Melbost Links - Scorecard
The Original Melbost Links
The Melbost links were situated on Broadbay, 1 3/4 miles from Stornoway. Although not exceptionally long the links were neither easy nor monotonous and enjoyed beautiful firm turf.
Hover your mouse over the hole name to see its description as written by J. Campbell Smith in the 1920's.
Hover your mouse over the hole name to see its description as written by J. Campbell Smith in the 1920's.
Hole
Name
Yards
Par
1
Canal
348
4
2
Long
548
5
3
Corner
320
4
4
Crofts
254
4
5
Burn
336
4
6
Far
207
3
7
Cliff
198
3
8
Gullies
403
4
9
Short
117
3
Out
2732
34
10
Cup
458
5
11
Bents
440
5
12
Valley
266
4
13
Redan
366
4
14
Hillocks
161
3
15
Sea
366
4
16
Plateau
353
4
17
Dyke
296
4
18
Home
240
4
In
2946
37
Out
2732
34
Total
5677
71
The magic of the old Stornoway Golf Course is caught by the story of the four Englishmen who came year after year to Lewis to play golf before the First World War. Rain, hail or shower, they were on the course. Gales whistling in from the Minch or the Atlantic did not deter them.
At the end of every holiday they went up to the Far hole on Strupie Point, a narrow spur of land jutting into the sea between high cliffs, with magnificent caves eating in below their feet. There they teed up, facing the wrong way, and drove every single ball they possessed into the bosom of Broad Bay.
Balls which had rolled in the machairs of Steinish and Melbost, among the scented wild flowers, were not to be desecrated by the touch of unconsecrated turf.
- James Shaw Grant.