Taymouth Castle

The Campbells of Breadalbane were once a great Scottish landowning family with an estate that ran to over 437,000 acres. At its centre was the baronial Taymouth Castle at Kenmore in Perthshire, constructed in 1842 on the site of Balloch Castle, which was built 300 years earlier.

The Breadalbane properties were broken up shortly after the First World War ended, and land was sold to local farmers and tenants. The Taymouth estate was bought by a company that changed the castle into a hotel and turned the deer park into a golf course.

The Castle was subsequently used as a convalescent home by the government during World War II. Since then, it has, amongst a variety of uses over the years, been a Civil Defence building and a school for children of American servicemen.

The golf course was designed by James Braid and was opened for play in 1921. During the Second World War, part of the course was used for the production of cereal and root crops. Six of the holes disappeared, and it was not until the mid-1950s that the 18-hole course reopened.

The course at Taymouth Castle closed to members and visitors in August 2011 following approval to restore and remodel the James Braid-designed course.

Discovery Land is notoriously difficult to access for play as the concept is a closed community for their own property-owning members and guests. Beau Welling is a break from Discovery Land's usual architect of choice Tom Fazio. We do not doubt that when the work is completed and finally opened for play, Taymouth Castle will challenge for a spot in the Scottish Rankings.