A Hidden Gem of Scottish Links Golf – Kilmarnock (Barassie) Golf Club
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Play Kilmarnock (Barassie), a highly regarded Ayrshire links course known for its fast greens, challenging layout, and Open Championship qualifying history.Barassie links course is located on the outskirts of Troon on Scotland’s West Coast. They have an extensive history and have been offering golfers a magnificent links golf challenge in Ayrshire since 1887. The history of the Club, records that Kilmarnock men played golf at Troon in the 1870’s and 1880’s. But in the year before production of the first car in Europe (Karl Benz in 1888), the distance to Troon and Gailes was deemed too long for the golfing men of Kilmarnock. Accordingly 14 men met in the George Hotel in Kilmarnock and formed the Club on 25th November 1887. The course was initially at Holmes Farm in Kilmarnock, but this only provided 9 holes and on 26th September 1894 new land was secured at the present site at Barassie, adjacent to the railway lines, thus facilitating access by train.
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