St Andrews, United Kingdom

St. Andrews

The St Andrews Links Trust was created by a 1974 Act of Parliament to manage the Links. Its central purpose is to preserve the ground for public recreation, including local residents and visitors.

Courses: 7 courses

Courses

Balgove9 holes · par 30

Castle18 holes · par 71

Eden18 holes · par 70

Jubilee18 holes · par 72

New Course18 holes · par 71

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Old Course18 holes · par 72

Strathtyrum18 holes · par 69

Course design

Donald SteelRedesign · Eden, JubileeOriginal design · Strathtyrum

Harry ColtOriginal design · Eden

John AngusOriginal design · Jubilee

Old Tom MorrisCo design · New CourseRenovation · Old Course

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W. Hall BlythCo design · New Course

A public golfing landscape at St Andrews

The Trust reinvests operating surpluses in the courses and their facilities. That structure supports public access to a large golfing landscape whose history reaches far beyond a single membership club.

Championships

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Results and dates 31 editions

1870s

1873
The 13th Open
Tom Kidd
1876
The 16th Open
Bob Martin
1879
The 19th Open
Jamie Anderson

1880s

1882
The 22nd Open
Bob Ferguson
1885
The 25th Open
Bob Martin
1888
The 28th Open
Jack Burns

1890s

1891
The 31st Open
Hugh Kirkaldy
1895
The 35th Open
J.H. Taylor

1900s

1900
The 40th Open
J.H. Taylor
1905
The 45th Open
James Braid

1910s

1910
The 50th Open
James Braid

1920s

1921
The 56th Open
Jock Hutchison
1927
The 62nd Open
Robert T. Jones Jr.

1930s

1933
The 68th Open
Denny Shute
1939
The 74th Open
Dick Burton

1940s

1946
The 75th Open
Sam Snead

1950s

1955
The 84th Open
Peter Thomson
1957
The 86th Open
Bobby Locke

1960s

1960
The 89th Open
Kel Nagle
1964
The 93rd Open
Tony Lema

1970s

1970
The 99th Open
Jack Nicklaus
1978
The 107th Open
Jack Nicklaus

1980s

1984
The 113th Open
Seve Ballesteros

1990s

1990
The 119th Open
Nick Faldo
1995
The 124th Open
John Daly

2000s

2000
The 129th Open
Tiger Woods
2004
The Amateur Championship
Stuart Wilson
2005
The 134th Open
Tiger Woods

2010s

2010
The 139th Open
Louis Oosthuizen
2015
The 144th Open
Zach Johnson

2020s

2022
The 150th Open
Cameron Smith

Sources and editorial notes6 references

Sources for this story

Annual Report and Accounts 2023 St Andrews Links Trust
History and course description.
Consulted 2026-09-21
Passages:Introduction A public golfing landscape at St Andrews, paragraph 2

Record sources

Donald Steel
Historic Environment Scotland
The Open Records and Statistics The official Champion Golfers register directly enumerates this playing with ordinal, venue, and champion. Historical venue and champion spellings follow that register; any trailing parenthesized win count is occurrence metadata and is not part of the recorded winner name. The official Previous Opens decade record independently cross-checks the reviewed identity. Dates are null because the reviewed register does not state them, and no date was inferred.
The Open: championship venues The official Open venue directory, historical guide, and named Course evidence bind this continuing venue identity. Historical routing and scoring conditions are not replaced by current scorecard values. Championship venue source: www.theopen.com; Club location source: www.theopen.com. The 2026 Royal Birkdale result is separately verified by the bound final-round report.
The R&A: official Amateur championship results R&A official results book, 2004, PDF pages 317–320. Reported book dates retained in the source facts only until competitive-day boundaries are corroborated. This selected chronology is incomplete.