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When to Begin Planning a Golf Trip to Scotland

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When someone approaches Haversham & Baker  about planning a golf trip to Scotland,

they typically arrive with a lot of questions.  The who, what, when, where, and how of putting this  

type of trip together can be a little daunting.  Our suggestion is to just start at the beginning.  

"When should I begin planning my golf trip? Well the short answer to that is:  

I kind of depends. The specific courses you wish to play, or the regions in 

Scotland that you hope to visit, are going to largely determine your timeline. Generally speaking,  

the great courses of Scotland are concentrated in  six regions: Edinburgh and East Lothian, St Andrews, 

Aberdeen, The Highlands, the West Coast, and Kintyre. But let's start with St. Andrews. If you're headed  

to The Home of Golf and want to guarantee your  spot on the tee sheet at The Old Course you're  

going to want to start planning early. Really early.

Haversham & Baker typically receives our allotment of guaranteed Old Course tee times 

in April of the year preceding your trip. But by January,

even before that, our waiting list of past  travelers and folks who have said "put me down for  

an Old Course tee time" is already starting to form.  So you're going to want to reach out to us right  

about the time the ball is dropping in New York City.

Besides The Old Course, the hottest ticket for golf in Scotland is Muirfield.

So if you plan to  visit The Honourable Company of Edinburgh Golfers  

you'll want to make sure you have your ducks in a row typically about January of the year prior to your trip.

That's because the tee sheet at Muirfield  opens in March and the tee times don't last long.

Elsewhere around Scotland, the timeline timeline is not quite as stringent. Usually 9 months to  

a year is enough time to get the courses that  you want, but there's one thing to keep in mind:


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