News Stories

Online entries for this year’s Strathtyrum Tournament open on Wednesday, 10 February at 13:00 GMT.

A new official website for St Andrews Links, the Home of Golf has been launched at the world’s largest golf show.

There are currently opportunities to become a licensed caddie at St Andrews Links for the 2010 season.

St Andrews Links has become one of the first golf venues committed to achieving GEO Certification, the internationally recognised accreditation from the Golf Environment Organisation (GEO).

580 applications were received to join the new unified waiting list for St Andrews Links Tickets which will become active on April 1.

A draw was carried out on December 1 by St Andrews Links Trust Chairman Peter Forster, Links Management Committee Chairman Dr John Mills and Trustee Kate Ferguson. The applicants have until January 31 to pay a £100 deposit to confirm their place on the list.

The Old, New, Jubilee, Eden, Strathtyrum and Balgove courses are now open as normal following the disruption caused by the weather.

St Andrews Links is hosting two recruitment days on 5 and 6 February where people will have the opportunity to apply for a number of seasonal positions.

For more information about recruiting at St Andrews Links, visit our recruitment page.

The cold weather has created some beautiful scenes around the Links as this image from the 18th hole of the Old Course demonstrates.

St Andrews Links Trust would like to wish its customers all the best for 2010 and look forward to a special year with the return of the Open Championship to the Home of Golf.

Madras College pupils have thanked St Andrews Links Trust for its help in building a state of the art organic vegetable garden at Kilrymont Road in St Andrews. The Links provided five tonnes of quality soil for the raised beds.

St Andrews Links Trustees decided to freeze Links Ticket prices for 2010. This means that a Full Resident Ticket, which entitles the holder to play golf on all seven of the Links courses, will remain at £170. The move follows a decision by Trustees to freeze visitor green fees for 2010.

Willie McNair from Oakley received the BBC Unsung Hero 2009 award at the Old Course today. The trophy was presented by St Andrews Links Finance Director, Euan MacGregor. Willie has been cutting golf clubs to size and providing coaching for junior golfers in his free time for the last 34 years.

Work has been completed on constructing the new championship tee on the 17th hole of the Old Course ahead of the 150th anniversary Open Championship next year. The new tee is 35 yards back from the current tee on the same playing line and takes the length of the hole to 490 yards.

The 17th hole of the Old Course will be lengthened ahead of the 150th Anniversary of The Open Championship at St Andrews. The ‘Road Hole’, which has remained the same length for more than 100 years, will increase in length by some 35 yards to 490 yards. A new Championship tee will be constructed on the practice range of St Andrews Links Trust.

Seve Ballesteros has expressed his wish to play a round at next year’s Open Championship in St Andrews.

Simon Dyson won the Alfred Dunhill Links Championship with a 20 under par total after carding a 66 on the Old Course today.

Amateur golfer Manuel de los Santos, who lost a leg in a road accident when he was 18, capped an amazing debut at the Alfred Dunhill Links Championship by shooting a team score of 66 with Richard Bland at Kingsbarns. Sponsored by Allianz, the global partner of St Andrews Links, Manuel is pictured with Allianz golf ambassador Paul McGinley.