MURCAR LINKS GOLF CLUB	Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Course Review
• Founded:	1909
• Designer/Architect:	Archie Simpson, James Braid, Graeme J Webster/Team Niblick Ltd.
• Championship Length:	6,525
• PAR:	71
• SSS (Course Rating):	72
• Type:	Links

A golf journalist has recently taken a trip to Murcar with Pioneer Golf and his review of the course will be posted here shortly. The following information is provided by the club itself:

The Murcar Championship golf links has a par of 71 and a standard scratch rating of 72 (USGA rating 71.6 and USGA slope rating 136).  Murcar frequently features in the Top 100 courses in the UK and is in the VisitScotland top 40 Great Scottish Links Collection, as evidenced by the fact that in 2005, it hosted pre-qualifying for the British Senior Open.  The testing Murcar Links hosts many national amateur championships and professional tournaments.  In 2006, its reputation is such that the Murcar Links is playing host to the European Challenge Tour's "Scottish Challenge" and the British Boys Plate. Established in 1909 by the design of Archie Simpson, with later refinements made by the celebrated golf course designer James Braid, Murcar is indeed a Championship links of some renown, in the finest of Scottish traditions.  It has recently undergone alterations and improvements under the watchful eye of Graeme J Webster's Team Niblick Ltd who are sympathetic to what Simpson and Braid set out to achieve.  With a complete refurbishment of the Clubhouse and practice area to be completed by April and July 2006 respectively, and located between Cruden Bay and Royal Aberdeen, it is a golf course not to be missed if in the Aberdeen and Grampian area of Scotland, being 15 minutes drive from Aberdeen Airport (ABZ).