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Mark Darbon Announces the Old Course at St. Andrews Is Set to Undergo Restoration Work Ahead of The Open 2027
The Old Course will increase in length by 132 yards and restore historic features to maintain strategic challenge after the 2022 Open revealed easier scoring conditions, The R&A said.
- Next week, a carefully planned programme of enhancements and restoration starts at the Old Course at St Andrews, Scotland, ahead of The 155th Open in 2027, the St Andrews Links Trust and The R&A announced Tuesday.
- After the 2022 review, officials concluded the course needed tweaks as more par-4s and both par-5s were often reachable, prompting The R&A and St Andrews Links Trust to refine the strategic challenge for elite players.
- Six holes will be lengthened—the 5th, 6th, 7th, 10th, 11th and 16th—while the 12th will be shortened slightly, and championship tees will add 132 yards, raising total yardage to 7,445.
- Restoration and bunker adjustments aim to reintroduce risk and improve turf management, restoring a historic 16th hole route left of the Principal’s Nose and Deacon Sime bunkers with two new bunkers and 1,500 sprinklers.
- Officials framed the project as continuing a long tradition of carefully judged changes, with Mackenzie & Ebert leading design to protect the Old Course’s character while challenging top golfers.
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When the Open Championship returns to golf's ancestral home in 2027, the Old Course at St. Andrews won't look the same.The course's management firm, the St. Andrews Links Trust, and the R&A, in charge of the Open Championship, announced a number of pending changes Tuesday.Holes Nos. 5, 6, 7, 10, 11 and 16 will be lengthened, bumping the overall tournament length from 7,313 yards to 7,445 yards. Much of the changes will come from moving the tee b…
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