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2017 FifeThe home of golf The Perfect 18 The very best golf holes in the ‘Kingdom’ Where it Began All you need to know about golf’s birthplace www.visitfifegolf.com 2017 FifeThe home of golf The Perfect 18 The very best golf holes in the ‘Kingdom’ Where it Began All you need to know about golf’s birthplace www.visitfifegolf.com 2017 FifeThe home of golf The Perfect 18 The very best golf holes in the ‘Kingdom’ Where it Began All you need to know about golf’s birthplace www.visitfifegolf.com 2017 FifeThe home of golf The Perfect 18 The very best golf holes in the ‘Kingdom’ Where it Began All you need to know about golf’s birthplace www.visitfifegolf.com 2017 FifeThe home of golf The Perfect 18 The very best golf holes in the ‘Kingdom’ Where it Began All you need to know about golf’s birthplace www.visitfifegolf.com 2017 FifeThe home of golf The Perfect 18 The very best golf holes in the ‘Kingdom’ Where it Began All you need to know about golf’s birthplace www.visitfifegolf.com Links with History A unique opportunity to play five of the world’s most historic championship golf courses Play 5 golfing jewels set in the Kingdom of Fife Links with History is a unique golf pass offering the opportunity to play top quality championship golf at great value. Developed by four of Scotland’s leading golf clubs, the pass provides a ‘one-stop-shop’ to book and play rounds of golf at special rate green fees on these historic venues. Links with History brings together Crail Golfing Society, Ladybank, Lundin and Scotscraig golf clubs, three of which have been Open Championship Final Qualifying venues. These clubs are among the oldest in the world and enjoy a rich golfing heritage. They are all within a short driving distance at the Home of Golf at St Andrews making the pass the ideal way to experience playing on some true golfing treasures. The Links with History golf pass offers: Four historic golf clubs offering five top class championshipgolf courses to choose from Special green fee rates Short travelling distance between the courses Maximum convenience when planning your golfing break Professional advice and assistance Get Social Links with History Bookings To keep up to speed with our latest news t: +44 (0)1382 553130 and offers or to share your feedback, thoughts, pictures and comments follow e: [email protected] us on Facebook and Twitter. online www.linkswithhistory.com ©Copyright Links with History. All rights reserved Welcome to ‘The Kingdom’ Contents 4 Map of Fife 6 St Andrews 12 Close to 'Home' 16 Gateway to the Kingdom 20 Play the Perfect Round 28 Ladies First 30 Looking After the Future 32 Where to Play 45 Where to Stay 48 Away from the Golf Course Ladybank Photography/Cartographics: Harper Collins, Mark Alexander, Iain Lowe, David J Whyte, VisitScotland, Fotolia, Dave Cannon, Getty Images, Shutterstock, www.golftravellers.com, Fairmont St Andrews, Saline GC, Scotscraig GC, or golfers the world over, courses spread across six of the Kingarrock Hickory GC. there is nowhere that seven Continents and more than Published for and on behalf of: Fife Golf Partnership compares to Fife. It is golf’s 60 million active players around Published by: PSP Media Group Ltd, Fown Mecca, pure and simple. the world. PSP House, 50 High Craighall Rd, Glasgow G4 9UD Affectionately known as ‘The For the vast majority of those Tel: 0141 353 2222 - to view the full PSP portfolio visit: pspmediagroup.com Kingdom’ and located between people, Fife is the centre of Cover: xxxxxxxxxxxx the Firths of Forth and Tay, with the golfing universe and the inland boundaries to Perth & axis around which the game, Kinross and Clackmannanshire, from the grassroots level to the it is internationally recognised professional arena, rotates. as the birthplace of the game, That’s why this guide exists. It which explains why hundreds of has been created to showcase thousands of tourists visit it each the very best of the region, its year. courses, its places and its other There is evidence that golf non-golfing landmarks and has been played on the links of attractions to help you get the Disclaimer: The information in this brochure St Andrews, the main golfing hub very most out of your visit. From is provided in good faith and Fife Golf Partnership can take no responsibility within the region, since the 16th phone numbers, to websites, to for any errors, changes to dates or cancellations, please check before century. the pick of the places to play travelling. The information was correct at time of going to press. Since those early beginnings, and