Our take

Few clubs carry the game's history like Prestwick, where the first Open was decided in 1860 and the sleepered bunkers still settle most arguments.

• Serious golfersThere is no water anywhere, which tells you where the defence lies: the bunkering. Get behind the railway sleepers in Hell's Bunker and the hole is gone. The 3rd and the 12th are where good rounds tend to stall.
• Higher handicapsYou will lose shots to the bunkers, everyone does, so take your medicine and play out sideways. The walk itself is gentle, under 50 metres of climb, and the sense of playing through history carries you round.
• Buddy tripsHalf an hour from Glasgow, so it works as the opening round of an Ayrshire trip, and the clubhouse, where the Open began, gives the group its story for the bar.

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