Dumbarton Golf Club, a stunning parkland golf course, founded in 1888 is designed to test the straightest of drivers. The course offers a gentle walk ideal for all ages from young kids to senior citizens while close by to public transport links and a short drive from Loch Lomond. Dumbarton Golf Club, one of the oldest in the West of Scotland, owes Dumbarton Golf Club, a stunning parkland golf course, founded in 1888 is designed to test the straightest of drivers. The course offers a gentle walk ideal for all ages from young kids to senior citizens while close by to public transport links and a short drive from Loch Lomond. Dumbarton Golf Club, one of the oldest in the West of Scotland, owes its existence largely to the fact that in 1887 a few of the towns illustrious shipbuilding sons holidayed at St Andrews. There, inevitably one might say, they tried their “prentice hands on the Old Course”. Although they had them badly bitten, they returned to the 700 year old Royal Burgh, situated where the Leven meets the Clyde, bent on forming a club of their own.