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Handcrafting Hickory Golf Clubs Since 1881

The St Andrews Golf Company is the only golf club manufacturer in the world retaining the traditional tools and skills to hand craft new authentic hickory golf clubs.

How We Make a Wood Head Golf Club

See the step by step processes we take to make our handcrafted traditional hickory shaft products, the last of their kind to be produced by skilled clubmakers using traditional methods in the "Home of Golf."

See the steps we take to make our handcrafted traditional hickory shaft products, the last of their kind to be produced by skilled clubmakers using traditional methods in the "Home of Golf."

Shop for Hickory Golf Clubs, Balls, Gifts and Accessories

Please visit our online Hickory Golf Shop to see our full range of hickory golf clubs, bags, balls, fashion, gifts and play items.

Shop for Hickory Golf Clubs, Balls, and Gifts

Factory visit by vloggers Matt Fryer and Danny Maude

In late May, our factory was visited by vloggers Matt Fryer and Danny Maude. Matt and Danny are hugely popular on social media and have a combined YouTube subscriber following of 700,000. Both are PGA Professionals and were absolutely fascinated to learn the history of our brands and the craftmanship and processes used to build the only authentic hickory clubs made in the world today. They then took the clubs and balls to Scotscraig Golf Club to test them out on the course.

Factory Visit by Discovery Channel

The Discovery Channel recently visited our St Andrews factory to learn how we are continuing the tradition to handcraft hickory golf clubs.  We showed them step-by-step how to handcraft our wooden head 'Stag' hickory putter, and we used our simulation golf centre to compare the driving distance of a 150-year-old Long Nose club to a 100-year-old Brassie club and today's latest Modern Drivers.  They were astonished at the results.  

'Made in St Andrews' Custom Gifts, Prizes and Trophies

‘Made in St Andrews’ golf gifts, prizes and trophies with your Event brand are an ideal way to make your event a memorable day for everyone. Or with your corporate brand to thank your golf-loving employees or celebrate a special occasion with your clients. Catering to all budgets, our craftsmen create handmade personalised products built especially for you. Please get in touch with us to discuss your requirements.

Our Master Hickory Golf Clubmakers

Tom stewart - legendary perfection.

Played by Bobby Jones, Francis Ouimet and Harry Vardon.

George nicoll - the helping hand of golf.

Played by Sir Henry Cotton, Dai Rees and Vivien Saunders.

Playing Hickory Golf with Original Clubs

Many hickory golf players enjoy playing with original hickory golf clubs. We can help you source, authenticate, and build your set of original hickory golf clubs. We can also help you with general repairs and restoration projects. Please get in touch with us to discuss your requirements.

Please visit our Golf Shop in St Andrews

Please visit our Hickory Golf shop in St Andrews to see our hand-crafted hickory golf shafted clubs and hickory golf bags for playing golf. As well as our full collection of antique golf clubs, antique golf putter, and other interesting old golf clubs for sale.  We also have a wide range of vintage golf art, vintage golf clubs, vintage golf putters, vintage golf bags, tweed plus fours and other items for the vintage golfer.

Please visit our golf shop in St Andrews

Partnering with Global Golf Crafstmen

We work closely with other golf artisans worldwide who continue the art of hand-crafting golf clubs. We help them design, assemble, and make modern golf clubs with their brand in St Andrews. We also help them sell their products in our St Andrews shop. Please get in touch with us to discuss how we can work together.

Partnering with Golf Crafstmen

Seeking Worldwide Sales Agents

As hickory golf expands worldwide, we seek agents to help support and expand our global customers. If your business or other interests give you access to a community that may be interested in our hickory golf products, please get in touch and let’s discuss how we can work together to expand the fun, fashion, and friendship of hickory golf.

Sir Bob Charles visits the St Andrews Golf Company factory

Yesterday we had the pleasure of welcoming 1963 Open champion Sir Bob Charles to our shop. Mr Charles is looking to grow hickory golf in New Zealand, and we can’t wait to build you your perfect left-handed set of hickories.

Gary Player and our Hickory Long Nose Club

Open week is in full swing, and today we had the pleasure of spending the morning with Gary Player. We had a nice discussion with Mr Player about equipment and he was very impressed with one of our long-nosed clubs, a McEwan featherie.

Anglo Carson, a Certified Golf Instructor, embarked on a remarkable journey, driven by his unwavering love for golf. He founded The Golf Mine with a singular mission - to create a golfing haven where passion knows no boundaries. His lifelong love affair with golf, combined with his expertise as a Certified Golf Instructor, turned into a vision to share his extensive knowledge, inspire, and promote the game he holds dear.

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The love of a sport and appreciation of its history can turn a simple game into a rich experience. If there’s one venue where golf has come to mean so much more than swings, drives, chips and putts alone, it is St Andrews. The Experience St Andrews – formerly the Old Course Experience – is a long standing Authorised Provider of Old Course Tee Times by the St Andrews Links Trust. This makes us one of the few suppliers able to provide guaranteed tee times for the Old Course.

Golfing Packages throughout the United Kingdom

As well as the legendary venue from which it takes its name, The Experience St Andrews team also manages luxury golf breaks in Scotland , England and Ireland (Wales is coming soon). The likes of Gleneagles, Muirfield, Adare Manor and Royal County Down are among the jewels in the crown of international golf, and we can put together packages for you at all of them. If you’re looking for extra touches and attention to detail, then you’re in the right place!

The Association of Bonded Travel Organisers Trust Limited (ABTOT) provides financial protection under The Package Travel and Linked Travel Arrangements Regulations 2018 for The Experience St Andrews, member 5525, and in the event of their insolvency, protection is provided for non-flight packages.

ABTOT cover provides for a refund in the event you have not yet travelled or repatriation if transportation was included in your package.  Please note that bookings made outside the UK are only protected by ABTOT when purchased directly with The Experience St Andrews. 

In the unlikely event that you require assistance whilst abroad due to our financial failure, please call our 24/7 helpline on 01702 811397 and advise you are a customer of an ABTOT protected travel company.

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The Experience St Andrews is an Authorised Provider of the Open Ticket Programmes

Our programmes and packages provide accommodation, entrance tickets and transfers to The 152nd Open, (often referred to as The British Open) taking place at Royal Troon for the 2024 edition.

Official Status

The Experience St Andrews has been appointed an Authorised Provider of Old Course Tee Times by the St Andrews Links Trust. This means we are one of the very few suppliers who are able to provide guaranteed tee times for the Old Course. Find out more about this official status below.

Discover our client testimonials and see what they had to say about their experience with us....

