Kingsbarns Golf Links, Scotland

Kingsbarns Golf Links in Fife, Scotland, was designed by Kyle Phillips and Mark Parsinen as a traditional Scottish seaside link golf course, and opened in 2000. And even if it is only 11 years old, still reflects the philosophy of the first’s links courses.

In its first two years in existence, Kingsbarns was named Best New International Course (2000) by Golf Digest, 46th Best Course in the World (2002) by Golf Magazine, and served as co-host of the Inaugural Dunhill Links Championship (2001, along with The Old Course and Carnoustie)

Kingsbarns Golf Links it is a tribute to man’s ability to shape his environment. Architect Kyle Phillips and co-developer Mark Parisen worked closely together on the shaping of the links and moved more than 300,000 cubic metres of earth to create an amazing course that looks as if it had existed for 100 years.

For more than half the course, the sea is directly in the players active frame of play, while the other holes offer majestic and memorable views of the sea surging against a rugged and rocky foreshore. It is a wide and stunning panorama.

Fine fescue fairways, large and undulated greens, dune ridges and hollows, riveted bunkers and tricky little burns, are among the features of Kingsbarns, considered by many one of the best links style courses of the world.