Archive | November, 1999

The History of Kingsbarns Golf Links

By Bobby Burnet, Golf Historian

The early history of golf at Kingsbarns is illuminated by one shaft of light. On September 4, 1793, a year after their near neighbor Crail Golfing Society had adopted an official uniform of a scarlet jacket with a plain yellow button, Crail’s minutes “agreed that members of the Kingsbarns Golfing Society be allowed to appear on the links at Crail in the uniform belonging to their own society, Blue Jackets.” It would suggest that, like Crail Golfing society (1786), Kingsbarns formed its Society at least as early as 1793. Read More…

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