Winter Road Trip Drive To Granny Clark's Wynd On Visit To Old Golf Course St Andrews Fife Scotland

Tour Scotland Winter travel video of a road trip drive, with Scottish bagpipes and drums music, during the Festive season, North on the B9131 and and A915 roads from Anstruther in the East Neuk of Fife, to drive across Granny Clark's Wynd on visit to the iconic Old Golf Course in St Andrews, Fife. The Wynd is the road that splits the fairways of the 1st and 18th fairways on the Old Course at St. Andrews. It is thought that no other championship course has a public road crossing two of its holes and golfers who have the misfortune of having their ball end up on the road must play it as it lies or take relief under penalty. The Clarks had a cottage on the communal drying green where townspeople dried their laundry, and from about 1830 to the 1860s Grannie Clark supervised the activity around that site and provided endless cups of tea, sandwiches. The oldest and most iconic golf course in the world, despite its grand status remains a public golf course, open to all. The Old course is closed to play on almost every Sunday and Christmas holidays and you are able to walk around the course. The name and surname Clark comes from one of the family having worked as a person who concerned himself with matters of scholarly importance or of religious orders or as a secretary. The surname Clark originally derived from the Latin form clericus. Even today, the word and profession clerk is typically pronounced clark throughout the United Kingdom. William Clark, convict, was transported aboard the Ann on August 1809, settling in New South Wales, Australia; Archibald Clark, landed in Auckland, New Zealand in 1840; Peter Clark, landed in Wellington, New Zealand in 1840; Alexander Clark, landed in Nova Scotia, Canada, in 1749; Mary Clark, aged 18, arrived in Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada, in 1833 aboard the ship John and Mary from Belfast, Ireland; Nicholas Clark, arrived in Cambridge, Massachusetts, America, in 1634; William Clark, landed in Allegany Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, America, in 1804; George Henry Clark, arrived in Alabama, America, in 1917. All photographs are copyright of Sandy Stevenson, Tour Scotland, and may not be used without permission.

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