Wick Golf Course

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Holes: 18 holes
Par: 70
Distance (men/women): 6123 yards
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Green Fee: £ 20
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Is there a hotel: No
Is there a restaurant: yes

Extra info
Golf is life itself in the very far north of Scotland. Just as at St Andrews when the ice age left the seas receded, leaving coastal strips with sandy bays and fine bladed grass, later to become fairways making their way through gorse and dunes to some distant point later to become the 9th, with 9 others threading their way back from whence they started. So it has been at Reiss since 1870.

Founded by Sir George Dunbar under the watchful eye of James Braid, here are 18 holes of rare natural beauty running along Sinclairs Bay and surrounded by five coastal castles. This is true links of natural grasses, contours, finely shaped bunkers and fast fescued greens. Protected from sea breezes you will be accompanied by curlew and peewit, skylarks and skeins of wild geese. Wild flowers of rarity and beauty surround each hole.

During 2000 the course has been lengthened to 6200 yards and tuned by Ronan Rafferty, contouring fairways, repositioning fairways, tees and reshaping greens and appro