stay, you’ll find it all in here, it has become a truly international leaving you to go forth, explore sport with more than 31,000 and enjoy. www.visitfifegolf.com 3 Key to map symbols 1 39 13 48 4344 47 41 46 40 45 42 28 12 50 18 22 Golf courses 24 29 Aberdour Ladybank 10 11 1 29 Anstruther Leslie 19 2 30 3 Auchterderran 31 Leven Links 4 Balbirnie Park 32 Lochgelly Burntisland Lochore Meadows 35 7 5 33 2 6 Canmore 34 Lundin 25 38 34 30 4 Charleton Lundin Ladies 26 21 16 7 35 Cluny Pitreavie 31 17 8 36 9 Cowdenbeath, Dora 37 Saline 10 Crail, Balcomie Links 38 Scoonie 8 49 11 Crail, Craighead Links 39 Scotscraig 33 3 12 Cupar 40 St Andrews, 32 15 13 Drumoig The Duke’s 9 14 Dunfermline, 41 St Andrews Links, 37 27 Pitfirrane Balgove 6 15 Dunnikier Park 42 St Andrews Links, The Castle 16 Elie St Andrews Links, 14 17 Elie Sports Club 43 20 5 23 Eden 18 Elmwood 36 1 St Andrews Links, Falkland 44 19 Jubilee 20 Forrester Park 45 St Andrews Links, 21 Glenrothes New Kingarrock Hickory 22 46 St Andrews Links, 23 Kinghorn Old 24 Kingsbarns 47 St Andrews Links, 25 Kinross, Bruce Strathtyrum 26 Kinross, Montgomery 48 St Michaels 27 Kirkcaldy 49 Thornton Golf 28 The Kittocks, 50 The Torrance, Fairmont St Andrews Fairmont St Andrews 4 www.visitfifegolf.com www.visitfifegolf.com 5 St AndrewsThe Home of Golf St Andrews Links, Old Course very story begins of the town’s total population in the main by Mother Experience somewhere. For golf and it was during their time Nature herself, and lying as we know and love studying there that the Duke adjacent to the famous West world-class Eit, that ‘somewhere’ is St and Duchess of Cambridge Sands beach, which itself golf in the Andrews. first met. was featured in the Oscar- Named after Saint Still, for all that, St winning film Chariots Of Fire. town where Andrew the Apostle, the Andrews is even more It is impossible to one-time royal burgh sits on famous the world over as overstate either the historical it all began the east coast of Fife, ten the home of golf and the significance or enduring centuries ago. miles southeast of Dundee cradle of the game. It was importance of the Old and approximately 30 miles here, in the 16th century, Course. It has hosted more It is a simply northeast of Edinburgh. that the world’s first-ever Open Championships than Acknowledged as one course was completed on any other course on the rota, unforgettable of the world’s leading common ground within the having staged golf’s oldest experience. academic hubs, it is home town boundaries. Indeed, professional tournament to the oldest university in the Old Course, as we 29 times to date, and it Scotland, as well as the know it today, can trace its features some of golf’s most third oldest in the English- earliest recorded beginnings celebrated features. The speaking world. During to the mid-1500s. Starting Swilcan Bridge and ‘Road term time, students at the and ending in the town, the Hole’ bunker are two such University of St Andrews course occupies a dramatic, examples. The course was Old Course account for almost one third natural piece of land, carved also the standard-bearer 6 www.visitfifegolf.com www.visitfifegolf.com 7 St Andrews Links, Jubilee for the 18-hole composition of golf courses Morris Sr, better known to golfers around – it originally comprised 22 holes but was the world as ‘Old Tom Morris’. Affectionately reconfigured to 18 in the mid-19th century – regarded as the ‘grandfather’ of the modern whilst the sport’s administrative body, the R&A, game, Morris was born and raised in St has its headquarters right next to the course. Andrews and went on to become one of the Understandably, the demand for tee times sport’s great pioneers, both on and off the golf on the course is exceptionally high throughout course. A prolific designer, he is responsible for the year and are, therefore, largely distributed many of the country’s most esteemed layouts, by public ballot – entirely appropriate with the New being a particularly fine example considering that the course itself remains a of his work. public layout. Get your name in the draw prior The Jubilee, named in honour of Queen to 2pm two days before you intend to play Victoria’s 50 years as Britain’s monarch in 1897, and you could enjoy the experience and the was originally intended for women golfers thrill of a lifetime on this most special of golf and beginners but, following a significant courses. The world ‘iconic’ is often misused modernisation in the 1980s, it is now the these days but, in the case of the Old Course, longest – and, in many people’s opinion, the it is almost an understatement.