Derek McAdam spent 20 years in financial journalism in the City but in 1976 he moved to Scotland where he purchased the Western Isles Hotel, Tobermory, a holiday resort hotel with its own nine-hole golf course. Now retired he continues to live in Tobermory and still regularly writes for both local and national newspapers. He still enjoys a leisurely round on the beautiful Tobermory Golf Course and tours Scotland in his motorhome playing other nine-hole courses.