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Marine & Lawn hotels
Restored landmark hotels keep the history of golf close, beside its celebrated links.
Marine & Lawn restores hotels beside celebrated golf courses, making the history and landscape of the game part of the stay. Created by Ben Weprin’s AJ Capital Partners, the collection began with places such as Rusacks St Andrews beside the Old Course and grew across Scotland and Northern Ireland.
10 Marine & Lawn hotels in 2 countries on the Luxury Hotels Atlas, each placed on the six LHA Tiers.
- Owned by AJ Capital Partners
- Worldwide: 10 hotels across Scotland, Northern Ireland, and the United States, each positioned beside a legendary golf course
- On the atlas: 2 Core Luxury, 7 Accessible Luxury, 1 Near Luxury
History
Marine & Lawn draws on the stories of the courses and communities around its hotels. Rusacks St Andrews connects the stay to Old Tom Morris and the Old Course, while Dornoch Station takes its design cues from the Highlands. The announced American expansion continues that interest in existing golf traditions through the Donald Ross courses of Pine Needles and Mid Pines.
Timeline
- 1887 — Rusacks St Andrews opens beside the Old Course at St Andrews, the property that later becomes Marine & Lawn's flagship.
- 1894 — The Marine Hotel opens overlooking Royal Troon's 18th fairway, later becoming Marine Troon.
- 1898 — Slieve Donard opens in Newcastle, Northern Ireland, adjacent to Royal County Down, ranked by Golf Digest as the world's number one course.
- 2018 — AJ Capital Partners hires an executive to lead international expansion of its Graduate Hotels brand; the opportunity to buy Rusacks St Andrews and Oxford's Randolph Hotel from Macdonald Hotels & Resorts leads the company to launch a dedicated golf-heritage brand instead.
- 2020 — The COVID-19 shutdown, while devastating for hospitality broadly, gives AJ Capital the closed-doors window it needs to fully renovate its newly acquired Scottish properties.
- 2021 — Marine & Lawn formally launches in the UK with the debut of Rusacks St Andrews and Marine North Berwick.
- 2023 — Dornoch Station and Slieve Donard join the collection, extending it into the Scottish Highlands and Northern Ireland.
- 2025 — Marine & Lawn crosses into the United States for the first time, partnering with the family of golf legend Peggy Kirk Bell to bring Mid Pines Inn and Pine Needles Lodge, both in Southern Pines, North Carolina, under the brand while the Bell family retains control of the courses themselves.
The houses to know
- Greywalls Hotel, a Marine & Lawn Hotel, Gullane, United Kingdom — Sir Edwin Lutyens’ country house places the stay beside Muirfield’s golf links.
- Rusacks St Andrews, a Marine & Lawn Hotel, St Andrews, United Kingdom — Standing beside the Old Course since 1887, tied directly to the legacy of Old Tom Morris.
- Old Course Hotel, Golf Resort & Spa, St Andrews, United Kingdom — The former railway site gives the hotel a direct connection to St Andrews and its golf landscape.
- Portrush Adelphi, a Marine & Lawn Hotel, Portrush, United Kingdom — Portrush Adelphi occupies three Victorian terraced townhouses on Kerr Street, built between roughly 1840 and 1859 in the North Antrim seaside resort.
- Slieve Donard, a Marine & Lawn Hotel, Newcastle, United Kingdom — Adjacent to Royal County Down, ranked world No. 1 by Golf Digest.
- Dornoch Station, a Marine & Lawn Hotel, Dornoch, United Kingdom — The hotel carries a hospitality history reaching back to 1902 into Dornoch’s golf setting.
- Marine North Berwick, a Marine & Lawn Hotel, North Berwick, United Kingdom — Frederick Thomas Pilkington’s former hydropathic institute gives the North Berwick hotel its nineteenth-century architecture.
- Marine Troon, a Marine & Lawn Hotel, Troon, United Kingdom — Overlooking Royal Troon's 18th fairway since 1894.
- Pine Needles Lodge, a Marine & Lawn Hotel, Southern Pines, United States — Developed by golf legend Peggy Kirk Bell and her husband Warren starting in the 1950s.
Newest openings
- None of the Marine & Lawn hotels selected by the Atlas has a recorded opening year of 2023 or later.
Opening next
- No confirmed announcements were identified in the sources reviewed through 2026-08-28.
Every Marine & Lawn hotel on the atlas
United Kingdom
- Greywalls Hotel, a Marine & Lawn Hotel — Gullane · Core Luxury
- Rusacks St Andrews, a Marine & Lawn Hotel — St Andrews · Core Luxury
- Dornoch Station, a Marine & Lawn Hotel — Dornoch · Accessible Luxury
- Marine North Berwick, a Marine & Lawn Hotel — North Berwick · Accessible Luxury
- Marine Troon, a Marine & Lawn Hotel — Troon · Accessible Luxury
- Old Course Hotel, Golf Resort & Spa — St Andrews · Accessible Luxury
- Portrush Adelphi, a Marine & Lawn Hotel — Portrush · Accessible Luxury
- Slieve Donard, a Marine & Lawn Hotel — Newcastle · Accessible Luxury
United States
- Pine Needles Lodge, a Marine & Lawn Hotel — Southern Pines · Accessible Luxury
- Mid Pines Inn, a Marine & Lawn Hotel — Southern Pines · Near Luxury
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