This is perhaps Scotland's finest hidden gem. Nick Faldo once described it as one of the most beautiful settings in golf after he plumped his £5 note in the safety deposit box. The note, now framed and adorning the clubhouse wall, is played for every year as part of a competition.

Tom Watson and Sean Connery have been rumoured to have nipped out for a few holes, as have a few others. It is a secretive course, but not like Muirfield.

The beautiful Scarista beach, once famously described as making the Malibu beach "look like a school sandpit", runs alongside the course providing the most beautiful of settings.