St Andrews Legacy was launched in the summer of 2013, when founder Graham Proctor and Jay Feyko of Soldier On simultaneously struck drives into the blue sky

During the summer of 2014 St Andrews Legacy hosted five groups of wounded veterans, two from Canada and one each from the USA, the UK and Australia.

The first of three St Andrews Legacy events in 2015 began in May with a gathering together of eight representatives of the USA, Canada, Australia and the UK.

The first St Andrews Legacy event of 2016 was completed in April, with a group of six veterans from Canada and the USA taking part in a week of intensive coaching and playing.

The first of three St Andrews Legacy events in 2017 took place in May and it featured a meeting with Barack Obama, the 44th President of the United States, outside the Royal and Ancient Golf Club just after he finished a round on the Old Course, an appropriate venue given the club’s encouragement to St Andrews Legacy.

Participants in the first St Andrews Legacy event of 2018 enjoyed some of the best May weather Scotland has experienced since modern records began, with bright, hot days the norm.

St Andrews Legacy began its 2019 activities in April, when a group of six US veterans flew to Scotland from Texas, Washington and New Mexico to meet up with sponsor Eric Hatch of SoloRider and Brian Evans, now retired from the Royal Regiment of Wales.

The St Andrews Legacy event of April 2023 took place with a great absence at its heart. Graham Proctor, who founded St Andrews Legacy in 2013, could not see his inspiration achieve its tenth anniversary milestone, having tragically passed away from Motor Neurone Disease, or ALS, on 2 May 2020.

St Andrews Legacy started its second decade of activity by welcoming friends old and new, pressing forward into the future by revisiting the past.

The long-standing friendship between St Andrews Legacy and American Lake Veterans Golf Course, which dates back to late 2013, was further strengthened in 2025 when representatives of the Jack Nicklaus designed facility in Washington State joined fellow US and British men in Scotland for a week of golf and camaraderie.