Gullane, Scotland Old Tom Morris (1891), H.S. Colt (1925), Martin Hawtree (2011) 7,245 yards, par 71 Muirfield is universally admired as a low-key, straightforward links with fairways seemingly containing a million traffic bumps. Except for a blind tee shot on the 11th, every shot is visible and well-defined. Greens are the correct size to fit the expected iron of approach. The routing changes direction on every hole to pose different wind conditions. The front runs clockwise, the back counterclockwise, but history mistakenly credits Old Tom Morris with Muirfield's returning nines. That was the result of H.S. Colt's 1925 redesign.
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I want to score consistently in the low-80s before booking this trip.
I'd love to play golf, it sounds like a funny sport.