1616

Earliest written evidence of golf in Dornoch when Privy Councillor Sir Robert Gordon of Sutherland, tutor to his nephew the 13th Earl of Sutherland, submits an expense account for ‘’My Lord’s Golf Clubs and Golf Balls’

‘Item ten poundis guven this yeir for bowes, arrowes, golff clubbes, and balls, with other necessars for his L[ordship’s] exercise.’ 

In 1630 Sir Robert made the observation ‘About this toun, along the sea road, ther are the fairest and lairgest links of any pairt of Scotland...’