Opening in 1895 this building was originally called the Grand Hotel. Commissioned by Thomas Hamilton allegedly after the Royal and Ancient Golf Club rejected his membership application.

During the Second World War the Hotel was requisitioned by the Armed Forces and it never returned to being a hotel.

After the war it was aquired by the University of St Andrews and between 1949 and 2006 it was use as one of the Halls of Residence. In 2006 it was sold to a group who had hoped to turn it in to a prestigious residence club, however they seemed to run out of money and in December 2009 Herb Kohler bought the building. Kohler also owns the Old Course Hotel in St Andrews, (among others) and currently has plans to restore Hamilton Hall.

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This is a shot looking up Murray Park in St Andrews. the buildings on it are almost exclusively used as Bed and Breakfast or small guest houses.

If you are visiting St Andrews, especially to play golf, then its a pretty good bet that you’ll be staying somewhere on this street.

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Golf Place, St Andrews. This is the road that leads down to the Home of Golf, The Old Course.

With Auchterlonies golf shop pretty much taking up the entire left side of the street. Opposite you have the Dunvegan and 1 Golf Place, both haunts of many a golfer telling the tales of their rounds and the story of the missed putt.

At the bottom of the street on the right is Hamilton Hall, recently bought by Kohler Co. current owners of the Old Course Hotel. Plans for this building are about to be announced.

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The Old Course Hotel in St Andrews, orginally built in 1968 this Hotel has become a landmark on the St Andrews Skyline.

The hotel, built on the site of the switching yard of St Andrew’ now gone railway station, has seen many owners and a few facelifts over the years but still remains one of the plushest hotels in the area.
With Stunning views of the Old Course itself.

Now owned by Kholer (the US kitchen guy) they have also just bought Hamilton Hall, previously know as the Grand Hotel which is the red building you can see on the left in my previous upload.

Sitting in front of the hotel is the Swilcan Bridge, one of the most famous bridges in the world of Golf.

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