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It is difficult to say more than the words
of legend Bobby Jones... "The more I studied the
Old Course, the more I loved it and the more I
loved it, the more I studied it, so that I came
to feel that it was, for me, the most favourable
meeting ground possible for an important
contest". A place in the world that has resisted
change, the natural linksland that forms the Old
Course can be played today in the same form in
which it has been played by golfers for
centuries. Exposed to the natural elements, a
course which rarely plays the same way on two
consecutive days, with wide double fairways and
greens unique in the game today, but requiring
patience, accuracy and above all respect.
Designed By Old Tom Morris in 1894, the New
Course adjoins the Old, snaking out to the Eden
Estuary, before providing some of the most
difficult finishing holes in golf with the
skyline of St. Andrews as the backdrop. Host to
many Amateur Championships, the New Course is a
well structured links course, with fast running
fairways, strategic bunkering, and where
accuracy from the tee is well rewarded
From the medal tees, the Jubilee is considered
by many locals the toughest course on the St.
Andrews Links. Closest to the West Sands and
North Sea, the Jubilee requires straight hitting
to generally narrower fairways often bordered by
Gorse and rough. A classic linksland course,
again characterised by demanding finishing
holes, the Jubilee is a much underrated links
and will not disappoint.
Just 6 miles from St. Andrews nestled on East
Neuk of Fife Kingsbarns is fast earning its
reputation as a demanding and scenically
spectacular modern Links. Set in a bowl on two
levels, the course presents marvelous vistas,
generous fairways, strategically placed
bunkering and beautifully contoured greens with
all the character of a traditional links. The
North Sea features prominently on every hole and
optional tees are offered to the visiting
golfer. Kingsbarns is a serious golf course
development and is being likened in stature to
some of the most highly rated golf courses in
the World. We know you'll enjoy your day here.
It's not often we remember the runner-up of an
Open Championship perhaps more than the winner
but the Frenchman Jean Van De Velde will long be
remembered as the most famous casualty of what
many believe to be the most difficult links
course in the World.
How many of the World's leading golfers would
reflect on what might have been in the aftermath
of the 1999 Open Championship at Carnoustie as
one bye one they faultered to the demands of
this wonderful links. But perhaps the most
significant statistic from the Open Championship
of 1999 was the low round of the day by the
tournaments ultimate winner, Scotlands Paul
Lawrie, who with patience and a magnificent
display of iron play etched his name beside the
former great Carnoustie champions......Hogan,
Player and Watson.
If location is the key requirement
to your accommodation in St. Andrews then Rusacks Hotel situated on the 1st and 18th
Fairways of the Old Course may just be the
answer.
This traditional hotel provides a special
environment where guests can feel the real
essence of golf, stay in beautifully appointed
rooms in the past having been occupied by the
greats of the game, walk the corridors adorned
with golfing memorabilia, or simply take a quiet
drink from
the guest cocktail lounge and watch the changing
moods of the Old Course as the sun sets across
it's fairways.
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