Scotscraig goes back to the future with

extensive development programme

NEWS RELEASE

 One of Scotland’s most respected heritage golf clubs has proudly unveiled a comprehensive renovation project that has reinstated many original features of the famous links and heathlands lay-out. Celebrating its 200^th anniversary in 2017, Scotscraig Golf Club is the 13^th oldest golf club in the world boasting an 18-hole championship course originally laid out under the guidance of Old Tom Morris and later by James Braid.

 

Founded in 1817, Scotscraig is located 15 min from St Andrews and just 10 min from Dundee airport. It features a championship course in a traditional loop that has undergone an extensive development programme which has returned all of the greenside and fairway bunkers to their original size and removed and controlled extensive areas of gorse.

 

There have also been a number of significant on-course changes, most notably on the fourth, 12^th and 16^th holes, which have collectively resulted in one of the most important development plans completed in the club’s 200-year history.

 

“With changes happening on the course and a full diary of events planned for the 200th, this is an exciting year for the club,” said John Rankin, Scotscraig’s captain. “The bicentenary project has taken more than two years to plan and deliver and is the most extensive ever to be undertaken at Scotscraig. It illustrates the club’s commitment to continually improving our golf offering and re-establishing many of the features that made the course special in the first place.”