Fife and Angus Golf Tour - Day 3

The new and the ancient: Kingsbarns & St. Andrews

Since its opening in 2000, Kingsbarns Links has shot to stardom as one of the world's outstanding courses.

The sea is in play for more than half the course, which offers majestic and memorable views of the sea surging against a rugged and rocky foreshore.

The Old Course at St Andrews is the most famous course in world golf and the Mecca to which every golfer aspires to make pilgrimage at least once in a golfing lifetime.

The Old Course is the classic seaside links although the sea is seldom in view. The fairways are wide and the double greens immense but the bunkering is among the most severe anywhere. The bunkers, once described by Bernard Darwin as 'these greedy, lurking enemies', are the key to survival on this mystical links.

There is nothing at all 'new' about the New Course. It was laid out by Old Tom Morris in 1895 and originally intended as a relief course for the Old, by then struggling to keep pace with demand. Tight fairways lined by thick gorse, subtle greens and four of the most testing par three holes in golf are its hallmarks.

The Jubilee Course was originally opened as a 12-hole layout in 1897 and was extended to 18 holes in 1905. It is considered by some to be the toughest of the St Andrews courses. It was used alongside the Old Course for the Amateur Championship in 2004, the R&A's 250th anniversary year.

Stay in the famous university town of St. Andrews, which is a popular destination not only for golfers but for tourists from all over the world.

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