The great golf writer Bernard Darwin may have described the Swilcan Burn as “a paltry little streamlet” and even “an inglorious little thing”, but because it’s the first and last major obstacle on the Old Course, there are few hazards anywhere in the world with such a rich history.
There are a couple of bridges over the Swilcan Burn (which, by the way, has a plethora of alternative spellings – Swilken and Swilkin being the most popular) but only one of the bridges is really known as THE Swilcan Bridge.
