David J Whyte’s
Signature Golf Guides
Travel better. Play better. Discover more.
Independent golf intelligence, original photography and more than three decades of travelling the world’s great golf destinations.
Explore St Andrews & The Kingdom of Fife →The Proposition
Not Another Golf Guide
There is no shortage of information about the world’s great golf destinations. What is harder to find is judgement.
Which celebrated courses really justify the green fee? Which lesser-known courses would be a mistake to overlook? Where should you stay? Where should you eat and drink? And what lies beyond the golf that might turn a good trip into an unforgettable one?
The Linksland Signature Golf Guides are built purely from first-hand experience — decades spent travelling, playing, photographing and writing about golf destinations rather than assembling recommendations from a web page.
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The Definitive Guide to the Home of Golf
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St Andrews & The Kingdom of Fife
The Home of Golf — properly explored.
Everyone knows the Old Course. But St Andrews and the Kingdom of Fife offer considerably more than simply the world’s most famous links.
The Linksland Signature Guide to St Andrews & The Kingdom of Fife takes you through the great links courses, Kingsbarns, Dumbarnie, Crail, Elie, Lundin and Leven — and into the overlooked hidden gems, fishing villages, pubs, restaurants, history and character that make this small corner of Scotland one of the world’s greatest golf journeys.
A $29.95 Decision Before A Multi-Thousand-Dollar Golf Trip
One premium green fee in Scotland can cost hundreds of dollars. A single hotel night can cost even more.
But the most expensive thing to waste is your time.
For many overseas golfers, Scotland may be a once-in-a-lifetime journey with only six or seven precious days to do it justice. The Linksland Signature Guides are designed to help you decide where your time — and money — are best spent.
The Difference
What Makes A Linksland Signature Guide Different?
Play
Know what’s worth your time.
The famous courses, the hidden gems and the character of the golf itself — described by someone who has visited every single golf course in Scotland.
Stay & Discover
The journey doesn’t finish on the 18th green.
Hotels, restaurants, pubs, landscapes, history and places worth exploring.
Travel With An Insider
First-hand. Independent. Personal.
No generic itineraries. No recommendations assembled from internet search results. Just decades of real, first-hand experience distilled into the places and experiences worth knowing.
The Collection
The Signature Scotland Collection
Six regional guides. One extraordinary country.
Scotland has hundreds of golf courses. The great names need little introduction. But some of the country’s most memorable golf lies beyond the championship rota — on ancient links, Highland fairways, island courses, heathlands and wonderfully idiosyncratic layouts that rarely appear on an overseas itinerary. The Linksland Signature Collection is designed to take you deeper.
Signature Golf Guide
The Definitive Guide to the Home of Golf
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The Home of Golf, the great Fife links and everything worth discovering in between.
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Including the Scottish Borders
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Muirfield, North Berwick and Gullane may lead the way, but one of Scotland’s richest concentrations of links golf extends far beyond them.
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Including Gleneagles, Rosemount and the heathlands of Angus & Perthshire
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Open Championship links, magnificent inland golf and two very different Scottish landscapes within easy reach of one another.
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Royal Deeside, Castle Country, Whisky Country and the extraordinary isles of Orkney & Shetland
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Great links, ancient clubs, dramatic landscapes and a journey that can take you all the way to Scotland’s northernmost islands.
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Inverness, Royal Dornoch, Speyside and the North Coast
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Some of Scotland’s most exhilarating golf set against mountains, firths, whisky country and stunning Highland landscapes.
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Loch Lomond, Glasgow, Ayrshire & Arran, The Machrie & Machrihanish, including Dumfries & Galloway
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From the great championship links of Ayrshire to island golf, Glasgow and the extraordinary western edge of Scotland.
Beyond Scotland
And Then There’s Portugal
For generations Portugal has been synonymous with the Algarve. Now, there’s considerably more to discover. From Porto and the Silver Coast to Lisbon, Comporta and the Algarve — and out into the Atlantic to Madeira & the Azores — Portugal has become one of Europe’s most compelling golf journeys.
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The Complete Golf Guide
Ireland and Southwest England are among the destinations being researched for future Signature Guides.
David J Whyte
David J Whyte has spent more than three decades travelling, writing and photographing golf destinations.
As one of Scotland’s leading golf landscape photographers, his work has taken him across Scotland and much of the golfing world, writing and photographing for publications internationally and working extensively within Scottish golf tourism.
His knowledge of Scotland was acquired the long way round.
He has travelled the country and photographed every golf course in the land. He remains an authority on Scottish golf travel and a long-serving judge for the annual Scottish Golf Tourism Awards.
The Signature Golf Guides bring all that experience together with David’s images, observations and recommendations for golfers who want much more than rankings, green fees and a list of places to play.
The Linksland Promise
First-hand. Independent. No filler.
These guides are not assembled from other people’s recommendations.
They come from being there.
Playing the courses. Walking the towns. Driving the roads. Staying in the hotels. Finding the pubs. Photographing the landscapes. Talking to the people.
And occasionally getting gloriously sidetracked along the way.
That’s where the interesting stuff usually begins.
Signature Golf Guide
The Definitive Guide to the Home of Golf
Start At The Home Of Golf
St Andrews & The Kingdom of Fife
The famous courses.
The overlooked ones.
Where to stay.
Where to eat and drink.
The East Neuk, whisky, history — and everything worth discovering beyond the fairways.
This Is Just The Beginning
St Andrews is the first in a growing collection of Linksland Signature Golf Guides to Scotland, Portugal and the world’s great golf destinations.
Travel better. Play better. Discover more.