Forfar Golf Club at Cunninghill in Angus is the world's first golf course designed as an 18-hole layout from inception, built by Old Tom Morris in 1871. Thirteen original greens remain in play across 80 acres of rig-and-furrow heathland, 22km from Carnoustie on Scotland's east-coast golf corridor.
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Forfar Golf Club at Cunninghill in Angus is the world's first golf course designed as an 18-hole layout from inception, built by Old Tom Morris in 1871. Thirteen original greens remain in play across 80 acres of rig-and-furrow heathland, 22km from Carnoustie on Scotland's east-coast golf corridor.
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In 1835, aged fourteen, Old Tom Morris worked in Allan Robertson's St Andrews workshop making golf balls and clubs. It’s said they were never beaten in a challenge match when paired together.
In 1835, at the age of fourteen, Old Tom was apprenticed to Allan Robertson, who most historians consider as the first golf professional, and he worked in his mentor’s St Andrews workshop making golf balls and clubs. It’s said they were never beaten in a challenge match when paired together – especially in high stakes matches such as one for £400 against the Dunns of Musselburgh in 1849.
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James Braid was born in 1870 to James Braid (a farm worker) and his wife Mary (née Harris) who was an accomplished weaver. His father had two other children from an earlier marriage of which he had been widowed. James came into the world at Liberty Place, between Earlsferry and Elie, but the family later moved to a small weaver’s cottage at 36 High Street, Earlsferry.
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