Fairways to Heaven Golf Travel has created a bucket list trip to Scotland for its third annual Heritage Classic, a six-day, five-night summer adventure that includes rounds at famed Turnberry Ailsa and Royal Troon, two of the most famous links in the world. Dates for the trip are June 23-28, and included within five days of great golf is our Heritage Classic, a 54-hole team Stableford competition to be staged across the links at Royal Troon, Western Gailes and Dundonald Links along Scotland’s scenic Ayrshire coast. Golfers also will experience a round at Prestwick to kick things off and complete the trip with 18 holes at the breathtaking Turnberry Ailsa. 

Guests will arrive into Glasgow Airport and transfer to Gailes Hotel to check in for 3 nights.  You will then head over to Prestwick Golf Club for a tour and lunch before heading out for golf.  Prestwick, situated next to the railway, is a classic links where Old Tom Morris was “Keeper of the Green, Ball and Club Maker” in 1951-1864. Six original greens still are used by the course. The first Open Championship was played at Prestwick in 1860, with eight golfers competing across the-then 12-hole loop three times for the Championship Belt. (Willie Park Senior was the winner.) Only the Old Course at St. Andrews has been host to more Opens than Prestwick, which hosted 24 times.

Lunch provided prior to round in clubhouse.  

Followed by evening cocktails and apps in the hotel.

Round 2 takes the group to Royal Troon, which dates back to the late 1880s and will host the Open Championship for the 10th time in 2023. It is where Henrik Stenson outshined Phil Mickelson to win a Claret Jug in 2016. The traditional out-and-back links is home to one of the most famous par-3 holes in the world (No. 8, the Postage Stamp), and the links where Arnold Palmer won his second (and last) Open in 1962. It ranks eighth among Golf Digest’s Best Courses of Scotland. 

Lunch will be provided at the clubhouse.  

Next up is a round on the rugged links of Western Gailes. Western Gailes long has been respected as one of the truest and most demanding links in all of Scotland. The first nine holes were opened in 1898 with the second nine opening a year later. The course sits in the dunes land not far from the Firth of Clyde, situated between the railway and the sea. Geoff Ogilvy, 2006 U.S. Open champion and keen architecture aficionado, said of Western Gailes, “Beautiful holes, on great land, make it endlessly interesting and challenging.”

Lunch will be provided in the clubhouse.

Followed by an evening Scotch tasting.  

Round 4 is a stone's throw from the hotel, Dundonald Links. Dundonald Links is a newer addition to the rich Ayshire golf tradition, designed by Kyle Philips, who also designed the wildly popular Kingsbarns near St. Andrews. Dundonald Links was host to the European Tour’s 2017 Aberdeen Asset Management Scottish Open and twice hosted the Ladies Scottish Open.

After golf group will head south and check into the Turnberry Resort for 2 nights.  Awards dinner in Turnberry clubhouse. 

Round 5 is to the Scottish icon.....Turnberry. Turnberry’s Ailsa Course is widely regarded as the most beautiful course of the nine used most regularly in the Open Championship rota. It was at Turnberry in 2009 that Stewart Cink edged 59-year-old sentimental favorite Tom Watson, who had outdueled Jack Nicklaus at Turnberry to win 32 years earlier. A renovation by Martin Ebert in 2015 transformed the par-4 ninth hole into an ocean-edge par 3 that is one of the most breathtaking holes anywhere in golf. Golf Digest ranks the Ailsa as its 10th-best golf course in the world.

Guests check out of the hotel and head to Glasgow Airport for flights home.