FBD/Sean
If you're looking at google maps follow the A83 going SW out of Tarbert and about 1.25km from the centre of Tarbert ie from the harbour, there is a road on the right (just after 5 Ferries Cycle Shop). Follow that road for just over half a kilometre to where it meets the B8024. There is a course on either side of the junction. I assume that's the Tarbert course.
Yep, that is the location tagged on the golf map. According to the Tarbert website the courde is much further west, near Kilberry Sculptured Stones. Although the course looks a bit abandoned.
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Hi Sean
Done some digging
Tarbert's first (believed to be 9-hole) course by Willie Fernie c.1898 was on the Stoneyfield Estate owned by Mr. Campbell.
"Golf Illustrated" January 1908 reported it "was so popular that bunkers were to be constructed and greens improved"
In April 1908 they then reported the course would be re-opened by June and that the order of holes was changed with the old 7th being the new starting hole. Mr W Todd (from Lochgilphead) cited as architect.
Tarbert GC in its current guise was founded in 1924 (presumably previously a loosely connected informal local course)
The next thing we know is that the prolific, James Braid was paid £20-0-0 and £8-10-0 expenses in June 1931.
In 1932 the Tarbert GC had a new constitution and new 9-Hole course at Glenralloch, south west of Tarbert, at the head of the "Sound of Jura" and likely the work of James Braid.
The course from aerials looks fairly rustic, with no bunkers evident and lots of short cut grass, a winding burn on the diagonal influences the opening and closing hole, the 6th hole looks to have a heroic carry for the approach, and the short 3rd and short 8th both cross over the 7th hole. I hope to visit in 2026 (on an extended tour) I expect there to be more out of the topography given its position at the head of a sea inlet and knowing how Braid loved to use natural features creatively.
I do not know if there have been changes to the course since 1932.
It is also thought at that time (June 1931) that James Braid also visited Dunaverty (down at Southend at the tip of the Mull of Kintyre) and advised them on the location specifically of the blind punchbowl 4th green, this is referenced in Angus McVicar's books. I am trying to track that visit down with a second corroborating source.
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