Some of the finest inland golf in Scotland is to be found along this James Braid Trail. Edzell lies at the very gateway to the Highlands, enjoys a wonderful backdrop of mountains in an idyllic setting and is one of Scotland's hidden treasures. Old Tom Morris laid out the first course at Forfar. The present layout is Braid's legacy from the 1920s and quite superb it remains to this day. At Alyth he designed extra holes to expand the course from 13 to 18 holes just before the Second World War, while at the famous Blairgowrie Club he reworked Alister MacKenzie's original design to create one of the great inland courses in the British Isles. Little remains of Braid's original design at Downfield but the present course is considered by Peter Thomson to be one of the most testing courses away from the seaside.
