North Berwick Golf Club (West Links)
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The North Berwick Golf Club is the thirteenth oldest in the world, second only to St Andrews for continuous play over the same course and was founded in 1832 by a group of local landowners and gentlemen, among them a soldier who fought in Napoleon’s final defeat at Waterloo.
A list of past captains on the wall in the clubhouse proudly displays a distinguished past – Knights, Earls, Lords, Marquis and a former British Prime Minister, A.J.Balfour.
A true links course laid out on a raised-beach, laden with brown sand forming the undulating links land 10 to 30 feet above sea level.
Although the architect is unknown, many of the holes have been copied by designers all over the world, including the 376 yard 14th named “Perfection” and the 192 yard 15th called “Redan”. A golfing experience not found anywhere else, with blind holes, drives over walls and burns, shots over the bay and bunkers deep enough for the golfer to disappear from view.
The North Berwick Golf Club is the thirteenth oldest golf club, second only to St Andrews for continuous play over the same course.
Not only is the links venerable but it is one of the most attractive and stimulating links courses anywhere, with every hole setting a different problem of length, judgement, skill and direction.
