Musselburgh Links is the worlds oldest playing golf course dating back to 1567 this delightful 9 hole course is a must for visitors to play.
Six Open Championships were played here, plus many famous and infamous matches. Allan Robertson and old Tom Morris versus Musselburgh's Dunn brothers and Willie Park against old Tom Morris.
The Musselburgh crowds of the day, "they damned miners", as Andrew Kirkcaldy called them, made US Ryder Cup crowds of today seem a model of decorum, with their well aimed kicks to reposition golf balls to favour the local man on whom large sums were bet.
The four and a quarter inch diameter hole became standard during the 19th century, its seemingly random size was just that, it happened to be the width of the implement used to cut the holes at Musselburgh and in 1893 the R & A made the size mandatory.
It is possible to hire an original set of hickory clubs complete with mashie, niblicks and cleeks as well as guttie balls for a taste of how the game used to be played.