CRAIL GOLFING SOCIETY: The seventh oldest club in the world, Crail’s Balcomie Links occupies a dramatic piece of land perched above the North Sea. Crail members and guests have been enjoying some of the finest links golf in Scotland - many say the world - since 1786. Golfing legend Old Tom Morris laid out the original nine holes at Balcomie in 1895. The newer Craighead Links, designed by an American Gil Hanse, has the features of many of the bests aspects of Scotland's classic links.