New Golf Competitions Discovered This Week -- 6th April 2026
From an Aberdeenshire links with sea views on every hole to Northern Ireland's best-kept secret on the Causeway Coast, our latest batch of newly listed competitions spans the British Isles and beyond. Here are five worth putting in your diary right now.
Every week our team scours club websites, booking systems, and competition calendars to add fresh events to Open Golf Events. This week's discoveries range from a world-class links on the Solway Firth to a highland fundraiser scramble and an island gem overlooking the Irish Sea. Whether you are after a solo stableford challenge, a pairs scramble, or a traditional strokeplay test, there is something here to get you planning your next round away.
Featured New Competitions
Mixed Singles Strokeplay -- Rowany Golf Course
Rowany Golf Course, Port Erin, Isle of Man
Rowany Golf Club sits on the southwestern tip of the Isle of Man, an 18-hole par-70 layout that has been welcoming golfers since 1895. At 5,722 yards from the white tees, the course is not a brute -- but it rewards accuracy and local knowledge as the terrain toughens considerably through the middle of the round. The real showstopper is the 18th hole, which opens up a panoramic view across Port Erin Bay, the Irish Sea, and on a clear day the Mountains of Mourne rising beyond the water. Scores will be acceptable for handicap purposes, making this a useful as well as enjoyable day out. A second date on 12th April is also listed if the 11th does not suit.
Inversport 2-Person Scramble Fundraiser -- Inverallochy Golf Club
Inverallochy Golf Club, Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Established in 1884, Inverallochy is one of Aberdeenshire's quietly magnificent links courses -- 18 holes perched on the northeast Scottish coast with sea views from every single hole. The yardage is modest at 5,436 yards, with six par-3s woven into the layout, but do not be fooled: like all genuine links golf, the wind is the true card it plays. The course changes character completely depending on the direction of the breeze, and the traditional design keeps you thinking on every tee. This event is a pairs scramble with a fundraising purpose, open to golfers of all abilities. Scramble formats tend to bring out the best in a round away -- lower pressure, higher enjoyment, and a great excuse to team up with a playing partner and explore somewhere new.
Ladies Open Singles Leitch Trophy -- Silloth on Solway Golf Club
Silloth on Solway Golf Club, Cumbria, England
Silloth on Solway is the kind of course that ruins you for ordinary golf. Routed by Davy Grant and Willy Park Jnr along the Cumbrian coast overlooking the Firth of Solway, the course has earned recognition as one of Britain and Ireland's finest links -- and sits within the world's top 100 courses by the reckoning of leading golf course reviewers. Blind tee shots on the opening holes, sunken dell greens, gorse-framed approaches and punchbowl putting surfaces give it a distinctively quirky, old-fashioned character that modern course design rarely matches. The Leitch Trophy is a ladies-only open singles stableford, priced at just £35, which represents extraordinary value for a round on a course of this standing. If you are a lady golfer looking for a serious bucket-list challenge in April, this is the one.
TWA Bridges Open Round 1 -- Carrbridge Golf Club
Carrbridge Golf Club, Carrbridge, Scottish Highlands
Carrbridge sits in the Cairngorms National Park, a village famous for its ancient packhorse bridge, and its golf club is every bit as characterful. This 9-hole Highland course near Inverness is set among proper Highland scenery and runs year-round, which tells you something about the spirit of the members. The TWA Bridges Open Round 1 is an individual stableford open to golfers of up to 18 handicap -- a sensible ceiling that keeps the field competitive without excluding anyone who plays regularly. At £25 to enter, it is an affordable spring outing with a proper competitive edge. The rustic red-roofed clubhouse providing refreshments at the end is as good a reason as any to make the journey north. If the Highlands are already on your itinerary this spring, build your calendar around this one.
2nd Castlerock Open -- Castlerock Golf Club
Castlerock Golf Club, Co. Londonderry, Northern Ireland
If Castlerock has a problem, it is that Royal Portrush gets all the headlines. Sitting just a short drive along the North Antrim coast, the Mussenden Course at Castlerock is ranked among the 31 best in Ireland and has long been treasured as the Causeway Coast's hidden gem. The layout combines traditional links duneland with stretches of more inland Scottish-style terrain, and it is the variety -- along with the formidable rough -- that keeps even experienced links golfers honest. The signature hole is the par-3 fourth, nicknamed the "Leg of Mutton," a brute of around 200 yards with a railway line tightening the right side and a ditch left. The 2nd Castlerock Open is contested from the morning tees in individual stableford format and costs £45 to enter. A third instalment follows on 13th July if June does not suit. Either date is a genuine reason to plan a trip to this underrated stretch of Irish coastline.
Also Worth Noting This Week
Away from the featured five, this week's batch also brought in events from further afield. The Jessie Thornton Florida Scramble Ladies Open runs on 18th April at Newton Stewart Golf Club in Dumfries and Galloway -- a parkland hidden gem near the Galloway Hills with spectacular views from every hole. In Ireland, Enniscorthy Golf Club in County Wexford has added a run of mixed and gents stableford days through May, including a Mixed Four Ball Betterball on 16th May on an Eddie Hackett-designed parkland with Blackstairs Mountain views and a backstory involving cannonballs from the 1798 rebellion. And for those with a taste for alpine golf, the Golfclub Zell am See has listed the first round of its Pinzgauer Men Open Series for 14th June -- a 36-hole strokeplay event on a course where Seve Ballesteros and Bernhard Langer have both left their marks.
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