Highland

The Boat of Garten Golf Tennis Club is located at the gateway to the Highlands. It’s an enchanting place. Flanking the course to the west is the quaint Strathspey Railway, which runs from the popular ski resort of Aviemore, through Boat of Garten, which is also known as the Osprey village. The lovingly restored steam trains, occasionally puff and pant their way past the course. The River Spey lies to the east of the heath and beyond that are the distant…

Fort William Golf Club lies at Torlundy on the lower slopes of Ben Nevis, giving players some of the most dramatic mountain backdrops of any course in Scotland. The parkland layout is a popular stop for visitors touring Lochaber and the West Highlands, combining a fair test of golf with truly spectacular scenery. The club continues to serve the Fort William community as the area's principal golf club.

Fortrose & Rosemarkie Golf Club has played links golf on the Chanonry Ness, a narrow spit of land on the Black Isle, since 1793, making it the 15th-oldest recorded golf club in the world. Its famous par-3 6th hole runs alongside the Moray Firth close to Chanonry Point, one of the best dolphin-watching spots in Europe, giving golfers an excellent chance of spotting bottlenose dolphins mid-round. Over two centuries of continuous play have made it one of the most historic and characterful clubs in the Highlands.

Golspie Golf Club, founded in 1889, combines links and woodland holes on a unique layout running along the Sutherland coast beneath Ben Bhraggie, topped by the prominent Duke of Sutherland monument. The mixed terrain, moving from seaside turf to pine-wooded parkland, gives the course an unusual variety that has earned praise from golf writers for over a century. It remains a highlight of the Sutherland golfing trail alongside its more famous neighbour, Royal Dornoch.

Grantown-on-Spey Golf Club offers parkland golf through mature Scots pine forest on the edge of the Cairngorms National Park, with the Spey Valley's hills providing a scenic backdrop throughout. The course is well regarded for its tranquil, tree-lined fairways and has long been a popular choice for Speyside holidaymakers as well as local members. It remains one of the principal clubs of the Cairngorms golfing circuit.

Invergordon Golf Club sits above the Cromarty Firth in Easter Ross, giving members and visitors sweeping views across the water to the Black Isle. The parkland course is well known locally for its friendly welcome to visiting golfers and has long been a fixture of the Easter Ross golfing scene. The club continues to provide affordable, accessible golf in this part of the Highlands.

Inverness Golf Club is the principal club of the Highland capital, its parkland course at Culcabock laid out with input from James Braid and offering a testing, tree-lined round close to the city centre. Long established as one of the leading inland courses in the north of Scotland, the club has a strong competitive tradition and hosts regular open events. It remains a central fixture of golf in and around Inverness.

Kings Golf Club sits on high ground above Inverness, offering panoramic views over the city and the Moray Firth from its rolling, exposed parkland fairways. It has become known as a fair but testing complement to the city's older Culcabock course, and hosts the Golf Highland 'Champion of Champions' event. The club continues to grow its membership among golfers in and around the Highland capital.

Kingussie Golf Club is set within the Cairngorms National Park, its heathland course climbing into the hills above the town to give sweeping views over the Spey Valley. Regularly rated among Scotland's best inland courses, it is known for its testing, undulating terrain and its neighbourly rivalry with nearby Newtonmore. The club is a popular stop on the Spey Valley golfing circuit for both members and visitors.

Muir of Ord Golf Club was founded in 1875 by Alexander MacHardy, Chief Constable of Inverness-shire, on what had previously been a muddy cattle stance, making it one of Scotland's older courses. The layout was extended to eighteen holes in the 1920s with the help of James Braid, and his design, officially opened in 1927, survives largely unchanged today. The heathland course remains a popular and highly regarded club on the Black Isle side of the Highlands.

Nairn Dunbar Golf Club was established in 1899 after local landowner Sir Alexander Dunbar of Boath granted land to the town council to secure golf for local residents. Now marking over 125 years of play, the traditional links course has hosted the Scottish Women's Amateur Championship and the PGA Northern Open, and produced players including Tour professional Russell Knox. It stands alongside its more famous neighbour, Nairn Golf Club, as one of the leading courses on the Moray Firth coast.

Newtonmore Golf Club lies in the upper Spey Valley within the Cairngorms National Park, its parkland course bordered by the River Spey and framed by views of the Monadhliath mountains. Known for its friendly atmosphere and gentler terrain than some of its Speyside neighbours, it is a popular choice for families and less experienced golfers. The club forms part of the well-established Badenoch golfing trail alongside Kingussie.

Portmahomack Golf Club, also known as Tarbat Golf Club, occupies a remote and little-known links site on the Tarbat Ness peninsula in Easter Ross, looking out over the Dornoch Firth. Its unspoiled, old-fashioned character has drawn increasing attention from course enthusiasts seeking authentic, undeveloped links golf away from the crowds. The small club continues to serve the village of Portmahomack and visiting golfers exploring the quieter corners of the Highlands.

Reay Golf Club plays over a natural duneland links on the north Caithness coast, widely regarded as the most northerly 18-hole golf course on the British mainland. Its firm, rolling fairways sit among genuine coastal dunes, giving the course an unspoiled links character increasingly rare in modern golf. The club remains a proud outpost of Scottish golf near the very top of the country.

The Struie Course, Royal Dornoch's second 18-hole links course, sharing the same duneland setting.

Built in the early 2000s by Donald Steel on the private 7,500-acre Skibo Castle estate once owned by steel magnate Andrew Carnegie, the Carnegie Links occupies a glorious position above the Dornoch Firth with views across to the Struie Hills. Since reshaped by Mackenzie & Ebert, this is an exclusive, members-and-guests-only links of the highest quality, offering a genuinely private taste of the Highlands' finest golfing country.

Spey Valley Golf Course, part of the Macdonald Aviemore Resort, is a modern championship layout designed by Dave Thomas and opened in 2006, set within the Cairngorms National Park with views towards the Cairngorm mountains. It has hosted Scottish PGA and European Challenge Tour events since opening, and is considered one of the best modern parkland courses in the Highlands. The course complements the area's older traditional clubs with a contemporary resort-golf experience.

Strathpeffer Spa Golf Club sits high above the Victorian spa town of Strathpeffer, its moorland course offering commanding views over the Cromarty Firth and the surrounding hills. Established in the late 19th century when the town was a fashionable health resort, the club retains a period charm that reflects Strathpeffer's spa-town heritage. It remains a popular course for both members and visitors exploring Easter Ross.

Tain Golf Club was laid out in 1890 by the legendary Old Tom Morris, five-time Open Champion, after local golfers secured land from a nearby estate; the club was originally named St Duthus Golf Club before adopting its present name in 1911. Several holes still reflect Morris's original routing, giving members and visitors the chance to play a course shaped by one of golf's founding figures. The links-meets-parkland layout beside the Dornoch Firth remains one of the notable historic courses of Easter Ross.

Founded in 1893 and set on the Dunnet Links near the Caithness coast, Thurso is the most northerly 18-hole golf course on the UK mainland, offering a warm Highland welcome and striking views along the north coast. A natural stop on the NC500 route, its parkland-meets-coastal character and remote setting give it a special appeal for travelling golfers.

Wick Golf Club, founded in 1870, is the oldest established golf club on the North Coast 500 route and one of the oldest in the far north of Scotland. Its traditional links course at Reiss runs along Caithness's dramatic coastline, offering an authentic, windswept test of golf little changed by modern trends. The club remains a proud symbol of Caithness's long golfing heritage.