Day 91 - Tour Day 2

After a good night's rest, we were treated to a great breakfast (I made the mistake of asking for a Full English...) and an opportunity for a walk down to the beach or a gentle start to the morning catching up the news etc. I chose the latter.

We then headed off to Dornoch, stopping to check out the local pottery workshop and an emergency visit to Asda (one of our tourers had forgotten a vital piece of clothing...). thence to Dornoch for lunch and our second day of golf.

Royal Dornoch Golf Club is a splendid championship course, wending its way along the seafront between acres of gorse, at first with the wind and then back to the clubhouse into it. We were blessed with some fine weather, with no rain at all for the whole 18 holes!  The sun even came out so for a brief spell we were in short sleeve shirts, but by 7 pm the temperature had dropped considerably and it was back to wooly hats and multi-layered outfits.

The course itself was splendid: some beautiful views and some stunning holes. The greens were a lot trickier than the previous day: much larger and many with run-off areas to confound the less accurate golfer.  Scores were much more grouped today, though yesterday's leader was less successful meaning that the overall competition is tighter than it looked yesterday evening...

Dinner was at the Links Hotel: a simple menu with few choices, but all delicious. Definitely a place to return to at a later date and a great recommendation for anyone heading up this way.