THE TEE times +44 (0)1334 474371 • Your Free Copy • #WeAreOpen • www.oldcoursehotel.co.uk Get Married in the This Christmas, we have Home of Golf the Bear Necessities! See inside for wonderful wedding packages! Look inside to discover the magic of Christmas. Page 8 Page 4 Wave Goodbye … Say Hello! Welcome overlooking the Old Course. You’ll play 18 Some of the greatest holes on the resort’s names in a generation of own Championship golf are saying farewell to Duke’s course as well as St Andrews at the 144th 18 on one of the Links Open. Tom Watson, Sir courses*. You have full Nick Faldo and Bernhard use of the world class Langer all wave goodbye Kohler Waters Spa this July – and will be throughout. Prices are joined by Ivor Robson from £395.00 per room who has been the first per night. tee announcer at every Open since 1974. The resort has teamed up with The St Andrews But just as these greats Links Trust and are departing, you have Kingsbarns Links to the chance to plan your bring you the ultimate return to the home of break: play the Old The Swilcan Bridge will witness some of the fondest farewells in golf with a collection Course, either the New or The Open’s history this year. of golf breaks at the Jubilee, Kingsbarns and five red-star Old Course our own Championship Hotel, Golf Resort & Spa, Duke’s Course during designed to entice you a three night stay with winter? Cold: as it guarantees are all included. For more information, HOTEL & back to St Andrews later breakfasts, two dinners maybe. But play on the Prices start at please call the resort’s this year. and a Spa treatment all the town has a Old Course £425.00 per reservations on +44 JIGGER INN included. This is Suite microclimate within a two- person, based (0)1334 468001 The Boys’ (or Girls’) Golf and is priced from making it drier night package. on two sharing. or drop an email ACCESS Golfing Getaway is a than many Dinner on both Subject to £2,400.00 per person. to reservations@ Throughout The Open, only guests fabulous two-night parts of the evenings, three availability. oldcoursehotel.co.uk with appropriate badged access stay including the Many find it strange that UK. As a result, rounds of golf will be able to enter the hotel and its grounds. Our pro-shop selling Open * Please note: Links course play hotel’s famous full St Andrews is a year the Winter and full access merchandise and souvenirs remains is dependent on availability; The Scottish breakfast on round resort – surely its Passport is a to the award- open. Hams Hame Pub & Grill & The Castle & Old are subject to a Duke’s Clubhouse are both open to each morning, served too cold and wet in the popular choice winning Spa supplement. the public for the duration of the Championship. BIRDIE? EAGLE? #SANDWEDGESELFIE We want to see you at The the five red-star resort. WHOLE IN ONE! Open – and we want to see you Be sure to use the hashtag Golfers and food don’t make the news that often. You may occasionally see a pro bite enjoying Scotland’s finest! #SandWedgeSelfie if you are on a banana during a round ... and they always wax lyrical over the Champions’ Dinner snapping photos of food – and if at each year’s Masters. Take a snap and share it on you also use #StAndrews in any Facebook, Twitter, Instagram messages, we know many of our They have very different takes on what makes the best golfers’ meal. The feedback or Vine – and share with @ partners in town will pick up and on Augusta is that steak, chicken and seafood are the favourites. Hams Hame Pub OldCourseHotel – and you could share the fun too! & Grill – right behind the 18th green – has listened. They have created ‘grab and go’ win some Tee Times surprises foods that will be available throughout The Open (6.30am – 9.30pm). during the Championship - care of GET A GRIP! CHOOSE YOUR CLUB! ALL DAY ROLLS - £9.00 BREAKFAST ROLLS – £5.00 The Birdie – spiced chicken fillet with crisp Local Bacon lettuce, pepper chutney and garlic mayo. Classic Scottish Lorne Sausage The (Sea!) Eagle – a fillet of fresh fish served with baby gem lettuce, lemon mayo and Sausages from Balgove Farm gherkins. Haggis made by our local butcher The Whole In One – our chef’s beef burger Orkney Black Pudding served with onions, crisp lettuce, mayo and our scrumptious burger relish. AIM FOR THE CUP! Hams Hame is also serving classic Caesar- As a super healthy alternative, Hams Hame style Chicken Wraps (£6.00) as well as The is serving Granola Cups (£4.00) – with Slam – their soup of the day (£5.00). fresh