Proposal to save North Inch Golf Course on the table

Councilors on Perth and Kinross Council are considering a six-year plan to ensure the survival of the North Inch course in Perth.

Perth and Kinross Council were looking to close the North Inch course due to financial pressures.

After a strong local pressure and protest, which attracted national and international attention, the councilors are now actively trying to find a way of keeping it open.

They now seem to be appreciating it’s not everyone who has reputably the oldest golf course in the world under their jurisdiction, and are waking up to the fact that it would be a terrible act of vandalism if they were to let it go.

King James VI played on Perth’s North Inch Golf Course in the 1500s, and Beasley’s World Atlas of Golf names it “the first recognisable golf course in the world”.

However the Perth Merchants Golf Club, one of two clubs based at the North Inch, says James IV played golf on their home course more than 70 years earlier.

Either way, North Inch is a significant piece of golf history, which with a little bit of imagination, everyone should know about and want to play.

For more on London’s last inner city course that is being closed click here or on the image below.