Fraserburgh Golf Club

Fraserburgh Golf Club: Located on the most north-easterly tip of Aberdeenshire, the much revered "Corbiehill links" is one of the world's oldest golf courses, and the world's seventh oldest golf club. Here you'll discover a full-blooded, seaside golf links in the true Scottish tradition. Characterising this classic out-and-back layout are panoramic sea views, rolling sand dunes, deep grassy rough, revetted bunkers and not a tree in sight.

The relatively flat terrain of the long par-4 opener quickly gives way to an ascent at the par-4 2nd. From the 2nd green and the 3rd tee the splendour of this rolling swirling links course opens up before you ... as does a glorious 360-degree vista over land and sea and the town of Fraserburgh.

The design skills of James Braid shaped much of this revered layout, which keeps you sheltered (relatively speaking) behind a solid line of sand dunes that separate the course from the beach of Fraserburgh Bay. When the North Sea wind bare its teeth, you'll be thankful for the modicum of protection afforded by these dunes, and for the generally good-width fairways and second cut of rough.

The layout's DNA comes from its fabulously natural dunes and swirling undulations. Much of the course sits down below the dunes, occasionally rising-up to offer splendid sea views. Tucked in and around the naturally undulating greensites, which throw up all manner of shot-making requirements, you'll need to avoid plenty of revetted bunkering.

Pick of the holes: there's a few to choose from, including an excellent quartet of par-3s, and the relatively tight par-4 16th. The uphill bunkerless par-4 2nd (Braid's Bellow), with its tricky approach and undulating green, is a Braid classic. It also takes you uphill to arguably the best course's best vista at the short par-4 3rd tee.