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'''Royal Dornoch Golf Club''' is a golf club in [[Dornoch]], Sutherland, Scotland. It is generally referred to as Royal Dornoch. The club has two 18-hole courses: the Championship Course and the Struie Course. The older Championship Course is a [[Links (golf)|links]] course located on the [[Dornoch Firth]].

Royal Dornoch has never hosted any of the modern professional tournaments.<ref name=mxdvdsn>((cite news |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/destinations/europe/united-kingdom/scotland/articles/Scotland-Teeing-off-for-a-wee-dram-at-Royal-Dornoch-Golf-Club/ |newspaper=The Telegraph |location=London |last=Davidson |first=Max |title=Scotland: Teeing off for a wee dram at Royal Dornoch Golf Club  |date=14 July 2014 |accessdate=2 July 2016))</ref> The [[British Amateur Championship]] was held there in 1985 and the [[Scottish Amateur]] in 1993, 2000, and 2012. The Women's and Men's Senior Amateur championships will be held at Royal Dornoch in 2022.

The Championship Course was ranked No. 3 on the 2007 ''[[Golf Digest]]'' list of Top 100 International (outside U.S.) courses. David Brice, of ''Golf International'', called it the "king of Scottish links courses".<ref>((cite web|url=http://www.pgatour.com/2008/tourlife/travel/09/23/courseofweek/index.html |title=Royal Dornoch: King of Scottish links courses |accessdate=26 June 2009 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20081016110949/http://www.pgatour.com/2008/tourlife/travel/09/23/courseofweek/index.html |archivedate=16 October 2008 ))</ref>

The internationally renowned Championship Course at Royal Dornoch Golf Club was named No. 1 in the world by the online golf reservation service golfscape<ref>((Cite web|url=https://royaldornoch.com/royal-dornoch-tops-world-best-courses-leader-board|title=ROYAL DORNOCH TOPS WORLD BEST COURSES LEADER BOARD -|date=16 January 2020|website=Royal Dornoch|language=en-US|access-date=29 January 2020))</ref> and is widely regarded as one of the world's finest [[Links (golf)|links golf]] courses.<ref>((Cite web |last=Glassonbury |first=Ed |date=2024-02-04 |title=Experience Winter Golf at the UK's Top Courses |url=https://onlybirdies.co.uk/blogs/news/experience-winter-golf-at-the-uks-top-courses |access-date=2024-02-25 |website=Only Birdies |language=en))</ref>

==History==
Golf was played in Dornoch, over the extensive linksland there, in the early seventeenth century, circa 1616.<ref>''World Atlas of Golf'', 1988 edition</ref> Expenses covering the cost of a young aristocrat's golf clubs in 1616 have provided the earliest evidence so far of the sport's presence in Dornoch. John, the 13th Earl of Sutherland, was sent to the town in Sutherland to be educated. The reference was uncovered by researcher Wade Cormack, who is a PhD student at the University of the Highlands and Islands. The current golf club was established ((Time ago|1877)) in 1877, and was awarded its royal status in 1906 by King Edward VII. 

The design of the Championship Course is attributed to [[Tom Morris Sr.|Old Tom Morris]]. Several of the original holes were lost to the construction of an airfield during World War II. After the war, [[George Duncan (golfer)|George Duncan]] was commissioned to restore and extend the course over newly acquired land. The work introduced the present 6th through 11th holes on the Championship Course.<ref>((cite web |last1=Carroll |first1=Steve |title=Behind the scorecard: The new 7th hole at Royal Dornoch |url=https://www.nationalclubgolfer.com/news/royal-dornoch-new-7th-hole/ |website=National Club Golfer |access-date=19 July 2022 |date=10 September 2020))</ref><ref>((cite web |title=Championship Course |url=https://royaldornoch.com/courses/championship-course |publisher=Royal Dornoch Golf Club |access-date=19 July 2022))</ref>

[[Tom Watson (golfer)|Tom Watson]] is an honorary member of Royal Dornoch, and is quoted as saying of Dornoch:  "It's the most fun I've ever had on a golf course" which was the home of the course architect [[Donald Ross (golfer)|Donald Ross]].

Members of the club traveled to the [[Pacific Northwest|northwest]] United States in September 2005 for a friendly international competition and cultural exchange with the [[Coeur d'Alene people|Coeur d'Alene Tribe]] at their [[Circling Raven Golf Club]] in [[Idaho Panhandle|northern]] [[Idaho]].<ref name=stmcrpg>((cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=kmhWAAAAIBAJ&sjid=-vIDAAAAIBAJ&pg=6337%2C2285936|newspaper=Spokesman-Review |location=[[Spokane, Washington]], U.S. |last=Bergum |first=Steve |title=Scottish team, Circling Raven plan gathering|date=14 May 2005|page=C1))</ref><ref name=shasmtrcs>((cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=RGdWAAAAIBAJ&sjid=FvMDAAAAIBAJ&pg=5690%2C10700008 |newspaper=Spokesman-Review |location=Spokane, Washington, U.S. |last=Bergum |first=Steve |title=Sharing as a matter of course |date=20 September 2005|page=B1))</ref>

==Scorecard==
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==See also==
*[[List of golf clubs granted Royal status]]

==References==
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==External links==
((Commons category|Royal Dornoch Golf Course))
*((Official website|http://www.royaldornoch.com/))

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