Loudoun Gowf Club

Loudoun Gowf Club is a fantastic golf club located in the very heart of Ayrshire. The word Gowf is the old traditional Scottish word for golf. Golf has been played on the fields of Loudoun Gowf Club for over 400 years. It is believed that this ground has never at any time been under the plough in all these years making the gowf club, unique and probably among the finest of any inland course.

The Gowf Field of Loudoun, so called as far back as records are available, was the private golf field of the Campbell family of Loudoun Castle and had been in existence from the early sixteenth century. Hampden Park, the legendary home of the Scottish national football team, was returfed from the rough along the roadside around 1920.