Tobermory a
village with pastel-painted, Portofino-style stone buildings
fronting a harbor with a treasure-laden Spanish galleon at

the bottom. .

It would not be complete, natu-
rally, without a golf course,. and
that it has — nine holes above the
village. No clubs? No problem —
the local plumber rents his at two
pounds a time.

Tobermory is one of 275 golf
courses in Scotland, and the land
where the game began is drawing
an increasing number of golfers
from Canada. Over at Upper

Largo in Fife, home of Alexander
Selkirk, the original Robinson
Crusoe, is an ambitious young
company which has added a few
refinements to the Tobermory
plumber’s enterprise.

Best of Scotland Holidays is run
by Duncan Dewar (and his wife
Marie) who left a senior marketing
joo with the go-ahead Stakis
Hotels organization to develop the
potential he saw in the golf tour
market.

As he says, Scotland is the home
of golf; it has the finest courses in
the world, and what Canadian
golfer worth his salt does not want
to tramp the springy turf where the
immortals have tread, such as

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Royal Troon, site of this year’s
British Open July 19-22?

Dewar’s company does custom
packaging and off-the-shelf tours
such as Stakis Golf Holidays.
which offer three nights at Stakis
Earl Grey Hotel in Dundee. Dinner
and full] breakfast are included.

The cost, $882 based on two

sharing, includes green fees for one
round on five courses, including
Turnberry Ailsa, Old Prestwick,

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David Wishart

Royai
Gleneagles Kings7Queens; * Car-
noustie and St. Andrews Old
Course. A rental car, fully insured,
is included. :

All the golfers have to do is pick
up their rental car at Prestwick or
Glasgow Airport, consult their
road map, and they’re off on the
first drive of a trouble-free round
of Scotland.

Stakis hotels give a warm wel-
come, including a free drink as
guests check in, and provide well-
appointed bedrooms with private
bathrooms, TV, coffee/tea-making
facilities and little touches iike
fresh fruit, shortbread and free
newspapers.

Troon,. oe ce . Gailes,

instruction ant

cluded are

much, much more.

thusiastic gardeners.

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ENGLAND TOUR

JUNE 10-27, 1989
Relaxed in pace yet stimulating in content, the tour will visit 27 British
gardens considered the most significant in the past 250 years, from the
landscape style of the 1730s to the cottage style of this century. ~
Your host is Ron Rule, an award-winning landscape architect, who has
taught courses on English Garden History at U.B.C. and will provide
history and horticulture of gardens to be visited. In-
Shad, HGusham Park, Gravetye Manor, Hidcote, Siss-
inghurst, Great Dixtar, and Bamsley House, and also calling on their
skilled caretakers. You will meet some of England's most influential
gardeners, among whom are Andrew Norion, pii§, gardening writers.
Rosemary Verey and Penelope Hobhouse. e8 ation

Travel on British Aways “The World's Favourite
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The hotel in Ayr is well-located
for shopping and of course Ayr is
at the heart of the land of Burns.
Glorious countryside and ocean
views, including nearby Culzean
Castle and its gardens, make
deligh .ut diversions for non-
golfers. .

Private clubs allow the use of
changing facilities and the players’
bar, and of course the profes-
sionals are always glad to see
visitors. The hard part can be get-
ting tee-off times at some of the
links, and this is where Dewar and
his contacts come in particularly
useful,

The Stakis hotel at Dundee is a
Tine new asset to a proud old city,
and its location right on the Tay is
central, spectacular and dandy for
strolling by the water. Nearby is
Captain Scott's ship the Discovery.

The hotel also has one of those
health clubs for people who take it
seriously, while others will be hap-
py to get their exercise turning
cards at the casino across the
street. As with all British casinos,
visitors have to be members for 48
hours before they can play unless
signed in by a member.

‘Non-golfers should note that
Edinburgh is just over the Tay
Bridge and it’s an easy drive to
Perth or Stirling.

Some tours include the Stakis
Four Seasons Hotel at Aviemore,
an outdoors mecca in the
Highlands, a splendid base to play
Nairn and Royal Dornoch, the lat-
ter recommended as a great expe-
rience, and since recent road im-
provements it is less than an hour
from Inverness. This is where, in
the wind and the rain, Tom Wat-
son played one of the most en-
joyable games of his life, and then
took the trouble to write to the
club to say so.

Best of Scotland Holidays is at 6
Main Street, Upper Largo, Fife,
KY8 6E]J, telephone 033336-396.

Behov accommodations and

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September 7 to September 24

Personally escorted by:
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Join us for this tour of the highiands departing from
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We are only taking 25 persons on this exclusive
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bus so everyone should have a window seat All our
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dicative of their region. We have included both
breakfast and dinner, as well as many other extra’s
such as cancellation insurance and pub nights in
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Ben Nevis, Contin, Braemar, Spey Valley, Pitlochry,
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