One of the many great features of Scottish golf is the relationship its courses have with the towns they have been an integral part of for centuries. Everyone has the “right to roam” on golf courses, making for easy access to bordering beaches, creating nice places to walk a dog and a feeling golf is not just for golfers, but for the whole community.
The best-known example is The Old Course at St Andrews, where play begins right on the edge of the town, heads out to a far point by the Eden Estuary, turns and comes back to the final green not 20 paces from the edge of the opening tee.
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