The Golf Links Hotel is a friendly, comfortable, family run hotel, the bar is stocked with over 160 single malts and a good selection of both bottled and draft beers including Tennents lager and Guinness, good food and a varied selection of wines. It has open fires for the cool Highland evenings and is also centrally heated throughout. The nine en-suite bedrooms all have remote control freeview colour televisions with dvd players, electric blankets,radio alarm clock hair dryers and tea/coffee making facilities,WiFi is available in most rooms. In our resident's lounge we have a large colour television ,DVD,books and games to keep everyone amused, or just sit and relax and enjoy one of the best views in the North.
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All of our nine bedrooms are comfortably furnished and all have en-suite facilities. tea ,coffee,television DVD players hair dryer and good views.
The Golf Links is a friendly family-run Hotel situated in Golspie on the East Coast of Sutherland,with stunning seafront location and beautiful views overlooking the Dornoch Firth. Located right by the beach and immediately adjacent to the marvellous 18 - hole Golspie Golf Course. Only 8 miles north of Royal Dornoch - 6 miles south of Brora and 50 miles from Inverness and Wick the ideal base to relax, the hotel is now all non smoking but we do have a large garden. We are just the place to stop off at on your way to the Orkneys a nice relax a good sleep and then a very pleasent drive up to get the lunch time ferry. We are a bike friendly hotel with under cover secure storage/parking .
Food is available everyday and can be served either in the bar or the dining room overlooking Ben Bhraggie, topped with the statue of the First Duke of Sutherland standing 105 feet tall.
Golspie is an ideal center for those wishing to explore the North of Scotland. From it you can cut across scenic routes to the West Coast, traveling along many single track roads past some of the oldest hills in the world and seeing nature at its grandest. Sutherland and Caithness have been described as the last wilderness, and contain many areas of natural beauty.
Getting to Golf Links Hotel
If travelling north on the A9,Church Street is the third road on the right,signposted
for the Hotel and Golspie Pier, we are about 200 yards along on the right
overlooking the sea the beach and the golfcourse.
The History of The Golf Links Hotel
The hotel was originally the Manse for the church. It is believed that it was built in the 1840’s and it was held by the Trustees for the Free Church of Scotland. It was built in the shape of a cross. The stone wall at the entrance to the dining room is the original outside wall, as is the stone wall in the lounge. The rear of the Manse was knocked down to make way for the new extension , the stone been used to build the outside wall and chimney breast in the dining room.
On the 13th March 1946 the property called the West Manse was purchased by Mr. and Mrs. Leigh-Dodd from the Caberfeidh Hotel in Golspie and became The Golf Links
4th Aug 1949 Oliver MacLean Fraser and his wife Margaret of the Staggs Head Hotel, Golspie, became the new owners of The Golf Links Hotel.
12th Oct 1960, we believe a liquor license was obtained by the waver of the Feu Charter of 1906. Oliver and Margaret carried out many changes to the premises, including the self catering chalets in 1962. Unfortunately Oliver died in August 1965, but Margaret carried on until June 1966 when the hotel was bought by Colin Mackenzie Hughes.
February 1969 it was run by Highlands and Islands Development Board until December 1971 when it became the property of William and Anne Lyle from Glasgow.
Records show that in July 1972 there was an improvement grant for Links Cottage which had previously been the gardener’s cottage.
December 1974 saw another change in ownership, Mr. and Mrs. Thomas McLeod from Kelso.
The Hotel then had a quick succession of owners over the next few years. 28th June 1975 Michael and Margaret Gardner came from The Anchor Inn in Pittenwee and then November 1976 came Diarmid and Norma Campbell. The quick turnover of ownership then came to a halt when it was purchased by Robert and Muriel Hamilton from Sussex in April 1978. Robert made improvements to the hotel with bathrooms and extensions in 1985.
John and Margaret Norris from Shropshire had the premises from April 1986 until 25th January 1988 when John and Marjorie Burns from East Lothian had the hotel for 10 years.
Murray Galloway and Andrea Bates from Leicestershire took over in January 1998. They tied the knot whilst resident at the hotel and left in May 2003
The present owners Linda and Richard Walton from Yorkshire have been here since 19th May 2003.We have upgraded many parts of the hotel and will continue to do so.
We are still enjoying our time here, we hope you do too.
