Lining up to get a tee time at The Old Course is now a thing of the past

Ask anybody who has ever been lucky sufficient to play The Outdated Course at St.Andrews and also you’ll doubtless get a narrative about queuing up at 4 am within the hope of getting a last-minute tee time.

This antiquated system has been in place for a few years. Whereas the success price of taking part in The Outdated Course through this technique appears fairly excessive, the queues to play at St.Andrews Outdated Course have enormously elevated with some golfers lining up for over 12 hours. And whenever you consider climate circumstances in Scotland it’s typically not a nice expertise, particularly contemplating you’re not assured a spot.

We’ve typically questioned if there’s a higher strategy to accommodate golfers who occur to be on the town and take a look at their luck, and evidently time has come.

Bernie McGuire has reported that the physique that oversees tee instances, The Hyperlinks Belief is altering the method and shifting to a computerized tee time involving a random draw the day earlier than a golfer’s supposed day of play.

Guests could have the chance to enter a brand new singles each day draw, providing a contemporary and equitable digital resolution to its in-person singles queuing system.

The Outdated Course Singles Day by day Draw will provide golfers from across the globe the possibility of securing a tee time by becoming a member of with current teams of two or three pre-booked golfers.

The each day draw requires particular person golfers to enter their particulars in individual on the Outdated Pavilion subsequent to the primary tee of the Outdated Course, or St Andrews Hyperlinks Clubhouse between 9am-5pm the day earlier than they want to play. A randomised draw will then happen at 5pm with golfers being notified by SMS message and e mail whether or not they have been allotted a tee time for the next day with out the necessity to queue for prolonged intervals.

Maybe the one shocking factor about all that is how lengthy it took them to implement this contemporary different. Then once more, the traditions of golf are exhausting to alter, particularly on the House of Golf.