Organised golf at Lossiemouth dates back to 1889, when Old Tom Morris laid out the club’s original 9-hole course. A separate 9-hole Ladies’ course, added in 1905, served as the club’s relief course until 1979, when three-time Open Champion Henry Cotton incorporated it into a full 18-hole design – one of the very few courses in Scotland Cotton worked on. The New Course plays to a par of 70 over just over 6,000 yards.
I’d already been warned when I was playing there: At the end of the summer of the second Corona year, the course was in rather poor condition. And yes, the place has certainly seen better days. But, and this is an important but, the New is of course still extremely good for a second course. I’m definitely keeping my fingers crossed for the people in and around Lossiemouth that the course will recover. They would have deserved it.
