HOLLYWOOD STAR Bill Murray was in St Andrews yesterday to play a round of golf over the Old Course.

The actor and comedian is holidaying in Scotland and is understood to be planning to visit the Edinburgh Festival this week.

His sister, Nancy, is a nun in Illinois and is in Edinburgh to perform her one-woman show about the life of St Catherine of Siena, who died more than 600 years ago.

He turned up yesterday on the first tee with a friend and they were able to join up with two other players, who were part of a larger group from the USA.

The American visitors were only too delighted for him to join them and Murray was equally happy to pose with the party of women golfers before they started their round, said one onlooker.

The star of films including the Groundhog Day, Lost in Translation, Caddyshack and Ghostbusters, the 56-year-old is one of the many celebrities who play each autumn in the Dunhill Links event in St Andrews, Kingsbarns and Carnoustie.

During one Dunhill Championship, he amazed a group of local students he met in the Ma Bells pub in St Andrews by turning up at their party.

After his trip to Edinburgh, Murray is planning to travel to Sweden to see some of the world’s top golfers in action at the Scandinavian Open.