The ‘Carnoustie Swing’ was developed by Carnoustie golfing family, the Simpsons. It is the foundation of the modern golf swing.
Carnoustie was the first golf course in the world to use the now standard white and red flags for the outward and inward nine holes. Before that, the holes on the Carnoustie course had been so difficult to find that even if you were standing just yards from them, they remained hard to spot!
It is said that when Sir Robert Maule, Carnoustie’s first recorded golfer in 1546, lost at golf, he would send his servant into the pub to buy everyone a drink, thereby initiating the tradition that the loser buys the drinks.
