Nairn Golf Club

Seventeen men met in the town on 14 September 1887 and started a club. Simpson, Keeper of the Green at Aberdeen, laid out the first holes that year. Old Tom Morris revised them in 1890 and pushed the course west over the Earl of Cawdor's land. James Braid then altered the tees and bunkers and built new greens; he was also the first man to break 70 here, with a 69 in 1901. Ben Sayers added holes at Delnies in 1920. The club has held the Walker Cup in 1999, the Curtis Cup in 2012 and the Amateur Championship in 1994 and 2021, when Laird Shepherd came back from eight down after 17 holes to win at the 38th.

The championship links is par 71 and 6,832 yards from the back tees, and the club says there is a view of the sea from every hole. Read the card and the numbers argue with each other. Stroke index one is the fifth, Nets, at 383 yards. The seventh, Long, runs 601 yards and is only stroke index five. The wind off the Moray Firth and the greens Braid left behind do most of the sorting. The first hole is called Sea. The firth is immediately right of it, and the beach stays there through the opening holes, near enough to take a tee shot that leaks.