Old Course Hotel, Golf Resort & Spa

About Old Course Hotel, Golf Resort & Spa

No hotel in Scotland is more closely bound to a golf course than this one. The building sits hard against the seventeenth fairway of the Old Course, so that the Road Hole and its notorious bunker are effectively part of the view from the front rooms, and the R&A clubhouse and the eighteenth green are a two-minute walk along the Links Road.

Rooms are large by St Andrews standards and split between those facing the courses and the West Sands, and quieter ones looking inland over the town rooftops towards the cathedral. The Kohler Waters Spa occupies the upper floors, with a hydrotherapy pool and a relaxation area that makes the most of the sea outlook, and there is a rooftop terrace that comes into its own on long summer evenings.

Dining runs from the fine-dining Road Hole Restaurant, with its full-length windows over the links, to the more relaxed Sands Grill and the informal Jigger Inn, a whitewashed former stationmaster's cottage in the grounds that functions as the hotel's pub and is popular with players coming off the course. The hotel also owns the Duke's, a heathland course in the hills above the town, for guests who want a round without entering the Old Course ballot.