In the league table of golf course antiquity, the Royal
Aberdeen Golf Club stands at number six and by rights should be
known to a much wider audience around the world than it already is.
Here, at the Balgownie links only a mile from the centre of the
city of Aberdeen, is history indeed, a club founded as the Society
of Golfers at Aberdeen in 1780 and one of the most testing and
spectacular of all the great links course of Scotland. The present
Club incorporated the Society on the eve of the Battle of Waterloo
in 1815 and brought with it the old ballot box bearing the 1780
date and the president's chair dated three years earlier. Today's
spectacular layout that winds its way between the great sand hills
with many elevated tees and panoramic views is once again largely
from the imagination and genius of James Braid. Royal Aberdeen has
several claims to fame not the least of them that it was here, in
1783, that the rule that allows only five minutes to look for a
lost golf ball was established.
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