Kingsbarns Golf Links

Kingsbarns Golf Links, on the record

Kingsbarns Golf Links: Kyle Phillips (2000). Par 72, 7,226 yards. Adrian Meronk won the 2026 Alfred Dunhill Links Championship here with 268 (−20).

Updated October 24, 2026

Club

Kingsbarns Golf Links

Where

St Andrews, Fife, Scotland

Opened

2000

Design

Kyle Phillips (2000)

Par

72

Length

7,226 yards (the championship setup)

Access

Public

Fairways

fine fescue

Website

kingsbarns.com

The champions here

26 editions on the record, by event, newest first.

Stories

• Ploughed up for farmland, 1850

  After a long land dispute, the Cambo Estate tenant farmer ploughed up the links in 1850, as farmland was then worth more than golf land.

  Source: Kingsbarns Golf Links: History

• Land mines on the links, 1939

  At the outbreak of the Second World War the nine-hole links laid out by Willie Auchterlonie in 1922 was closed and mined because the beach was seen as an invasion risk; play resumed only briefly before closing again in 1948.

  Source: Kingsbarns Golf Links: History · Top 100 Golf Courses: Kingsbarns

• Reborn in 2000

  Mark Parsinen and Art Dunkley began building Kyle Phillips's design in November 1997; it opened in July 2000 as the first Scottish course built on links land in over 70 years, and joined the Alfred Dunhill Links rota in 2001.

  Source: Kingsbarns Golf Links: History

• In-Kyung Kim's Women's Open, 2017

  Kingsbarns hosted the 2017 Women's British Open, won by In-Kyung Kim of South Korea on 270, 18 under, two ahead of Jodi Ewart Shadoff.

  Source: Top 100 Golf Courses: Kingsbarns

The place

• FeatureCambo Burn

  The course has its own burn, the Cambo, which was uncovered during the earth-moving that built the course.

  Source: Top 100 Golf Courses: Kingsbarns

• LandmarkNorth Sea on every hole

  The routing uses 2 km of sea frontage, and the North Sea is visible from virtually every part of the course.

  Source: Top 100 Golf Courses: Kingsbarns

• DesignOverlapping fairways

  Fairways of the 6th and 7th overlap those of the incoming 16th and 17th, which Tom Doak credited with blurring the edges of the built work so the course feels natural.

  Source: Top 100 Golf Courses: Kingsbarns

• TraditionBlue jackets

  The Kingsbarns Golfing Society of 1793 was granted permission by Crail Golfing Society to wear distinctive blue jackets alongside Crail's scarlet tunics on the Balcomie Links.

  Source: Kingsbarns Golf Links: History

• Feature · hole 18Cundie Brig

  The 18th, "Brig", is named for the arched bridge over the Cundie in front of the green, built in the 1700s to drain the fields; the old road over it carried grain to the sea for export.

  Source: Kingsbarns Golf Links: Hole 18

• Hole name · hole 15Rocky Ness

  The par-3 15th's green sits on the Rocky Ness, land projecting into the sea; tee shots onto the beach or sea are replayed from a drop zone beyond the woods.

  Source: Kingsbarns Golf Links: Hole 15

The tour here

The PGA Tour and DP World Tour weeks at this course since 2017.