The golf club in Brora was established in 1891. In 1923 lames Braid, five times Open champion and prolific designer of golf courses, the most famous of which is Gleneagles, visited the course and redesigned the 18-hole layout which has stood the passing of time and remains a fair and challenging test of a true traditional links course.

Brora represents all the attributes of a traditional Scottish links, with a classic layout, an easy opening hole, and a short hole facing each cardinal point of the compass, you will have to adapt and manufacture according to whether the course is running fast or slow.

The holes feature the rolling links design with small hills everywhere on the course, hidden greens, small burns crisscrossing the fairways with large, pot bunkers guarding the fast and undulating smallish greens. Cows and sheep keep unobtrusive company around the course but the greens are encircled by electric wire fences to keep them off the putting surfaces.

For decades, the true golfing purists have made it a point to encounter Brora once in their golfing lifetime and it's certainly worth the journey. While only playing 6,110 yards from the back tees, Baird's links has enough mixture of bent grass greens and beach sand, burn water and spiky gorse, not to mention blind shots and the loud surf, to get anyone's attention.
 

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