Crail Golf Club: Craighead

Though the Crail Golfing Society is one of the oldest clubs in the world, it boasts a course by one of golf’s greatest modern architects. Gil Hanse, before his prolific record of restoring the best, classic layouts around the world, had just started his own design firm and was given a chance to design one of his first solo designs with the Craighead course at Crail Golfing Society. The Craighead course joins the club’s Balcomie Links course, which was laid out by Old Tom Morris in the 1890s—which makes this destination 12 miles east of St. Andrews quite unique among the offerings in Scotland.