​Fife to host start of golf’s 2025 Scottish women’s amateur tour

​Crail Golfing Society has been selected as the venue to get 2025’s tour, the second, up and running on Tuesday, April 1.

Up to 50 amateur players will contest an 18-hole individual strokeplay competition at Crail’s Craighead Links, one of two championship-level 18-hole courses at the coastal club, the other being Balcomie Links.

This year’s ten-round tour didn’t stop off there so club officials are delighted not only to be included next time round but also to be given the honour of getting proceedings under way.

“We are so pleased to be the first venue of the 2025 tour and we’re really excited to showcase the Craighead Links to these dedicated golfers,” said society chairperson Jane Green.

“Crail has a proud history of supporting women’s golf, including our recent hosting of the AIG Women’s Open final qualifying, and we look to continue this in line with our commitments to the R&A women in golf charter.”

Previous flagship national and international championships hosted by Craighead Links, a par-72 layout designed by US architect Gil Hanse, include the Scottish girls’ event in 2012 and the British seniors women’s championship in 2018.

Crail currently have more than 320 female members and their commitment to promoting women’s participation in golf includes staging dedicated events, running coaching programmes and competitions and encouraging female representation on their board of directors and committees.

Alan Tait, founder of the Scottish women’s amateur tour, added: “We’re thrilled to kick-start our 2025 calendar at Crail and add to the society’s extensive history of supporting the women’s game.

“Craighead Links is a superb layout for competitive golf and I’m certain it will prove one of the most interesting contests on the tour.”

This year’s 14-round tour is open to girls and women with an official handicap index, and the top six players from both scratch and nett orders of merit will compete in a season finale at Cabot Highlands, near Inverness, in September.

Other clubs hosting rounds include Fife’s Fairmont St Andrews, also the venue for round eight of this year’s tour at the start of last month.