Value golf in Scotland is a weekday green fee at a members' club, or an entry in one of its Open competitions, and the courses below run from £25 for nine holes at Gairloch to £70 for a summer weekday round at Gullane No.3, or a high-season round on Moray's New Course. Most of the eighteen-hole clubs in the tables charge between £40 and £60 on a weekday in season, and Open entries, where the club publishes them, run from £15 at Portpatrick and Wigtownshire County to £25 for the main gents' Opens at Kingussie, Brechin, Kirriemuir and Pitlochry, and for Montrose's Senior Mixed Greensome.
Prices were read from each club's own website on 23 August 2026. Green fees change by season and by day; check the club's page or timesheet before you travel.
How does an Open competition work, and why is it the best value in Scotland?
An Open competition is a club's own competition thrown open to visiting golfers who hold a handicap. You enter through the club's entry page or online booking page, usually weeks ahead, and the fee is a fraction of the green fee: Kirriemuir charges £60 for a Sunday-to-Friday round in summer and £25 for its Gents 18 Hole Open on 6 September 2026, twos included. Pitlochry's ordinary May-to-September fee is £85 and its Gents Spring Open on 17 May 2026 was £25 for visitors.
What you need is a current handicap index through your own club: Winterfield asks that entrants to its men's individual Opens hold an official WHS Index and be amateurs, and Portpatrick asks that entrants belong to a club affiliated to a national body. Some Opens cap the handicap; Kirriemuir's Gents Stableford Open takes a maximum index of 28.0. The honest caveat is that you play the club's format on the day, often Stableford or strokeplay, often in a three-ball of strangers drawn by the club, and you take the tee time you are given.
East Lothian and Fife
| Course | Visitor green fee | Open entry | Member's guest |
|---|---|---|---|
| Musselburgh Links, The Old Golf Course | £25.50 (9 holes, Mon-Fri); £28.00 (Sat-Sun) | no Opens published | £12.70 (weekday); £14.00 (weekend) |
| Winterfield | £45 (weekdays); £55 (weekends) | Opens listed, fees not shown | £20 |
| Gullane No.3 | £70 (weekday round); £90 (weekend, £75 from 12.00) | £10 per player (Junior Open, 17 Jul 2026); no adult fee published | not published |
| Burntisland Golf House Club | £40 (Mon-Fri); £45 (Sat-Sun) | Opens exist, fees not shown | £15 (every day) |
| Anstruther | £50 (18 holes, 1 Apr-31 Oct); £35 (9 holes) | Opens exist, fees not shown | not published |
Musselburgh Links, The Old Golf Course, is a nine-hole links owned by East Lothian Council and run by enjoyleisure. The operator's site records the first documented golf there in 1672, a round reputedly played by Mary, Queen of Scots in 1567, and the Open Championship hosted six times between 1874 and 1889. Nine holes is what you pay for, £25.50 on a weekday, and hickory club hire is £57.00.
Winterfield is an eighteen-hole links on the edge of Dunbar, laid out on two levels above the Firth of Forth. The club's history says Dunbar town council bought the land in 1935 and founded a municipal course run by the burgh; the present layout dates from 1946. A weekday round is £45 and a member's guest £20. Book online or through the Pro Shop.
Gullane No.3 opened in 1910 with no official designer; the committee oversaw it, the greenkeeper William Logan built it, and the Course Manager regards its green complexes as the best at Gullane. A weekday round is £70 with range balls included, and the published offers go lower: £55 on a winter weekday, £60 in April or October, £55 for a twilight round from 15.36 on a summer weekday.
Burntisland Golf House Club, on the Fife coast, is parkland with what the club calls links-type greens; its site records golf played there since 1797, a Willie Park Jnr design of 1896 and James Braid updates in 1922. Eighteen holes is £40 Monday to Friday, bank holidays apart, and a member's guest £15 every day, with Edinburgh Castle in view from the eighth. Visitors are welcome seven days a week.
Anstruther, in the East Neuk, is nine holes played twice, founded in 1890 and opened on 8 April 1891; Old Tom Morris advised the club to take more land at the Hynd in 1896. Fees are by season: £35 for nine holes and £50 for eighteen from 1 April to 31 October, £27 for either in January and February. Book by contact form, phone or email.