yogurt and summer berries, picked on nearby farms in the Kingdom of Fife. www.oldcoursehotel.co.uk • twitter.com/oldcoursehotel • facebook.com/oldcoursehotel • +44(0)1334 474371 2 // 2015 THERAPY TO A TEE Have you discovered the world class Kohler Waters Spa? THE HOME IN THE ‘HOME OF GOLF’ Located in the five red-star Old Course Hotel, Golf Resort & Spa, it offers a fantastic array of treatments and therapies Hamilton Grand, the iconic red in The Open Championship Renamed ‘Hamilton Grand’ that are perfect for the summer. sandstone building overlooking right up until the Second World - in memory of its founder Their new, seasonal ‘Vitamin D Fortified Facial’ is 50 the Old Course’s 18th green, War. – it underwent a three- luxurious minutes of topical Vitamin D treatment that has provided the backdrop year restoration project, hydrates and strengthens your skin. The ‘Resurfacing to some of the most famous In 1942, the Air Ministry recapturing the property’s Transformation Pedicure’ is just what you need to prep moments in the history of golf requisitioned it. Shortly after Victorian grandeur. It has been your toes for summer. Using a glycolic solution alongside - from HRH Edward, Prince of the War, the University of St transformed into a collection of the new technologies of the Pedisonic Brush System, your feet are treated to a full resurfacing treatment, and Wales ‘playing in’ as The R&A Andrews bought the building. 26 homes of distinction. a luxurious polish leaves you ready to step straight into Captain in 1922 to Seve’s great For 56 years, it served as summer sandals. birdie putt to win the 1984 student accommodation. The Its location and offering are unique: set by the 18th green Available from Monday 20th July 2015 Open Championship. University sold it in 2005 and, after one failed redevelopment, of the world’s most famous When it was being built at the the property fell into serious golf course and adjacent to end of the 19th century, the disrepair. the revered Royal & Ancient Old Course was massively Golf Club. For golfers, it is the oversubscribed. The size and In 2009, it was acquired ultimate residential address scale of St Andrews’ newest by Kohler Co., owners of and a dream made true. hotel prompted the R&A to the neighbouring five red- And, from the spectacular build the New Course, which star Old Course Hotel, Golf open deck on the 7th floor, it in turn led to the Links Act - Resort & Spa. A year of public provides – in the words of the ensuring unparalleled access consultation and planning voice of golf, Peter Alliss – “the to world-class golf for all. The followed. best view in golf”. Grand’s very existence had changed not only the face of St Visit www.hamiltongrand.co.uk I SAY, I SAY, Andrews but also the face of for more information the game. I SAY … The hotel rose to stardom. It was the first building in Scotland to have a pneumatic elevator connecting every floor – and the first Scottish hotel to have hot and cold water running in every room. It was ‘grand’ on every scale. In the early 20th century, it welcomed high society – royalty and statesmen plus celebrities of the era, including Mary Astor, Douglas Fairbanks, Rudyard Kipling and Bing Crosby. It also housed the US Walker and Curtis Cup Teams and hosted How good are you at recognizing great quotations? every major player competing Below are some of the best on golf – but we have muddled up the names of those who said them. Can you match the right quote with the person who said it? HISTORY IN THE MAKING A. Golf is deceptively simple and endlessly complicated. In 1812, Hugh Philip and underneath is Hams B. The object of golf is not just to win. It is to play like once made his elegant Hame Pub & Grill. a gentleman, and win. gooseneck clubs for the members of the Make sure you visit C. If you watch a game, it’s fun. If you play it, it’s Society of St Andrews Hams Hame. You will be recreation. If you work at it, it’s golf. Golfers in a cottage just on the very spot of the first golf club, the ‘Union D. The next time I cry about golf it will only be with joy. behind the 18th green. In 1835, the same cottage Parlour’ where pioneers It’s not worth crying over golf for any other reason. of the game shared After all, it’s only a game. became the Union Club – providing a ‘parlour’ for companionship and E. Reverse every natural instinct and do the opposite golfers. exchanged tales of their of what you are inclined to do, and you will probably Old Course experiences.