"I just wanted to take a minute to express my gratitude for such an amazing Scotland trip! You guys and your comrades did one helluva job in providing us with a trip of a lifetime... well organised, great amenities, friendly service and top notch locations, courses and adventures! It was also great getting to meet and hang out with you on a personal level... we will definitely be repeat customers and refer our friends when / if asked about thoughts and experiences with your company. Once again, my sincere appreciation & gratitude for a job well done." - J Beaupre

"Certainly no experience surpasses this and quite sincerely, none even comes close. Most remarkable of all, we've made this journey twice. Each was distinct and both exemplary. What you create is larger than life. This is THE EXPERIENCE of a lifetime." - D Morrison

"Tim and I would like to congratulate you, and the entire Experience team on the ground in St Andrews, for delivering such a fantastic golf tournament in St Andrews last week. The event was true perfection in design, delivery, and attention to every last detail. The final dinner and prize-giving in the Lower Halls at St Andrews University just capped everything off beautifully by providing such a wonderful atmosphere in tradition. You simply can't buy these things with money! Tim and I came to St Andrews this year with pretty low expectations, but after Day 1 on the New Course we dared to dream. And as it turned out we won, and what a privilege it was to be there on the winners' podium on the 20th Anniversary of this wonderful event. This experience will surely stay with us both for a lifetime. And our superb prizes will take pride of place at home." - John G

"I am writing to thank you for the most amazing 5 days in St. Andrews last week! Please pass on my warmest thanks to Jo, Ian, Sam, Alan and the rest of the team at TESA, who all contributed to make the 20th Father & Son Tournament such a wonderful event. I made so many friends during the course of the event, and we all had so many laughs and stories to share. It was the perfect week!......apart from coming last!! 😃" - Alan F

"Thank you and your staff for providing Rose & I such a wonderful vacation. It was a memorable experience that we will cherish. I have nothing but good things to say about you and The Experience St. Andrews. The planning, coordination, and execution were great. I was with Pat & Dan yesterday and we were trying to think of any snags or mishaps – as there always are on trips – but we couldn’t! How’d you do that?" - Jeff L

"From my perspective the trip was just fabulous and I am thrilled that I got to visit the birthplace of golf without having to plan all the details myself. The entire Experience team did such a great job, you thought of everything; I cannot think of one thing that could have been done differently that would have made the trip any better!! The team was always there for us and helped us with our every need. I cannot say enough good about this trip, the Experience Team and I am so happy I was a part of it. Thank you again for all the work and attention to detail so that we could have such a wonderful experience!" - Christine V

"First off, I can't begin to tell you how much Annie and I enjoyed our trip to St Andrews in June. It was magical! I have already told many of our friends that if they want to plan the same trip, I would give them your contact info as your staff was outstanding! We could not have had a better experience!" - Ann and Peter K

"I am still on cloud 9 from the great time we had!" - Sisi H

"Just wanted to drop you a note to say “Thank You” for the incredible job the team did in taking care of my golf group on our recent trip to Scotland. I’m happy to partner with you on any type of testimonial or recommendation letter you would deem beneficial to the entire Organization. From my first contact with Robin and when Iain took over, everything was first rate and a true first class experience. Can’t imagine why anyone would want or try to put a trip together like this without the “Experience at St. Andrews” team." - Grant O

"Now that the dust has settled, I just wanted to send a short note to tell you what a wonderful time [we] had on our recent trip with you. Everything came off just about as flawlessly as it could have, the company was great, the golf courses were scenic, and we got everywhere we needed to be with no problem. You did a wonderful job. Please let all the rest of the crew know how much we appreciated their help, good humor and care." - W Morrison

Golfing Experience at The Old Course

Heading back to St Andrews, not many people can think of this most evocative of destinations without the famous Old Course springing to mind. So that’s where we start with our  experience programmes  here. All of the packages guarantee you a round of the Old Course (so you can avoid the daily ballot), and all offer much more besides.

One of the highlights of our programmes are the  hotels  we’ve selected to look after you between rounds. The 5* Old Course Hotel, for example, is located alongside the fairway of the hallowed Road Hole and offers a compelling mix of panoramic views, the best of Scottish produce and wonderful facilities.

Visiting St Andrews represents an act of pilgrimage for golfing aficionados, of course. But we appreciate that some members of your party may rank other things above their passion for the game. And so a variety of activities beyond the fairway can be incorporated into our experience programmes. Of course, Scotland offers a stunning spread of landscapes to be explored, and city sightseeing trips, distillery tours and excursions to castles, palaces and museums can all be arranged.  

Whichever luxury package you plump for, we will tailor it precisely to your tastes and dreams. Our aim is to leave no stone unturned, no box un-ticked – but every wish fulfilled. Contact us to book or  find out more.

Please take a look at our video to get a taste of what makes St Andrews such a unique experience.

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Old Course St Andrews

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Our Golf Trip To St Andrews includes golf on the Old Course St Andrews via the daily ballot process. Also included are further rounds on the Jubilee Course, Carnoustie Championship Links, Crail Balcomie, Dumbarnie, and Kingsbarns.

Old Course St Andrews - Via Ballot   

The Old Course at St. Andrews is one of the most iconic and revered golf courses in the world. Located in St. Andrews, Fife, Scotland, it’s often referred to as the “Home of Golf” and has a rich history dating back centuries.

Established in the 15th century, it’s one of the oldest and most historic golf courses globally, contributing significantly to the sport’s development.

It has hosted numerous prestigious golf tournaments, including The Open Championship, which has been played at the Old Course more times than any other venue.

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Known for its unique layout with shared fairways, double greens, and challenging bunkers, it offers a distinctive golfing experience.

 Iconic holes like the “Road Hole” (17th) and the “Home of Golf” (18th) are renowned worldwide for their challenges and history.

Despite its prestige, the Old Course is a public course, allowing golf enthusiasts from around the world to play.

Jubilee Course St Andrews  

The Jubilee Course is one of the esteemed courses at St. Andrews Links, situated alongside other renowned courses like the Old Course, New Course, and Eden Course.

Established in 1897, the Jubilee Course is the third oldest at St. Andrews Links, showcasing a rich heritage in golfing history.

Known for its testing layout and demanding nature, the Jubilee Course presents golfers with strategic challenges, featuring undulating fairways, deep bunkers, and subtle elevation changes.

Set against the stunning backdrop of the North Sea, the Jubilee Course offers picturesque coastal views, providing a captivating ambiance for golfers.

Embodying the classic links-style design, the course boasts firm fairways and fast greens, incorporating elements of the natural landscape into the playing experience.

Carnoustie Championship Course

Carnoustie is thought to be the most demanding of all the current Open Championship venues, hosting it 7 times. 

The first record of golf played there was in 1527 with 10 holes being constructed in 1842, before Old Tom Morris extended the course to 18 holes in 1857.

It was once again altered and lengthened by James Braid in 1926. The 6th hole - Hogan's Alley is infamous and reckoned to be one of if not the greatest Par 5 hole in the world of golf.

The final 3 holes at Carnoustie are about as tough as you will find anywhere in the world of golf.

Crail Balcomie

Crail Golfing Society’s Balcomie Links is a revered and historic course located in Crail, Fife, Scotland.

Balcomie Links is one of the oldest courses in Scotland, dating back to 1895, designed by legendary golf course architect Tom Morris.

The course embodies the traditional links-style design, with undulating fairways, rugged coastal terrain, and natural hazards like pot bunkers and roughs that blend seamlessly with the surrounding landscape.

Situated along the Fife coastline, Balcomie Links offers spectacular views of the North Sea, providing golfers with breathtaking vistas as they play through the course.

Dumbarnie Links

Dumbarnie Links is a contemporary addition to Scotland’s renowned golfing scene, situated in Fife along the coastline.

Opened in 2020, Dumbarnie Links is a recent addition to Scotland’s golfing landscape, designed by award-winning architect Clive Clark.

The course features a traditional links-style layout, blending seamlessly with the natural coastal terrain, incorporating dunes, and offering panoramic views of the Firth of Forth.

Positioned along the picturesque coastline, the course provides stunning views of the sea, incorporating rugged coastal features and expansive vistas throughout the round.

