Published in Scotland Magazine Issue 36 on 14/12/2007.

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Tee time at Cameron House

Vivien Devlin visits a luxury hotel on the shores of Loch Lomond that has much to offer the golf enthusiast.

Sir Walter Scott called Loch Lomond “The Queen of Scottish lochs,” and today it is still a majestic and enchanting place. With pine forests, mountain springs, tiny islands and the dramatic peak of Ben Lomond, this natural landscape was designated Scotland’s first National Park.

Here is the tranquil location for De Vere Cameron House. This gracious 18th century baronial mansion has long been renowned for its romantic setting, first class hospitality and leisure facilities including nine hole golf course, tennis, archery and watersports.

Following a multi million pound development project, the Carrick Golf Resort has now opened just a mile north of the hotel on the loch shore. The Carrick is named after the Canadian golf course architect Douglas Carrick. His Celtic surname coincidentally means ‘rocky place’ which aptly suits this Scottish heathland course bordered by gorse, heather and woodland.

The par 71, 18 hole championship course follows an inspiring route around meadows, rolling hills, lagoons and a specially created nature reserve to protect the habitat of water voles, otters, kingfishers, ospreys and buzzards. And at every turn, those spectacular Highland scenes of mountain and loch. The signature – and seriously challenging – 14th hole stretches from the summit of a hill down to a green on the shore.

Challenge, variety and playability are an integral part of the design to suit golfers of all abilities. “Golf is not only a game of shot making,” says Carrick. “It is .....

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By Vivien Devlin

Section : Best of Scotland

Page number : 30