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Glasgow & Clyde Valley

Glasgow emerged as a significant settlement during medieval times but achieved prominence during the Industrial Revolution as a manufacturing centre for textiles, shipbuilding, and engineering. The 18th-century tobacco trade with America established Glasgow as a commercial powerhouse, while the 19th century saw it become known as the "Second City of the Empire" due to its industrial might.

  1. Trump Turnberry (Ailsa)

    Ayrshire & Arran, United Kingdom

    Trump Turnberry (Ailsa)

    The Ailsa course at the Turnberry Resort is probably the most scenic Open Championship golf course. Located right next to the Firth of Clyde, with craggy rocks and superb views across to the Mull of Kintyre...

  2. Prestwick Golf Club

    Ayrshire & Arran, United Kingdom

    Prestwick Golf Club

    The course at Prestwick Golf Club is a traditional monument, an authentic affair with a layout of holes that snake to and fro through rugged dunes and rippled fairways.

  3. Royal Troon Golf Club (Old)

    Ayrshire & Arran, United Kingdom

    Royal Troon Golf Club (Old)

    Royal Troon is a traditional out and back links course on the current Open Rota. Host of the 152nd Open Championship, it is best known for the short par 3 Postage Stamp and strategic 11th, named Railway.

  4. Loch Lomond Golf Club

    Dunbartonshire, United Kingdom

    Loch Lomond Golf Club

    Loch Lomond Golf Club is set in more than 600 acres of sheltered seclusion, sandwiched between the mountains and the historic lochside.

  5. Western Gailes Golf Club

    Ayrshire & Arran, United Kingdom

    Western Gailes Golf Club

    The holes at Western Gailes Golf Club are wonderfully varied. The fairways undulate gently, interrupted occasionally by three meandering burns...

  6. Dundonald Links

    Ayrshire & Arran, United Kingdom

    Dundonald Links

    Dundonald Links originally set out to be part of a golf and residential complex called Southern Gailes but when that didn’t happen, Loch Lomond Golf Club bought the course in 2003 and commissioned Kyle Phillips to finish the design.

  7. Trump Turnberry (King Robert the Bruce)

    Ayrshire & Arran, United Kingdom

    Trump Turnberry (King Robert the Bruce)

    The exhilarating King Robert the Bruce course at Trump Turnberry opened for play in 2017 after Martin Ebert returned to redesign the Kintrye course which the architect laid out in 2001.

  8. Glasgow Golf Club (Gailes Links)

    Ayrshire & Arran, United Kingdom

    Glasgow Golf Club (Gailes Links)

    Glasgow Gailes Links is a classic golf course. “The turf is something softer – at least in my imagination – than that of the East Coast courses,” wrote Darwin, “and the greens are wonderfully green and velvety.”

  9. Irvine Golf Club

    Ayrshire & Arran, United Kingdom

    Irvine Golf Club

    Irvine Golf Club represents a tough test of golf. It's a classic traditional links course and plays host to Open Championship Final Qualifying...

  10. Prestwick St Nicholas Golf Club

    Ayrshire & Arran, Scotland

    Prestwick St Nicholas Golf Club

    Prestwick St Nicholas Golf Club is a traditional links course with commanding views across the Firth of Clyde to the Isle of Arran.