Dumbarnie Links offers golfers a challenging yet fair experience, with wide fairways, natural hazards, and undulating greens that require strategic shot-making and course management.

Kingsbarns Links

Kingsbarns Golf Links is an acclaimed and modern links golf course situated near St. Andrews, Fife, Scotland.

Established in 2000, Kingsbarns is a relatively new addition to Scotland’s golfing landscape but has quickly gained recognition and acclaim.

Designed by Kyle Phillips, the course offers a championship-level layout that combines traditional links characteristics with modern design elements, providing a challenging yet enjoyable experience for golfers of all levels.

Positioned along the rugged coastline of the North Sea, Kingsbarns boasts breathtaking views of the sea and expansive vistas, creating a scenic backdrop for golfers.

The course features a series of memorable and visually striking holes that wind through the dunes, offering a mix of challenges, including strategic bunkering, undulating fairways, and fast greens.

Exclusive Use Property (4 People)

Other Exclusive Use properties available for more than 4 persons

On entering the apartment there is a central hall from which all the rooms are accessed. There is also a store cupboard off the hall which houses the washer/drier.

The principal rooms are as follows:-

Kitchen/Dining / Sitting Room :- This is a fabulous room with commanding views over central St Andrews and the countryside beyond.

The kitchen is very high specification with Siemens appliances throughout. These include a four zone induction hob, stainless steel oven, combi-oven microwave, fridge freezer, dishwasher and coffee machine There are two bar stools at the breakfast bar and a dining table for 6/8.

The living area is bright and spacious with comfortable sofas. There is a large flat screen TV with satellite facilities available.

Bedroom 1 :- Good sized double/twin bedroom with fitted wardrobes including ample hanging space and a chest of drawers. Large en-suite shower room with walk-in shower.

Bedroom 2 :- Good sized double/twin bedroom with fitted wardrobes including ample hanging space and a chest of drawers.

Bathroom :- There is a luxury modern bathroom with WC, WHB and shower over bath.

Additional information:-

All gas and electricity costs are included

Luxury linen and towels are provided

GCH, WiFi, BT TV,

1 reserved parking space.

High chair and travel cot available on request (charges apply) – no cot linen supplied.

May we respectfully advise there is no lift/elevator in the building and there are four short flights of stairs to climb leading to the apartment.

Hotel Du Vin St Andrews 

The 4 star Hotel du Vin, refurbished in April 2014, is located on The Scores next to the Old Course St Andrews. This former family home is now a boutique hotel featureing stunning views over St Andrews Bay. The luxurious rooms feature Egyptian cotton sheets, rain-effect showers, tv, luxurious toiletries and free wi-fi.

Rusacks Hotel

The Rusacks Hotel is a historic and iconic hotel nestled in the heart of St Andrews, Scotland, offering stunning views of the renowned Old Course and the North Sea.

It boasts an unbeatable location, directly opposite the 18th hole of the famous Old Course in St Andrews, making it a haven for golf enthusiasts who want to immerse themselves in the golfing history of the area.

The hotel provides comfortable and stylish rooms with modern amenities. Some rooms offer breathtaking views of the Old Course, allowing guests to experience the beauty of the golf course and the sea.

The hotel’s restaurant and bar offer a delightful culinary experience, serving delicious dishes crafted from locally sourced ingredients. Guests can enjoy fine dining with views of the golf course.

For golfers, the Rusacks Hotel is a dream come true. It provides easy access to the Old Course and other golf courses in the St Andrews area, catering to players of all levels.

TOUR ITINERARY

Arrive in Scotland for your golf trip to Scotland where you will be warmly welcomed by a Meridian Golf Tours Representative who will assist with the collection of your rental van. If you have chosen our Chauffeured Transport option your driver and tour guide will assist you with your golf clubs and luggage.

Travel to St Andrews and play the St Andrews Jubilee Course.

Overnight at either an Exclusive Use Property, the 4-star Hotel Du Vin or the 5-Star Rusacks Hotel.

Play Carnoustie Championship Course

Overnight at your Hotel

Play Crail Balcomie Links

Play Dumbarnie Links

Play St Andrews Old Course - Via the Daily Ballot

Play Kingsbarns Golf Links

Depart for home with some wonderful memories of your St Andrews Golf Tour.

ACCOMMODATION

6 nights' accommodation, sharing twin or double rooms, with full Scottish breakfast.

6 rounds of Championship Golf over the Old Course St Andrews, Jubilee Course, Carnoustie Championship Course, Crail Balcomie Links, Dumbarnie Links and Kingsbarns.

Rental of a mini-van with automatic transmission or Executive Coach

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THIS PACKAGE IS SUBJECT TO AVAILABILITY AND BASED

ON 4 GOLFERS TRAVELLING IN SUMMER 2020.

Staying at an Exclusive Use Poroperty:

Cost Per Person

From - £2,442 / $3,064

Staying at Hotel Du Vin, St Andrews:

From - £3,342 / $4,193

Staying at the Rusacks Hotel, St Andrews:

From - £3,972 / $4,984 

Conversion Rates are based on £1 = $1.254

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For one day a year, the clubhouse of the Royal & Ancient Golf Club opens to the public. Here's what we saw

David Cannon

ST. ANDREWS, Scotland — It is, no question, one of the most recognizable edifices in any sport. And surely the most recognizable building in all of golf. Since 1854, the clubhouse of the Royal & Ancient Golf Club has sat directly behind the first tee on the Old Course at St. Andrews, the most famous 18 holes in any land. Not a bad spot really.

Hang on though. Only the outside of this esteemed establishment is really familiar to the vast majority. For most of us, what lies inside remains something of a mystery. Routinely, only the 2,500 or so worldwide R&A members and their guests are permitted entry through the side door on the right as you look at the building from the course. That fact is true 364 days of any non-leap year. On one day, however, November 30 or St. Andrews Day, the clubhouse is open to members of the public interested enough to take a tour of the premises.

I am, so I did. In the company of clubhouse manager Graham Clark, I spent a fascinating half hour looking around the various rooms on the ground floor. Only the ground floor. What lies above and below is still reserved for members, no matter what the calendar says.

Standing in the foyer in front of the porter’s desk, my eyes were immediately drawn to the silverware cabinet a few feet away. In it, alongside the likes of the Amateur Championship trophy and the Ladies Amateur Championship trophy sits the original claret jug. Last presented to the winner of the Open Championship in 1927—a young lad by the name of Bobby Jones—this priceless artifact never leaves the clubhouse.

Indeed, according to Clark, Jones himself must take some credit for that fact. It seems that the thought of something happening to the jug as it sailed back and forth across the Atlantic was just too stressful for the man who would go on to win the Grand Slam in 1930. By that time, a replica trophy was given to the “champion golfer of the year.”

One last thing, which will no doubt appeal to fans of quirk: the famous spelling mistake on the trophy used today—“Holylake” instead of “Hoylake” as the 1947 venue—is not one repeated from the original jug. Rightly and properly, on there, “Hoylake” is present and correct.

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Next stop, only a few yards to the left, is the Trophy Room, or the South Room (no one will ever accuse the R&A of being overly imaginative in their naming of rooms within the clubhouse). In there sit the various medals and cups played for by the members at the Spring and Autumn Meetings. Most famous among an eclectic mix that includes a Kangaroo Paw (which doubles as a cigar lighter) and a Canadian Silver Beaver, are the club captain’s balls. All the way back to 1754, every captain has hit a ceremonial drive off the first tee, had the ball returned by a local caddie, then had said ball enshrined in a silver casing. They’re not all silver though; captains of royal birth have golden balls.

