1877

9 holes of golf are laid down on dunes land. Dornoch Town Council gives permission for the Sutherland Golfing Society to play golf on Dornoch links. 

Citizens of the Royal Burgh of Dornoch and its founding fathers, Alexander McHardy and Dr. John Gunn, meet to form the Dornoch Golf Club. 

Alex McHardy becomes the first secretary of Dornoch Golf Club. 

“Mr Machardy may well be called the pioneer of Golf in the North. He is an enthusiast of no ordinary kind, and in the early days of Dornoch he coached many beginners at the expense of much of his time and patience, to a mad devotion to the game.’