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Fortrose and Rosemarkie
Year Established
1793
Designed by
James Baird
Location
North East Scotland
Address
Fortrose & Rosemarkie Golf Course, Ness Road East, Fortrose, Inverness-shire IV10 8SE
About Fortrose and Rosemarkie
Fortrose & Rosemarkie Golf Club is the 15th Oldest Recorded Club in the World and was established in 1793.
According to Top100GolfCourses.com, there is reference to golf being played here at Fortrose & Rosemarkie as far back as 1702 (making it the 4th oldest golf course in the world), though it was not until 1889 that a formal golf club was established with a membership of fifty playing over six holes. Play was suspended during the First World War when the clubhouse was used by the Highland Cyclist Battalion as a guardhouse!
The course was extended to 18 holes by 1924 but it was ten years later before James Braid shaped the links to its current design and Sir Hector Monro opened the revamped course 1935. War intervened again in the early 1940s when the military requisitioned the course and clubhouse as a training ground during the Second World War but all 18 holes were back in play by 1947.
