Spey Turn
The outward nine at Grantown follows the heathland ground above the River Spey, and the 9th tee is one of the points where the river is most visible below — the Spey through the birch and pine, the Cairngorm massif on the southern horizon completing the view. The hole turns back toward the clubhouse from the furthest point of the routing, and the second shot plays downhill to a green in a natural hollow. Grantown was laid out in 1765 as a planned town to the instructions of Sir James Grant; the golf club arrived 125 years later and used the terrain immediately to the east of it, where the ground was not yet needed for anything else.