Musselburgh Old Golf Course is exactly as the name implies.

Musselburgh Old Course situated on Musselburgh Links, is reputedly the oldest surviving golf course in the world spanning back through a period of over 200 years. Host to six Open Championships (1874 –1889) and home to five Open Champions, history plays a very important part in the everyday life of the Club and course.

Enjoy the unique experience of walking in the footsteps of past legend. Play golf like never before with Hickory Clubs, replica Gutter Percha balls and the attire of the times. You have to try it to feel it.

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Part of History

The Open was first called the 'General Open Competition' and had its origins in the rising enthusiasm for golf at Prestwick. These natural west coast links had lain largely unused for golf while it was a winter game played on the east coast, so in 1860 Prestwick decided to organise a tournament themselves.The activist in these endeavours was J.O.Fairlie, an Ayrshire landowner, who was a regular player on the east coast. The Open was to be open to acceptable players only and the description of the event used the word 'caddie' and 'professional' interchangeably. The prize was in the form of a belt, in the usual fashion of a prize-fighter's boxing trophy. Fairlie had, single-handed, set up a competition which was to prosper and grow into the world's greatest golf tournament.