If the Open at St Andrews isn't on your bucket list, get a bigger bucket

HISTORIC: General view of the signage during practice day three of The Open at the Old Course, St Andrews. Pic: Richard Sellers/PA Wire.

Pilgrimages to this picturesque junction with the North Sea have been nearly constant since the 8th century and peaked prior to the discovery of golf on its famous links.

Golf may be the dominant industry in the Kingdom of Fife, but history is hardly unique to the game in these parts of Scotland.