Golf
From the tranquillity of your holiday house at Newburgh you will experience the golfing holiday of a lifetime.
Medieval St Andrew’s, the ancient home of golf (with its famous Old Course), is only twenty miles (32km) away to the south-east. Carnoustie, the world famous Links course is 27 miles(43km) north-east across the Tay Bridge. Gleneagles Hotel, with the renowned King’s and Queens Courses, is only twenty minutes to the west by motorway. You can have wonderful experience of playing world-class golf, in the most beautiful of surroundings: by wide-open seascapes, or amongst the glens and forests of our ancient country.
In Newburgh you are in the centre of the Historic Heartlands of Perthshire, Angus and Fife, with access to at least 100 golf courses for all levels of ability and enthusiasm. In the Kingdom of Fife there are 40 alone, a number over 100 years old, with all the tradition and beauty that brings.
Tournaments
For those of you who want to see world famous golfers like Tiger Woods in action, Newburgh is your ideal base. In 2010 the Open comes to St Andrews once more, and you can watch Tiger compete to repeat his victory at the 2007 Open at Carnoustie. Then in 2014 the wonderful team challenge of Ryder Cup will be played at Gleneagles, bringing the best players from the USA (Tiger Woods, Phil Mickelson) and Europe (Sergio Garcia, Padraig Harrington) within a twenty minute drive of your holiday home.
Then annually, close by, there is the world-renowned pro-am Alfred Dunhill Links Tournament (played at Carnoustie, Kingsbarns and St Andrews). You will see the likes of Michael Douglas, or Boris Becker teamed with the best professionals in the world. It is held in July (2-5 July 2008). A few weeks later at Gleneagles the PGA Johnny Walker Championship is held each year aroung the last weekend of August. (28-31 August 2008)
Golf Passes
Many courses in the Historic Heartlands have joined together to give you amazing offers, and booking facilities, on quality courses, in a range of spectacular settings.
The Links with History pass enables you to play on four, one hundred years old, courses in Fife (Ladybank, Crail, Lundin and Scotscraig), Indeed Ladybank is less than 10 miles away Newburgh. All of these courses are used for the qualification rounds leading to the Open at St Andrews.
St Andrews Links Trust Golf Passes allow you access to most of the seven famous St Andrew’s Courses (the Old Course and Balgove are exclude). A new, Castle Course, opens in June 2008.
With the First in Fife Golf Pass (1 April – 31 October 2008) you can play on 12 courses in Fife, and even book your teeing times, in advance, on-line..
Carnoustie Country Golf Pass enables you to play on the its associated inland courses whilst the Carnoustie Country Dream Ticket, allows play on all of the 4 world class Links courses of Montrose, Monifieth, Panmure and Carnoustie.
For the non-golfers in your party
The Kingdom of Fife is the traditional home of golf, with courses so well established, that they are surrounded by facilities to lift the heart of any non-golfers in your holiday party. Gleneagles Hotel has a health club with pools, a spa, gym, high quality shops, restaurants, horse-riding, tennis and falconry. They run courses for all the family, and its beautiful setting is ideal for walks and appreciation of nature. St Andrew’s is a bustling cultural centre with galleries, restaurants, shops and beautiful streets to wander through and beaches to visit. Carnoustie is close to the busy metropolis of Dundee with all the shops, cultural and sporting facilities and maritime history to explore
