Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 24. Chapters: Moray Golf Club, Old Course at St Andrews, Carnoustie Golf Links, Prestwick Golf Club, Turnberry, Gleneagles Hotel, The Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St Andrews, Archerfield Estate and Links, St Andrews Links, Cambo Estate, Muirfield, The Royal Burgess Golfing Society of Edinburgh, Camperdown Country Park, Royal Troon Golf Club, Royal Musselburgh Golf Club, Dalziel Park, King James VI Golf Club, Loch Lomond Golf Club, North Berwick West Links, Crail Golfing Society, Musselburgh Links, Forres golf course, Panmure Golf Club, Kilmarnock Golf Club, Turnberry, Ailsa Course, Royal Aberdeen Golf Club, Newburgh On Ythan Golf Club, Buckpool Golf Club, Machrihanish Golf Club, Strathlene Golf Course, Broomieknowe Golf Club, Galashiels Golf Club, Royal Dornoch Golf Club, Royal Perth Golfing Society, Turnhouse Golf Club, North Berwick Golf Club, Dullatur Golf Club. Excerpt: Moray Golf Club is situated in Lossiemouth (on the south coast of the Moray Firth), Moray, Scotland. The club has two eighteen hole courses appropriately called the Old Course and the New Course. The club has played host to many championships, both amateur and professional. The old and new courses were designed by Old Tom Morris and Henry Cotton respectively. The first attempt to set up a golf club in Lossiemouth was in 1875 when a seven hole course was established in the Stotfield area. This club failed after a few years and it wasn't until 30 March 1889 that the present club was officially opened. At that time, the club had 82 members who were mostly from Elgin, the county capital, some 6 miles to the south. Captain James Brander of Pitgaveny, also a founding member, leased the land to the club and Old Tom Morris the St Andrews professional designed the layout. Initially, there were only 16 holes but within a year the course was extended to 18 by leasing land from Sir William Gordon Cumming. By 1897, the membership had grown to around 320, 85 of which were ladies. The membership stood at 635 in 1904, 135 being ladies. In 1905 the ladies got their own 9 hole Ladies Relief course. The new 18 hole course, designed by Sir Henry Cotton, opened in 1979 and incorporated the 9 hole course. Membership has now grown to more than 1700. The club found itself in a political dispute during the First World War over the membership of Ramsay MacDonald, who was from Lossiemouth and then an outspoken anti-war Labour MP. MacDonald was a keen golfer and his sons also played at the club, but in August 1915 a group of members submitted a motion to remove his name from the roll of members on the grounds that the club's character was damaged. The council of the club refused to take any action, with MacDonald himself objecting that they were not elected to take political judgments. However, a year later, a new motion was submitted by some 30 members who had not signed the previous motion;

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