Local Attractions at Gilmerton House, East lothian, Scotland

Golf at Gilmerton House

Gilmerton House, ideal golfing accommodation in Scotland.

Gilmerton House and the Kinloch family have quite a connection with golf. As well as being a first class accommodation for golf parties of up to 9 couples.

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St Andrews is 90 minutes by car from Gilmerton House. There are many other fine golf courses close to Gilmerton, which makes it the ideal luxury accommodation for your next Scottish golfing holiday. Here is a list of some of the well known courses, we include an estimate of the time taken to travel to them by car from Gilmerton House.

Gilmerton House... a perfect place to stay and see the The 2013 Open Championship at Muirfield

Muirfield Golf CourseMuirfield, only 25 minutes away in Gullane, has been named as the venue for the 2013 Open Championship.

Muirfield last hosted The Open Championship in 2002, when South Africa's Ernie Els won his third Major after the first and only four man, four-hole playoff in Open Championship history. This will be the sixteenth time that The Open has been staged at the club, which held its first Championship in 1892.

Winners of previous Muirfield Opens include golf's biggest names, Nick Faldo (1987, 1992), Tom Watson (1980), Lee Trevino (1972), Jack Nicklaus (1966) and Gary Player (1959) have all lifted the Claret Jug there over the last 50 years. Other winners include Harry Vardon (1896), James Braid (1901, 1906), Walter Hagen (1929) and Henry Cotton (1948).

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