Angus
| Course | Visitor green fee | Open entry | Member's guest |
|---|---|---|---|
| Montrose Golf Links, Broomfield | £50 (peak, May-Sep); £40 (Apr, Oct); £25 (Nov-Mar) | £25 visitors (Senior Mixed Greensome Open, 28 Aug 2026) | not published |
| Brechin | £50 (Mon-Fri and Sun); £60 (Sat); page headed 2025 | £25 per person (Gents Individual Open, 30 May 2026) | not published |
| Kirriemuir | £60 (Sun-Fri, Apr-Oct); £70 (Sat) | £25 (Gents 18 Hole Open, 6 Sep 2026, includes 2s) | not published |
The Broomfield at Montrose is a links of 4,771 yards, par 67, laid out by Harry Colt in 1907 on ground the club calls the site of the fifth oldest golf course in the world. The links are managed by Montrose Caledonia and Royal Montrose Mercantile Golf Club in association with Angus Council. Broomfield is £50 at peak, £25 from November to March and £30 for an SGU card holder, with the club's note that prices depend on demand. Its Opens are open to any player with a handicap, though the page does not say which course each is played on.
Brechin is eighteen-hole parkland between Dundee and Aberdeen off the A90, and its home page carries a Scotland's Golf Club of the Year award. The green-fee page was still headed 2025 on the day of reading, so £50 Monday to Friday and on Sunday is the club's published rate rather than a confirmed 2026 one. The 2026 Opens are fully priced, from the Ladies Individual Open at £15 to the Texas Scrambles at £80 per team of four.
Kirriemuir is mature parkland with the Angus Glens in view, established in 1884 with an original nine by Mr Fox, the professional from Carnoustie, and extended to eighteen by James Braid in 1924. The standing rate is £60 Sunday to Friday and £45 at twilight from 4pm, and four of the 2026 Opens are £25 with the twos included. The online booking discounts three-balls and four-balls.
Badenoch, Perthshire and the Cairngorms
| Course | Visitor green fee | Open entry | Member's guest |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kingussie | £55.00 (single round); £35.00 (twilight, after 4pm) | £25.00 visitors (Kingussie Open, 15 Aug 2026) | £25.00 |
| Newtonmore | £55 (single player); £35 (after 2pm) | £20 visitors (Tulloch Homes Stableford, 1 Aug 2026) | £20 |
| Braemar | £50 (18 holes, Mon-Sun); £30 (18 holes, Nov-Mar) | page not readable; no fee read | not published |
| Pitlochry | £85 (May-Sep); £70 (Scottish Golf Union member) | £25 visitors (Gents Spring Open, 17 May 2026) | not published |
Kingussie sits inside the Cairngorms National Park beside the River Gynack, and the club says its eighteen holes were designed by Old Tom Morris and Harry Vardon. A single round is £55.00, a day ticket £75.00 and a member's guest £25.00. The Opens are entered through an online form: the Kingussie Open on 15 August 2026 is £25.00 for visitors and the seniors' strokeplay Open on 19 May £18.00.
Newtonmore, also in Badenoch, was founded in 1893 and is a James Braid course of 6,031 yards, par 70, which the club records Tom Morris calling in 1896 one of the best inland courses he had played. A single player pays £55, or £35 after 2pm, and a member's guest £20. Golf Week runs from 1 to 8 August 2026, with visitors' entries at £20 for the Tulloch Homes Stableford.
Braemar calls itself the highest eighteen-hole golf club in the UK, parkland and heathland beside the River Clunie, 4,957 yards off the white tees and par 65. The standard rate is £50 for eighteen holes every day of the week, £30 after 4pm, and £30 from November to March paid by honesty box or QR code at the clubhouse door. The Opens page would not load on the day.
Pitlochry is here for one reason. Its ordinary fee is £85 for a round between May and September 2026, or £70 for a Scottish Golf Union member, over the line the rest of this list keeps to, but a visitor entered the Gents Spring Open on 17 May 2026 for £25, and the Gents Sandy Robertson Classic Open on 23 August and the Gents Highland Four Ball BB Open on 13 September are £25 too. The club's tagline is the best course in the world under 6,000 yards.
