Castle Stuart

• Location: Inverness, Scotland
• Open: 2009
• Designer: Gil Hanse & Mark Parsinen
• Major Course Updates: N/A
• Events Hosted: Scottish Open (4 times)
• Key Rankings: 8th best golf course in Scotland, Top 100 Golf Courses (2022), 77th best golf course in the world, Golf Magazine (2021)

Gil Hanse’s Castle Stuart is the latest acquisition in the crowing Canadian-based Cabot brand, but fans of history will remember Castle Stuart being the place where Phil Mickelson played the Scottish Open the week before winning his lone Open Championship in 2013. As is true with other Gil Hanse designs, smart, strategic green complexes with a considerable amount of contour await, and width allows golfers to pick and choose the route they want to play the hole from, while offering rewards for those correctly selecting the best route for the day’s pin location.