Peterhead Golf Club

Peterhead Golf Club is home to a scenic and challenging seaside links course, also known as the "Craigewan Links". Perhaps less renowned than the Fraserburgh course (14 miles to the north), nonetheless, Peterhead will give your game a thorough workout, with plenty of seaside scenery to enjoy along the way.

The course occupies a natural peninsula of duneland, bounded by the River Ugie on two sides and the North Sea on its east side. Your opening tee-shot demands a carry over the river. Beach and headland views abound, as do a plethora of pot bunkers that are in range from the tee, and which stoutly defend the greens. At the downhill par-4 7th, a veritable posse of bunkers encircle the green.

The layout keeps you on your toes throughout, with its mix of really memorable holes and a few that are flatter and a tad less interesting. The short par-4 17th has the only blind drive you'll need to make, while the last of the sea views, at the par-5 18th, provides a fittingly scenic climax to the round.

Pick of the holes: at the far end of the course, around the turn, you'll find two of Peterhead's most memorable holes: the long, tight, bunkerless par-4 9th, and the attractively bunkered short par-3 10th (with the beach directly behind you, and a fabulous dunescape stretching away to your right). The uphill par-3 2nd and blind par-3 16th add to the interesting variety of the short holes.