Ranked by most international books around the 10th best golf course in the World this is a gem of spectacular proportions. Reputedly Tom Watson's favourite.

The course was built by Old Tom Morris in 1891 and John Sutherland, the Secretary through to 1935 and after the Second World War by John Duncan. Wondrous swards of fairway and green, with clusters of players dotting the beach front, unfold a mile in each direction. The embankments from late April to June a carpet of flaming yellow gorse.

Not long in modern day Championship standards but a classic requiring thinking man's golf to tame. Classic elevated tees and complex sloping greens are characteristic of this masterpiece.