The Hirsel Golf Club

Founded in 1948 on part of the Hirsel Estate, ancestral home of former Prime Minister Sir Alec Douglas-Home's family, this parkland course near England's border took 50 years to reach its present full 18 holes. Dubbed 'The Augusta of the North', it winds through mature woodland with the River Leet a scenic rather than threatening presence, though out-of-bounds lurks on no fewer than eleven holes, with the closing stretch featuring two par 5s.