Golf course bins from Wick go to world’s most northerly links
A Caithness husband-and-wife business that specialises in the design and manufacture of bespoke golf products has fulfilled an order for the world’s most northerly links course.
Hunter’s Promotions, run by John Hunter and his wife Christine, supplied sleeper eco bins to Lofoten Links, above the Arctic Circle in northern Norway.
The bins are made from reclaimed railway sleepers and have separate sections for bottles/cans, food waste and general waste.
“That’s one of the most popular ranges that we do,” John explained. “We’re the only people in the land that do that sleeper-type stuff.”
Hunter’s Promotions has been operating from premises at Wick Airport Industrial Estate for more than 20 years. The range also includes clocks, water-bottle fillers and club cleaners.
John and Christine have supplied products to such renowned courses as St Andrews, Carnoustie, Kingsbarns, Royal Dornoch, Castle Stuart, Gleneagles, Loch Lomond, Muirfield, Royal Liverpool, Royal St George’s, Sunningdale, Royal Portrush and Royal County Down.
Internationally, they have also had orders from Vietnam, Hong Kong, the United States, Germany, Denmark, Italy, Spain, Switzerland and Iceland.
John added: “There was quite a nice comment that we got from one of London’s top courses about our sleeper bins being probably the nicest, most natural-looking bins in the world.”
John, a former managing director of Grampian Records, was captain of Wick Golf Club for many years.
Lofoten Links has been named as the number one “X-factor golf course” in Europe by the magazine Today’s Golfer.