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John Campbell of the Sunday Telegraph before
the Amateur Golf Championship, sums up the Hotel.
"Not
everyone will be able to get in at the Burghfield, but the lucky
ones will find there a menu, the scope and excellence of which
has never been surpassed in all my experience. Food, flowers
- armfuls of them everywhere - and friendliness make the Burghfield
more of an experience than a hotel"
Merrell Noden writing in USA's Golf &
Travel explains that the annual Scottish tour is made "not
so much because we are good golfers, but because we are good
friends" . Of their stay at Burghfield he comments,
"Euan himself is reason enough to visit Dornoch. For
40 years he has stood in his kilt behind the bar, dispensing
single malts & lines of poetry".
When Alastair Buchan & Ian Stewart of
Lochcarron Weavers bought the Dornoch Town Jail in the 70s, they
stayed in the Burghfield and have been coming back annually since
then. They bring a large party of family & friends to celebrate
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Jeff Wadsworth from Ponte Verda, Florida comments
"Every year my friends & I fly 4000 miles to come
home to Burghfield House. There is no other experience like the
hospitality and welcome given to each guest. A visit is a few
nights at the home of an old friend - not a stay at a hotel".
Richard Goodale, an American from San Fransisco
came on his first golfing holiday to Dornoch in 1978. He came
year after year, gradually conducting his work for longer spells
from Dornoch. He is now married to Josie MacRoberts - another
Burghfield guest whose family have been coming to Dornoch for
years. They still holiday with us - and Euan is god father to
their elder daughter Caitlin. Josie's family & friends (2nd
& 3rd weeks in July) include MacRoberts (Glasgow &
Dornoch), Waughs (Fife), Hanlons (Belfast),
Gordons (Halifax) & Baggotts (Halifax & Dornoch)
and Deleone (Columbus, Ohio).
Terry Coriden has been coming to the Burghfield
for 12 years from Columbus, Indiana. He so loves the place that
with a few of his friends he bought it from the Currie family
in March 1999 - but wants "nothing to change, unless
it's getting better". Key to this, is the retention
of Euan behind the bar. |
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