A 18 hole golf course with no par 5s and just two par 3s? Sounds strange but works very well at Elie, where golf is played since 1875. And what an amazing course. The fun starts already before you hit your first shot - when the starter uses a submarine periscope to ensure the fairway of the first is free. The fun continues all the way out of the village to the sea and back again. Best hole? Probably the 13th, James Braid called «the finest in all the country» and definitely not the 12th, where my tee shot cleared the 9th green before it came to a rest on the tee box of the 16th. I am wearing a fake beard since.