On a cold December evening in 1895 a select group of ladies and gentlemen met in the waiting room of the Dullatur Railway Station on the outskirts of Glasgow.

They huddled into the Victorian building to the accompaniment of steam trains and platform announcements but travel was not in their plans. They were there to form a golf club.

It was a time when there was a blossoming interest in the game of golf and such was its popularity that the gathering of such an influential group attracted the attention of the national press. The Glasgow Herald carried a report on the meeting the following day.

Without planning issue to distract them, the founders of the Dullatur Golf Club went straight to work and soon had nine holes laid out in 40 acres of leased land only a few minutes walk from the railway station. Three months after their inaugural meeting on the 13th of December 1895 the course was in play. By 1897 the first fixture list had appeared and by the turn of the century the club had its first clubhouse.

The course
The original course served the members well until 1926 when the Club called in master golf course architect James Braid to extent the course to 18 holes. The five-times Open Champion created a memorable layout and came to play in the opening match on the new course. In time for the Club’s centenary in 1996 a bold and far-reaching plan to extent Dullatur Golf Club’s facilities to include two 18-hole golf courses had come to fruition.

Former Ryder Cup player, Dave Thomas, designed six new holes on what would become known as the Carrickstone Course while retaining the remaining holes from the oringinal Braid layout. He also laid out a new 18-hole course called the Antonine. The first seven holes of the Carrickstone demand accuracy rather than length but there is more room to play with as the course becomes wider and inevitably longer.






Continue >>>