Tag: golf courses
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Lundin Golf Club
Lundin Links has been created out of half an old Tom Morris course. It lies ten miles south of St. Andrews on the East Neuk of Fife, overlooking the Firth of Forth. Lundin Golf Club was founded in 1868 and in the early days used to share its 18-hole golf course with the neighboring Leven Links Club. This course is now known as The Old. Lundin Golf Club was located on the east side of the ...
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Crail At Balcomie
Just twelve miles from St Andrews, the Mecca of golf in Scotland, in the easternmost kingdom of Fife, is Crail, the seventh oldest golf club in the world. The Crail Golfing Society was founded in 1786 and was initially located at Sauchope just outside Crail, a picturesque fishing village. It is believed that a local farmer laid out a nine-hole course in Balcomie in the mid nineteenth ...
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Murcar
Murcar Links Golf Club in Aberdeen was once described by Golf Monthly writer Barry Ward as having, fairways 'tighter than a taxman's purse!' Its sand hills are legendary and have played a key role in shaping the fairways and greens that are curved around the dunes. The views from this links course along the North Sea are as spectacular as the game is challenging.
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Scotscraig
Scotscraig is the thirteenth oldest golf club in the world and closely connected to the legendary St Andrews of Scotland in many ways. It was founded in1817 by the St Andrews Society of Golfers which was later known as the Royal and Ancient Golf Club. Scotscraig is located in Tayport, Fife and is only 15minutes from the famous Old Course at St Andrews. Even the lands of the Scotscraig Golf ...
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Thurso
Thurso is recognized as a good holiday course but it is not without its mean moments, particularly with the wind blowing from the Pentland Firth. Founded in 1893, Thurso Golf Club has the northernmost course on the British mainland. The present 18 hole course was built in 1963 using four different nine-hole courses.
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Western Gailes
Western Gailes is located on the Ayrshire coast, where many of the best golf courses in Scotland, like the Royal Troon and Turnberry are located and is certainly worthy of their company. Western Gailes Golf Club, founded in 1897, sits on a narrow strip of land wedged between the Irvine Bay and railway tracks. It is just four miles from Glasgow Airport and is one of the finest true links of ...
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Roxburghe Golf Course
The Roxburghe Golf Course at Kelso, Roxburghshire is a part of the 50,000 acre estate belonging to the Duke and Duchess of Roxburghe. It is located in the heart of the Scottish Borders. The Duke and Duchess have converted a charming Jacobean mansion into the Roxburghe Hotel and Golf Course. It also houses the Golf Clubhouse. The Duke and Duchess live in Floors Castle about three miles from ...
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Fortrose Rosemarkie
It required the creative genius of James Braid to design a full fledged eighteen-hole course on a sliver of links land on a peninsula projecting into Moray Firth. Fortrose & Rosemarkie Golf Club was founded in 1888 on Black Isle. In the early 1930s James Braid designed this charming course on the Chanonry Point, a peninsula jutting out into Rosemarkie Bay that guards the entrance to the ...
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Brora
Brora Golf Club in the north of Scotland has some interesting local rules because a flock of sheep is housed in the middle of the course and they are free to roam all over! As a result each green and some tees have electric fencing around them! In 1891 Old Tom Morris designed a course for the Brora Golf Club in Sutherland, just twenty minutes away from Royal Dornoch. This natural course has ...
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Golf Courses
Scotland is the birthplace of golf, an internationally acclaimed sport. As such, Scotland boasts some of the greatest golf courses in the world. In fact, this marvelous country boasts more than 550 exquisite golf courses, each with its own flavor. Large numbers of keen golfers visit Scotland each year so that they can experience golf in its land of origin. All avid golfers dream of ...
