Royal Aberdeen Golf Club Silverburn

read moreBalgownie is one of the truest linksland layouts in golf. It's a course to test the better golfer, one who can accommodate the many variable conditions this arduous links can throw at you. Balgownie's front nine holes rank amongst the very best in the world. No two are the same within a natural ecosystem, interspersed with rich turf and tight rolling fairways, that is a sheer delight to behold. The Balgownie course is a classic links layout - out through the dunes and back along a plateau. The 1st offers a wide fairway playing slightly downhill from the elevated clubhouse (the tee box set immediately in front of the clubhouse windows) before dropping into a deep hollow just before the raised green.

read moreNo one knows who invented the game, as we know it today, or where it was first played; Aberdeen, Edinburgh or St. Andrews? In 1827 The Aberdeen Golf Club adopted a Lincoln Green player's coatee soon to be followed by a more usual scarlet version in 1828, in the latter case with a description of the button to be worn. The first illustrated is in die-stamped silver plated copper and displays the Arms of Aberdeen with the club title in surround. The style and decoration on this button is more in keeping with the period c1790-1815 and may therefore have been worn on an earlier player's garment.