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John was a qualified lawyer in Edinburgh for almost 20 years. Since retiring from the Law profession John has worked in the Golf Travel business welcoming groups from around the world to his beloved St Andrews where he now resides. A keen golfer, John’s knowledge of golf in St Andrews and the surrounding county of Fife is second to none. John is proud to be a member of St Andrews Golf Club with a handicap of 12 and he spent many years playing and latterly as an administrator in rugby union.

Neil, also a member of St Andrews Golf Club was a PGA Golf Professional for over 20 years. At the age of 16 he became Dunblane’s youngest ever Senior Club Champion, a record he held for 25 years. Neil has played in a number of events including PGA Tour events and has travelled across the UK and Europe as a top golf coach. His vast Golf experience includes planning Golf Vacations to the UK and Europe, Course and Driving Range design. Neil also worked as a Football ( Soccer ) scout in Portugal, Italy and Scandinavia and was instrumental in saving his beloved “Stirling Albion Football Club “ from going out of business. The club are now the first 100% fan owned club in Scotland.

Ray Owens has been entertaining our Golfers and Non Golfers for many years now and “The Highlander” brings to life Scottish History in an entertaining and informative show. Dressed in the traditional costumes of the times and carrying authentic weapons and equipment, the Highlander will allow them to gain a true sense of the past in a location of your choosing.

In his 13th year as the Highlander, it is also his 10th season on The Royal Scotsman train and at the Carnegie Club at Skibo Castle.

After the success in 2008 of the TV series Highlands (STV & The History Channel) where Ray was involved as Historical Consultant as well as co-writing and appearing in front of camera, in 2009 he appeared in a BBC 2 series called Britannia talking about the Highlands in the 16th Century.

The October 2008 edition of Prestige magazine had a four page article about the Royal Scotsman train and described his performance onboard the train as follows:

" After dinner it's time to return to the observation car to relive a little of Scotland's fascinating past and colourful heroes, as told through one of the greatest living storytellers Ray Owens. Dressed in traditional 18th Century Highland dress, he weaves his animated tale around Bonnie Prince Charlie and the battles that were fought to preserve true Scottish heritage".

David Joy is a fourth generation born and bred St Andrean. He is probably best known as "The man who plays Old Tom Morris "- a one-man show premiered during the 1990 Open at St Andrews, which has since been televised and adapted as a commercial video and distributed world-wide under the name of Keeper of the Greens. David also worked with John Cleese and Titleist on 3 extremely funny commercials which can be seen here http://www.golfhistorian.co.uk/videos.html

Old Tom has thrilled our Clients in the evening and left them with memories that will certainly remain in their memories for many years to come!

• "You've done a fine job in bringing to life an important figure and era in the game's history - I hope it does well for you." - Jack Nicklaus

• "I have just seen your video, "Keeper of the Greens". I did so enjoy it - well done!" - Peter Alliss

• "I enjoyed it immensely and certainly understand how important it is to constantly remind people of the wonderful traditions of the game. If people cannot travel to St Andrews, your video provides a wonderful insight into this romantic town". - Ben Crenshaw

• “Thank You again David for treating our clients to a wonderful evening. They felt honoured to be in the company of Old Tom and boarded their flight home with many lasting memories” – Neil Robertson, Director of Golf Vacation Scotland

Murray Urquhart hails from Inverness and is the Director of Golf at The Spey Valley Highland Resort in Aviemore in the Scottish Highlands. Murray turned professional in 1997 after a successful amateur career, representing Scotland, Great Britain and Ireland on numerous occasions. He spent 4 years at the College of Charleston in South Carolina playing in NCAA Division 1 college golf tournaments, whilst achieving a degree in Corporate Communication.

On his return to Scotland he turned professional and worked at Inverness Golf Club where he earned his "fully qualified" PGA status in 2000. Since then he has competed in professional golf tournaments all over the world. In 2003 he played a full season on the European Tour, the highlight of which was winning the low round of the week at the Lancome Trophy in Paris.

In 2005 he qualified to play in the British Open at St Andrews, a truly memorable experience. Murray has had multiple wins on the Scottish Region PGA circuit over the past few years, the highlights were finishing runner up at the Scottish Professional Championship in 2001 at Gleneagles and winning the Northern Open at Skibo Castle in 2007.

Murray is involved with our Corporate Golf Department arranging Golf Days and also with our “Golf Boot Camps”. Should you be interested in one to one lessons then we can also include this in your itinerary.

Nikki is simply “ an awesome character ” and as well as being the happiest person I have ever known her knowledge of the Highlands is second to none!

