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Sandra Dick

‘It has fractured friendships’: Scottish golf torn as new company swoops on links

North Berwick, where The Glen Golf Club is being wooed by a new golf company (Image: Getty Images)

With views over Tantallon Castle and the Bass Rock, record membership, plenty of visitors and surplus cash to invest in the clubhouse, the course and even robotic mowers, things seem well above par at one of East Lothian’s links courses.

Golf has been played on North Berwick’s East Links since the 17th century giving the Glen Golf Club, laid out by acclaimed designers James Braid and Ben Sayers in the early 1900s, a history that is every bit a magnet for some visitors as the course itself.

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