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Tain Golf Club, Ross and CromartyEighteen holes of links and heath on the Dornoch Firth, laid out by Old Tom Morris in 1890 and a five-minute walk from Tain station.

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5° and clear at The walk to the 11th just now.
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Did you know21 hours ago

Cruden Bay had a golf club long before the railway built its links: a ballot box marked 'Cruden Golf Club 1791' survives.

Those first golfers are thought to have played on Ward Hill, which can be seen from the third hole of today's golf course.

See Cruden Bay Golf Club · Aberdeenshire
Course of the day20 hours ago

Balnagask Golf Course.

Golf has been played on the Balnagask headland since 1905, at the mouth of Aberdeen harbour, with the North Sea for a boundary and the ships coming and going below. It is a public course, run for the city, over rolling coastal ground of hidden fairways, high tees and ravines walled with gorse; one member said it was so hilly it kept him fit. Beside it stands the Girdle Ness lighthouse, built by Robert Stevenson and first lit in 1833, after a whaling ship was wrecked in the bay below and only two of the 44 on board were saved. The lighthouse is on the club's crest. At the course's edge is Torry Battery, the old harbour fort, said to be the best place in Scotland to watch bottlenose dolphins.

WhereTorry, AberdeenGolf since1905Course18 holes, clifftop, publicLaid out byArchie Simpson, James BraidSee the course
True or false20 hours ago

True or false: a golfer from Jedburgh won an Olympic medal.

Did you know19 hours ago

The slow-motion beach run that opens Chariots of Fire was filmed on the West Sands, beside the golf links at St Andrews, on 24 April 1980.

Local athletes did the running. Sand got into the camera and scratched the film, so the crew came back a week later and shot it again in rougher water. A plaque by the beach marks the spot.

See Old Course at St Andrews · Fife
Did you know19 hours ago

Red sandstone sea stacks stand in the middle of the golf course at Cullen, and at the 13th hole the first shot goes blind over the tallest.

It is a short hole of 127 yards, and the green cannot be seen until the ball has cleared the rock.

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Quiz18 hours ago

In 1815 a golfer bet a gallon of whisky that he could hit a ball from Bruntsfield Links in Edinburgh over Arthur's Seat. How many strokes did it take?

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A day for the links.

5° and clear: the sort of afternoon the coast courses were laid out for.

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From the magazine17 hours ago

At Kingarrock, near Cupar in Fife, golfers play a nine-hole golf course with original hickory-shafted clubs from the early 20th century.

Golf with hickory-shafted clubs, known as hickory golf, is the traditional form of the game, a world away from today's titanium and graphite clubs. Its fans argue that it brings more 'feel' into the swing. The nine-hole golf course at Kingarrock is given over entirely to the older game, and every golfer is handed five original clubs from the early 20th century to play with. The golf balls are replicas of the balls of the same era.

See Kingarrock Hickory Golf · Fife
Did you know17 hours ago

Three Prime Ministers, Asquith, Balfour and Ramsay MacDonald, played holiday golf at Moray Golf Club in Lossiemouth before the First World War.

On at least one day, in August 1913, the three of them played together.

See Moray Golf Club · Morayshire
True or false16 hours ago

True or false: Mary Queen of Scots is recorded playing golf a few days after her husband was murdered.

Did you know16 hours ago

Frank Sinatra went out to Carnoustie Golf Links in 1953 to watch the American golfer Ben Hogan play the Open.

He was in Dundee for a concert and followed the second day's play. Hogan went on to win, in the only Open Championship he ever entered.

See Carnoustie Golf Links · Angus
From Issue 8 of Hidden Scotland magazineIssue 816 hours ago

Fife: Discovering the Nooks and Crannies

Our guide to Fife, from the East Neuk villages of Pittenweem, Anstruther and St Monans to St Andrews, Culross, Falkland Palace, the Wemyss Caves and places to eat and stay.

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