Next stop was the Big Room, in which we found the largest single-piece carpet in Scotland. Hand-made by the now defunct Antrim Carpets in Ireland, it weighs just under half a ton. Originally home to the member’s lockers, this is the most visible room in the clubhouse—the large bay windows look out over the first and 18th fairways—and still plays host to a few sets of clubs. But only a select few—traditionally the longest-standing members—have that privilege.

Still, it is the various paintings to which the eyes are drawn. Queen Elizabeth is up there. As is her uncle, the Duke of Windsor. So is Sir Michael Bonallack, five-time Amateur champion and a past captain and secretary of the club (he and Lizzy Windsor have the honor of being the only two living people on the walls).

Zach Johnson showed off the claret jug in the "Big Room" inside the Royal & Ancient clubhouse when he won the Open in 2015.

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Former Open champion Willie Park of Musselburgh is there too, but is making a guest appearance, replacing Freddie Tait, who is out on loan. Perhaps the most memorable image, however, is the portrayal of the first driving-in ceremony. Financed by every member in the frame (of which there are many), the trick, according to Clark, is to count how many dogs are in the picture (six, apparently).

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“You can tell all the pictures that show a time before 1899,” says Clark. “No balcony on the front of the clubhouse.”

The Big Room is also home to what amounts to the club’s vetting service. Once a prospective member is accepted by the Club Committee, his or her name goes in “the book” and members are invited to support his application. Each prospective member will need somewhere between 30 to 40 members to support him if his application is to be accepted. It is, however, possible to be “black balled.” Members are free to write letters contesting the eligibility of any candidate. If two or three members object, the candidate will need 40 to 50 supporters to get in. If more than three members object, it is unlikely that candidate will be considered.

Interestingly, the clubhouse has no bar. Members wishing a drink can get the attention of a waiter or waitress or ring one of the many bells situated in the Big Room and elsewhere. And the food? The club has a deserved reputation for the high quality of its lunches (served upstairs in the dining room). Local fish and chips are always popular, as is the surely unique house specialty of mince and poached egg—a curious mix, even in the land that gave the world the haggis.

Equipment connoisseurs are not neglected on this tour. In the corridor that leads to the library, a wall cabinet contains clubs and balls that represent a graphic history of development in both. There are some classic clubs: the “water niblick,” another with adjustable lofts, and a “roller putter,” to name but three.

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In the library, which, disappointingly, it is far from extensive, hangs a map of the Old Course. That is not always the case. As the club owns more pictures than it has space for, the staff routinely make changes.

Next door, we found ourselves in the snooker room, a full-size table dominating the proceedings. It sees regular use, according to Clark, in what used to be the committee room. In fact, there used to be two tables, one for members, the other for staff who, until the 1950s, lived in the clubhouse. The female staff even had their own staircase to their quarters in what became a two-story structure in 1882.

Today then, as it has always done, the clubhouse continues to evolve. For example, should plans for new locker rooms go ahead, they will be located under the small car park that sits alongside this fascinating building. All in all, a must-visit for golf geeks everywhere.

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Golf Vacations to St Andrews

Visit the spiritual home of golf.

A pilgrimage to play golf at St Andrews is one every devout golfer should take at least once in their lifetime. Located on the dramatic Fife peninsula on  Scotland’s  east coast, St Andrews is the spiritual home of golf.

Famous for the Old Course’s iconic Swilken Bridge, Road Hole, Hell Bunker, and Valley of Sin – alongside some of golf’s greatest moments.

The beautiful town of St Andrews is the ideal setting for a Scottish golf vacation. Alongside the wonderful bars, restaurants, and endless character, the town is also surrounded by a series of famous and internationally renowned clubs.  St Andrews golf courses in Scotland include  Kingsbarns ,  Dumbarnie Links , and Open Championship venue  Carnoustie , as well as St Andrews Links’ other spectacular courses, including the New Course and Jubilee Course.

How to get a Tee Time on the Old Course

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Despite being the busiest course on the planet, and demand being greater than ever, we can advise you on the best way to experience the home of golf, and recommend other highlights in Scotland.

Recommended St Andrews Golf Tour

Key features.

Nothing compares to the iconic setting of St Andrews, the entire town is built for golf, with so much to explore in this quiet corner of Scotland, you’ll find yourself wanting to return here time after time.

Sample Itinerary

Drive/Transfer from either Edinburgh or Glasgow Airport, check in at Old Course Hotel, St Andrews, and explore the iconic town.

Dine at the Bistro Du Vin, and enjoy their excellent wine list and steaks, including their exceptional chateaubriand.

Drive/Transfer to Golf at Carnoustie , labeled ‘golf’s greatest test’. After golf, unwind with a visit to the R&A World Golf Museum, and discover how golf has been played in St Andrews since the 1500’s.

Drive/Transfer to Golf at Kingsbarns , a relatively new course in the context of St Andrews, but undoubtedly a modern-day great. In fact, during our recent visit to the 150th Open Championship , special guest John Daly claimed it was his favorite course in Scotland.

Return to St Andrews for a drink at Rusacks famous rooftop restaurant and bar.

Drive/Transfer to Golf at Dumbarnie Links , another iconic venue on the Fife coast, with 1.5 miles of coastline and endless views over the Firth of Forth.

Enjoy Dinner at Little Italy, be sure to ask about ‘Mr Barolo’, the local nickname of our very own Scottish golfing expert, and wine connoisseur, Euan Findlay.

Play the New Course, Jubilee or Castle course at St Andrews Links. Each of these layouts provides a feeling of tradition and history as they run parallel to the Old Course.

On return to the town, refresh with an Ice Cream from the world-famous Jannettas Gelateria, it won’t be your only visit!

Drive/Transfer to Golf at Balcomie Links, lesser known but just as historic and impressive as its more famous neighbors, this links is filled with unique features; natural hollows, stone walls, and bunker faces clad in old railway sleepers.

On return to St Andrews, dine at the award-winning Haar Restaurant, fine dining utilizing the best in Scottish ingredients.

Those lucky enough to have a reserved tee time* will play the Old Course, alternatively our local team will ensure your group is entered into the ballot daily*. Explore St Andrews links, take a photograph on the Swilken Bridge and pick your line over the Old Course Hotel, on the iconic Road Hole.

Finish your day at the greatest 19th hole in golf, the modest Jigger Inn to reminisce about your trip.

*Our team will enter you into the ballot for every day of your trip, if successful your itinerary will be adjusted accordingly.

Transfer to airport, or additional golfing region for an extended itinerary.

Tour Summary

7 nights accommodation based on twin/double share, including daily breakfast 

6 rounds of golf

On Site assistance of a Premier Golf Representative 

All taxes and fees included

5* package from $7,102

4* package from $6,735

Based on travel in mid-season (Spring & Fall), group of 4 golfers sharing twin/double, including Airport, Hotel & Golf Transfers.

St Andrews Golf Courses

The old course.

St Andrews’ Old Course is the birthplace of the game itself and perhaps the most famous golf course in the world. Home to the Hell Bunker, the Valley of Sin, and many other iconic, historical features, it is a truly unique course from which you can feel the history of golf coursing through its fairways.

