Course Description

St Andrews New Course  - At over 100 years old, this is the oldest new course in the world! This championship course offers many of the renowned features of the Old Course, rolling greens undulating fairways, hidden greens and thick gorse regarded by many as more difficult than ‘The Old'. 18 Built in 1895 in response to the growing demands on the Old Course, the New Course was commissioned by the R&A, designed by Blyth and laid out by Old Tom Morris. It is a classic links course with great skill designed to exploit the natural topography. It is built over flat open-spaced ground with many undulations and depressions. Sandy soil and coarse grasses dominate the course. Interestingly some of the fairways and greens are actually shared amongst the holes. Some say that the reputation of the Old Course has caused the magnificence of the New Course to be one of golf's best kept secrets. Par 71, 6604 yards