A golfing legend in the making

Years of planning and a £50 million investment have made The Carrick the most exciting new challenge in Scottish golf.

Designed by award-winning young Canadian golf architect Doug Carrick, the superb new golf course includes breathtaking sections right along the Loch Lomond foreshore - and a stunning green right on the water's edge.

In keeping with its iconic setting, the Carrick is at heart a traditional Scottish heathland course, whose manicured fairways pass through naturalised gorse and heather - substantially reducing the extent of cultivated grass and the need for manufactured chemicals.

Crucial to the quality of the course is fast-draining land that ensures year-round playability; and long-abandoned gravel workings have formed deep-water lagoons attracting otters, frogs, toads, pike and eels as well as kingfishers, oystercatchers, redshanks, lapwings and great-crested grebes.

The official completion ceremony at The Carrick took place in November 2006, when the Princess Royal placed a flag on the 18th green. The course is now fully open for play.

For further details, see www.thecarrick.com.