Moray and the far north
| Course | Visitor green fee | Open entry | Member's guest |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cullen Links | £50 (Apr, May, Sep); £60 (Jun-Aug); £20 (Oct-Mar) | page not readable; no fee read | not published |
| Moray, New Course | £70 (Apr-Oct 2026); £50 (low season) | page not found; no fee read | not published |
| Reay | £70 per day (1 Apr-31 Oct 2026, visitors page); home page shows £60 (Apr-Oct) | page not readable; no fee read | not published |
| Durness | £55 (18 holes); £30 (9 holes) | Opens listed, fees not shown | not published |
| Gairloch | £25 (9 holes); £40 (day ticket) | Opens listed, fees not shown | £15 |
Cullen Links, on the Moray coast, is a links the club's site files under Old Tom Morris. Fees are by month rather than by day: £50 a round in April, May and September, £60 in June, July and August, and £20 from October to March. The Opens page would not load on the day.
The New Course at Moray, at Lossiemouth, opened in 1979 to a Sir Henry Cotton design, 6,008 yards and par 70, and the club calls it a varied, thoughtful links layout with real character. It is £70 from April to October 2026 and £50 in low season, with discounts published for North of Scotland and Scottish Golf club members.
Reay, in Caithness, is the most northerly eighteen-hole links on the British mainland by the club's own description, a James Braid course of 5,854 yards that stays fully open all year with no winter tees or greens. The club's site shows two figures: £70 per day from 1 April to 31 October 2026 on the visitors page, and £60 from April to October and £30 from November to March on the home page, so ring before you travel.
Durness, in Sutherland, was founded in 1988 and calls itself Britain's most north-westerly course on the mainland: nine holes of links played as eighteen from second tees, with the ninth and eighteenth played across a sea inlet. Eighteen holes is £55, a daily unlimited ticket £70, juniors half price. The 2026 Opens must be booked in advance online; the page lists no fees.
Gairloch is a nine-hole links founded in 1898 beside a sandy beach in Wester Ross, with views the club lists as Skye, Harris, Lewis and Torridon. From 1 March 2026 nine holes is £25, a day £40 and a member's guest £15; payment is by honesty box, online, or by card when the clubhouse is open. The 2026 Opens, including the Gents Open on 25 July with a maximum handicap of 28, are listed without fees.
Arran, Kintyre and Galloway
| Course | Visitor green fee | Open entry | Member's guest |
|---|---|---|---|
| Shiskine | £40 (12 holes, weekdays); £42 (weekends) | £20 per pair (Ladies Greensome Open, 30 Jul 2026) | £20 (adult) |
| Lamlash | £40 (Mon-Fri, summer 2026); £50 (Sat-Sun) | Opens listed, fees not shown | not published |
| Dunaverty | £65 (high season); £30 (low season) | no Opens published | not published |
| Portpatrick Dunskey | £60.00 (single round); £50.00 (twilight, 4.30pm onwards) | £15pp (Gents Strokeplay Open, 15 Jul 2026) | not published |
| Wigtownshire County | £60 (18 holes, summer 2026); £35 (winter) | £15 (Golf Week Open Stableford Gents, 27 Jul 2026) | £12 |
Shiskine, at Blackwaterfoot on Arran, is a twelve-hole seaside links founded in 1896, cut back from eighteen to twelve during wartime, with one par five, blind shots the club says are the norm and holes called the Crows Nest and the Himalayas. Twelve holes is £40 on a weekday from 1 April 2026, a double round £65, twilight from 5pm £32 and a member's guest £20.
Lamlash, on the hillside above the village, is an eighteen-hole par 64 the club calls Arran's Old Course. Summer 2026, from 27 March to 30 September, is £40 Monday to Friday and £50 at the weekend, with an all-day ticket for £20 more. The 2026 Gents and Ladies Opens are listed with details in downloadable documents, so no fee is printed here.
Dunaverty, at Southend in Kintyre, is a links founded in 1889. High season from 29 March to 24 October 2026 is £65 a round and £90 for a day ticket, low season from 25 October is £30, and members of twelve named affiliated clubs pay half the green fee.
