We’ve just made it back to ‘the Scottish office’ having spent the last 10 days golfing on the Southern Mediterranean coast of Turkey. This was our fifth visit to Turkey this year (2009) to research, photograph and video for the Go-Golf.TV  Guide to Turkish Golf 2010 making it, we believe, the most comprehensive guide to Read more...

Charlie pulled up outside Gloria Serenity’s entrance in his little grey Citroen van with a Matrix sign on the dashboard. It’s always busy at Serenity’s front door, people waiting to get on shuttle buses to the golf courses or a coach arriving with a fresh consignment of in-checkers. It’s the kind of place I find Read more...

Like the golf courses, the typical reaction of most visitors to Belek’s 55 strong string of 5 star hotels is “I never knew it would be anything like this!”
Belek’s hotels are extremely impressive and of a standard many of us used to golf holidays to Spain or Portugal will be delighted with. From the huge Read more...

Choosing the golf courses you enjoy the most usually depends on how well you play them.
So, in order to be as fair as we can we’ve asked the opinions of as many visiting golfers (of all levels) as well as golf & travel industry professionals, golf journalists and tour operators. Over the next few months Read more...

Here’s a selection of travel information that you might find useful…
Flying To Turkey
The flight time from most British airports to Antalya is around 4 hours, basically twice as long compared to Spain or Portugal. 4 hours however is quite tolerable and goes by fine – any longer might become uncomfortable.
There are no low cost airlines Read more...

How to Choose Where to Stay
Similar to the golf product, the usual reaction as golfers pull up to their hotel for the first time is, “Wow, I didn’t realise it was like this!” I’m not trying to over-flatter Belek’s legions of 5-star hostelries but the Turks have surpassed themselves and everyone else in providing an Read more...

ROYAL ABERDEEN GOLF CLUB’S
BALGOWNIE COURSE

Charles Darwin, the evolutionary biologist, naturalist, geologist and author of On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection has been stirring the evolutionary soup for the past 150 years. David J Whyte plays Royal Aberdeen’s Balgownie, a course with Darwinian connections where he hypothesizes only the fittest will survive.
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Niagara Falls with its 1950’s happy honeymoon, no-tell motel reputation might not strike you as the most sophisticated of golf destinations. But with several new courses and an array of swanky hotels in town, the Falls are definitely on the way up! Golf travel writer & photographer David J Whyte takes his family close to Read more...

Slow-turning seasons, soft mountain water and the distiller’s centuries-old craft combine to create Scotland’s number one export whisky, ‘the water of life’.

David J. Whyte follows a meandering trail along Speyside’s Golf Whisky Trail sampling the ‘spirit’ of this unique part of Scotland.

Scotland’s golf tourism industry has sent the clearest signal yet that confidence is returning to Scotland’s beleaguered economy. In a straw poll taken at Golf Tourism Scotland’s Gold Standard Awards, industry representatives from the travel, hospitality and golf service sectors were united in their positive outlook for 2010.
In a short survey conducted during a glitzy Read more...