Anstruther Golf Club is a nine-hole links course on the clifftop above the East Neuk fishing harbour of Anstruther. The course was established in 1890 and occupies the ground above the town — nine compact holes on links-style terrain, with the Firth of Forth and the Isle of May visible from the higher points. Par 32, just over 2,000 yards.
The 5th hole at Anstruther — known as the Scamp — measures around 69 yards and is claimed to be the shortest hole in Scottish golf. A short iron from a clifftop tee to a small green perched at the cliff edge, with the harbour and the East Neuk rooflines below: a hole that is simultaneously trivial and memorable. The course makes no pretence to championship ambition; it exists because a fishing village of this quality deserves a golf course, and that is sufficient justification.
Green fee £35 for nine, £50 for eighteen (April–October). Anstruther is the natural base for an East Neuk golf day — the Scottish Fisheries Museum is 10 minutes walk from the first tee, the harbourside fish-and-chip shops at Anstruther are among the best in Scotland, and the East Neuk villages of Pittenweem, St Monans, and Elie are within cycling distance. A morning nine at Anstruther followed by lunch and an afternoon walk to St Monans is a complete Fife coastal day.