Currently ranked 18th in the world, Royal Dornoch is a magnificent links course with roots going back 400 years. The most northerly of the Championship courses of the British Isles, Dornoch should not be missed. Here it is not enough to simply keep the ball on the fairway. The greens are generally open in the front, but they are also set on plateaux several feet above the fairway. T he ever present breeze and the subtlety of the design couple to put a premium on accuracy and club selection rather than on sheer brute force. It is no wonder that Tom Watson described a round on Dornoch as "the most fun I ever had playing golf."