Kilbirnie Place is a beautiful par 69 parkland course. It compensates for its lack of length, 5, 500-yards, with some very tricky greens and natural hazards, including the Jocks Burn that winds its way through the opening and finishing holes.

After a fairly hard first three holes with carries in excess of 150-yards to reach fairways you come upon the fourth hole, a narrow fairway with out of bounds on both sides with the ruins of Place castle overlooking the green. The last hole is a 145-yard par three with a burn before the green and out of bounds if you are too long off the tee. Many a scorecard has been destroyed here.