Powfoot Golf Club

Founded in 1903 on the Solway coast near Annan, Powfoot's original nine holes were extended and redesigned by James Braid in 1923 into the current 18-hole links, where heather-lined fairways wind through sandy terrain under the pull of persistent coastal winds. Its ninth hole, nicknamed 'Crater', is marked by a large hollow gouged out by a German bomb dropped during the Second World War, while the closing holes shift into parkland character on former wartime farmland.