Muirfield Golf Links
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Muirfield is a golf course in Gullane, East Lothian, Scotland, which is one of the courses used in rotation for The Open Championship.
Muirfield has hosted The Open Championship fifteen times, most recently in 2002 when Ernie Els lifted the trophy. Other past winners at Muirfield include Nick Faldo (twice), Tom Watson, Lee Trevino, Jack Nicklaus, Gary Player, Henry Cotton, Alf Perry, Walter Hagen, Harry Vardon and Harold Hilton. Muirfield has also hosted The Amateur Championship, the Ryder Cup, the Walker Cup, the Curtis Cup and many other tournaments.
Although Muirfield is a links course, it has an unusual layout. Most links courses run along the coast and then back again leading to 2 sets of 9 holes each of which face roughly in the same direction. Muirfield, however, is arranged as two loops of nine holes, one clockwise, one counterclockwise. This means that, assuming the wind direction remains the same throughout a round, every hole on the course has a different apparent wind direction from the tee. Jack Nicklaus particularly admired this arrangement and followed the same basic layout when he designed the course for Muirfield Village, the home of the Memorial Tournament
