CreditRobert Ormerod for The New York Times
ST. ANDREWS, Scotland — It always seems to be about the old at St. Andrews, from the university, founded in 1413, to the ruins of the 12th-century cathedral to, above all, the Old Course, the ancestral home of golf and the site this week of another British Open.
But there is, believe it or not, a New Course, even if it is not in use this week.
It lies adjacent to the Old on the same precious stretch of Scottish seaside property known to local residents simply as the Links.