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in Aberdeenshire.

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Aberdeenshire

Links, heath and the Dee.

Golf has been played in Aberdeenshire for centuries, and the courses are as varied as the land. Play links through towering dunes above a sandy bay, or a classic links north of Aberdeen whose club was founded in 1780. Up the Dee you'll find heathland and parkland courses ringed by hills. There's a clifftop municipal course above the harbour in Aberdeen, too, and a nine-hole village course in the hills. Book tee times ahead in summer.

Ballater Golf Course→
Cruden Bay Golf Club→
Portlethen Golf Course→
Lumphanan Golf Club→
Paul Lawrie Golf Centre→
Balnagask Golf Course→
Royal Aberdeen Golf Club→
Banchory Golf Club→
Craibstone Golf Course→
Aboyne Golf Club→
Quiz19 hours ago

Tom Bendelow, born in Aberdeen in 1868, went to America as a newspaper typesetter. What did he go on to do there?

Course of the day19 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
Did you know18 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
Quiz17 hours ago

On a clear day, golfers on the 13th hole at Royal Tarlair in Macduff, Aberdeenshire, can see along the coast to a village made famous by a film. Which?

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A day for the links.

6° and clear: the sort of afternoon the coast courses were laid out for.

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Quiz16 hours ago

A town record of 1625 from Aberdeen mentions military drill on the links 'betwixt the first hole and the Quenis hole'. Why does it matter to golf?

Did you know15 hours ago

The 4th hole at Cruden Bay Golf Club is named after the old fishing harbour you can see from its tee, Port Erroll.

It is a par three of 196 yards, with the Water of Cruden running down its left side and the little harbour of Port Erroll beyond. The fishing village gave the golf club its first name, too: when the railway company built the links in 1899, the local golfers were given their playing rights as the Port Erroll Golf Club.

See Cruden Bay Golf Club · Aberdeenshire
From our guide14 hours ago

Royal Aberdeen Golf Club.

Founded back in 1780 – making it one of the oldest on the planet – this classic links course has long drawn golfers in search of a challenge. It’s hosted both the Senior British Open (won by none other than Tom Watson) and the Walker Cup.

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Quiz13 hours ago

Royal Musselburgh's Old Club Cup, with winners listed back to 1774, is believed to be what?

Lunch12 hours agoAberdeenshireTease Coffee Bar200 yardsAberdeenshireBirdhouse Cafe Banchory300 yardsAberdeenshireBanchory Lodge0.6 miles

Lunch near Banchory Golf Club.

The three good places closest to it: Tease Coffee Bar, Birdhouse Cafe Banchory and Banchory Lodge.

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Did you know12 hours ago

The story goes that the grassy mound in the middle of the 17th fairway at Cruden Bay Golf Club is a grave from a battle in 1012.

Tradition holds that Scots and Danes killed in the fighting were buried there. Nobody has dug to find out, and the golfers play round it.

See Cruden Bay Golf Club · Aberdeenshire
Quiz11 hours ago

In 1897 a crown prince stayed at the Udny Arms Hotel in Newburgh, in Aberdeenshire, and learned to play golf on the village links. Which country did he later rule?