The Jubilee Course

The Jubilee Course is another one of St Andrews Golf Links’ most acclaimed. The course has a good risk and reward ratio, and added difficulty from the sometimes fierce coastal wind creates an even more challenging experience. Considered by some to be the most difficult at St Andrews, The Jubilee Course is not for the faint hearted.

The New Course

Often thought to be more difficult than the Old Course, the New Course is legendary in its own right. Laid out by golfing legend Tom Morris, it is one of golf’s most difficult challenges, and is a classic links golf experience. Its fairways, which were given form by newer dunes, have barely been smoothed, giving it a much less tamed feel than other courses at St Andrews.

“I could take out of my life everything except my experiences at St Andrews and I would still have a rich, full life.” Bobby Jones

Iconic golf courses near St Andrews

With an 18 month waiting list for reserved tee times at the Old Course, those looking to book a St Andrews golf vacation may want to consider playing on some of Scotland’s other iconic courses, when visiting the famous town.

Due to the Old Course being built on common land with public access, anyone has the opportunity to take a walk on the famous greens without a tee time. Why not play other great courses on Scotland’s east coast, and still enjoy the atmosphere and history of the Old Course?

Kingsbarns Links

Highly regarded in the Scottish golfing community, Kingsbarns Golf Links offers uninterrupted views of the rugged coastline from almost all points of the course. Although it is a newer course, what it lacks in history it makes up for in great playing conditions and an impeccable layout. It is rated among the top 50 golf courses in the world and has excellent facilities.

Dumbarnie Links

This 350 acre links course lies within the huge Balcarres estate and features a series of holes running along the coast, making for unique and dramatic views as you play. Dumbarnie boasts a modern design by Clive Clark who incorporated a variety of elevated tee positions into the course. Although occasionally overlooked, this course is consistently favored by those who visit.

Carnoustie is another of Scotland’s golf courses that ranks among the world top 100. A huge coastal links course, it is considered the most difficult course in the United Kingdom and among the most formidable in the world. Hazards include over 100 bunkers, rough, ditches, and out-of-bounds areas, on top of exposing wind from the North Sea that make it one of the most demanding and exciting courses to play. Carnoustie is the perfect place for those looking to test their game with a real challenge.

Premier Golf can create your dream St Andrews golf package. With an office located in the town, we have a local team on hand to facilitate your trip. Their local knowledge and good relationships on the ground ensure your trip meets all of your requirements.

St Andrews golf packages are highly sought after, pre-booked tee times at the Old Course sold out through 2023. However there are a range of ways to get a tee time , or simply visit the hallowed ground as part of your trip.

What Makes St Andrews Special?

St Andrews is the birthplace of golf and home to the oldest golf course in the world, which itself boasts the sport’s most iconic landmark, the Swilken Bridge. Having already hosted the Open Championship a grand total of 29 times, and with the iconic 150th edition of the event won by Cameron Smith having taken place there in 2022, the club continues to make golfing history.

Although steeped in history, the course is not only favored for its historic significance, but it is also celebrated for its beautiful views and exhilarating playing conditions. There are a variety of acclaimed courses at St Andrews, with each one of them having its own personality and unique elements.

St Andrews Reviews

Everything was perfect.

We had the best time! I wouldn’t change anything in our agenda. The staff (Euan, Lauren, and Heidi) were wonderful. The drivers (James and Cameron) were the best! They really looked after us well. Everything was on time.

Everyone was able to play the Old Course. The boys stood in line starting at 9.00 PM f or the old course and stayed there all night (sleeping bags, blankets, beer and pizza). They ended up getting the first tee time that day as a four-ball at 6.30. Two ‘won the ballot’ and then an extra was able to join their tee time. Both tee times were within an hour of each other that day, perfect. That will be a story they tell their grandkids. Euan was there early to make sure all went well, super helpful!

The boys said it was their favorite trip ever. It was one of mine too. Very special time no doubt. Thanks to your team for making sure it came together. And thanks for talking with the man upstairs about the weather!

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St Andrews FAQs

There are 10 golf courses in St Andrews. They form the St Andrews Links Trust. Most famous of these is the Old Course , which is considered to be the birthplace of golf. The other courses at St Andrews are the New Course, the Jubilee Course, the Castle Course, the Eden Course, the Strathtyrum Course, the Balgove Course, the Old Course Hotel Course, and the St Andrews Links Academy Course.

Handicap certificates are required at St Andrews on some courses, but not all. The Old Course requires a handicap certificate, but the other courses do not.

Green Fee rates vary throughout the year but will be included in all Premier Golf packages.

Yes, they are public courses. Anyone can play golf at St Andrews, however Old Course tee times are limited and popular. We recommend entering the Ballot to gain a tee time .

There are 4 courses at St Andrews Links, The Old Course, the New Course, the Jubilee and the Castle Course. The Old Course is the most popular course at St Andrews and one of the most famous in the World. It is considered the birthplace of golf and has hosted The Open Championship 29 times.

The Balgove is considered to be the easiest course at St Andrews.

The Old Course is the most popular course at St Andrews and is regarded as one of the most famous in the World.

It is not required but for the whole experience on The Old Course it is recommended, especially for first time players. Caddie’s can provide advice on club selection, course strategy, and help you find your ball in the rough.

Yes, we recommend combining with Edinburgh & East Lothian or Ayrshire . These areas are home to some of the most beautiful golf courses in the world.

We recommend April through September. This is when the weather is usually mild and the courses are in good condition.

All Premier Golf Packages are customizable, so you can choose the courses you want to play and the length of your stay. We recommend playing the Old Course, Kingsbarns , Dumbarnie and Carnoustie .

Nine Things to Know: The Old Course at St. Andrews

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The Open Championship is celebrating an important milestone this week at its most historic venue. The Old Course at St. Andrews is hosting the 150th Open after a one-year delay caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.

It will be worth the wait.

It was Bobby Jones who once said that a player must win at St. Andrews to be considered great. Golf has been played on the Old Course for centuries and players have competed for the Claret Jug here since the 1800s.

Charles Blair Macdonald, a World Golf Hall of Fame architect and player, called it “the most entrancing course in the world besides being the finest test of golfing ability.”

To win at St. Andrews, a player must conquer a unique challenge in the shadow of history. Here’s Nine Things to Know about the venue for this year’s Open Championship.

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St. Andrews is the Home of Golf but it once attracted visitors for a different reason. It was the ecclesiastical capital of Scotland, attracting Catholic pilgrims from across Europe to the town named for the country’s patron saint.

Andrew and his brother Peter were Jesus’ first disciples. Andrew died a martyr’s death on an X-shaped cross because he did not feel worthy of being crucified on the same type of cross as Christ. Andrew’s diagonal cross, known as a saltire, is depicted on Scotland’s national flag.

Legend has it that some of Andrew’s bones – including finger bones, an arm bone and a kneecap – were brought to St. Andrews as relics in the eighth century after a monk received an angelic vision telling him to carry the bones to the end of the earth. That turned out to be what is now the tiny seaside town of St. Andrews, which grew quickly as many made the difficult journey to this promontory between the Firth of Forth and Firth of Tay.

“This region, once poor, foul and desolate is now rich, beautiful and flourishing,” it was once written about the town. “Hither come to pray a crowd of men from the most distant regions, … to seek the prayers of Saint Andrew.”

