Queen Victoria was busy celebrating her eightieth birthday as Sir Alexander Dunbar of Boath stepped up to the first tee of a brand new course on the shores of the Moray Firth. Amid applause from the crowd, he raised his specially made club and made a splendid drive along the gorse and whin lined fairway.

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It was 24th May, 1899 and the first shot on the links course to which Sir Alexander Dunbar had given both his name and sixty acres of land, had just been played.

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A century on, Nairn Dunbar is a formidable Championship course, giving treasured golf memories to visitors from around the world. The club was founded to allow working men and women to enjoy the ‘royal and ancient game of golf’, and this principle holds firm today.