Scotscraig Golfing Club, founded 1817 by the founders of The Royal & Ancient Golf Club, occupies a unique hybrid links-heathland position in Tayport, Fife. Championship links, designed by Old Tom Morris, James Braid's 1923 redesign— delivers a par-71 layout just 16km from St Andrews, with Open Championship qualifying credentials and year-round playability.
Scotscraig Golfing Club
Scotscraig Golfing Club, founded 1817 by the founders of The Royal & Ancient Golf Club, occupies a unique hybrid links-heathland position in Tayport, Fife. Championship links, designed by Old Tom Morris, James Braid's 1923 redesign— delivers a par-71 layout just 16km from St Andrews, with Open Championship qualifying credentials and year-round playability.
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James Braid was born in 1870 in Earlsferry, the adjoining village to Elie in the East Neuk of Fife. He became a member of Earlsferry Thistle aged fifteen and was off scratch by his sixteenth birthday.
James Braid was born in 1870 to James Braid (a farm worker) and his wife Mary (née Harris) who was an accomplished weaver. His father had two other children from an earlier marriage of which he had been widowed. James came into the world at Liberty Place, between Earlsferry and Elie, but the family later moved to a small weaver’s cottage at 36 High Street, Earlsferry.
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