The Previous Course at St Andrews shall be lengthened by 132 yards as a part of a revamp earlier than it hosts the 2027 Open Championship.
New championship tees shall be added on the fifth, sixth, seventh and tenth holes on the world-famous hyperlinks, with enlargements deliberate to tees on the eleventh and sixteenth.
New bunkers will even be added on the sixth and the tenth because the R&A – which organises the sport’s oldest main – desires to make sure “the Previous Course continues to evolve and problem the world’s finest golfers”.
There shall be different adjustments to bunkers – together with on the legendary seventeenth, the Highway Gap.
R&A chief govt Mark Darbon stated the alterations are additionally key to “enhancing the expertise of native and visiting golfers”.
The Previous Course final had main adjustments in 2015 earlier than the 144th Open, and previous to that it was elevated by 350 yards between 2000 and 2005, the interval Tiger Woods was in his long-hitting pomp.
