Golf and Incentive Travel

It had to be a great course and, set as it is in the heart of Scotland, the country that gave the world golf that was going to be a challenge. The course architect Jack Nicklaus describes the course as "The finest parcel of land in the world I have ever been given to work with"

The Gleneagles Centenary Course, which only came into existence in 1993, has been chosen to host the 2014 Ryder Cup.

A feature of the PGA Centenary Course is the feast of views of the spectacular countryside in which Gleneagles is set. Putting on the two-tier second green, you are distracted by the lush panorama of the rich Perthshire straths. As you move westwards over the next few holes, the rugged Grampians come into view on the right then distantly purple ahead, Ben Vorlich and the mountains above the Trossachs. Entrancing as all this is, attention and careful shot making is required throughout the course, if you are to return with a respectable score.