St Andrews

When The Open Championship gets under way on July 15 the greatest players in the modern game, armed with the latest high-tech clubs and balls, will face the challenge of the Old Course at St Andrews, a stretch of natural linksland where golf has been played for 600 years. The world’s oldest and most revered course, the very home of golf, hosts the game’s longest-running major championship for the 28th time since The Open was first played in 1860. Tiger Woods has won the last two Championships at St Andrews, setting a record score of 19-under-par with rounds of 67-66-67-69 to win by eight shots in 2000, joining a list of St Andrews winners from James Braid to Bobby Jones, Sam Snead to Peter Thomson and Bobby Locke, and from Jack Nicklaus to Seve Ballesteros and Nick Faldo. The challenge faced by today’s outstanding international stars is set out here in a detailed hole-by-hole examination.

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