Mains of Taymouth Golf Course (formerly Kenmore)

Kenmore Golf Club occupies nine holes on the lochside ground at the eastern end of Loch Tay, where the River Tay flows out of the loch below the village of Kenmore. The course was established in 1903 and uses the flat ground between the road and the loch — views across the water to the hills above Taymouth Castle on the south shore, the loch stretching west toward Killin. Par 31, nine holes, around 2,100 yards.

The course is short and the terrain is simple, but the setting is exceptional — Loch Tay is one of the longest and deepest lochs in Scotland, the light on the water varies constantly, and the hills frame every shot with the kind of Highland backdrop that travel photographers spend days chasing. Golf here is a pretext rather than the point.

Kenmore is naturally on the route between Aberfeldy (4 miles east) and the Killin end of Loch Tay (15 miles west) — the B846 along the north shore passes directly through the village. A morning round at Aberfeldy and an afternoon nine at Kenmore, with lunch in the Kenmore Hotel bar (one of Scotland's oldest inns, with Robert Burns's poetry scratched into the chimney breast), is a Perthshire day of considerable pleasure.