go and see Royal Dornoch because it is a perfect 10 on the Doak scale, and no one should miss it. Tom Doak, The Confidential Guide
On no other course is the nature of links golf so fully realized. Royal Dornoch is the Platonic form of links golf. Those narrow undulating fairways throw up pits, curves, mounds; those greens at once vast and narrow, so fast, so true, often sitting on their own natural plateaux, all curving away at the edges. The course asks serious, legitimate golf questions, hole after hole, stroke after stroke. The challenges are so subtle, complex and fair, its impossible to regret or resent them. Andrew Greig, Preferred Lies