Portpatrick Dunskey has two courses, the eighteen-hole Dunskey and the nine-hole par-three Dinvin, on rolling moorland and seaside heath about 150 feet above sea level, overlooking the North Channel to Ireland. The Dunskey is £60.00 a round, £50.00 at twilight from 4.30pm and £80.00 for a day, with the Dinvin at £15.00 a day. The Opens are the cheapest on this list: gents', ladies' and seniors' Opens at £15 a head and the Par 3 Open at £10.
Wigtownshire County, at Glenluce, is a links-style course opened on 28 March 1894 with nine holes by Charles Hunter; W. Gordon Cunningham's second nine opened in 1987. Summer 2026 is £60 for eighteen holes, £35 at twilight after 4pm and £35 again through the winter, and a member's guest pays £12. Most of the 2026 Opens are £15.
What counts as value here?
The fees in the tables buy a full round, often on ground with a name attached that the club is proud to print, for a fraction of what the championship links along the same coasts charge: a Harry Colt links at Montrose for £50 in peak season, a Braid course at Newtonmore for £55, a 1910 Gullane course for £70 on a weekday. What the fee does not buy is the famous name, or a tee time at the hour you choose on a summer Saturday.
A visitor pays less than the headline figure in four ways the tables show. The weekday: Burntisland is £40 Monday to Friday against £45 at the weekend, Kirriemuir £60 Sunday to Friday against £70 on a Saturday. The Open, which at most clubs here is £15 to £25 for a round that would otherwise cost £50 to £85. The season band: Montrose Broomfield drops to £25 from November to March, Cullen to £20, Braemar to £30, Gullane No.3 to £55 on a winter weekday. And the clock: Kingussie is £35 after 4pm, Newtonmore £35 after 2pm, Portpatrick £50 from 4.30pm, Shiskine £32 from 5pm.
How do I get a tee time as a visitor in Scotland?
Almost every club in the tables takes visitor bookings through its own online booking page, the Pro Shop or both; Montrose uses an online tee sheet. Where a club does not book online, it says how: Anstruther by contact form, phone or email; Gairloch with a book-now link and an honesty box; Wigtownshire County online for Scottish Golf and OpenPlay members and by email or phone for everyone else. Shiskine opens tee times fourteen days ahead, Anstruther opens its pre-10am times seven days ahead, Reay takes the last booking sixty minutes before sunset, and Durness opens at 8am and not before.
Opens are different. Kingussie runs an online entry form, Durness requires every Open to be booked in advance online, Brechin and Portpatrick publish their lists with fees and dates, and Lamlash puts the details in a downloadable document. Know your handicap index before you book, and if you hold a Scottish Golf membership or an SGU card, say so: Montrose publishes a £30 card-holder rate on the Broomfield, Moray a discount for Scottish Golf club members, and Pitlochry's Scottish Golf Union member rate is £70 against £85.
What this list leaves out
Every figure above was read from the club's own website on one day, 23 August 2026, and the tables hold only clubs whose standard weekday fee was published and was £70 or less on that day, plus Pitlochry for its £25 Opens. Clubs that publish no price, or publish it only inside a booking engine, are not here, and that rule removed well-known names across Fife, Edinburgh, Ayrshire and the north east that may be just as good value by phone. Prices are one day's reading: Brechin's page was still headed 2025, Reay's site showed two figures, and Montrose says its Broomfield bands move with demand. Opens are seasonal and the fixture list changes, so a fee printed against a 2026 date is what the club asked that year, not a promise for the next.
The substitute is the club itself. Search the name, open its green-fee page and its Opens page, and read the date on it. Where the page carries no date, or two figures, a call to the Pro Shop settles it in a minute.
Where to start
If you want one round that shows what a Scottish green fee can buy, take a weekday on Montrose's Broomfield for £50 or at Burntisland for £40 with Edinburgh Castle across the water from the eighth. If you want the cheapest honest way onto good ground, pick an Open: Portpatrick and Wigtownshire County at £15, Newtonmore's Golf Week at £20, Kingussie, Brechin, Kirriemuir and Pitlochry at £25. Either way, check the page the night before, bring your handicap, and go and play.