The St. Andrews Cathedral, whose ruins still stand today, was completed in the 14th century after taking more than 150 years to complete. It fell in the late 16th century. It is believed to have been destroyed in the violence of the Scottish Reformation, though some historians say it simply fell because of neglect.

St. Andrews also is home to the oldest university in Scotland. The University of St. Andrews was founded in 1413, making it the third-oldest university in the English-speaking world.

The famed course architect Alister Mackenzie once wrote that the Scottish are passionate about three things: golf, religion and politics. The history of St. Andrews confirms that.

2. HOME GAME

Pilgrims of a different sort started coming to St. Andrews centuries later, rescuing the town from the difficult times that followed the cathedral’s demise.

“With the Cathedral’s decay, the glory of St. Andrews departed slowly but remorselessly until it reached its lowest ebb in the second half of the 18th century,” wrote James K. Robertson in his history of St. Andrews. “The university shared in the decline, and extinction threatened the ancient, grey city.”

It was golf that led to the town’s revival. Macdonald illustrated the importance of the game to the town, and vice versa, when he wrote that “interwoven with the history and the antiquity of St. Andrews are the history and the antiquity of golf.”

The land on which the Old Course sits was declared “common ground” for the people in the 12th century. It is believed that the first written reference to golf being played on the Old Course was a 1552 charter that confirmed the citizens’ rights to use the links for “golfe, futeball, shuting and all games.” It was undoubtedly being played there earlier, however.

Now referred to as the Home of Golf, St. Andrews was known as the “Metropolis of Golfing” in the late 17th century. Henry Cockburn’s 19th century book “Circuit Journeys” said that golf in St. Andrews is “not a mere pastime, but a business and a passion.”

“There is a pretty large set who do nothing else, who begin in the morning and stop only for dinner,” Cockburn wrote, “and who, after practicing the game in the sea breeze all day discuss it all night.”

Those words could easily describe today’s visitors to the town.

A poem from the late 19th century asks, “Would you like to see a city given over, soul and body to a tyrannizing game?” The city is St. Andrews and the game, of course, is golf. More courses were built as the game’s popularity grew. In fact, the Old Course didn’t earn its moniker until St. Andrews’ New Course was completed … in 1895.

The course that remains today bears many similarities to what was played more than a century ago, as the ground of St. Andrews is too sacrosanct to meddle with. Ben Crenshaw called it “the original course” and “the supreme natural test.”

3. EIGHTEEN HOLES

The Old Course became an 18-hole layout in 1764, setting the standard for the game.

Before that, a round at the Old Course consisted of 22 holes. It was laid out on a narrow strip of land that now houses the back nine, consisting of 11 holes that golfers played out toward the Eden Estuary before turning around and retracing their steps back to town.

As the game’s popularity grew, however, that became untenable. The greens were eventually enlarged, allowing two holes to be cut on each putting surface, one for outward play and another for those returning inward. The fairways were widened, as well, allowing for the creation of two nines.

Jack Nicklaus called St. Andrews’ seven “enormous, roller-coaster double greens” the Old Course’s most distinctive feature.

“Although every golf tournament is to some degree a putting contest,” he wrote in his autobiography, “the premium on the short stick at St. Andrews is greater than anywhere else in the championship game.”

Players will face some of the longest putts of their life at the Old Course, and use the putter from well off the greens, as well, in lieu of a 60-degree wedge.

Only the first, ninth, 17th and 18th holes have single greens. The green for the seventh and 11th holes is 112 yards wide, while the shared putting surface for Nos. 6 and 12 is 104 yards wide. The green shared by Nos. 5 and 13 is more than 37,000 square feet.

It’s possible to be on the right green, but on the wrong hole. It happened to David Toms when he was playing with Tiger Woods in Saturday’s final group of the 2000 Open Championship.

“I was so distracted by what was going on that I hit to the wrong pin on the fifth hole,” Toms recalled. “I actually hit to the pin on 13 on one of the double greens. I thought I had hit a great shot and my caddie was like, ‘What are you doing? You just hit it 50 yards left of where we’re trying to go with an 8-iron.’”

The first and 18th holes also share a fairway. It is 129 yards wide, making it the widest in golf. Justin Thomas’ first tee shot as a pro took place on that hole, in the first round of the 2013 Alfred Dunhill Links Championship. It also could have been his last.

“I remember thinking if I miss this fairway, I probably need to retire,” he said. The dual fairway is one of the most famous settings in the game, as players begin and finish their rounds surrounded by the town and in the foreboding shadow of the R&A clubhouse.

4. PRO’S PRO

Many golf fans know about Old Tom Morris and his son, known as Young Tom, but the pro who preceded them at St. Andrews also is important to the game's history, though less well-known than the father-son duo.

That man was Allan Robertson, who is credited with being the first professional golfer and the first man to break 80 on the Old Course, doing so a few months before his death at age 43. He was the undisputed greatest player of his day. It was his death in 1859 that led to The Open debuting the following year, to determine who would assume his place as the game’s best player.

Robertson came from several generations of ballmakers. His father David was the senior caddie for the R&A, as well.

Allan followed in the family business, becoming known not just for his play but his skill at making feathery balls. Making those balls was an arduous process involving feathers being stuffed into the ball with a blunt instrument. Only three or four could be made per day, making them prohibitively expensive. James K. Robertson also credits Allan Robertson with “early improvements to the condition of the Old Course as well as with the general standard of play.”

Old Tom Morris apprenticed under Robertson until a disagreement about the new gutta percha ball, which debuted in 1848. Robertson feared the new ball would put him out of business. He once paid caddies to give him any that they found so that he could burn them.

An argument between Robertson and Morris over Morris’ use of a gutta percha ball in a match led him to start his own shop for making clubs and balls. Three years later, Morris moved to Prestwick. He spent more than a decade there, laying out the course that would host the first 12 Open Championships. He returned to St. Andrews in 1864 after being appointed head greenkeeper, a post he would hold for four decades. He had a radical impact on the course, widening the fairways and putting surfaces and building the first and 18th greens as they are today, according to historian Roger McStravick.

As the popularity of the game grew, and more golfers flocked to the Home of Golf, Morris came to symbolize “all that was finest in the Scottish character and in the ancient Scottish game,” wrote James K. Robertson.

“His kindly, yet capable and gentle nature enshrined him a good many years before his death as the authentic Grand Old Man of Golf,” Robertson continued. “To generations of people all over the world, his name and his picture epitomized golf.”

Another writer referred to him as “The High Priest of the Hierarchy of Professional Golf.”

Old Tom also earned repute with his play, competing in the first 36 Open Championships and winning it four times, just as his son, Young Tom, did. Young Tom was a superstar, recognized as a teen phenom before winning The Open four consecutive times and establishing himself as an unprecedented talent. He won by 11 strokes over 36 holes in 1869 and 12 shots the following year before suffering an untimely death at 24, shortly after his wife and child died in childbirth.

“Suffice to leave it that ‘Young Tom’ was peerless in his day,” wrote James K. Robertson.

Old Tom is the oldest winner in The Open’s history, having won the 1867 Open at 46 years old, a year before Young Tom became the youngest winner in Open history at 17 years old.

5. BIG 1-5-0

St. Andrews’ role in the game makes it a fitting venue for the 150th Open. This is the 30th time The Open has visited the Old Course, the most of any course and nearly twice as many as any modern venue. Prestwick, which hosted the first Open Championship, hosted the last of its 24 Opens in 1925. Muirfield is third on the list, having hosted 16 Opens.

