Lundin Links

About the course

Lundin Golf Club lies at Lundin Links on the south coast of Fife, looking south over Largo Bay and the Firth of Forth. The site is a long, narrow triangle, barely 50 yards wide beside the clubhouse and widening to almost 500 yards at the far end, and the line of an old railway runs through the property, giving the course its distinctive shape.

The club was founded in 1868, and for its first four decades its members shared an eighteen-hole course with Leven, laid out by Old Tom Morris. As both clubs grew, Lundin acquired land on the far side of the railway, and in 1908 James Braid created the new holes from the sixth to the fourteenth, keeping several of Morris’s holes at the start and finish. The two clubs then went their separate ways on either side of the Mile Dyke.

The opening holes are pure links, running along the shore on firm, rolling ground, while Braid’s holes on the higher land bring in gorse, trees and changes of level. The former railway line comes into play as out of bounds on several holes and has to be kept in mind from the tee.

The fifth, Silverburn, is a short par 3 of about 140 yards, and the fourteenth, Perfection, is a downhill par 3 from an elevated tee with a view over the whole course and across the firth. The eighteenth, a par 4 of around 440 yards, finishes right beneath the clubhouse windows and makes a fine closing hole.

Why we recommend it

Lundin is a sharp, traditional links on the Fife coast with views across the Firth of Forth, burns, blind drives and deep bunkers, and it is used for Open final qualifying. The greens are excellent and the wind is almost always a factor, so it suits players who enjoy thinking their way round. It shares the same stretch of coastline as Leven, and the two together make a good day out from St Andrews, around half an hour away.

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