9-hole links course with "with fantastic views over the Atlantic Ocean"
Yardage
2396
SSS
68
Visitors
Unrestricted
Societies
Arrange with Secretary
Green Fees
Daily fee - A
Course Designer
Established in 1992.
Location
Overlooking the Atlantic Ocean, 6m N of Castlebay, the most westerly golf course in the UK
Map
Facilities
Trolleys / Clubs for hire
Course Reviews
Having travelled nearly 900 miles to get to Barra GC we dropped our £20 green fee into a letterbox and picked up a score card. It went downhill from then on. There were no directional signs on this very pretty 9 hole course but we set off in, what we thought, was the right direction. Wrong. Still, after losing two balls we arrived at the first green which was surrounded by electrified fencing (live!) to prevent sheep straying. It would have been a good idea to have let them stray as the green had unmown grass 4 inches high ! And so did every other green. You could only hole out by chipping. Off to the 2nd tee but where? And where to? And so it went on. A total disaster with us finishing on the 5th tee totally lost. Signs on the greens and tees were broken or not even there. We trudged off feeling as though we had been conned and nobody even cared. When we got back home we contacted the Secretary who was very concerned and said she would forward our letter of complaint to the Captain. Following this up later had no result. Obviously Barra's Captain has too much to do to deal with complaints of visitors - he certainly has dispensed with any courtesy usually given to visitors to Scotland. What's golf like in Scotland? Wonderful -everywhere except Barra where it is a total frustrating waste of time and my advice is to avoid Barra at all costs. There are dozens of other courses that value visitors playing and whose Captains can actually write. Dennis Sare December 20, 2008
