Story of a Golf Club: Gullane Golf Club Our Scotland Tour series continues in East Lothian with a golf club that sits front and centre of the town of Gullane; Gullane Golf Club. With records showing the game has been played on the links since the 1650, the course mysteriously cites no name accredited with its design meaning we can only assume Mother Nature is responsible for the fine routing we get to enjoy today.   Gullane enjoys three golf courses, all maintained to the same exacting standards that start and end right in the town itself. In some ways, the town of Gullane resembles St Andrews, in that you see people walking to their morning tee time, pulling a trolley and ready for play, through the towns shops! Gullane as a place eat sleeps and breathes golf! The etymology of Gullane is just as clear as the [...]

Story of a Golf Club: Musselburgh Links - The Old Golf Course Musselburgh Links – The old golf course….. To the racing fan stood up in the terraces, it looks like any other 9 hole golf course. But to golfers, it’s a pilgrimage to the games roots. With golf played since 1672, and fabled stories that Mary Queen of Scots played here as early as 1567, Musselburgh is the oldest remaining course in the world, and the game we enjoy would be very different in a number of ways without its existence.   Starting with the hole itself, Musselburgh is responsible for the 4 and ¼ inch sized cup we play to today. A locally fashioned instrument was used to cut the holes on the links back in the 19th century, and was adopted by the R&A in 1893, and with that simple move standardised the quickly evolving [...]

The second part of our Tour Film from the Cookie Jar comes from the Scottish Highlands. This one is a cracker! It’s longer than a typical English soap-opera, and twice the entertainment! In this episode, we head down to East Lothian for the second leg of our trip, playing at the Renaissance Club, Gullane No.1, Muirfield (The Honorable Co. Edinburgh Golfers), Kilspindie and Musselburgh Old Links. All of this in 3 days, with a late night barstool putting tournament at the epic Duck’s Inn, Aberlady with our host Malcolm Duck (aka The Duck)!We have a cameo appearance from Steve Elkington talking about his win at Wentworth over Monty, swimming pools in locker rooms, broken golf courses, broken clubs, and even a car that gets broken into! We’ve got a ‘what’s in the bag’ with a twist, courtesy of friend of the pod – Sam Cooper (aka @links_from_the_road), some secret and [...]