The Machair Golfing Society

Linksland is a specific type of sandy, wind-sculpted coastal terrain. In Gaelic, linksland is machair, pronounced “ma-Car”. 

machair golf

The highland cow and links golfers...

A hardy breed, able to withstand conditions in the Scottish Highlands- high rainfall and strong winds. Good natured animals, skilled foragers, a longer expected lifespan, the highest quality of game.

  • Competition with your mates

  • It was never meant to be fair

  • The smell of cut grass in the morning

  • the clink of your blades

  • Hitting that perfect shot coming out of the screws!

  • A crisp long iron, shaping a 7 into the pin, draining a 20 foot snaking put, or the 3 footer for a half?!

  • Not just winning

  • but playing with the time honored etiquette and winning

  • The Old Course

  • or your local adventure 9 holer?

  • Having a laugh

  • the interaction between the golfer and nature

Competition with your mates

It was never meant to be fair

The smell of cut grass in the morning

the clink of your blades

Hitting that perfect shot coming out of the screws!

A crisp long iron, shaping a 7 into the pin, draining a 20 foot snaking put, or the 3 footer for a half?!

Not just winning

but playing with the time honored etiquette and winning

The Old Course

or your local adventure 9 holer?

Having a laugh

the interaction between the golfer and nature

When significant numbers of Scotsmen became interested in smacking small balls with curved wooden sticks, as they first did in 1400 or so, the links was where they went (or were sent), perhaps because there they were in no one’s way.