Golf in the Outer Hebrides

December 12, 2007 on 9:32 pm | In Whitewater Kayaking |

I know golf is hardly an extreme sport but it is creating news here at the moment, with Donald Trump who’s mother comes from Lewis and the Stornoway Golf Club applying to play on a Sunday. Golf could become and very dangerous game.

I am not a golfer but they tell me there are some great courses to play in the islands. I went running on the course in South Uist and it opens to the Atlantic, the course in Harris has views over to Taransay and of course there is the contoversial double nine in Stornoway in the Castle gorunds. Where the Trust, which ‘owns’ most of Lewis for the people, keep the gates locked to the castle grounds.

I do worry the Stornoway Trustees, who decide on the vision of what they want, may be a little out of step with the majority of people who live here.

As for Donald Trump and his plans, views are very polarised. There is no doubt it will affect tourism. The thing I worry about is the perception money can buy you the reversal of a planning decision.

So into the plus fours out with the clubs for a bash round before the ‘balls’ start to fly here in Stornoway

Tim Pickering
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