To experience Elie is to play golf simply for the joy of it, through one’s eyes, heart, and imagination, rather through a range finder lens and the tally on a scorecard. Golf legend and five-time Open Championship winner Peter Thomson remarked of the Elie links, “It’s quirky and it’s the most enjoyable course I know. If I had my way, I’d build Elies all over the world.”
Playing the ancient North Berwick West Links upon arrival to Scotland should be a required rite of passage for first time visitors. A course that exemplifies the very definition of links golf, it’s a foundational round upon which any golf trip to East Lothian, Fife, or Open Rota Quest can be built. The Setting The…
A fresh look at Scotland’s North Berwick West Links in our first column from our international correspondent, Cincinnati Slim, whom we let out of the OneBeardedGolfer.com research bunker beneath The Greenbrier for a brief leave in November: First of all, for an American visiting golf’s homeland for the first time, North Berwick Golf Club presents…