Regional hubs
Scottish golf, region by region
Seven 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 →
Seventeen golf courses on Scotland's Golf Coast — from Muirfield and North Berwick to Musselburgh's £20-odd municipal nine — all inside thirty miles of Edinburgh. You can play three in two days without changing hotel.
9 courses · £60–£400
Region · Edinburgh
Edinburgh →
Twelve courses inside the city — two of the oldest golf clubs in the world, council municipals you can play for under £20, and a clutch of honest parkland members' clubs. And the entire East Lothian Golf Coast is half an hour east.
9 courses · £18–£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 →
Twenty-eight parkland and moorland courses ringing the city — from Glasgow Golf Club at Killermont (founded 1787) to £6 municipal golf at Littlehill. Championship-grade rounds most visitors drive straight past on the way to Ayrshire.
9 courses · £11–£105