The East Lothian course is regarded by many of the game's top players as being the "fairest" on the rota of courses used by the R&A for the Open Championship. Muirfield certainly has a history of producing 'great' champions, the latest being Ernie Els in 2002. Jack Nicklaus (1966) was also an Open winner here and he was so impressed that he decided to name his own course in Ohio as 'Muirfield Village'. One of the unusual charms about the Scottish version is that it is laid out in two separate loops, the front nine running clockwise on the outer and the back nine going in the opposite direction on the inner.

Muirfield is the home of The Honourable Company of Edinburgh Golfers whose records date back to 1744 when the Club wrote the original 13 Rules of Golf for the first competition played for the Silver Club.

Full list of past winners of the Open Championship