The Old Course at St Andrews, known as “Home of Golf,” will undergo one of the most substantial changes in decades. For The Open Championship 2027, the R&A and St Andrews Links Trust will lengthen six holes and reconfigure bunkers and tees to provide a more robust test for the world’s best golfers.

The R&A will lengthen the 5th (35 yards), 6th (17 yards), 7th (18 yards), 10th (29 yards), 11th (21 yards), and 16th (10 yards); modernize teeing areas; and reshape bunkers to match today’s longer ball flights while still protecting the identity of Links golf. The overall length of the course will be increased by 132 yards to 7,445 yards.

Among the six holes set to increase in length, four of them, 5th, 6th, 7th, and 10th, will have new tee boxes altogether. The changes are part of R&A’s plan

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