TROON, Scotland, Golf Courses

Kilmarnock (Brassie) Golf Club

• Holes: 18
• Yardage: 6473
• SSS: 71
• Telephone: 01292-313920
• Links course.
• used as an Open Championship qualifying course. A true links course

Royal Troon

• Holes: 2-18s
• Old Course
  Yardage: 6641
  SSS: 73
• Portland Course
  Yardage: 6289
  SSS: 71
• Telephone: 01 292-311555
• A long, challenging Open Championship links course with narrow fairways,   delightful dogleg holes, and of course  the world famous postage stamp hole.

• As with most 'Royal' clubs, one presumes Troon has held its regal title for centuries but with Troon only since 1978, the club's centenary year. This makes Royal Troon the youngest 'Royal' golf club in the world.
  
  It is also a relative newcomer as an Open Championship venue. The first Open event was played here in 1923. In that competition, Gene Sarazen, then in his early twenties, failed to qualify.  50 years later, Sarazen came back, then in his early seventies, for the 1973 Open and holed-in-one the notorious Par 3, Postage Stamp.
  
  Troon has seen much wonderful golf during its six Open Championships which have been won by Arthur Havers(1923), A.D. Locke (1950), Arnold Palmer (1962), Tom Weiskopf (1973), Tom Watson (1982) and Mark Calcavecchia (1989) and now by Justin Leonard (1997)
  
  There are fine views over the Firth of Clyde with the mountains of Arran in the distance, with Ailsa Craig to the south.

Fullarton Golf Club

• Holes: 18
• Yardage: 4458
• SSS: 63
• Telephone:
• Parkland course.

Lochgreen Golf Course

• Holes: 18
• Yardage: 6785
• SSS: 73
• Telephone: 01 292-312464
• Links, parkland course.

Darley Golf Course

• Holes: 18
• Yardage: 6501
• SSS: 71
• Telephone: 01 292-312464
• Links course.

Fullarton Golf Course

• Holes: 18
• Yardage: 4822
• Telephone: 01 292-312464
• Links course.

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