BIG Five Golf Courses in Highland Perthshire

Blair Atholl Golf

The course is a classic James Braid style using natural contours and landscape to the best effect. This beautifully mature parkland course offers a fantastic challenge for golfers of all ages and abilities. Golf club and buggy hire are available and there are a range of other services on offer linking in to the Pitlochry Golf Academy and Driving Range.
The pavilion style clubhouse offers excellent catering and bar facilities where you can enjoy a meal and a drink sitting on the terrace overlooking the course and hills of Perthshire.

Pitlochry Golf Course

On the grounds of ancient Pictish forts, where druids once met and where the footsteps of Robert the Bruce, Mary Queen of Scots, General Mackay and the Earl of Marr once fell, there now lies one of the finest inland golf courses in Scotland. With sweeping views down the Tummel Valley and in the shadow of the Ben Y Vrackie, the course has been entertaining visitors and members for over one hundred years.

The course was laid out in 1908 by the renowned golf architect, Willie Fernie of Troon, opened in 1909, and later modernised by Major Cecil Hutcheson. It has been played by the likes of Harry Vardon, Walter Hagen, Max Faulkner, Bob Charles and Pitlochry’s own Ryder Cup player John Panton.

Pitlochry can also lay claim to having Walker Cup player Cecil Bloice and founder member of the Ladies European Tour Cathy Panton-Lewis as honorary members.

In 1909 the club founded the Highland Amateur Open Tournament, which is held annually in August. For a century it has attracted Scotland’s leading players and is still remembered for the 1919 final, where our first Walker Cup captain, W.B. Torrance, beat “The Silver Scot” Tommy Armour who went on to become Open Champion on both sides of the Atlantic.

Dunkeld and Birnam Golf Club

The Course is one of the most picturesque in Perthshire with each hole affording not only a new and interesting challenge for the golfer but also ever changing views of the glorious surrounding countryside. You are guaranteed a friendly welcome, warm hospitality and a most enjoyable round of golf on a well-prepared Course with excellent greens.

The Course is reached from the A9 by taking the main Dunkeld slip road and crossing the Bridge over the River Tay into Dunkeld. Travel through Dunkeld Main Street and turn right onto the A923 Blairgowrie road. The entrance gates to the Course are ¾ mile along this road.

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Strathtay Golf Club

Strathtay Golf Club is a short course with no par 5's, four par 4's and 5 par 3's. A new layout of the course is to take effect from the start of the Centenary year and this will give a new series of tees so that players will effectively be playing eighteen different holes.Directions: Leave A9, five miles south of Pitlochry, Take A827 (Aberfeldy). After four miles, look for sign to Strathtay golf club small road off to the right.

Mains of Taymouth Golf Course

Welcome to Mains of Taymouth Golf Course (formerly Kenmore Golf Course) at Mains of Taymouth Country Estate.

Mains of Taymouth Golf Course has been designed to be a challenge for all levels of golfer. Beautiful panoramic views give this course a wide open feel, but don’t let this fool you – each hole will test your shot making ability!

The amenities at Mains of Taymouth Golf Course are of a very high standard, so if you visit the course as part of a golfing break or longer golf holiday, you certainly won’t be disappointed. Superb hospitality awaits you at The Courtyard and our stunning, award winning luxury self catering holiday cottages, lodges and homes here in Highland Perthshire provide the perfect accommodation for residential golf breaks and holidays.

Mains of Taymouth Golf Course opened in 1992 on converted farmland in the heart of highland Perthshire by the banks of the silvery River Tay. The design of the golf course was quite straightforward as the landscape was, almost unbelievably, perfect for a golf course.

Par 70; SSS 69; 6,052 yds.