Machrie golf course

The Machrie Golf Course, or "Golf Links", is located on Islay, in Scotland. The word "machrie" is a corruption of the Scottish Gaelic machair, which means more or less the same as "links" did on the east coast of Scotland.

Machrie Golf Links

The course is 6,254 yards long and is a links style golf course. Well before the recent redesign, it was rated 20th in Scotland by the web site Top 100 Golf Courses. The course was designed by Willie Campbell in 1891 and was intentionally made long, at least by 19th Century standards, to attract golfers to Islay. The course was unusual in that its layout crosses the dunes instead of running alongside them like most links courses do, which resulted in multiple blind shots.

The Machrie Links hosted a famous match in 1901 between James Braid, John Henry Taylor and Harry Vardon for a prize of £100, reputed to be the largest prize of its kind at that time in the British Isles. Harry Vardon called Mount Zion, now the 17th hole, but originally the first hole, "the hardest hole I have seen". The links later hosted the Western Isles Open Championship in June 1935.[1]

References
  1. "First Western Isles Golf Champion". Glasgow Herald. 14 June 1935. p. 8.
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