A St. Andrews caddie, Tom Kidd, won the first Open at the Old Course, in 1873, and was the first golfer to receive the Claret Jug. The winners of the first 11 Open Championships held the Challenge Belt for the year following their victory, but it was retired after Young Tom Morris won it for the third year in a row in 1870, a feat that allowed him to keep the belt in perpetuity. With no trophy to award the winner the following year and Prestwick seeking additional venues to host The Open, the tournament was not played in 1871.

It resumed in 1872, with St. Andrews and Musselburgh joining Prestwick as the tournament’s venues. The clubs agreed on a new trophy, the Claret Jug, but it wasn’t ready for that year’s Open, which Young Tom also won. He was awarded a gold medal in lieu of the Jug, which started the tradition of proclaiming The Open’s winner as the Champion Golfer of the Year. That tradition endures today.

The silver pitcher made by Mackay Cunningham & Co. in Edinburgh was first awarded in 1873.

6. ACQUIRED TASTE

Despite its vaunted status in the game, it isn’t always love at first sight for players making their first trip to St. Andrews. The blind shots, hidden bunkers and humps and hollows can quickly frustrate players. But each subsequent trip around the historic grounds reveals more about the course and deepens players’ appreciation.

Mackenzie once wrote that the Old Course’s critics either “have not brains enough or have not played it long enough to appreciate its many virtues.”

George Duncan, winner of the 1920 Open, said that St. Andrews has “a character and features that you can find nowhere else. … You can play a damned good shot and find the ball in a damned bad place. That is the real game of golf.”

Some are shocked by the barren landscape of the Old Course. Sam Snead thought it was an abandoned course when he saw it from his train car as he arrived for the 1946 Open Championship. He went on to win by four.

“Until you play it, St. Andrews looks like the sort of real estate you couldn’t give away,” said Snead.

Curtis Strange said he thought he’d been transplanted to the moon when he first played there. There are no trees, many of the bunkers are not visible off the tee and players face multiple blind shots.

“At first glance, St. Andrews appears under-equipped,” wrote the Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist Jim Murray. “There’s not a tree on it. It’s as wide open as a waterfront saloon. … It relies on its attackers’ overconfidence. … That’s the way golfers are at St. Andrews. The first time. They get less reckless with each succeeding 18 and get downright cautious after they’ve been embarrassed by it a few times.”

Bobby Jones may have been the most famous example of a player whose affection for St. Andrews grew over the years. Jones tore up his scorecard in the third round of the 1921 Open after taking four shots to escape a bunker on the 11th hole. He won The Open at St. Andrews six years later and won the British Amateur there during his Grand Slam season of 1930. He once wrote that he originally considered St. Andrews “the most unfair and one of the worst courses (I) had ever played on.”

“The more I studied the Old Course, the more I loved it,” Jones said, “and the more I loved it, the more I studied it."

His own course, Augusta National, is an inland tribute to St. Andrews.

It was also Jones who told a young Nicklaus that “to be a good golfer is one thing, but to be a great golfer is to win at St. Andrews.” Both Nicklaus and Tiger Woods won twice at St. Andrews. Nicklaus called an Open at the Old Course “the most intriguing and maybe the most demanding challenge in the game.” He said St. Andrews is golf’s toughest course to learn and that “there is nothing like it anywhere else, visually or architecturally.”

Legends like Jones, Snead, Peter Thomson, Bobby Locke, Seve Ballesteros and Nick Faldo have also hoisted the Claret Jug at the Old Course.

“St. Andrews still retains its pristine charm,” wrote Mackenzie. “I doubt if even in a hundred years’ time a course will be made which has such interesting strategic problems and which creates such enduring and increasing pleasurable excitement and varied shots.”

7. TIGER AND JACK

The complete, and unique, examination that St. Andrews presents is best illustrated by the fact that two of the greatest players in the game’s history, Nicklaus and Woods, each won two of their three Open Championships at the Old Course.

“I fell in love with it the first time I played it,” Nicklaus said, though he admits there might have been some youthful rebellion behind that opinion. His father, Charlie, gave St. Andrews a negative review after playing it with friends years earlier.

“Of course, they three-putted 13, 14, 15 greens,” Nicklaus said, “and they didn’t have a very good time because they didn’t understand the golf course.”

Nicklaus was runner-up to Tony Lema in his first Open at St. Andrews. The winds he faced in those first two rounds – including gusts exceeding 60 mph – were among the worst he faced in his Open career, he later wrote.

“It was sometimes a struggle to remain standing, never mind swing a golf club,” he said. “As the compass has 360 degrees, so there are that many wind directions at St. Andrews. Worse yet, they frequently seem to change every few minutes.”

The prevailing wind blows to the golfer’s right on the Old Course’s outward holes, which made it difficult for Nicklaus and his trademark fade in his debut. Six years later, a slight adjustment to his setup paid dividends. He closed the clubface at address to apply hook spin to his tee shots, a tweak that he admitted he was reluctant to make.

“The technique worked beautifully immediately,” Nicklaus wrote in his autobiography about the 1970 Open at St. Andrews, “reminding me that, yet again, no matter how long or well you play, there’s always something new to learn about the game of golf.”

Nicklaus also was the beneficiary of one of the great gaffes in major history, as Doug Sanders missed a 2-foot putt on the final hole of regulation. Nicklaus went on to beat him in a playoff. And eight years later, Nicklaus won by two strokes over Crenshaw, Raymond Floyd, Tom Kite and Simon Owen.

Nicklaus’ appreciation for St. Andrews’ role in the game is why he chose to make it the scene of his final Open … twice. He originally intended to play the majors for the final time in 2000, but he returned to Scotland five years later for one last major championship.

Nicklaus’ farewells coincided with Woods’ wins, as he was victorious by a combined 13 shots in the 2000 and 2005 Opens. The eight-shot win at St. Andrews came on the heels of his 15-shot triumph in the 2000 U.S. Open. He famously did not hit his ball in any of St. Andrews’ 112 bunkers that week.

Woods’ score of 19 under par broke the record Nick Faldo had set at St. Andrews a decade earlier for lowest 72-hole score in relation to par at a major. Woods’ instructor at the time, Butch Harmon, said that Woods’ performance in St. Andrews that year was “the greatest ball-striking exhibition I’ve ever seen, and perhaps the greatest in history.”

That is high praise, considering Harmon watched Ben Hogan practice with his father before becoming an instructor to many of the top players in the game himself. Harmon watched Woods warm up for the first round by peppering the 300-yard sign on St. Andrews’ practice tee.

“Every shot – low fades, high draws and boring straight shots – flew over the center of the sign, bisecting the zero,” Harmon wrote in his book “The Pro.” “Most players would have been happy to hit it somewhere near the sign. … Tiger expected to hit every drive over that zero.”

Woods returned five years later to win by five shots.

“That’s how golf is meant to be played,” Woods said of St. Andrews. “You have to think. You have to think about your placement. … You have to picture a trajectory and shape and try to hit that.”