Her family own the beautiful Castle Hotel in Huntly which is located between Aberdeen and Inverness and is used frequently by Golf Vacation Scotland for Clients heading north to play the likes of Cruden Bay, Royal Aberdeen, Royal Dornoch, Moray Old, Nairn and Castle Stuart Links.

Nikki will custom build you a tour to suit and normal stops include Whisky Distilleries, Castles, Cashmere Stores and weather permitting Champagne and Sandwiches by a famous salmon river or lochside

Ronnie as well as being a great friend and an excellent host hails from Linlithgow (near Edinburgh) Tour Guide has been at the forefront of activities at Kingsfield Golf Centre since 2003 when he introduced Laser Clay shooting to their famed Golf activities. Kingsfield Clays has grown in popularity due to Ronnie's unique expatriate presentation style .

Ronnie heads up the Kingsfield Events section which offers “The Kingsfield Experience'' in Archery, Mountain Bike Trails, Adventure Golf, Mobi Games, Clan Games and Historic tours of the Royal Burgh Of Linlithgow that can include Cruising along the Union Canal.

Ted Christopher

Ted Christopher is one of Scotland's finest performers. He is a well travelled and extremely versatile singer songwriter.

Unphased by any size of audience, he played to 750,000 people on The Mall in Washinton DC. A week later there were 12 in Cowie Miners Welfare Club. How's that for a quick reality check? and they were both great gigs. 

Ted is a proud native of The Royal And Ancient Burgh of Stirling and was born and raised a mere claymores length from Stirling Castle and The National Wallace Monument.

Over the years our highland piper Calum Fraser known better as “ Spud the Piper” has played In some very interesting places including Kazakhstan, Moscow, China, Bangkok, Canada, Washington, Prague, New York, Amsterdam and St. Magnus's Cathedral, Orkney.

He recently travelled as the Scottish Piping ambassador to Thailand for Chivas Regal Whisky to promote the "100 Pipers" brand when he was bitten by a spider which resulted in a trip to Chiang Mai hospital for antidotes. What a lot of people never knew was that the Spider who had obviously never seen a kilt before took a fancy to it and I will leave the rest to your imagination!The tour was however a success and 100 Pipers is now the best selling dram in Asia. Calum is now the official Piper for the Tartan Army ( The official Scottish Football Fans Club “ when they travel abroad to follow the national soccer team.

He also wooed Madonna from her private jet to her famous hit “ like a virgin “ played on the bagpipes, this proved to be a sound marketing move by Spud as shortly after that he was invited over to The States to play at the wedding of famous actress Jamie Lee Curtis.

Barbara is a qualified Blue Badge Tour Guide and her tours offer the ideal choice for non-golfers who want to escape while their other half pretends they are actually enjoying themselves on the Links. But golfers too will discover there is so much to enjoy beyond the fairways.

Tours are exclusive: you won't be sharing the day with anyone you don't know. She will collect you from your accommodation - and deliver you back - in her comfortable vehicle and can tailor make day tours to almost any part of Scotland.

Stewart is an Orvis Endorsed Fishing Guide and has over thirty years fishing experience as well as being a true ambassador for Scotland.

He is the founder of Alba Game Fishing, a service which specialises in creating unique fishing experiences in private fishing locations throughout Scotland.

Their service includes gourmet outdoor lunches, luxury transport, photos on a DVD, provision of fishing tackle, clothing, safety equipment and guidance.

Stewart has delivered some imaginative and truly memorable fishing experiences, as these few testimonies show:

World class fly fishing! I have fished some of the finest rivers in Alaska and Patagonia. Stewart and his team are second to none. His hospitality, knowledge, equipment, and especially the fishing are all first class. A day spent with Stewart will create a lifetime of great Scottish memories.

Jim Goldsworthy Texas USA

I can tell you, that this fishing has been the best Denny has experienced to date. I always take him with me on my travels so he has gotten to fish quite a few unique places but by far, this trip is at the very top of the list. And this is just not because the fishing was good but Stewart and his company provided so many other little details that made fishing in Scotland a memorable event for him.

Kathy and Denny Clanton, Colorado, USA

We couldn’t have had a better time. You were great company, and a terrific help, and showed us a glorious time. I couldn’t be more grateful and got home feeling dizzy with spoiledness. We’re still glowing with pleasure… Especially as we’ve now got those magnificent fish safely in our freezer…I hope very much that our paths will cross again before long—I’m sure they will.

Andrew Motion (former) Poet Laureate, England