Regional hubs
Scottish golf, region by region
10 regions, every drive time and rail link mapped. Pick where you want to play and we'll show you the headline courses, the hidden gems, and what to do off the course.
Region · Fife & Angus
Fife & Angus →
The Home of Golf, plus the Angus links circuit visitors forget. St Andrews gets the headlines; the rest of the coast deserves the trip on its own merits.
9 courses · £28–£486
Region · East Lothian
East Lothian →
18 golf courses on Scotland's Golf Coast — from Muirfield and North Berwick to Musselburgh's £20–£25 municipal nine — all inside thirty miles of Edinburgh. You can play three in two days without changing hotel.
9 courses · £60–£400
Region · Edinburgh & West Lothian
Edinburgh & West Lothian →
20 courses in the city and its West Lothian commuter belt — two of the oldest golf clubs in the world, the council municipals, and a run of honest parkland members' clubs. And the entire East Lothian Golf Coast is half an hour east.
9 courses · £37–£220
Region · Ayrshire & Campbeltown
Ayrshire →
The Open coast. Royal Troon, Turnberry, Prestwick — the trio that defined links golf, plus the municipal courses that locals quietly play for a tenth of the price.
9 courses · £20–£1000
Region · Highlands
Highlands →
Royal Dornoch and the long drive north. Six hours from London, three from Edinburgh — and the most consistently brilliant links country in Scotland once you get there.
9 courses · £35–£385
Region · Aberdeen & Moray
Aberdeen & Moray →
Royal Aberdeen, Cruden Bay, Trump International — the underrated east-coast links circuit. Plus the Moray clubs at Lossiemouth and Cullen that locals would rather you didn't write about.
9 courses · £20–£435
Region · Borders & South
Borders & South →
The least-played golf country in Scotland — and the cheapest. The Borders has Mackenzie Ross and James Braid designs that would be on every visitor's itinerary if they were forty miles further north.
9 courses · £10–£140
Region · Glasgow & the West
Glasgow & the West →
33 parkland and moorland courses ringing the city — from Glasgow Golf Club at Killermont (founded 1787) to municipal golf at Littlehill from £10.50. Championship-grade rounds most visitors drive straight past on the way to Ayrshire.
9 courses · £11–£105
Region · Perthshire & Stirlingshire
Perthshire & Stirlingshire →
26 courses between the Ochils and the Highland line — James Braid's Gleneagles, the Blairgowrie heathland, and a run of village nine-holers that are the cheapest golf in Scotland. The bit of the country most visitors drive straight through on the A9.
9 courses · £8–£405
Region · Scottish Islands
Scottish Islands →
18 courses that need a ferry — Askernish and the Machrie at one end, honesty boxes on Colonsay and Gigha at the other. The cheapest golf in Scotland and some of the best, usually on the same island chain.
9 courses · £10–£185