Image of Spey Bay Golf Club in North East | David J Whyte © Linksland
Image of Spey Bay Golf Club in North East | David J Whyte © Linksland
Image of Spey Bay Golf Club in North East | David J Whyte © Linksland
Address: Spey Bay Ltd, Tugnet, Spey Bay, Fochabers, Moray IV32 7PJ
Website: https://www.speybay.co
Laid out by Ben Sayers - arguably The Open's most successful player without actually winning it - in 1907, Spey Bay is a traditional out-and-back along the North Sea coastline in Aberdeenshire.
The terrain is arguably the most insteresting linksland on which you'll ever play. According to Robert Price in his book, Scotland's Golf Courses, Spey Bay "has been laid out on a series of raised, storm-beach ridges which accumulated during periods of higher relative sea level some 6,000 years ago."
As a result, you must not only tackle the weather, but boulders and pebbles that find their way into the gorse and heather, as well as onto the fairways.
The signature hole - the par-3 eighth - is the furthest from the clubhouse and has a treacherous pot bunker waiting to gobble up anything short. A true test of nerve.
Address: Spey Bay Ltd, Tugnet, Spey Bay, Fochabers, Moray IV32 7PJ
Website: https://www.speybay.co
