Murcar Links Golf Club Course Review

Nov 22, 2018

A fabulous links with elevated tees, gorse and stunning views out to the North sea

Murcar Links Golf Club Course Review

Green Fee: Range: £110-135

Medal Tee: Par 71, 6,516 Yards

Visitor Times: Any time except Monday 7.00-19.00, Tuesday 11:00-16.00, Wednesday 7.00-11.52, Thursday 7.00-16.30, Friday 7.00-16.30 Saturday 15:00-19.00 and Sunday 11.00-19.00

Website: www.murcarlinks.com

Adjacent to Royal Aberdeen and blessed with a similar topography that is ideal for links golf, Murcar is another classic course with a number of elevated tees, rumpled fairways, plenty of gorse and heather, and wide views out to sea. Founded in 1909, it’s blessed with all the ingredients of great links golf.

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Murcar Links Golf Club Course Review

The course really enters its stride with the par-five fourth. At 489 yards, it looks like a serious birdie-fest on the card for any low handicapper but the green is a tricky customer happy to hurt any hap-hazard attack.

Once you’ve hit two long shots past the derelict fishing boat in the rough you’ll need to pitch to the elevated green. Beware the 30-yard run off at the green’s front and the large riveted pot bunker at the bottom left.

Get away with a par and you’re immediately faced with the best hole on the course. At 162 yards, Plateau is an evil little par-three that will make you think twice about which club to pull out the bag. Considered by the members to be a longer version of the Postage Stamp at Royal Troon, you fire over gorse to a green set into a bankside.

Anything pulled to the left will work its way down the hill, leaving a lob-shot from 20-yards beneath the green. A block to the right is treated with equal disdain by twin bunkers that eat your ball and leave with little chance of an unscathed recovery.

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