Kingsbarns Golf Links

Land mines were laid on this ground during the Second World War, and afterwards it went back to rough pasture. Golf had been played here on and off since 1793; a Kingsbarns Golfing Society formed in 1815 and used a nine-hole course until the Cambo Estate's tenant farmer ploughed the links up in 1850, farmland being worth more than golf land. Willie Auchterlonie laid out nine holes again in 1922. The present links is a different thing altogether: Mark Parsinen and Art Dunkley began building in November 1997 with the architect Kyle Phillips, and it opened in July 2000. It has co-hosted the Alfred Dunhill Links Championship since 2001, and In-Kyung Kim won the 2017 Women's British Open here.

The links runs along 1.8 miles of North Sea coast, and the fifteenth green sits out on the Rocky Ness, a piece of land that pushes into the sea. The club's own note for the hole says a tee shot hit onto the beach or into the water is replayed from a drop zone past the woods, one stroke. It plays 212 yards from the back tee. The advice is to aim at the bunker back left and let the slope feed the ball in — and to take plenty of club, because the trees on the left often hide how hard the wind is really blowing.