Fraserburgh Golf Club
(45 mins. by car from Trump International, Scotland)

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A natural links course playable all year round situated only 30mins drive from Trump International, Scotland.

Golf is first documented as having been played at Fraserburgh in 1613 when the Parish Kirk Session records refer to a young lad named John Burnett who was chastised for "playing at the gouff" on a Sunday instead of going to church. He was ordered by the Session to be sent to the "maister’s stool for correction".

Following receipt of documents from the National Library of Scotland Edinburgh it has been firmly established that Fraserburgh Golf Club was founded on 14th April 1777 and that the membership consisted of nineteen of the most prominent "landed gentry" in the North-east of Scotland.

According to display boards in the British Golf Museum St Andrews, Fraserburgh Golf Club is the 5th oldest club in Scotland and the 7th Oldest in the World. Fraserburgh Golf Club would appear to be the oldest golf club in the World which is still operating under its original name.

The original course was nine holes played on the "public commonty" (Fraserburgh Links) but due to congestion, danger to the public and constant interruption the Club moved approximately half a mile south to its present location at Philorth Links in 1891 thanks to the generosity of the then Lord Saltoun.

The course was redesigned in 1922 by the five times Open Championship winner James Braid and much of his design remains to this day.

The 18 hole Corbiehill course is well protected by the dunes and sand hills that fringe the length of Fraserburgh Bay and offers fine panoramic views particularly from the 3rd Tee with a spectacular vista of sand sea, links and the Buchan landscape. The course is renowned for its undulating fairways and variety of different types of hole, especially the four par threes. In addition Fraserburgh has an interesting 9 hole Rosehill course with a Par 33

Harry Bannerman is a well known local professional golfer with an impressive record having played in the Ryder cup in 1971 at St Louis against Arnold Palmer and Jack Nicklaus. He played in the US Masters at Augusta in 1972 and is also a 5 time winner of the Buchan Firkin at Fraserburgh between 1965 and 1983.He rates Fraserburgh one of the finest link courses in Aberdeenshire His favorite holes are the 3rd 4th and 7th which he says are "short and subtle".