Scotland · Links Golf

Muirfield vs The Carnoustie Championship Course

By Scott Mabin, Founder

Both have hosted the Open and both are hard, but they're hard in opposite ways. Muirfield, on the East Lothian coast, runs in two loops that turn back on each other, so the wind never sits behind you for long and you can see what's coming the whole way round. Carnoustie keeps more hidden: burns cross the fairways where you don't expect them, and the closing stretch has ended more rounds than the rest of the course combined. Muirfield is the fairer test. Carnoustie is the one that finds out what you do under pressure.

If you must choose

Read the full record on each before you decide.

DetailMuirfieldThe Carnoustie Championship Course
LocationMuirfieldCarnoustie
RegionEast LothianAngus
Holes1818
Par7072
ArchitectOld Tom MorrisNot recorded
Established1744Not recorded

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