The golf course was constructed during 1908 with Willie Fernie of Troon being commissioned as the initial designer. He saw the natural beauty of the Balnacraig and Drumchorry farms upon which the course now rests and set about using the undulating landscape to its full potential.

The course layout was quite different to that of today, which saw two par 5 holes included on the scorecard. Interestingly, the 18th was a good three shot hole, which now incorporates both the 17th and 18th holes as they now stand. The course has been altered through time and the layout of today is testimony to both Willie Fernie the original architect, and Major Cecil Hutchison who in the early 1920s, tinkered and tweaked with it to produce the golf course as we know it at the present time.

The course has never been the longest by any stretch of the imagination and was not intended to be. The course length of 5695 yards was protected over the years by small, fast, sloping greens and everyone has found Pitlochry to be a tricky place to come and play. There have been questions raised about how players of the stature of Harry Vardon, Max Faulkner, Bob Charles, Walter Hagen and Tommy Armour, amongst others to walk the fairways of Pitlochry, found these notorious greens, but the consensus is that at least their scorecards would have survived the test.

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