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Courses on Old Tom Morris's trail
in Moray.

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Old Tom on the Moray coast.

Old Tom Morris left his mark on the Moray coast. At Lossiemouth, his links of 1889 runs along the shore with Covesea lighthouse in view, a fine test in the wind. At Cullen, a short and quirky links on the bay plays among sea stacks and is huge fun for golfers of any standard. Play both, and see how the master used the land.

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Quiz19 hours ago

Boat of Garten, in Strathspey, has a golf course with restored steam trains running along its edge. The village is known as the what village?

Did you know18 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.

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Quiz17 hours ago

Which of these golf courses has red sandstone sea stacks standing in play?

Did you know16 hours ago

Moray Golf Club at Lossiemouth bottled a whisky called Exclusion in 2016, a hundred years after it threw out a future Prime Minister.

In 1916 the club voted Ramsay MacDonald, a Lossiemouth man who later became Britain's first Labour Prime Minister, out of its membership for opposing the First World War. For the centenary it filled just a hundred bottles of a 21-year-old Speyside single malt and called it Exclusion.

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True or false15 hours ago

True or false: the golf course at Fortrose, on the Black Isle, was used by the military to practise for the D-Day landings.

Lunch14 hours agoMorayshireRockpool Café800 yardsMorayshirePortknockie Fish and Chips1.2 milesAberdeenshirePortsoy Ice Cream5.3 miles

Lunch near Cullen Links Golf Club.

The three good places closest to it: Rockpool Café, Portknockie Fish and Chips and Portsoy Ice Cream.

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Quiz13 hours ago

In 1672 Alexander Brodie, member of parliament for Elgin in Moray, took up golf for his health. What did he hope it would prevent?

Did you know12 hours ago

Moray Golf Club at Lossiemouth threw out Ramsay MacDonald in 1916 for opposing the First World War.

The future Prime Minister was born in the town and played the course. When the golf club relented in 1929 he was Prime Minister for the second time, and he never went back; he played along the coast at Spey Bay instead.

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Quiz11 hours ago

The 7th hole at Grantown-on-Spey is named after Bobby Cruickshank, born in the town in 1894. What did he do in the First World War?

The nineteenth9 hours ago

The clubhouse at Moray Golf Club.

Old Tom Morris's links of 1889 on the shore at Lossiemouth, with Covesea lighthouse at one end and the clubhouse above the last green.

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Quiz10 hours ago

Duff House Royal, at Banff in Aberdeenshire, says it is unusual among royal golf clubs. Why?

From the magazine8 hours agoThe printed copy of Issue 04Issue 04Spring / Summer 2022

Cullen Links, an Old Tom Morris golf course on the Moray coast, has ten par-3 holes out of 18, with four in a row on the back nine.

A par-3 is a short hole, meant to be played in three shots, and the back nine is the second half of the round. The magazine calls Cullen arguably the most unique of all the designs of Old Tom, the Victorian champion from St Andrews. He used the natural golfing ground and the best features of the site to carve an eye-catching coastal course beside this small Moray village. The result is a par-63 of just 4,623 yards. The Highlands were where Old Tom was especially prolific, and Royal Dornoch, Tain, Nairn and Moray Old are among his other courses in the north.

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