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Golf Courses in Lothian - Where it All Began

Everyone knows that Scotland is country where the legendary game of golf all started. As the home of this sport, the country abounds with a number of excellent courses that golfers from across the globe regularly enjoy. If Scotland is the home of golf, then the Lothian is the heart of the sport since it is in this part of the country where it truly all began. Here you will find some of the oldest golf courses in the world – complete with eerie tales of golfing legends who are said to ‘roam the links’ on the Firth of Forth. Most of the courses have been played by a number of sporting heroes and offer enough of a challenge to keep even the most experienced golfers entertained. So take a tour of the Lothian Golf Trail and make the most of these excellent golfing trails.

Archerfield Golf Links

Archerfield is a magnificent estate developed between Gullane and North Berwick in a very picturesque part of East Lothian. It offers magnificent views of Fidra Island and the Fife coastline. Set on five hundred acres with an exclusive club, it offers an experience quite unlike any other in Scotland.

Dunbar Golf Course

Just thirty miles away from Edinburgh, in the County of East Lothian, universally acknowledged as the Cradle of Golf, lies a hidden, lesser known gem of Scotland. Dunbar East Links on the eastern edge of Dunbar offers golf all year round and is a classic links golf course, hugging the coast. It offers spectacular views of the Firth of Forth and May Island with the shadowy outline of Fife in the distance.

Gullane Golf Course

Eighteen miles from Edinburgh, the capital of Scotland is golfing heaven. The picturesque town of Gullane is home to five outstanding links courses including the well known Muirfield Golf Club. Three superb links are known, rather unimaginatively, as Gullane 1, 2 and 3, but nothing is pedestrian about the game you play on any of them. Part of the East Lothian Club formed by a group of farmers in1859, the Gullane Golf Club was founded in 1882 on the shores of the Firth of Forth.

Kilspindie Golf Club

Kilspindie Golf Club in the village of Aberlady, East Lothian, Scotland is a hidden jewel of a links course that hosts a unique international competition. This is the ‘Alternative Ryder Cup’ which is played between two teams of twelve golfers from the United States and Europe. They play the tournament every alternate year using pre-1930's hickory shafts. Kilspindie is an old fashioned traditional course where you get a chance to play the game the way it used to be played in the past. At the Kilspindie Golf Club you play at links that were first prepared in 1898. The ambiance of the hundred year old clubhouse adds to the charm.

Musselburgh Old Course

Musselburgh Old Course in Musselburgh, East Lothian is the oldest golf links in the world still in use. Records establish that golf was played here in 1672, though Mary Queen of Scots is reputed to have played here in 1567. It was the home of several venerable golf clubs such as The Royal Musselburgh, The Honourable Company of Edinburgh Golfers, Royal Burgess Golfing Society and the Bruntsfield Links Golfing Society. Additionally, over sixty smaller clubs played here over the spring and summer.

North Berwick Golf Course

The West Links at the seaside town of North Berwick, 25 miles east of Edinburgh, is the second oldest golf course in the world still playing its original fairways and the club is the thirteenth oldest. The course began as a 6 holes course and a seventh was added before it was extended to 18 holes in 1877. It was lengthened again in 1895 and is 6420 yards par 71 course today. A true links course, it starts in center of North Berwick town and heads westward towards the Firth of Forth The course regularly is the venue of the final qualifying for the British Open.

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