The Nairn Golf Club is a Parkland Golf Course designed by A Simpson/Old Tom Morris/James Braid at a length of 6430it has 18 holes with a medal par of 71 and a 73 SSS Rating. Situated in the town of Nairn it is one of the Scotland Golf Courses that you may want to play and add to our golf course ratings to see if it will become one of the RateYourCourse top 100 golf courses.
The Nairn Golf Club's truly remarkable feature is that from every hole you can see the Moray Firth and the golden colouring and changing lights of the Black Isle. Even more extraordinary - only too easily you can strike the ball into the sea on every one of the first seven!
In fact, despite having been a scratch player, Viscount Whitelaw, Margaret Thatcher's Deputy Prime Minister, would readily admit to having done just that. Willie (as everyone referred to him) learned his golf here, and like Robert Finlay, had the capacity for making friends. Charlie Yates of Atlanta, who won the Amateur Championship in 1938 at Troon and also captained the American Walker Cup Team at St Andrews that same year, had been introduced to our very own Kenny Cameron by the gofing journalist Sam McKinlay some years earlier. So began the American connection which has been nurtured ever since.
