Plans for new golf facility near Glasgow Airport approved<\/a>\n<\/p>\n\n \u201cIt was a packed schedule but very productive,\u201d said Professor Bell.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cWhat came across loud and clear was the high regard the town of Dornoch, its history, and our Championship Course is held in.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cBob has invited our course manager Eoin Riddell and assistant Scott Aitchison to visit\u00a0Pinehurst\u00a0and they will be sharing their\u00a0expertise\u00a0on golf course management.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cLooking ahead, both parties are keen to set up regular exchange visits with greenkeeping staff.\u201d\u00a0\n<\/p>\n
\n Ross is revered at Pinehurst and visitors to Dornoch make tracks for the family home near the cathedral.\u00a0\u00a0\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cIt\u2019s baffling that Donald Ross is more famous in the USA than he is here in Scotland,\u201d said Professor Bell.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cIn addition to creating his masterpiece Pinehurst No 2, which is now a regular\u00a0rota\u00a0venue for the US Open, Ross designed more than 400 courses in North America.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cWe were lucky enough to be treated to a tour of Dornoch Cottage, the home that Ross designed for his family by the third\u00a0fairway, and\u00a0see the statues and many plaques which pay homage to the great man and highlight his roots in the Highlands.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0\n<\/p>\n
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Donald Ross\u2019s home \u201cDornoch\u201d near the third hole on the Highlander\u2019s Pinehurst No 2 masterpiece (Image: Royal Dornoch)\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cMany American and Canadian golfers with a keen interest in golf history already make a beeline for his family home in Gilbert Street and they will be encouraged to visit the\u00a0HistoryLinks\u00a0Museum to see the recreated Ross workshop and learn more about the history of the town where he grew up.\u201d\u00a0\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cDornoch and Pinehurst have agreed to create videos that the other can use to promote their town,\u201d confirmed Provost McAngus.\u00a0\u00a0\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cDornoch will focus on the Cathedral, the\u00a0museum\u00a0and our golfing history, including Donald Ross.\u00a0\u00a0\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cWe will also highlight what the town and club is doing now to expand and protect the facilities on offer to visitors from all over the world.\u00a0\u00a0\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cThe videos will be developed in tandem with young people influencing the content as much as possible.”\u00a0\n<\/p>\n
\n Museum curator Caroline Seymour added: \u201cWe are so excited by the development of the agreement with Pinehurst and Dornoch based on the legacy of Donald Ross.\u00a0\u00a0\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cWe look forward to celebrating the real benefits that it will deliver. Our friends from Pinehurst can be assured of a warm Highland welcome when they visit our historic burgh.\u201d\u00a0\n<\/p>\n
\n Mr\u00a0Hampton said: \u201cOur agreement will bring tangible golfing benefits both to Pinehurst and to Royal Dornoch and we look forward to developing the relationships that we have built on this visit.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dornoch Provost Cath McAngus, her predecessor Paddy Murray,\u00a0HistoryLinks\u00a0Museum assistant Caroline Seymour and trustee Professor David Bell, a past…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":337747,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[5904,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-337746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-golf","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337746","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=337746"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337746\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/337747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=337746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=337746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=337746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}