Panmure Golf Club is a golf club

Country club

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 in Barry, Angus

Angus

Angus is one of the 32 local government council areas of Scotland, a registration county and a lieutenancy area. The council area borders Aberdeenshire, Perth and Kinross and Dundee City...

, Scotland

Scotland

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. It is one of the clubs that originally helped purchase the Amateur Championship trophy, and is one of the oldest golf

Golf

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 clubs in the world, dating back to 1845. It is a private club that plays over the Barry Links, and is sometimes referred to as Barry or Panmure Barry. Due to its location next to Carnoustie

Carnoustie

Carnoustie is a town and former police burgh in the council area of Angus, Scotland. It is situated at the mouth of the Barry Burn on the North Sea coast...

 it is often overlooked by visitors, and with the number of members limited to 500 it is one of the most underplayed courses in Scotland.

The Course

Although Panmure is a links course, it has some unusual features. The course is a mile or more from the sea, and many holes have beautiful trees which rarely come into play but create an unusual backdrop to the rolling links holes. The first and last three holes are fairly flat although still interesting, but the middle twelve holes are classic links holes. This is because the clubhouse

Country club

A country club is a private club, often with a closed membership, that typically offers a variety of recreational sports facilities and is located in city outskirts or rural areas. Activities may include, for example, any of golf, tennis, swimming or polo...

 had to be built near to a railway station, and the first and last three holes were needed to get to the land where the course was originally going to be built. It is also not a very long course at 6511 yards from the championship tees, but it proved to be the hardest final qualifying course for the 1999 Open Championship at Carnoustie

Carnoustie

Carnoustie is a town and former police burgh in the council area of Angus, Scotland. It is situated at the mouth of the Barry Burn on the North Sea coast...

. This is due to the well known barry rough that flanks every fairway, making accuracy from the tee essential.

Ben Hogan

Panmure is famous for being the place where Ben Hogan

Ben Hogan

William Ben Hogan was an American golfer, generally considered one of the greatest players in the history of the game...

 practised away from the attention of the media, prior to his only Open Championship appearance at Carnoustie

Carnoustie

Carnoustie is a town and former police burgh in the council area of Angus, Scotland. It is situated at the mouth of the Barry Burn on the North Sea coast...

 in 1953. On the sixth hole he suggested that a bunker at the front right of the green would improve the hole, and one was subsequently created, known to this day as hogan's bunker. Hogan spent much of his time hitting shots to the 17th green, and one day he asked that the green be cut shorter to better simulate the conditions at Carnoustie

Carnoustie

Carnoustie is a town and former police burgh in the council area of Angus, Scotland. It is situated at the mouth of the Barry Burn on the North Sea coast...

. The head greenkeeper handed him a mower, and Hogan cut the grass himself, even cleaning the mower before returning it!

Clubhouse

Panmure also has one of the finest clubhouses in Scotland, modelled spiritually on the Royal Calcutta Golf Club.

Panmure was again a final qualifying course for the 2007 Open Championship at Carnoustie

Carnoustie

Carnoustie is a town and former police burgh in the council area of Angus, Scotland. It is situated at the mouth of the Barry Burn on the North Sea coast...

, and despite being easily the shortest, it had the lowest winning score with all three qualifiers having a 36 hole score of -5, as opposed to around -9 or -10 at the other 3 courses.