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Lower Largo is a picturesque, beach front village which is the starting point of the East Neuk of Fife, with its many pretty coastal villages, golf courses, scenic walks, including the Fife Coastal Walk, and historic and cultural attractions. Alexander Selkirk, a Largo native and Scottish sailor, who spent a number of years as a castaway on an uninhabited island, is said to have inspired Daniel Defoe’s fictional character, Robinson Crusoe. A life size statue of Selkirk stands outside his birthplace at 99-105 Main Street. The village has a general store, pub, and the recently refurbished Crusoe Hotel, with further services in Lundin Links including butcher, bakery and general store ,as well as a renowned 18-hole links golf course, and separate ladies 9 hole course. The latter is the oldest ladies golf course in the world and the former has been used as an Open Qualifying Course when the Open Championship is held at St Andrews.