St Andrews Golf Tours
- Scotland's Finest Golf Courses
St
Andrews Golf Tours Proudly Present - St Andrews Old
Course. St Andrews Old Course can be incorporated into
your Scotland Golf Vacation.
The links land that forms the Old Course is the
unaltered ground on which it has been played by golfers
for centuries. Changing winds produce a Course which
rarely plays the same way on two consecutive days, with
wide fairways and 7 double greens unique in the game
today, it requires a calm mind, patience, and responds
to respect more than to power.
In its early layout, the Old Course had 12 holes, 10 of
which were played both out and in, making a total of 22
holes. As play increased, the first four holes (all of
which were played twice) were combined in 1764 to make
two holes, leaving a total of 18 holes. Over time, this
became the standard number of holes for courses all over
the world. Around 1863,
Old Tom Morris had the 1st green separated
from the 17th green, producing the current 18-hole
layout with seven double greens.
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