This section includes
Golf Courses, Golf Clubs, Driving Ranges, Golf Shops,
etc. throughout Argyll & Bute.
If you are looking for a golfing
holiday or wish to be a spectator at one of the many
golf tournaments throughout the UK, you can use Tourist
Net UK to find golf clubs and suitable local
accommodation.
You might want tuition from the club
professional, you might want someone to take you on a
guided tour of local courses... check out the
information on our site.
Not all the golf courses and ranges in
Argyll & Bute are listed so if you know of one which is
open to visitors and which does not yet have an entry, please
submit the information
here.
Golf had been played
at Machrihanish before the formation of the club
as far back as 1871, but it wasn't until 1876
that the club officially formed.
During the first year of
the club formation no less than forty-one people
had became members. Ladies Golf Club - In 1967
an agreement was made whereby the ladies
undertook to maintain their clubhouse and to
maintain the ladies course, in August 1967 a
disposition was signed that meant ladies now had
to manage their own title and competitions.
Thereafter Machrihanish was the proud owner of
two clubhouses and the whole of the golf
courses, the independence of the Machrihanish
Ladies Club is one of very few in Scotland with
Royal Troon the other known course to have a
ladies club.
The course is set in
wonderful dunes in the small village of
Machrihanish, which is situated on the western
side of the remote Kintyre Peninsula; this is
where the sky is big, the sunsets are dramatic
and the air has been warmed by the Gulf Stream
and its relative inaccessibility has saved it
from becoming more commercialised.
