Royal Dornoch has two 18-hole links courses beside the firth, the Championship and the Struie. The club dates from 1877 and was made "Royal" by Edward VII in 1906. Old Tom Morris laid out much of the Championship course on his visits in 1886 and 1889. It has never hosted a modern professional tournament, but it has held the British Amateur and several Scottish Amateur championships, and Golf Digest ranked it second in the world outside the US.
Visitors can play, but book well ahead for summer. If you don't play, the public path along the edge of the links to the beach gives you the same gorse, dunes and firth light for free.