Musselburgh Golf Club
About
The Musselburgh Golf Club offers a great day of Midlothian golf for players who want a challenging game played on holes with interesting names, such the as the third ("Whins"), the ninth ("Burn"), and the 16th ("Fiery").
Kick things off on the Musselburgh Golf Club's first hole, "Willows," a 377-yard par-4 treat that sets the model for the rest of the day. The monster hole is the fourth, "Signal Box," which is a 528-yard par 5. Close out the game on the 474-yard par-4 18th: "Old Bob."
Head to the clubhouse to retrace the beginning and end, with its view of the first and 18th fairways. For those wishing to stay later into the evening, there are two well stocked bars
Tee | Par | Length | Rating | Slope |
---|---|---|---|---|
Medal | 71 | 6725 yards | ||
Yellow | 69 | 6241 yards | ||
Red | 73 | 5680 yards |
Hole | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | Out | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | In | Total |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Black M: 72.9/132 | 377 | 452 | 146 | 558 | 402 | 156 | 532 | 435 | 404 | 3462 | 445 | 185 | 490 | 379 | 419 | 412 | 166 | 409 | 473 | 3378 | 6840 |
White M: 72.4/131 W: 73.1/123 | 377 | 452 | 146 | 531 | 402 | 156 | 482 | 400 | 404 | 3350 | 445 | 185 | 490 | 379 | 419 | 412 | 166 | 409 | 473 | 3378 | 6728 |
Handicap | 10 | 6 | 18 | 2 | 14 | 16 | 8 | 4 | 12 | 3 | 9 | 15 | 13 | 7 | 1 | 17 | 5 | 11 | |||
Par | 4 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 36 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 35 | 71 |
Course Details
Rentals/Services
Practice/Instruction
Policies
Food & Beverage
CateringAvailable Facilities
ClubhouseReviews
Great Winter Round
The course was in an excellent condition, considering the recent weather (snow/rain).
All 18 greens fully open. Play was off winter tees and mats on the fairway, although we preferred to move our balls to the rough.
The greens were excellent for the time of year.
Only minor areas were wet underfoot and mainly from tee to fairway, so didn't interfere with play at all.
Weather was sunny and cold with no wind of any note.
4 ball thoroughly enjoyed the course and the conditions for early February.
Had a great time,spent a lot of time in sand. Pro very nice, found a set of clubs for us.Played with my brother and hes 4 y/o son.
Historical Musselburgh
One of the finest courses I have played. You get a real sense of the history of the game here. The course is magnificent as are the greens to putt on. The staff are first class, especially Callum the assistant who assisted my son with custom fitting of new Srixon clubs.
Very enjoyable
Played a 4 ball with 3 friends the first day of a two day visit to Musselburgh. Forecast not good but got it dry apart from one shower which was a bonus. Course and greens in good condition, nice layout, very pleasant day.
Just a brilliant course
Fallen in love with this course it really is s challenge and the staff were very friendly the fairways pristine and the greens are the best I have played on this year
Highly recommended
Enjoyable
First visit to Musselburgh Golf Club, friendly staff and members. Teed off just before midday as a 2 ball, even with a 4 ball in front went round in about 3 and half hours. The course is in great condition, the fairways are quite tight although there is plenty of space should you miss them. The courses main protection are the bunkers, which were in good condition. The greens, whilst very true, are pretty flat (with the odd exception) but are very slow. Overall, a good experience and a course I will play again.
Teed off late morning in a 3 ball with 1 walking and 2 in a buggy. Pace of play was shocking and it took us 4 hours to get round.
It was commented by all 3 of us that the course seemed to be in quite a scruffy state although holes 8 to 15 after you went under the railway line were slightly better and more interesting.
The greens were slow and you had to really hit it to get up to the hole and on most the ball tended to bobble quite a bit. The bunkers were in atrocious condition and if you had the misfortune to go into any the chances were extremely high that you would end up with a bad lie. There were plenty of rakes about but maybe if other golfers had actually used them properly to take the bunkers after being in them it would have improved the experience greatly.
Although slightly disappointed with our experience after hearing such great things about this course we would all come back and play it again.
Superb Condition but average track
Played here on Saturday afternoon. Staff very friendly in the pro shop and decent selection of stuff in there. Course was very quiet in the afternoon so we flew round. The course is in superb condition, could not really fault that with exception of the bunkers some of which were on the empty side which made a couple of shots tricky. Main issue for me was the layout of the course, pretty standard up and down holes with no real features distinguishing them from one another. Holes 13, 16 & 17 were nice but apart from that mainly 400yard par 4s with not much about them which was a shame. But would recommend as Condition was excellent.
A good walk, don't ruin it.
I found that the course is used mainly by the members, which is good, the only problem that a visitor or novice would incur is the speed of play and the members are not forgiving. I played on a hot summers day and enjoyed it immensely, a threesome took 3 1/2hrs, 2 in a buggy and 1 walking.