Crail Golfing Society

Founded on 23 February 1786 when eleven gentlemen met at the Crail Golf Inn to talk golf, Crail Golfing Society is one of the oldest golf clubs in the world and holds the most complete set of minutes of any club from its founding date. Old Tom Morris praised the Balcomie Links site in 1895 as the finest ground in Scotland for a nine-hole course, later expanding it to eighteen holes in 1900, while the modern Craighead Links, opened in 1998, was architect Gil Hanse's first design outside the United States. The Society's Lindesay Medal, first competed for in 1830, ranks among golf's oldest trophies and was once won by the legendary Allan Robertson.