{"id":794884,"date":"2026-10-07T14:12:19","date_gmt":"2026-10-07T14:12:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/794884\/"},"modified":"2026-10-07T14:12:19","modified_gmt":"2026-10-07T14:12:19","slug":"spey-bay-golf-club-in-moray-put-up-for-sale-for-1-5-million-by-owners-of-three-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/794884\/","title":{"rendered":"Spey Bay Golf Club in Moray put up for sale for \u00a31.5 million by owners of three years"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A coastal golf club in Moray has been put on the market just three years after it was sold to an American cryptocurrency-funded buyer.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linksdao.io\/spey-bay\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Spey Bay Golf Club<\/a>, established in 1907, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hmhgolfandleisure.com\/portfolio\/spey-bay-golf-club-fochabers-scotland\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">has been put up for sale through HMH Golf and Leisure Estate Agents<\/a> for offers over \u00a31.5 million.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"rthmb\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg xmlns=\" http:=\"\" viewbox=\"0 0 1627 1049\" alt=\"Spey Bay Golf Club has been put up for sale.\" data-root=\"\/_media\/img\/\" data-path=\"MQP3S6IPRDUJZ9PFJROI.jpg\" data-ar=\"1.55\"\/>Spey Bay Golf Club has been put up for sale.<\/p>\n<p>The course includes a well-stocked clubhouse and accommodation on-site. It is the club where the UK&#8217;s first Labour Prime Minister, Ramsay MacDonald, played.<\/p>\n<p>Designed by architect Ben Sayers in 1907, the 18-hole course was bought in 2023 by Links DAO &#8211; an American cryptocurrency-funded golf community.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to Spey Bay Golf Club, DAO also own Hillcrest Country Club in Kansas City, Missouri, and claims to be &#8220;a community of passionate golfers reimagining what it means to be a golf club&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The company uses NFTs, or non-fungible tokens, to finance their ventures, and purchasing a Links DAO NFT entitles the owner to vote on the company\u2019s ventures.<\/p>\n<p>Before acquiring Spey Bay as its first location, users had to vote on whether they believed it was something worth pursuing &#8211; with 88 per cent agreeing it was.<\/p>\n<p>The American firm bought Spey Bay &#8211; which currently has 329 members &#8211; for well over the asking price of \u00a3750,000.<\/p>\n<p>The course has now been re-listed online.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/linksdaospeybay?locale=en_GB\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">A Facebook post from a Spey Bay Golf Club<\/a> said the owners are &#8220;moving forward with more projects in the USA and see that area of their business being where all investment will take place from now on\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>    Do you want to respond to this article? 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