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Murcar Links Voted Golf Tourism Scotland’s 2007 Course of the Year

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Voted as the Golf Tourism Scotland “Course of the Year - 2007″; the Murcar Championship Golf Links has a par of 71 and a standard scratch rating of 73 (USGA rating 72.6 and USGA slope rating 138). Murcar frequently features in the Top 100 courses in the UK, and the Visit Scotland Top 40 Great Scottish Links Collection.

 

During July 2006, the Murcar Links hosted the European Challenge Tour’s inaugural Scottish Challenge. In 2008 we will host the European Girls Team Championship and in our Centenary Year, the Scottish Amateur Strokeplay Championship. We are also the nearest Championship Links Course (5 miles south) of the proposed Trump International Golf Links Scotland.

Established in 1909 to the design of Archie Simpson, with later refinements made in the 1930’s by the celebrated golf course designer James Braid, it has recently undergone alterations and improvements that are sympathetic to what Simpson and Braid set out to achieve; under the watchful eye of Graeme J Webster’s Team Niblick Ltd.