Number 4. Played Summer 2011. Traditional links designed by Kyle Phillips.


Kingsbarns is one of Scotland's premier golfing venues, it has excellent facilities, a well designed and interesting course which is set up to test golfers of all abilities and it is blessed to be on some of the finest links land in the world. But, and it is only my personal opinion, there is a missing ingredient to that list and that is the infamous 'x-factor'. I think that whilst Kingsbarns has all the many great points that you would expect from a modern classic it feels a bit like a computer generated masterpiece rather than an authentic old master.