St. Andrews - THE OLD COURSE – 6933 yards – par 72

The home of golf. Golf was being played here 100 years before Columbus sailed to America and two centuries before Shakespeare wrote Hamlet and Macbeth. Historically, spiritually and architecturally every golf course in the world owes something - if not it's very existence - to the Old Course at St Andrews. step onto the first tee and the aura is overwhelming. The world's greatest golfers have trodden the hallowed ground of the Old Lady of St Andrews. The rippling fairways can both frustrate and perplex whilst the sheer scale of the renowned double greens, some more than an acre in size, occasionally demoralize.

The Old Course doesn't resemble any other links. Experience all the famous aspects of the course such as The Swilken Burn; Granny Clarks Wynd; The Cavernous Beardies, Kitchen, Benty and Grave Bunkers. The Coffins, a series of pot bunkers lurk in the center of the thirteenth fairway. Navigate The Elysian Fields, a narrow strip of fairway on the 14th between The Beardies and the enormous Hell Bunker. Then of course comes the 17th Road Hole, arguably the most well known hole in golf and some have said, the toughest. Send your drive over the old tram sheds of The Old Course Hotel then attempt to negotiate the Road Hole bunker in front of the green. Many famous players have tried and failed.

The players and winners who have graced this course are too numerous to mention but ancient and timeless though she may be the Old Lady knows how to pick her champions. A must for all golfers. If you wish to play The Old Course it is a rule of The St Andrews Links Committee that you must play at least one of the other courses.

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