8. THE LOOP

Most links courses head ‘out’ and then ‘in,’ running in parallel tracks away from and back toward the clubhouse. The Old Course also goes ‘around’ in the middle of the round. It’s a famed stretch of holes known as ‘The Loop.’ One newspaper account describes those six holes as “a short, confusing stretch that yields birdies and, if one is not alert, bruises.” That’s most visible on the par-3 11th, where players walking from the tee to the green pass through the line of play for the par-4 seventh. The two holes also share a green.

“The Loop” is a circular stretch of holes out by the Eden Estuary that turns the Old Course back toward the Ol’ Gray Toon. “The Loop” is the site of the course’s only two par-3s, Nos. 8 and 11, and the longest of the four par-4s in that stretch is just 372 yards (the others are 356, 342 and 312 yards long). Depending on the wind, several of the par-4s are drivable, and it represents the most scorable stretch on the golf course.

9. LANDMARK ATTRACTIONS

There are more than 110 bunkers at St. Andrews and many of them are memorable not just for their size and depth, but also their names. A player will look at a bunker one day and then question its purpose. Then on the next day, when the wind blows from a different direction, he will be able to answer his own question. Alister Mackenzie wrote, “The bunkers at St. Andrews are thus placed in positions where players are most likely to go, in fact in the precise positions which the ordinary green committee would suggest should be filled up.”

The traps have names like Kitchen, Cottage, the Seven Sisters and Hell, as well as the Principal’s Nose and Spectacles.

“The strategy of this golf course is to respect the bunkers,” said Faldo, who hit it into just one when he won at St. Andrews in 1990. “Anything can happen. You get under the lip and you have to come out backwards or … you can’t even get to it.”

Said Irish legend Christy O’Connor Jr., “Bunkers should be a hazard. They are a hazard here at St. Andrews.”

The Hell bunker – which is some 300 square yards and 10 feet deep – forces players to make a choice on the Old Course’s longest hole. They can either fly over the bunker to get near or on the green or play to stay short. The bunker is so deep that players cannot see out of it. Jack Nicklaus needed four swings to escape in 1995, en route to a 10 on the hole.

“I tried to go sideways every time,” Nicklaus said. “I was just trying to get out. I couldn’t get out. I certainly don’t want to visit it again. I guess that’s why they call it Hell.”

Next to it is the small bunker known as Pulpit, so named because you can see Hell from there.

In 2015, the last time The Open was played at the Old Course, the 14th hole was one of just eight par-5s on the entire TOUR to play over par that year. It isn’t just the bunkers on No. 14 that have nicknames. The wide expanse of fairway right of the Beardies bunkers is known as the Elysian Fields, named for the final resting place of the heroic and virtuous in Greek mythology. The fairway is so named because it takes a bold drive between those penal pot bunkers and an out-of-bounds wall to reach it.

Because the Old Course used to be played in both directions (clockwise and its current counterclockwise routing), some of the bunkers are not visible from the tee in the current configuration. It is most evident on the 12th hole, where the sneaky fairway bunkers face the green.

The closing holes feature a couple of the course’s most famous bunkers. The Principal’s Nose is a cluster of three bunkers on the 16th hole, while the Road Bunker is, in Nicklaus’ words, “a terrifying pot bunker eating deep into the green’s left side.”

Tommy Nakajima famously needed four attempts to escape it in 1978 after putting his ball into the bunker, and David Duval made an 8 on the hole after also taking four swings in the bunker while playing alongside Woods in Sunday’s final group in 2000.

The 17th hole was the toughest on the entire TOUR in 2015, playing to a 4.66 scoring average.

There isn’t a bunker on St. Andrews’ final hole, but its green is guarded by another of the Old Course’s landmarks. The Valley of Sin is a deep depression that guards the left side of the green.

Sean Martin manages PGATOUR.COM’s staff of writers as the Lead, Editorial. He covered all levels of competitive golf at Golfweek Magazine for seven years, including tournaments on four continents, before coming to the PGA TOUR in 2013. Follow Sean Martin on Twitter .

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• Listen to the secrets about the Metro-2, a secret line supposedly used by the government and KGB;
• Experience a selection of most striking features of Moscow Metro hidden from most tourists and even locals;
• Discover the underground treasure of Russian Soviet past – from mosaics to bronzes, paintings, marble arches, stained glass and even paleontological elements;
• Learn fun stories and myths about Coffee Ring, Zodiac signs of Moscow Metro and more;
• Admire Soviet-era architecture of pre- and post- World War II perious;
• Enjoy panoramic views of Sparrow Hills from Luzhniki Metro Bridge – MetroMost, the only station of Moscow Metro located over water and the highest station above ground level;
• If lucky, catch a unique «Aquarelle Train» – a wheeled picture gallery, brightly painted with images of peony, chrysanthemums, daisies, sunflowers and each car unit is unique;
• Become an expert at navigating the legendary Moscow Metro system;
• Have fun time with a very friendly local;
• + Atmospheric Metro lunch in Moscow’s the only Metro Diner (included in a 3-hr tour)

Hotel Pick-up

Metro stations:.

Komsomolskaya

Novoslobodskaya

Prospekt Mira

Belorusskaya

Mayakovskaya

Novokuznetskaya

Revolution Square

Sparrow Hills

+ for 3-hour tour

Victory Park

Slavic Boulevard

Vystavochnaya

Dostoevskaya

Elektrozavodskaya

Partizanskaya

Museum of Moscow Metro

• Drop-off  at your hotel, Novodevichy Convent, Sparrow Hills or any place you wish
• + Russian lunch  in Metro Diner with artistic metro-style interior for 3-hour tour

Fun facts from our Moscow Metro Tours:

From the very first days of its existence, the Moscow Metro was the object of civil defense, used as a bomb shelter, and designed as a defense for a possible attack on the Soviet Union.

At a depth of 50 to 120 meters lies the second, the coded system of Metro-2 of Moscow subway, which is equipped with everything you need, from food storage to the nuclear button.

According to some sources, the total length of Metro-2 reaches over 150 kilometers.

The Museum was opened on Sportivnaya metro station on November 6, 1967. It features the most interesting models of trains and stations.

Coffee Ring

The first scheme of Moscow Metro looked like a bunch of separate lines. Listen to a myth about Joseph Stalin and the main brown line of Moscow Metro.

Zodiac Metro

According to some astrologers, each of the 12 stops of the Moscow Ring Line corresponds to a particular sign of the zodiac and divides the city into astrological sector.

Astrologers believe that being in a particular zadiac sector of Moscow for a long time, you attract certain energy and events into your life.

Paleontological finds 

Red marble walls of some of the Metro stations hide in themselves petrified inhabitants of ancient seas. Try and find some!

• Every day each car in  Moscow metro passes  more than 600 km, which is the distance from Moscow to St. Petersburg.
• Moscow subway system is the  5th in the intensity  of use (after the subways of Beijing, Tokyo, Seoul and Shanghai).
• The interval in the movement of trains in rush hour is  90 seconds .

What you get:

• + A friend in Moscow.
• + Private & customized Moscow tour.
• + An exciting pastime, not just boring history lessons.
• + An authentic experience of local life.
• + Flexibility during the walking tour: changes can be made at any time to suit individual preferences.
• + Amazing deals for breakfast, lunch, and dinner in the very best cafes & restaurants. Discounts on weekdays (Mon-Fri).
• + A photo session amongst spectacular Moscow scenery that can be treasured for a lifetime.
• + Good value for souvenirs, taxis, and hotels.
• + Expert advice on what to do, where to go, and how to make the most of your time in Moscow.

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