Dundonald Links
Dundonald Links: Willie Fernie (1911). Par 72, 7,100 yards. Lottie Woad won the 2025 Women's Scottish Open here with 267 (−21).
Dundonald Links: Willie Fernie (1911). Par 72, 7,100 yards. Lottie Woad won the 2025 Women's Scottish Open here with 267 (−21).
Dundonald Links: Willie Fernie (1911). Par 72, 7,100 yards. Lottie Woad won the 2025 Women's Scottish Open here with 267 (−21).
Updated October 24, 2026
9 editions on the record, by event, newest first.
Ladies European Tour / LPGA
| Year | Champion | Score | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Lottie Woad | 267 (−21) | by 3 strokes |
| 2024 | Lauren Coughlin | 273 (−15) | by 4 strokes |
| 2023 | Céline Boutier | 273 (−15) | by 2 strokes |
| 2022 | Ayaka Furue | 267 (−21) | by 3 strokes |
| 2017 | Lee Mi-hyang | 282 (−6) | by 1 stroke |
| 2016 | Isabelle Boineau | 205 (−11) | by 1 stroke |
| 2015 | Rebecca Artis | 210 (−6) | by 2 strokes |
| Year | Champion | Score | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | Rafa Cabrera-Bello | 275 (−13) | won in a playoff · DP World Tour |
| Year | Champion | Score | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | Julia Engström | 19 holes | The R&A |
The army commandeered the course and clubhouse in 1940; amphibious tanks careered over the fairways, D-Day landings were rehearsed at Dundonald Camp, and the military stayed into the 1960s.
Source: Dundonald Links: The history of Dundonald Links · Top 100 Golf Courses: Dundonald Links
1883 Open champion Willie Fernie laid out the first course, formed on 23 March 1911; at 6,700 yards it was one of the longest courses of its time.
Source: Dundonald Links: The history of Dundonald Links · Dundonald Links: The Course
At the 2017 Scottish Open Rafa Cabrera Bello shot a final-round 64 and beat Callum Shinkwin in a playoff.
Source: Dundonald Links: The Course · Top 100 Golf Courses: Dundonald Links
Unlike most traditional links, parts of the course are framed by pine trees, alongside gorse and deep rough.
Source: Dundonald Links: The Course
The Isle of Arran forms the backdrop to the short par-4 8th, and the 12th, the shortest par 4, looks over the Firth of Clyde; the 13th runs parallel with the railway line.
Source: Dundonald Links: Course guide
Dundonald translates as "Fort Donald"; fortifications nearby date back as far as 200 BC, and the links was once known as Southern Gailes.
Source: Top 100 Golf Courses: Dundonald Links · Dundonald Links: The history of Dundonald Links
Willie Fernie
Modern links built on the former Fernie / Southern Gailes ground (Phillips first saw the site in 2003)
Source: Dundonald Links history
The PGA Tour and DP World Tour weeks at this course since 2017.
| Year | Event | Winner | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | Aberdeen Asset Management Scottish Open 13–16 July 2017 | Rafa Cabrera-Bello | DP World Tour |
Every value is shown as recorded in GNN's tour-course research (profiles, championship history, the tour's visits since 2017, stories, details and course changes, each with its sources). A value no source confirmed is left out; nothing is estimated. The light in the room is the sun's real position on the last day of a recorded visit.
The routing and ground are drawn from OpenStreetMap data, © OpenStreetMap contributors, available under the Open Database License (ODbL). The clubhouse is drawn by GNN from reference photographs; the photographs stay private.
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