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Durness Golf Club Best 9 Hole Golf Course in Scotland 2025

If you have been on the North Coast 500, we lie right on this famous route 57 miles north west of Lairg; with the closest main airport south east of us at Inverness.

Designed by three local golf enthusiasts – Lachie Ross, Ian Morrison and Francis Keith – and opened in 1988, Durness Golf Club nestles on Scotland’s north coast and is Britain’s most north westerly golf course on the mainland. We are a 9 hole links, but with a second set of tees that provides a fine 18 hole experience, set against some of the most stunning landscape backdrops you will see in the golfing world.

EXCEEDING EXPECTATIONS

If your idea of finding a golf course involves an adventure, remoteness, turquoise ocean & sandy beaches then Durness GC could well be the golf experience you have been looking for. Recently voted in 2020 by Golf Magazine USA – in its first ever World’s Top 50 / 9 Hole Courses (12th) and in Golf World UK’s Top 100 Courses 2021 in GB and Ireland (65th) – your unforgettable golf journey can now begin.

Durness Golf Club Best 9 Hole Golf Course in Scotland 2025
“The northern delights started at the Durness course, where Penn giggled at an opening hole that played like the first stage of an alpine ascent, with a fairway that might have come with carabiners… the closing par 3 over ocean spray to a green shelved atop black rocks was a stunning finisher, and making two there sent us down the coast from Durness at a gallop.”
– Courtesy Tom Coyne, Writer from ‘A Course Called Scotland’ 2020 / tomcoyne.com

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8 hours ago
Durness Golf Club

What a start to the week ☀️

Tag a friend who hasn’t played Durness yet ⛳️
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What a start to the week ☀️ 

Tag a friend who hasn’t played Durness yet ⛳️

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4 days ago
Durness Golf Club

We are heading into the main part of the golf season now ⛳️ 🏆

We have two open competitions coming up in just over two weeks and they are filling up very fast 🏌️‍♂️

Only 11 spaces left in our Morrison open

Only 12 team spaces left in the Three Ball Better Ball

Book now to avoid disappointment……

www.durnessgolfclub.org/open-competitions/
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We are heading into the main part of the golf season now ⛳️ 🏆 

We have two open competitions coming up in just over two weeks and they are filling up very fast 🏌️‍♂️ 

Only 11 spaces left in our Morrison open 

Only 12 team spaces left in the Three Ball Better Ball

Book now to avoid disappointment…… 

https://www.durnessgolfclub.org/open-competitions/

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We'll be visiting from Canada that weekend. Unfortunately I don't have an official handicap so can't join in. See you in the bar! 🇨🇦 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

1 week ago
Durness Golf Club

Well done to everyone who competed in our Ladies Open today in challenging conditions.

Congratulations to Morag Mackay on winning the Scratch and Handicap sections 🏆

Full results via this link - www.durnessgolfclub.org/open-competition-results/

A big thank you to the Cafe Nineteen team for keeping everyone fed and watered today 🥓 🍰 🍷
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Well done to everyone who competed in our Ladies Open today in challenging conditions. 

Congratulations to Morag Mackay on winning the Scratch and Handicap sections 🏆 

Full results via this link - https://www.durnessgolfclub.org/open-competition-results/

A big thank you to the Cafe Nineteen team for keeping everyone fed and watered today 🥓 🍰 🍷

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I'm still in shock 🏆⛳️ we had a great day in changing weather conditions. The course is in great condition. Thank you for a fab day out.

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Congratulations Morag ⛳️🏌️‍♀️❤️

Well done Morag, another enjoyable day at Durness 🌧️

Great day, well done to all the prizewinners 🎉👏 The wash and ‘blow’ drys were not so much fun 🤩

Well done Morag,.great result 🎉😜. Thanks to all at Durness Golf Club for today

Woop woop!! Great result Miss Mo 👏

Well done

Fantastic Morag 👍 hope you've got some refreshments in these 2 beautiful trophies 🏆🏆 😀 ❤️

Well done Morag Mackay. And great seeing all you other ladies, it was no walk in the park today 😂😂 Hope you all got home safely.

Aye. Nice one Morag! The water hazards and bunkers, have certainly grown since my day! Or is that just you? Make sure you're about at 2am, yir on against Haiti. Enjoy Yirsels! Love to All

Well done Morag Mackay 👍⛳️😃

Well done Morag. Very impressive!!

Well done Morag 👏 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

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2 weeks ago
Durness Golf Club

We still have spaces in our Ladies Open on Saturday 13th June 🏌️‍♀️

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3 weeks ago
Durness Golf Club

Every golf course has a signature hole.

This is ours. ⛳

The famous 9th at Durness Golf Club – breathtaking scenery, a memorable challenge, and a hole that keeps golfers talking long after the round.

What’s your favourite memory of playing the 9th?
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Every golf course has a signature hole.

This is ours. ⛳

The famous 9th at Durness Golf Club – breathtaking scenery, a memorable challenge, and a hole that keeps golfers talking long after the round.

What’s your favourite memory of playing the 9th?

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I'm trying to remember as played it over 30 years ago, is there a Loch adjacent to the course?

My youngest son Rory putting 3 new provie's into the sea!

Played it once, will always stick in my memory, 🤗

Hitting the rocks it bouncing up and landing on the green. Totally Played for! 😂😂😂

A hole in one many years ago in the winter alliance.

A cracking day in Durness ☀️🏌️‍♂️⛳️🤩

Making an ace whilst playing in the Men’s Open and therefore holing a shot across the Atlantic…🎯

Playing it with my brothers last fall!

The most amazing finishing hole I have ever played , rugged beauty at its finest xxx

Great experience, a round at Durness.

Peter Sinclair

First time I played my memory is sticking it on the green back into clubhouse , 50p in box ,boil the kettle for a cup of tea then right back out for another nine at this wonderful course. Played 1300 courses now and Durness still my favourite.

Course to myself and sticking it to 4ft.

RichardBillyMike Looks a tad calmer than when we played it…. 😂

Brilliant golf course with an exceptional 9th & 18th hole.

Yeah but in the style of Crocodile Dundee. "That's not a signature hole. 🙅‍♀️ That's a signature hole! ⛳️🏌‍♂️"

Brilliant hole! 😊

Making par at the 9th - 18th to shoot the first ever gross under par round at Durness in competition

James Keith my memory is I never landed on it 🤣

Pretty sure it featured in Peter Allis’s book of his 9 best holes in Britain! I’m afraid the wee bunker on the right of the green was like a magnet to me 😂

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3 weeks ago
Durness Golf Club

We still have spaces in our Ladies Open on Saturday 13th June 🏌️‍♀️

Visit our website to book your tee time
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We still have spaces in our Ladies Open on Saturday 13th June 🏌️‍♀️ 

Visit our website to book your tee time

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That's same day as Ross Sutherland inter county in Bonar bridge which is an unfortunate clash

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