Since the Middle ages, golf has been Scotland's national game and the Home of Golf is undoubtedly St Andrews Old Course in the Kingdom of Fife. Although banned in 1457 for many years by James II, golf has been played and enjoyed in Scotland for over 600 years. It received a huge boost in the upper echelons when James IV took up the game with great enthusiasm in 1502.

Coincidentally, only a few years before 1494, it was the same royal who granted to Friar John Cor, of Newburgh, in the Kingdom of Fife - only 22 miles from The Old Course - eight bols of Malt from which to make Aquavita, as whisky was then called.

This is the first record of whisky being legally distilled and consequently, The Kingdom of Fife is renowned as the Birthplace of Scotch Whisky.

Scottish Golf & Scottish Whisky or Scotch, are complementary commodities. There is nothing better to smooth out a jerky swing than a quick nip from the flask, and after an epic battle amid the gorse and the marram, the revetted bunkers and north sea gales, a wee dram of liquid flame is restorative to the soul.