Posts about: st. andrews

T&L Golf published an interesting review of the new Castle Course – the 7th course owned by the links trust in St. Andrews. David McLay Kidd won the coveted design commission to build a seventh course at St. Andrews and was soon beset by fears that the links he produced would bore people. “I hammered [...]

Ahhh, the mother of them all – the Old Course at St. Andrews. We were fortunate to play the Old Course at St. Andrews twice on our trip – and it was well worth the wait. It was even more fun the second time once we knew some of the nuances of the course (left [...]

Upon arriving in St. Andrews the first thing we did was make a turn to have a quick peak over the St. Andrews links. This truly felt like higher ground and we could feel the aura eminating from all corners.

Playing the Old Course at St. Andrews in the penultimate, the icing on the cake for any great golf trip to Scotland. Who doesn’t want to play it? Well, the tougher question is – how do you get a tee time? There are many options, but in most cases there are no guarantees (we are [...]

It’s the ultimate in history. Every golfer wants to have his picture taken on the Swilcan Bridge at St. Andrews Old Course. Our newest contributor here at OntGolf.ca Alan McDonell from Angus Glen has started a great new series – 10 things a Golfer Should Do – and in his first installment he writes an [...]

A wonderful video montage of the Home of Golf – St. Andrews, Scotland.

After his 2004 trip to Scotland OntGolf editor Robert Thompson took readers on a wonderful tour of Crail Golf Club. A quirky but delightful course, Crail hugs the ocean and as we see in the photo above, the local (walled) landscape as well. Robert talks about his visit – tour of Crail golf club.

Over at Ian Andrew’s “Caddy Shack” blog is a great story on Ian’s recent round at the Old Course (Apr 5, ’08). Interesting to see the course from the perspective of an experienced architect (one that made a par 4 on the 17th no less). The course interestingly picks up momentum as it goes. I [...]

My friends and I are a little less than a month away from our trip right now. Hard to believe! With that I thought I’d give you a quick rundown of our itinerary and some of the thinking and planning that went into it. First off you’ll notice that our 9-day trip basically fell into [...]