From Joel Beall, Golf Digest Senior Writer:
Americans are prone to romanticizing Scottish golf, which makes it easy to dismiss the mawkish, syrupy testimonies. But the people dismissing them are, without exception, the people who haven't gone.
I recently wrote a book on professional golf's civil war, and I needed a framing mechanism for the chaos that schism brought, so I spent a summer in Scotland. I bounced around the country, tracking down the courses and clubs that made Scottish golf a game for all.
What follows here is a rough roadmap for your own sojourn, broken up by region. These aren't necessarily the best courses in Scotland. They're the best of what Scotland is.