Aboyne Golf Club - Aberdeenshire, Scotland.
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Parkland/heathland golf course at the small town of Aboyne on Royal Deeside.
Waymark Code: WMY8B1
Location: Northern Scotland, United Kingdom
Date Posted: 05/09/2018
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Aboyne lies some 30 miles west of the city of Aberdeen on the north bank of the River Dee. Golf was first played here in the 1870s and a club formed in 1883 with nine holes being laid out on the village green. A new site on the Aboyne Castle estate to the north-east of the town was acquired in 1905 and opened with nine holes adjacent to the Loch of Aboyne. In 1908, the professional at Royal Aberdeen, Archie Simpson laid out a new eighteen holes and this remained until 1990, when Martin Hawtree created five new holes to provide the layout that exists today.
The front nine is situated south of the clubhouse and runs over gently undulating, tree-lined parkland. The ninth and tenth holes run northwards alongside the loch, and the next three holes on the northern section of the course run over open heathland and whins. The short fourteenth then runs downhill back to the parkland section again and a pond has to be avoided at the fifteenth. The course finishes as it started, with a long 200 yard plus par 3.
The course is signposted on the A93 at the eastern side of Aboyne.