Previous Blackford Outings
Below you fill find the most recent posts or Events added to the website:Outing to Kilspindie – 11th September 2025
Twenty three of us enjoyed a good afternoon of golf at Kilspindie. Despite a strong westerly wind many players made very respectable scores, the opening 9 holes were punishing but scores on the back 9 were generally good. The golf was followed by a very good 2 course...
Outing to Royal Burgess – 19th August 2025
23 of us enjoyed a very pleasant afternoon of golf on the fourth outing of the season at Royal Burgess. The course was in very good condition and we enjoyed excellent catering from the kitchens at Burgess. Stableford scores: 1st place, 40 points Neil Straton. 2nd...
Outing to Aberdour Golf Club – 15th July 2025
21 teed off in moist/wet conditions today at the Aberdour outing, luckily the weather improved and most rounds were finished in pleasant evening sunshine. The course was in very good condition and members seemed to enjoy the pleasant surroundings and challenging...
Outing to Ratho Park Golf Club – 3rd June 2025
Nineteen of us braved windy, but mainly dry weather conditions on this recent outing. The course and greens were in good condition and we all had an enjoyable day which finished with an excellent 2 course meal. We were delighted to welcome another new Blackford...
Outing to Kilspindie, 12th September 2024
The fifth and last outing of the 2024 Blackford season took place at Kilspindie, a favourite venue for our outings. Sixteen Blackford members played in pleasant conditions, with a couple of showers, which were thankfully of short duration . All in all a very...
A reminder of Blackford Outings & Matches for 2024
Dates for Outings and Matches are below, please put these in your diary 21/4/24. Match vs Murrayfield Council 14/5/24. Outing Gullane 3. 4/6/24. Outing Royal Burgess. 18/6/24. Match vs New Club 27/6/24. Match vs Bruntsfield Allied 9/7/24. Rotary Charity day 11/7/24....
Blackford Golf Club Outing to Kilspindie – 8th September 2022
The last Outing of the Blackford season took place at Kilpspindie. Somewhat fearful of the dreadful weather forecast, eighteen Blackford members made their way through very heavy rain to Kilspindie. However despite a leaden and threatening sky it remained dry...
Blackford Golf Club Outing To Bruntsfield Links on August 10, 2022
On one of the hottest days of a Summer which has been exceptionally dry and sunny, 19 Blackford members gathered to play at Bruntsfield. The ground was hard and dry allowing the big hitters to have a field day. As always, the winners had to play a good short game on...
Blackford Golf Club outing to Royal Burgess Golfing Society
The Blackford outing to Royal Burgess Golfing Society took place on Tuesday 12th July 2022 in gloriously sunny but windy conditions. It was Blackford's first outing there since 2013. The course was in great condition if a little brown due to the weeks of windy dry...
Outing to Luffness
The second Outing of the Blackford 2022 season took place at Luffness on 15 June in superb weather. Despite some last minute call offs (including one due to Covid 19 which still casts a lingering shadow), 19 members played and afterwards enjoyed drinks and a delicious...
Extraordinary Score Wins First Outing of the Blackford Golf Club season 2022
On 11th May, 25 Blackford members participated over Gullane No3 in windy conditions. Despite the threat of very heavy showers which were evident on the horizon we all managed to complete our rounds without getting wet. Clearly East Lothian has a different climate!...
Outing to Murrayfield Golf Club – 13th August 2020
2020, I'm sure you will agree, has been a memorable year although not for reasons which benefit our golf club. Finally, on August 13 we managed our first outing of the year. Our Captain, John Matheson had been keen to take an outing to his home club, Murrayfield,...
Outing to Aberdour – September 10 2019
Our final outing of the 2019 season took part at Aberdour on a day when heavy rain in the morning gave way to a sunny afternoon which lasted just long enough for our matches to be completed before drizzle arrived. Twenty eight members attended and enjoyed both the...
Outing to Bruntsfield August 14 2019
Blackford Golf Club made it's first visit to the newly reconstructed course at Bruntsfield Links Golfing Society on Wednesday 14th August. Edinburgh, in common with most of the UK had been lashed with heavy rain in the preceding week, causing many many golf courses to...
Outing to Kilspindie – July 11 2019
Blackford began using Kilspindie for outings back in the first decade of the 20th century and have been back regularly ever since. Kilspindie has hosted more Blackford outings than any other club. In the days before this outing, our concern was the weather. Forecasts...
Outing to Elie – June 6th 2019
We finally made it! 33 Blackford members took part in our outing to Elie. After two failed attempts, in 2017 when heavy rain prevented play and in 2018 when strong winds would have blown away any attempt to play golf, we were able to enjoy the magnificent golf course...
Remaining Outings for 2019
After Elie (on June 6th) Kilspindie - Thursday 11 July 2019 Bruntsfield - Wednesday 14 August 2019 Aberdour - Tuesday 10 September 2019
Outing to Elie
A reminder to all Blackford members that there is a planned outing to Elie on Thursday June 6. We say a planned outing to avoid sounding over-optimistic - we also planned outings to Elie in 2017 & 2018 but the weather beat us both times. In 2017 it was a monsoon of a...
Gullane Outing 9th May 2019
With some trepidation about the weather 23 Blackford members arrived to take part in the first Outing of the Season on Gullane 3. Captain John remarked that on playing the previous afternoon at Murrayfield in the pouring rain he could not feel his fingers due to the...
Outing to Aberdour – 18th September 2018
On a very windy day, the final Outing of the year took place on the picturesque Aberdour Golf Course on the banks of the Forth. The 27 members who took part were well looked after by Vice Captain John Matheson and past secretary Frank Robson in the absence of both...