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Top 100 links golf courses in GB&I: 7 - Old Course, St Andrews

Top 100 links golf courses in GB&I: 7 – Old Course, St Andrews

We take a closer look at St Andrews' Old Course in our top 100 list of links golf courses in GB&I
 

For information about our top 100 list panellists CLICK HERE
To find how how we conducted the test CLICK HERE

7. Old Course, St Andrews
Fife, Scotland

Fact File:
Par: 72
Yards: 7,250
Designer: Old Tom Morris
Address: St Andrews (Old) Golf Club, Pilmour House, St Andrews, Fife, KY16 9SF
Full course review: CLICK HERE

What our panellists said:

CC: The greatest experience in golf. 

JN: I’ve played the Old just four or five times, enough not to begin to understand it but enough to see that it is possible for it to be understood. I don’t feel the Old Course is for me to judge; it was the game and will be the game and it’s there to be accepted and to judge me, not the other way round.

JM: The best golf experience in the world.

KE: The most exciting place to play golf in the world. The course plays very differently in different conditions.

RM: I never tire of playing the Old Course. Its influence on golf course design makes it the number one links course for many architects.

Commentary: Where do you start? As Alister MacKenzie writes in The Spirit of St Andrews, the Old Course continues to reveal new subtleties every single time you play it.

For information about our top 100 list panellists CLICK HERE
To find how how we conducted the test CLICK HERE

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