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The St Andrews Old
Course Hotel- Luxury Golf Vacation Destinations Provided By
Scotland Luxury Golf Tours.
The Hotel:
There is no more
spectacular location in all of St Andrews. This fine resort
Hotel overlooks the perfectly preserved acres of its
namesake, the Old Course, and
across to the West Sands and the sea beyond. It's an
elegantly informal haven of luxury, warm hospitality and
exquisite dining.
The Old Course Hotel
has been lavishly refurbished and features 144 beautiful
rooms, including 35 stunning suites. Twenty three of the
suites have been completely redesigned with sumptuous
interiors by star French designer Jacques Garcia think rich,
red, divine opulence. The Old Course suites feature
silk-lined walls, while many of the rooms have private
balconies with picture-postcard views of the Old Course and
the town of St Andrews.
Many of the suites
feature the distinctive Kohler bathroom products, including
the Kohler chromatherapy (colour therapy) baths.
The Golf Course:
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 (the
Royal & Ancient’s Keeper of the Greens) had the 1st green
separated from the 17th green, producing the current 18-hole
layout with seven double greens.
The Old
Course is part of the St Andrews Links Complex, Europe’s
largest. Other Course adjoin the Old Course, with the New
Course (opened in 1895) and the Jubilee Course (opened in
1897) offering the stiffest of tests, not least when the
breeze turns to wind.
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