Tour Scotland 4K sunny Winter travel video of golfers playing on the the links golf course in Elie and Earlsferry on history visit to the coast of the East Neuk of Fife. This course located just 12 miles from St Andrews, offers the quintessential Scottish golf experience on its par 70, 6,273 yards links course. Formed in 1875, only a handful of clubs in Scotland are older than Elie. Open Champion and master golf course architect James Braid was born within a short distance from this golf course and learned to play his golf on Elie links. Braid was born on 6 February 1870, in Earlsferry, the son of James and Mary (née Harris). He played golf from an early age, working as a clubmaker before turning professional in 1896. Initially his game was hindered by problems with his putting, but he overcame this after switching to an aluminium putter in 1900. He won The Open Championship in 1901, 1905, 1906, 1908 and 1910. In addition, Braid won four British PGA Matchplay Championships (1903, 1905, 1907 and 1911), as well as the 1910 French Open title. He was also runner-up in The Open Championship in 1897, 1902, 1904, and 1909. His 1906 victory in The Open Championship was the last successful defence of the title by a European until Pádraig Harrington replicated the feat in 2008. In 1912, Braid scaled back his tournament golf, and became a full-time club professional at Walton Heath; he had begun a relationship with that London-area club more than a decade before. He developed a very successful career in golf course design, and is sometimes regarded as the " inventor " of the dogleg, although holes of similar design had been known for centuries, for example, the Road Hole at the Old Course at St Andrews. Among his designs are the King's Course and the Queen's Course at Gleneagles, Perthshire, and the 1926 remodelling of The Open Championship venue Carnoustie Golf Links. Braid disliked travel overseas, very rarely left the British Isles, and never traveled outside Europe. But he did design two 18-hole golf courses for the Singapore Island Country Club in Asia, using topographic maps to plan his layouts there, which were then constructed to his orders. Stranraer Golf Club's course was the final one that was designed by Braid in the year that he died, 1950. He was called out of retirement to plan Creachmore, which was to be his last commission. Braid never lived to see the course completed. He died in London on 27 November 1950. Braid is a member of the World Golf Hall of Fame. Officially, the Scottish winter runs from the 21st of December through to the 20th March.
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