Golf and Incentive Travel

Beginning life as the property of a railway company almost one hundred years ago, Turnberry, having been used as a wartime airfield, was on the verge of extinction by 1946. Cue the timely intervention of course architect Mackenzie Ross, who transformed the property into what has become one of the world's finest golf courses.

Named after the landmark rock "Ailsa Craig", Turnberry represents ‘links golf’ at its best. Holes four through eleven on the Ailsa Course play alongside the sea and are among the most beautiful and demanding in the world. That the weather often changes by the hour only serves to augment the challenge of this superb course.

Turnberry's graduation to the envied ranks of host to the British Open came in 1977, when Watson and Nicklaus went head to head in what became known as the "Duel in the Sun", when Watson claimed a one stroke victory over his great adversary.