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Gullane Golf Club
West Links Road, Gullane.
EH31 2BB
Secretary: Stan Owram
Booking: Tel 01620 842255
Fax 01620 842327
manager@gullanegolfclub.com
Gullane Main Street, Starters Box under the tree and 2nd fairway climbing Gullane Hill
18th green looking towards Gullane No.2 and 3 courses over Gullane Hill
Starters Box for Gullane No.2 and No.3 Courses.
| Archerfield
- Dunbar -
Gullane Nos.1, 2 and 3 - Kilspindie
- Luffness - Muirfield
- Musselburgh - North
Berwick East Course - North
Berwick West Links |
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The ruined church at the roadside, adjacent to the professional's shop, was dedicated to St Andrew in the 12th century. The last vicar of 'Golyn' Andro Makghe was deposed by James VI for smoking tobacco. |
GULLANE
is a small village with a population of 1,800, surrounded by five
outstanding links courses including Muirfield one of the most
famous in the world. The buildings in this district give the impression
of recent times, yet Gullane as a village is very old.
Some suggest the name of the village derives from 'Guallan', Scottish Gaelic for 'shoulder' perhaps with Gullane Hill in mind. Other documents record the name as Golyn which means 'a small lake' taken from an adjoining piece of water which has since been drained.
Gullane was once the Newmarket of Scotland and many good race-horses were trained here. It was often described as a pretty sight to see the horses swinging out from the stabling beside the old smiddy in the Main Street, over the common and across the hill in a long string to their training ground near Jovey's Neuk. Among other trainers and jockeys born in the village was George Dawson, father of Matthew Dawson the greatest trainer of his day in the real Newmarket.
In 1650, it was recorded that the hand loom weavers from the nearby villages of Dirleton and Aberlady met over the links at Gullane for their annual golf match on Auld Handsel Monday. The neighbouring farmers formed a club in 1859 under the name of the East Lothian Club and from their ranks the Gullane Golf Club was instituted in 1882, taking over the upkeep of the green and extending it from 15 to 18 holes.
The oldest club to play over Gullane Links is Dirleton Castle Golf Club, founded in 1854.
In 1890 Gullane
Golf Club built a clubhouse near the first tee (Old Clubhouse Inn) in
East Links Road. By 1898 a second course was proposed and Willie Park
Jnr. was employed to design and supervise the laying out.
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