[1] Located on the River Ugie near its mouth at the North Sea, it began in its current Craigewan Links home, which is just over a mile northwest of Peterhead town centre, as a nine-hole course in 1892, designed by Willie Park Jr, dual winner of The Open Championship.

A second 18-hole course was established in 1923; however, due to the intervention of World War II,[2] it became neglected about twenty years later and today exists as the nine-hole "New Course".

[3] Members and guests who arrive at the club by car park their vehicles on the southern side of the River Ugie on Golf Road, itself off Riverside Drive, Blackhouse Terrace or Ugie Road, depending on the direction of approach.

A pedestrian bridge, around 140 feet (47 yards) in length, takes them to the dunes on the northern side of the river.

Ferguson threatened to withdraw permission for the club to use the golf course, even destroying one of its greens with a plough.