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The Craw’s Nest Tassie

Carnoustie is renowned worldwide for its golf courses and is the setting for numerous professional competitions. But Carnoustie Golf Links is also host to many other tournaments.

For example, the famous Craw’s Nest Tassie.

(Tassie is an old Scots word for a drinking cup) The Tassie, as it is fondly known, has grown into an international institution where amateur golfers with handicaps of 18 or below compete for the trophy. Over the years, competitors have come from across the UK, with international participants primarily from the USA, Sweden, The Netherlands, Spain and Australia.

The first event in 1927 was won by local man Alexander Mann, an ex-amateur champion of India. In the final, he defeated Len Nettlefold who was at that time the amateur champion of Australia.

The Tassie itself is a solid silver drinking bowl decorated in a Celtic pattern.