Old travel Blog photograph of the clubhouse at Royal Dornoch by Dornoch, Sutherland, Scotland. Golf was played in Dornoch, over the extensive links there, in the early seventeenth century, circa 1616. Expenses covering the cost of a young aristocrat's golf clubs in 1616 have provided the earliest evidence so far of the sport's presence in Dornoch. John, the 13th Earl of Sutherland, was sent to the town in Sutherland to be educated. The current golf club was established in 1877, and was awarded its royal status in 1906 By King Edward VII. The design of the Championship Course is attributed to Old Tom Morris from St Andrews, Fife.
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