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Interesting news · 29 July 2025
Royal Dornoch Confirms £13.9m Clubhouse and New Course Plans
Sutherland · from scottishconstructionnow.com
Photograph · scottishconstructionnow.com
Royal Dornoch has announced a £13.9 million investment in a new clubhouse beside the Championship Course’s first tee, due to open next season.
Alongside this, the club has secured 50 acres near the Struie Course for a full redesign and expansion led by US firm King Collins Dormer. Plans include new Struie holes, a par-3 course, driving range and short-game facilities.
General manager Neil Hampton says the development strengthens the club’s long-term position and supports the wider Highland economy. Members will be consulted as the project progresses.
An inn by the old ferry slipway at Kylesku, with a restaurant of local seafood and croft-reared meat and a bar of single malts, looking over Loch Glendhu.
A chocolate shop and café in a sandstone building on Dornoch's Castle Street, with handmade chocolates under glass and a hot chocolate it calls The Best.
A whitewashed cottage on the A836 in Bettyhill, home to the village's tourist information point and a small café, with benches and picnic tables out front.
The domed brick drum on the north bank of the Clyde, opposite the Radisson RED at the SEC campus, is to open again in May 2027 as The Rotunda and Roundhouse.
