Southerness Golf Club
Southerness, Dumfries & Galloway · Designed by Philip Mackenzie Ross (1947) · Est. 1947
Why this Edge Score: The finest links in south-west Scotland, Southerness is a natural Mackenzie Ross design of 1947 on the Solway Firth, from the architect who had just restored Turnberry. Off the beaten track and keenly priced, it is a purist's links that has barely changed in decades.
Southerness is the finest links in south-west Scotland, laid out on the Solway Firth in 1947 - the first new championship course built in Scotland after the Second World War - by Mackenzie Ross, the architect who had just restored Turnberry. It is a natural, understated links of heather, gorse and firm fescue running out to the shore, with the Lake District hills across the water and Criffel rising behind.
Off the beaten track in Dumfries and Galloway, Southerness stays quiet and keenly priced despite a quality that would draw crowds anywhere else. Long, exposed and honest, it is a course purists seek out and remember - a Mackenzie Ross original that has barely changed in seventy-five years.
Highlights
- Finest links in south-west Scotland
- Mackenzie Ross (1947), the Turnberry architect
- Solway Firth setting, quiet and great value
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