There is a remoteness about Primland, a sense of escape that forgets the world, that is special. Very special. Golf courses have, by now, been built in every landscape imaginable but rarely on mountain peaks.

Primland, therefore, looks down on scenic views that have to be seen to be believed; and the design of the course is different. Very different.

There are no vast carries and not a single lake. Not many new courses in America can say that but Primland is built on traditional values, the values that made golf course architecture an art rather than a formula.

The finest American golf writer, the late Herbert Warren Wind, wrote that "the best land for golf resembles the gently rolling terrain of the British linksland".

Primland is some long way from the British coastline but there is a phrase about taking Mohammed to the mountain.

Primland did just that. Donald Steel, described by Links Magazine as "widely held to be the Dean of British golf course architects and an authority on linksland golf", was commissioned to take his pick of a 14,000 acre Estate run to promote country sporting pursuits and to preserve its beautiful environment.

Given the steepness of some of the terrain, hopes for golf were fading until the elevated plateau was reached almost as last resort.