Tour
Balcomie Links Golf Course
Blasted
by winds blowing off the North Sea, Balcomie Links lies
immediately west of Fife Ness at the eastern extremity of
Fife. To the south-west is the East Neuk town of Crail and
seven miles north-west is St Andrews, the home of golf.
The Balcomie Golf Course, first used by the Crail Golfing
Society in 1895, is a classic example of a coastal links
set within landscaped parkland. The Crail Golfing Society,
founded in 1786, is the seventh oldest Golf Club in the
world. Closeby, the late 16th-century castle of Balcomie,
with its five-storey tower, ranges and walled garden, stands
within a complex that includes a 19th century mansion and
modern farmstead. The gatehouse at Balcomie still bears
the arms of the Learmounth and Myretoun familes who once
lived here. it was at Balcomie that Mary of Guise was welcomed
in June 1538 when she landed in Scotland on her way to marry
James V at St Andrews.
