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Fife & Angus Golf Tour - Day 5

Arbroath & Montrose

Like many great links courses, Arbroath is laid out along a narrow strip of land with the holes going out and back along the terrain.

The course has plenty of hazards, including numerous strategically-placed bunkers and thick rough that borders the majority of the fairways. And with the Dowrie Burn in evidence on no less than eleven occasions, you'll need your wits about you to save your ball from a watery grave.

We finish our tour at Montrose, where there has been golf played for more than four centuries, although back then it was a rudimentary form of the game. It is recorded that James Melville, a student at St Andrews University, had golf lessons in 1562 on the links although it would be almost another 250 years before organised golf came to Montrose with the formation of the Montrose Golf Club in 1810.

At one stage in its history Montrose was the links with the greatest number of holes. When Musselburgh had only five, Montrose had five times that number. Today it has 18 and very special they are too.

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