The Best Golf Holidays Rentals on Scotland’s Golf Coast
If you’re planning a golf holiday in East Lothian near Edinburgh, Winton is the perfect place to base yourself and comes with a remarkable golfing heritage. Since the dawn of golf, the owners of Winton have played an important role in developing East Lothian’s most famous golf courses because Winton’s estates stretched as far as Muirfield, Archerfield and Gullane.
The Archerfield Estate was home to Muirfield, leased to the Honourable Company of Edinburgh Golfers. At that time, the Archerfield Golf Club had only 13 holes! The Nisbet Hamilton Ogilvys, Winton Estate’s owners, promoted golf through their leading roles at the pioneering golf clubs, as well as with practical initiatives such as ensuring there was a public water supply for Gullane.
East Lothian is aptly known as ‘Scotland’s Golf Coast’, because it boasts some of the best links and inland golf courses in the world: North Berwick, Gullane and Dunbar lead the way.
There are 22 excellent golf courses within 10 to 25 minutes drive of Winton Castle, including Craigielaw, Royal Musselburgh (the oldest playing golf course in the world), Longniddry, Gullane and North Berwick with friendly clubhouses. Learn more about East Lothian golf courses on Scotland’s Golf Coast.
Please note that we are unable to act as a golf agent so all golf courses must be booked directly by your group.
Holiday Rentals for Golfers in East Lothian
If you want to experience life in a castle, Winton Castle has 8 majestic bedrooms and can sleep up to 16 guests. You can enjoy breakfast in our 500 year old Vaulted Cellar, grand dinners in the Cabinet Room, and relaxing in the Library, surrounded by historic Scottish Renaissance splendour. As a fully serviced exclusive use venue with full catering included, the castle would be all yours to enjoy. Email us or call direct to arrange your castle stay.
You can also rent Winton’s high class, 4 and 5 star self catering country houses:
- Wintonhill Farmhouse, our classic Georgian 4 star self-catering farmhouse with 6 bedrooms (sleeps 12 guests), complete with its own practice bunker and chipping area.
- 5 star Winton Cottage, an extremely comfortable country house with its own games room and a large garden, with 5 bedrooms (sleeps 10 guests).
- Broomrigg Farmhouse, our recently modernised farmhouse with 4 bedrooms (sleeps 8 guests), a hot tub and an electric car charger.
Catering can also be provided at these properties.
Add Winton Activities and Entertainment
For those in your party less excited about golf, Winton can put on a range of entertaining activities, from clay pigeon shooting to whisky tasting.
You can also indulge in East Lothian’s many other attractions: sweeping sandy beaches, historic castles, fishing, ebike tours, hill walking in the Lammermuirs, racing at Musselburgh Racecourse, whisky tasting at Glenkinchie Distillery, the Scottish Seabird Centre, the Museum of Flight.
And, of course, Scotland’s beautiful capital, the cultural city of Edinburgh, is only half an hour away.