Leven Links Golf Club

Leven Links Golf Club

The Promenade, Leven, Fife, KY8 4HS

Highly Commended - Golf World Top 100 UK Golf Courses 2008

Founded in 1820, this is Scottish links golf at its very best; the strength of the course lies in its fine variety of quality "links" holes with undulating fairways, revetted bunkers, wonderful approaches and large true running greens that provide a stern test for even the most accomplished putter.

The sea is visible from almost every hole, something which any true links course should encompass. The front nine is a test of your patience and fortitude while the back nine, especially the closing stretch of holes, requires careful course management and pinpoint accuracy.

From the start of the round the golfer will be conscious of the fairways running along the valleys between these old dunes; it makes for superb definition and a true test of links golf as the slopes and bounces of these natural obstacles come into play throughout the round. They are most noticeable at the first (where the green sits on a ridge plateau), the second, thirteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth. Elsewhere they come into play as obstacles to be played over at holes five, seven and ten and they provide the lie to steeply sloping greens at the fourteenth, fifteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth holes.

Getting par from the 16th onwards is not only a test of your skill but a test of nerve and the 18th hole is reckoned to be one of the finest finishing holes in golf. This is a course to be savoured by all who play here.

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