St Andrews Castle Course Opening 2008

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Peter Mason, Project Manager of the new St Andrews Castle Course, proudly shows off an aeriel photo of St Andrews Links seventh golf course, scheduled for a 2008 debut. St. Andrews Links refers to more than the legendary St. Andrews Old Course. It actually comprises six golf courses (all of them public by the way!). They are, in order of the date they were opened--the venerable Old Course (around 1500?), the New Course (1895), Jubilee Course (turn of the century--the 19th century!), Eden Course (1914), and the relatively new Strathtyrum Course and Balgove Course. All of these golf courses are managed and maintained by a charitable trust set up by an act of Parliament--the St Andrews Links Trust. Because of all the popularity of these golf courses--especially the Old Course which hosts about 42,000 rounds a year--the St Andrews Links Trust decided to build a seventh golf course--The Castle Course. As you can see from the photo above, it is spectacularly situated high on the cliffs above the town of St. Andrews. Time, of course, will tell, but The Castle Course could turn out to be yet another "must play" in the area. More on this new course as construction progresses.