A 90-minute drive northeast of Edinburgh, the dignified stone city of St. Andrews contains Scotland’s oldest university, dating from 1410. However, it is more widely known as the “Home of Golf.” The game has been played on the links beside the North Sea since at least 1552. The Royal & Ancient Golf Club frequently hosts the Open Championship, the oldest of golf’s four major championships, which was first staged on the famous Old Course in 1873. The club does not own the links, however; it is public land administered by the St. Andrews Links Trust.