Fairmont( Torrance)
Turnberry St. Andrews( Duke)
Kingsbarns
EDINBURGH / EAST LOTHIAN Muirfield: Home to the Honourable Company of Edinburgh Golfers and most recently the 2002 Open Championship this very exclusive seaside links course features long narrow fairways, fast undulating greens, innumerable pot bunkers and thick rough. Architecturally it’ s a gem. A clockwise outward half surrounds the inner anti-clockwise holes, an arrangement that ensures that players have to make incessant adjustment for wind direction.
It can be quite tricky securing a tee time at Muirfield and currently, visitors may play on Tuesday and Thursday mornings with the 1st tee reserved for twoballs and the 10th tee reserved for fourballs. Times fill up very quickly during the peak season from May to September, but the good news is Muirfield has ideal full course playing conditions all year round.
Other golfing options: North Berwick, Gullane No. 1.
FIFE Kingsbarns Golf Links: Designed by leading golf architect Kyle Phillips, Kingsbarns is a tribute to classic Scottish links and has come on in leaps and bounds since opening in 2000. The course meanders along more than one-and-a-half miles of rugged seashore offering ocean views from every hole. Featuring spacious fairways rolling and twisting through dune ridges and hollows, true links turf and large greens, the course is challenging yet playable.“ At Kingsbarns it’ s all about risk and reward,” says David Scott, Director of Golf.“ You can play to a safe area but it’ s likely to be a tough angle to the green. If you take a gamble and go the Tiger line, you will have the choice of playing a running shot or one through the air.”
Other golfing options: St Andrews Old Course, Castle Course, Duke’ s Course, Kittock’ s Course, Torrance Course & Balcomie Links( Crail).
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