On a delightfully grey Tuesday morning, the RDGC launched early trials of a temporary aerial test path stretching directly over the sacred links of Royal Dornoch Golf Club's Championship Course.

Highlights of the Flight:

  • The Flight Path: A colourful caravan of gondola cabins glided smoothly at roughly the height of a well-struck three-wood.
  • Mind the Gap: Engineers assure golfers that the cabin spacing is "generous." Players need only wait for a gap in the overhead traffic before teeing off.
  • Rub of the Green: Should a stray golf ball strike a moving cabin, it is officially ruled a "rub of the green" and played exactly as it lies. One ambitious test shot holed out from an open cabin, though it was later disallowed.
  • Sheep Status: Under the watchful eye of [[news-3215474|Neil Munro]] (Director of Innovation and Sheep Relocation), the local flock was moved to the 8th hole, where they are reportedly thriving and showing zero interest in golf.
  • Station Master's Vow: Dornoch Station Master Stan Pennington cheered the test, declaring that unlike the old railway line, "this time, we're keeping the station."

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