Home of Golf
For more than six centuries, golf has been played over the links land between the ancient city of St Andrews, a centre of pilgrimage since the first century, and the long sandy beach that curls into the estuary of the River Eden.
Today, the Old Course, with its expansive double greens, shared fairways and treacherous bunkering, within view of The Royal and Ancient Golf Club, remains the most famous golf course in the world and a unique experience for golfers and visitors to the 'auld grey toon'.
Home of Champions
The Open Championship at St Andrews is always special and golf's greatest champions have triumphed here, with the Old Course hosting The Championship 27 times.
Tiger Woods has won the past two Open Championships at St Andrews in 2000 and 2005, joining the all time greats that have lifted the Claret Jug amid the historic amphitheatre of the 18th green.
Who can forget Seve Ballesteros' iconic fist pumping celebration in 1984, the drama of Jack Nicklaus' victories in 1970 and 1978, the legendary rivalry of Bobby Locke and Peter Thomson in the 1950s, plus the great Sam Snead in 1946?
Woods will be back in 2010 to defend his St Andrews Crown - you too can be there to see Tiger take on the Old Course.
