★ Alfred Dunhill Links Championship

01重要な理由

The Dunhill Links closes the Scottish golf year and is the last significant week of the northern European season before the tour moves south and east. In our reading it is the most enjoyable tournament in Britain to attend as an ordinary spectator, precisely because it takes itself less seriously than the championships around it.

02前後の週

Early October is the end of the Scottish golf season and St Andrews is between its summer visitors and its university term at full strength.

The tournament's social programme is substantial and largely private, built around the amateur field's dinners and receptions, and it is not publicly reported in detail.

03到着時期

Arrive Wednesday and stay to Sunday.

04宿泊先

St Andrews is the natural base and has a small stock of hotels plus a large amount of holiday letting; the town is walkable and the Old Course is at the end of the main street.

05アクセスとホスピタリティ

The organizer publishes ticket information on the championship's own site each year, and spectator admission has been priced far below major-championship levels, which is part of the event's character; the tickets page could not be read in this pass and current terms should be checked.

06社交活動の場

The public places are the town of St Andrews itself, which is the tournament's real venue: the Jigger Inn beside the 17th, the bars and restaurants along Market Street and South Street, the Dunvegan, and the clubhouse terraces overlooking the 18th.

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08実用情報

09沿革

The Alfred Dunhill Cup, a match-play competition between three-man national teams, was played at St Andrews from 1985 to 2000 and was for years the town's second-biggest golf week after an Open.

10参加者

A mixed crowd of Scottish golf followers, visiting golf travellers finishing their season, the amateur field's own guests drawn from business, sport and entertainment, and the DP World Tour's sponsors.