St Andrews Old Course in GSPro

Finding St Andrews in GSPro

The Old Course is in the directory as Sovereignbyre Links, built by designer runpuddrun. Famous venues get renamed to avoid licensing trouble, so this is inspired by the real links rather than an official recreation, but the routing across the shared double greens is the one you recognize.

This one is a Patreon course, not a free download, so you'll need a subscription to the designer's Patreon to install it. Open its page on The Course View for the scorecard, and check the designer's profile for the Patreon link. If you'd rather stay on free courses, the best links courses list has plenty of seaside golf that costs nothing.

Recommended Settings

St Andrews looks flat and gettable on a calm day. It isn't, and the reason is the wind: the same hole plays a driver-wedge one afternoon and a driver-3-wood the next. The bunkers are small, deep, and everywhere you don't want them. Turn the wind down and the Old Course loses the thing that has protected it for 600 years. Our settings:

Keep the greens at links pace. The huge double greens at St Andrews have putts that cross entire time zones of borrow, and anything faster than stimp 10.5 turns them into a putting nightmare in the wind. Firm fairways matter more here than almost anywhere: the ground game is the game, and you need the ball running up to those greens rather than stopping short. For the hardware that runs GSPro, our launch monitor buyer's guide compares every option.

Holes to Know

St Andrews shares seven greens between fourteen holes and squeezes the first and last onto the widest fairway in golf. The ones worth knowing:

• Hole 1 (Burn). A wide-open tee shot, then an approach over the Swilcan Burn that runs across the front of the green. Simple until the burn grabs a nervous wedge.
• Hole 11 (High). A short par 3 that has ruined scorecards for a century. The Strath bunker guards a green that falls away, and the wind decides everything.
• Hole 14 (Long). A par 5 with Hell Bunker sitting square in the layup zone. Golfers have taken double digits trying to escape it.
• Hole 17 (Road). The most famous par 4 in golf. You drive over the old railway sheds, then face an approach with the Road Hole bunker short and a stone wall and road long. There is no safe shot.
• Hole 18 (Tom Morris). Over the Swilcan Bridge, up the widest fairway, past the Valley of Sin that swallows anything short of the green. The most walked closing hole in the sport.

About the Real Old Course

The Old Course at St Andrews sits on the Fife coast in Scotland and has been played since the 1400s, which makes it the oldest course in the world. It is owned by a trust and open to the public by ballot, so ordinary golfers really can tee it up where every era of champion has. The Open Championship has returned here more than any other venue, most recently for the 150th Open in 2022.

See which upcoming tour events have matching courses in GSPro on the full 2026 tournament schedule.

More Famous Courses in GSPro

St Andrews is one of many major venues the directory carries under alternate names. A few others to add to the rotation:

• Carnoustie, the hardest links on the Open rota
• Royal Birkdale, host of the 2026 Open (see our Open guide)
• Pebble Beach, its American clifftop counterpart (see our Pebble Beach guide)

Browse the full list of courses inspired by real courses or explore the best links courses in GSPro.

Setting up at home

If the home of golf has you eyeing a sim room, start with the launch monitor buyer’s guide, which compares every unit that works with GSPro. A few other things earn their place:

• Hitting mats (Amazon): links golf means a lot of low, running shots off tight lies; a firm mat rehearses them.
• Impact screens (Amazon): the grey Fife light and the Swilcan Bridge deserve better than a laptop panel.
• Practice nets (Amazon): the cheapest way to swing full-out indoors before you build an enclosure.

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