Inveraray Golf Club

Inveraray Golf Club is a 9-hole course on the shore of Loch Fyne, in the grounds of the parkland surrounding Inveraray Castle — the ancestral seat of the Dukes of Argyll and one of Scotland's most photographed Gothic Revival castles. The course occupies the land between the castle grounds and the loch shore, with views across the water to the Argyll hills.

Par 32, around 2,500 yards. The outward five holes use rising ground south of the castle through mixed woodland; the inward four descend with the castle's distinctive conical towers above the treeline throughout. The 7th, a downhill par-4 with Inveraray visible ahead and the castle behind the tee, is the defining hole — the approach plays toward the loch with the town at the back of the green. The greens are small and firm; the ground drains quickly after rain on the Loch Fyne shore.

Inveraray is on the main A83 road from Glasgow to Campbeltown (the Machrihanish route), which makes it a natural stop on the Kintyre golf journey. The town itself has a good hotel (the Argyll Hotel), a heritage centre, and a working nineteenth-century jail museum. For visitors making the Machrihanish drive, Inveraray provides a half-day of golf and history before the final push down the peninsula.