Golf dates to 1793 on the site where Kingsbarns Golf Links is found today, overlooking the North Sea 7 miles east of St Andrews. Everything changed in 2000 when Kyle Phillips reinvented links golf with the opening here of the game’s first “modern classic” links layout.
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Kingsbarns since it opened in 2000 has become extremely popular with visitors to St. Andrews. The following is a wonderful article which will explain far better than I could ever hope to achieve;
Great Courses of Britain and Ireland: Kingsbarns Golf Links
In October 2001, the inaugural Alfred Dunhill Links Championship was played on three of the greatest links golf courses on the planet: the Old Course at St. Andrews, the Carnoustie Links, and Kingsbarns Golf Links.
Kings who, you might well have asked? How could a course that was younger than some of the golf balls in the bottom of your bag suddenly be hanging with two … Read more
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