Muirfield (The Honourable Company of Edinburgh Golfers)
Muirfield, venue for the 2002 Open Championship, is simply one of the best courses in the world.
The home of the Honourable Company of Edinburgh Golfers, it was designed in 1891 by Old Tom Morris
and, including 2002, has hosted 15 Open Championships since 1892, the Amateur Championship on
numerous occasions, the Ryder, Walker and Curtis Cups. From the championship tees, the course
stretches to a formidable 6,970 yards and still adds up to a par-70 6,601 yards off the medal tees.
Although the thick rough and cavernous bunkers, of which there are 151, can make it a very severe test,
it is a course which invokes respect from all who have tangled with it. Henry Cotton called it 'cruelly
fair'. Tom Watson said there was 'not a weak hole on the course'. Jack Nicklaus, who won in 1966, was so
taken with this links in the lee of Gullane Hill, almost 20 miles from Edinburgh, he named his golf
complex in Ohio, Muirfield Village, after it.
18 holes, 6,601 yards (Championship 6,970), par 70 (SSS 73). Championship course record: R. Davis, I. Aoki) 63.
Signature hole:
FIRST (444 yards, par 4) - One of many large bunkers dominates the left of the fairway, which is narrow.
Stray off it and you are in severe rough. The green slopes from front to back.
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Gullane, East Lothian EH31 2BB
+44 (0)1620 842123
Tuesdays and Thursdays only. Visiting groups of no more than 12 on these days. Evening
clubs of no more than 40. Contact in advance. Must have handicap certificate (limits of
18 for men, 24 for women).
£110 per round, £140 per day (2005 - £120 per round, £150 per day).
Full service (ladies may not lunch in the clubhouse). Bar.
Trolley/ buggy hire, putting green, practice area.
Duncur Road, Gullane. Off A198 on north-east side of village.
