St Andrews Old Course

St Andrews is the birthplace of the Great Game and today, throughout the golfing world, St Andrews is recognised as the 'Home of Golf'. Golf is engrained in the town and its people and it touches on every aspect of life.

The Old Course St Andrews is surely the Mecca of the golfing world. Golf has been played here for over six centuries on a course that wasn't designed by any architect but rather has largely evolved out of the natural terrain over time. Starting and finishing in the town, it is best renowned for its huge double greens; which mean that a golfer may face a 100-yard putt, compact shared fairways and massive bunkers; of which there are 112. The Old is a 6,566 yards Par 72 course.

St Andrews New Course

Opened in 1895 it is hardly a 'new' course. It is in fact a classic links and a first class golfing challenge, With the traditional out and back layout, its characterised by well designed greenside and fairway bunkers and tough homeward holes. The New is a 6,604 yards Par 71 course.