No 86 - Cruden Bay

From short, driveable par 4s like the picturesque 3rd, to 450-yard monsters like the sweeping 5th, Cruden Bay has a wonderful variety of holes to make your round truly memorable

Cruden Bay
Fergus Bisset
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86 CRUDEN BAY

Architect: T Morris 2006 position: New entry Stats: 6,287 yds; par 70; SSS 71 GF: £35-£85 T: 01779 812285 W: crudenbaygolfclub.co.uk

Plateau greens, undulating fairways, blind shots, streams and gorse, Cruden Bay has everything you’d expect from a Scottish links.

From short, driveable par 4s like the picturesque 3rd, to 450-yard monsters like the sweeping 5th, the course has a wonderful variety of holes to make your round truly memorable.

There are excellent practice facilities and the comfortable clubhouse affords spectacular views across the sprawling links.

The club is currently improving the layout with a new par 3 at the end of the course, and is looking to enhance the quality of the greens, tees and fairways. FB

+ Spectacular setting; great variety of holes across perfect links terrain - Winter frost course bears little relation to real course when in use

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Fergus Bisset
Fergus Bisset
Contributing Editor

Fergus is Golf Monthly's resident expert on the history of the game and has written extensively on that subject. He has also worked with Golf Monthly to produce a podcast series. Called 18 Majors: The Golf History Show it offers new and in-depth perspectives on some of the most important moments in golf's long history. You can find all the details about it here.

He is a golf obsessive and 1-handicapper. Growing up in the North East of Scotland, golf runs through his veins and his passion for the sport was bolstered during his time at St Andrews university studying history. He went on to earn a post graduate diploma from the London School of Journalism. Fergus has worked for Golf Monthly since 2004 and has written two books on the game; "Great Golf Debates" together with Jezz Ellwood of Golf Monthly and the history section of "The Ultimate Golf Book" together with Neil Tappin , also of Golf Monthly.

Fergus once shanked a ball from just over Granny Clark's Wynd on the 18th of the Old Course that struck the St Andrews Golf Club and rebounded into the Valley of Sin, from where he saved par. Who says there's no golfing god?

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