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St. Andrews, for real.

• BubbaCrusher007 1,567 Posts

  Fri, Dec 30 2011 11:43 AM

  I was watchin some old Shell's "Wonderful World of Golf". This episode was Seve Balistaros against Paul Ansinger.

  It was cool to see the whole course, even if it was only on TV. What a magnificient complex. 360 bunkers.

  One thing I wanted to know,,it had a couple giant greens with '2' pins or they called them 'double greens' or something.

  What's up with the 2 pins on the green? Do 2 holes share one green or something? Is that the idea?

  Enlighten this confused guy on this double green thing.

• BolloxInBruges 1,389 Posts

  Fri, Dec 30 2011 11:58 AM

  There are only a few greens at st andrews that don't share a pin with another hole, off the top of my head I know 1, 9, and 18 each have their own.

  The greens there are so huge that you would rarely be in the vicinity of the other hole location on the green.

• mantis0014 8,946 Posts

  Fri, Dec 30 2011 12:49 PM

  The Par3 11th shares the 7th green... I think

• LeonDelBosque 1,551 Posts

  Fri, Dec 30 2011 1:14 PM

  I watched it too, having "played there" for months now. Best Shell's is a really old one at Pine Valley... Gene Littler and Byron Nelson. Here's a St.A layout map 

  http://www.artistsgolf.com/standrew.htm 

• iwb1 110 Posts

  Fri, Dec 30 2011 1:40 PM

  BolloxInBruges:

  There are only a few greens at st andrews that don't share a pin with another hole, off the top of my head I know 1, 9, and 18 each have their own.

   

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  Also 17

  course guide   the hole maps show you the relation of the shared greens

  goggle map    this should put you at the R&A at the 1st tee 18 th green

• Ihatecheats 298 Posts

  Fri, Dec 30 2011 3:10 PM

  St Andrews, hole 1, 9, 17, and 18 are not shared

  Hole 2 is shared with 16

  Hole 3 is shared with 15

  Hole 4 is shared with 14

  Hole 5 is shared with 13

  Hole 6 is shared with 12

  Hole 7 is shared with 11

   Hole 8 is shared with 10

  Hole 11 is shared with 7

• cricketrules 1,050 Posts

  Sat, Dec 31 2011 8:22 AM

  17 is the only "individual" hole at STA I think, as 1 and 18 share a fairway, as do 9 and 10, while all the other holes - as listed above - share greens.

  Although actually, thinking about it, 17 technically shares a bit of fairway with 2, so I guess all the holes are connected to another somehow.

  Jack.

• Ihatecheats 298 Posts

  Sat, Dec 31 2011 2:43 PM

  It is a post of double greens not of shared fairways.

• alosso 21,070 Posts

  Fri, Jan 6 2012 6:13 AM

  On the history page of St.Andrews, http://www.standrews.org.uk/About-Us/History.aspx , you may find the explanation of the double greens. In the beginning, there were only 10 greens and flags, #2 to #9 being used twice, "Out" and "In". During the 19th century, this was changed due to high traffic.

• zooker 6 Posts

  Fri, Jan 6 2012 5:50 PM

  probably mentioned somewhere already as well, but, all the shared greens add up to 18...meaning 5/13=18, 6/12, etc...