1886

Veteran champion and the “Grand Old Man of Golf,” Old Tom Morris, visits Dornoch, surveys the links and lays out a more developed golf course of 18 holes measuring 5285 yards on the Common Good land of the Royal Burgh.  

When the course extension is complete Old Tom, four times winner of The Open, partnered by John Sutherland and Captain John Leslie, plays the course. Morris scores a near faultless round of 80. Of the links he declares: “There canna be better for gowf.”