West Lothian Golf Club

The Course was laid out by the famous Willie Park Jnr., who had won the Open Championship in 1887 and 1889, and who was already making a name for himself as a golf architect. Willie had high words of praise for the Course, commending “the sporting qualities of the ground” and claiming that the turf on the hill could not be bettered – “it yields to the tread like a Persian carpet”. Even for these days, however, the course could not be considered long. It measured barely 2,000 yards. Nevertheless, it was anticipated that a first-class amateur would take 80 strokes to complete two rou