Travel Talk: Turnberry and Dundonald Links in Scotland's Ayrshire Region

Travel Talk: Turnberry and Dundonald Links in Scotland's Ayrshire Region

Author: Break 80 Podcast October 17, 2025 Duration: 56:43
In this episode, Mike and Tim head to the Ayrshire region on Scotland's west coast. While there they stayed and played at Dundonald Links and Trump Turnberry. Dundonald Links has hosted both the mens and womens Scottish Opens in the last decade and is also used by the R&A for final qualifying for the Open Championship. We were able to play the course and stay in one of their newly built lodges. At Trump Turnberry, we played one of the top rated courses in the world with the Ailsa course. Home to some of the most famous moments in golf history, Turnberry Ailsa is loaded with history and the course did not disappoint. We also played the Robert the Bruce course and stayed at the Turnberry hotel and will tell all about it. All this and some other shenanigans on this episode of Travel Talk Scotland. Subscribe to the Break80 Podcast on Apple & Spotify for weekly golf content. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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