Senior Golf

After watching most senior golfers I know retreat to the easier courses in their late 60s and 70s — and the few who didn't keep enjoying their golf more — the contrarian view: the right answer for most senior golfers is to keep playing the harder rounds, not less of them. Here's the honest case.

Which Scottish clubs run dedicated senior tee-time programmes; which offer formal senior rates; the over-65 thresholds; the local-pensioner schemes most visitors don't know exist. Working figures for 2026.

Honest considerations on hip-replacement-aware walking, modern flexibility-friendly equipment, the pace question (yes, you really do play faster than the millennials), and the courses to skip in retirement. Written for the 60+ golfer who'd prefer accurate information to platitudes.

The accommodation, course, and pacing decisions for a Scottish golf trip in your 60s and 70s. Hotels with proper lifts, courses with sensible walks, the buggies-permitted shortlist, the realistic itinerary that doesn't grind you to a halt by Thursday.

Twelve Scottish courses ranked honestly for walkability — by elevation change, by distance between green and next tee, by the brutal reality of that hill on the 14th. For senior golfers, post-injury returnees, or anyone who'd rather not finish a round wondering whether their knees survived it.

The Scottish Senior Open is the calendar event most under-attended by Scottish locals — quieter than the Open, more accessible than the regular DP World Tour stops, with the world's best 50+ players walking accessible courses at human pace. Notes from a long Saturday at Royal Aberdeen.