Kingsbarns Golf Club

Kingsbarns is pure golf, built in 1998, it was the first links course built in Scotland in 70 years. It is located 10 minutes south of St Andrews, Scotland on land that seems natural for a links course, in fact golf has been played on this land since 1793. It seems you have views of the North Sea from every hole with six holes directly on the Sea. #15 a 212 par 3, carries across a pocket of the sea to an elevated green surrounded by rocky outcroppings, and is visually a great hole. The course plays 7108 yards from the tips, and has a 75.8 course rating and 142 slope. It was designed and developed by two Californians Mark Parsinen and Kyle Phillips, and is like St Andrews Old on steroids. With burns, humps, hollows, pot bunkers, rolling, even strutting fairways, huge undulating greens, it's a great challenge, and is a candidate for a 36 hole round. Expensive, but worth the experience. These same two developers have built Castle Stuart up in the Highlands on the Moray Firth at Inverness, which opens in July 2009, requiring a trip back to Scotland if it's everything it's cracked up to be.