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R & A Golf Club News Bulletin
By Kieth Mackie

A substantial interest free loan has been granted by the R&A to the developers of the new golf links at Kingsbarns. In return they will make a number of starting times available to local golfers in St. Andrews and north-east Fife.

The agreement has been reached after discussions between the R & A, St. Andrews Links Trust and local golf clubs identified the growing pressure for starting times on the St. Andrews courses. Read More…

Golf World 2005

Why should I play it?
It’s just about the closest thing you’ll get to the 18th at Pebble Beach – in other words, a sweeping right-to-left par-five that skirts the rocky seashore of the North Sea. Its setting is eye-popping and at the end of it all, you’ll find a wickedly sloping and enormous green that seems to keep on going round the headland. Because the drive is downhill, birdies are possible. But so are bogeys, double-bogeys… Read More…

Golf Digest
By Ron Whitten

Six miles south of Scotland’s Old Course at St. Andrews, along gentle coves of the North Sea, carved into hillsides that cant like a massive, curved amphitheater, is the new Kingsbarns Golf Links – so splendiferous in its concept and execution that we felt compelled to declare it our first-ever Best New International Course. Read More…

Golf and Leisure Magazine

All roads in golf history lead to St. Andrews, and although the town has six courses of choice, the Old Course is the one on which every golfer eventually wishes to test his or her game. Unfortunately, getting in a round there usually means getting lucky in the club’s tee-time lottery, with odds running about 1 in 3 against you. But if you draw a short straw – or even if you don’t – don’t miss the entirely redesigned Kingsbarns Golf Links (001-44-1334/474-364). Just seven miles from St. Andrews, Kingsbarns was open as early as 1792, but was closed in 1939 to be used for military maneuvers (making bunker an ambiguous term). Read More…

Financial Times

When Alfred Dunhill recently announced that its Nations Cup tournament, hitherto held at St Andrews every October, was to be replaced next year by a pro-am competition over three links courses on Scotland’s east coast, the name of one of the host venues must have caused a deal of puzzlement. The Old Course at St Andrews, together with Carnoustie, fitted perfectly into Dunhill’s stated ambition of making the tournament a celebration of links golf, but Kingsbarns? Read More…

Golf World International

The boom in golf course building is over. Only a handful of good new tracks have opened since 1998 and yet among them are some corkers. First among them is Kingsbarns, an amazing new links on the coast of Fife. Opened just this year, it may prove to be the last true links course ever built in the UK, and already it’s being mooted as a possible future Open venue. If you think Loch Lomond has exploded like a grenade into our top 100, wait till you see what Kingsbarns does. Read More…

Golf.com
By Ben Wright

St. ANDREWS , SCOTLAND — My return to St. Andrews for the Open Championship has been more hectic than I could have imagined. I’ve been buzzing about the Auld Grey Toon like a blue-assed fly running into old friends, golfers and members of the media I haven’t seen in years. I’d be lying if I didn’t say that I’m palpably excited to be back at the home of golf and back amongst those that play and cover the game. Though I may have been away from the game for a spell, the game has never left me and always occupied the fullest portions of my heart and soul. Read More…

The Golf Page
By Dave Perkins

As the saying goes, not everybody likes the same thing. That’s why they have menus in restaurants.

Similarly, golf course rating is a personal game not everybody plays the same way. That said, a brand new golf course on the East Neuk of Scotland , named Kingsbarns, already rests at or very near the top of this personal list. Read More…

Travel and Leisure Golf

After an agreeable, inland six-mile drive south on the A917 from St. Andrews, turn left past a rusty old gate, meander through a towering grove of beech trees and emerge onto a brief porch of land revealing, not a mile distant, the shimmering teal and gray of the North Sea. In the space between you and the sea sits the world’s newest ancient golf course, Kingsbarns Golf Links, which is routed beautifully across land on which golf was played as early as 1793. In 1939, the site was usurped by the British Ministry of Defence during World War II and was left unrestored until now. Read More…