Leven Links

Leven Golfing Society was established in 1846 and plays over Leven Links, one of the oldest pieces of golfing ground anywhere in the world, with records of play dating to the early 1800s. Expanded from nine to eighteen holes in 1868, it became the first course anywhere with eighteen separate greens and ranks as the third-oldest surviving 18-hole course in the world; the seventeen-year-old Young Tom Morris, then reigning Open Champion, won the inaugural competition to mark the new layout. The Society's Amateur Gold Medal, first played for in 1870, is the oldest amateur strokeplay championship in the world, and its historic three-way match with St Andrews and Carnoustie is the oldest continuing inter-club fixture in golf.