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Times Online (Free subscription) | 22 hours ago
It was appropriate after the Arctic conditions that prevailed in the Alfred Dunhill Links Championship in Fife on Friday that the man who has a house in Lapland and, as a result, probably spends more time nearer to the North Pole than anyone else should have won the event at St Andrews yesterday. Robert Karlsson's powerful and elegant swing has worked well all season and although the Swede had to endure...
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www.bishopdavid.net (Free subscription) | yesterday
We met today with the congregations of our St Andrews West Area Council - in a Leisure Centre in Glenrothes. These are the congregations which have probably seen the greatest social change - the end of mining in Southern Fife and the gradual development of a culture of commuting across ...
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biblicalia (Free subscription) | 23/09/2008
James R. Davila (Professor and Dean of the Divinity School at University of St Andrews in Scotland, and host of the PaleoJudaica blog) published his The Provenance of the Pseudepigrapha: Jewish, Christian, or Other? back in 2005 through Brill. Unfortunately, it hasn’t yet appeared in a more affordable paperback edition. The hardcover edition [...]
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Times Online (Free subscription) | 20/09/2008
St Andrews has been named The Sunday Times Scottish University of the Year in The Sunday Times University Guide 2008, published with the newspaper tomorrow.
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News Scotsman (Free subscription) | 20/09/2008
IT MAY not boast the manicured fairways of Augusta, the history of St Andrews or the luxury of Gleneagles. But Scotland's newest golf course is the most remote and unden
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Boutique To You (Free subscription) | 15/09/2008
Scot-rocker KT Tunstall got a fabulous Christmas gift last year when her drummer boyfriend Luke Bullen proposed on Christmas Day in a surprise visit to her home in St Andrews in Fife. The couple married on the Isle of Skye this weekend, taking over the Flodigarry Country House Hotel for four days for the event. [...]
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Forest Murmurs (Free subscription) | 06/09/2008
Last week Fr Briggs and I ventured north of the border for four days, two in Edinburgh and two at St Andrews. We went to a couple of concerts and an opera (Szymanowski`s King Roger) at the Festival and then headed off to Fife. At the first concert we had the good fortune to run into Fr Andrew Southwell, who is well-known in traditionalist circles. I said we were planning to visit Falkland Palace on...
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The Herald (Free subscription) | 30/08/2008
Scotland's Callum Macaulay produced two victories over the British amateur champion on his Great Britain and Ireland debut to lead his side into a commanding position over the Continent of Europe in the St Andrews Trophy at sun-baked Kingsbarns yesterday.
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Irish Golf Desk (Free subscription) | 29/08/2008
Scotland's Wallace Booth starred on the first day of the St Andrews Trophy at Kingsbarns with an excellent display in the afternoon singles matches that helped the Great Britain & Ireland team to a 7 1/2 – 4 1/2 lead at the half-way stage. Booth fired seven 3’s and seven 4’s in fourteen holes to dispatch highly-rated Spaniard Jorge Campillo – the world number six – by 5&4. His afternoon performance...
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DB's Medical Rants (Free subscription) | 29/08/2008
Yesterday I was defeated by Carnoustie. One could easily classify it as a TKO. The wind was howling, and the course really does not need any extra help. It is hard, and I am not good enough to play it well. Today I had the ulimate golf experience - the Old Course at St Andrews on [...]
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Re-cycle of Life (Free subscription) | 22/08/2008
Two unconnected stories in today's paper amount to acute embarrassment for Royal Mail - or would, if government-owned monopolies were capable of being embarrassed. The first reports how a message in a bottle, thrown into the sea off Orkney 23 years ago, has been found on a beach in St Andrews, Fife. The second describes how a letter written by the Prince of Wales 31 y...
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Nothing To Do With Arbroath (Free subscription) | 22/08/2008
A man who threw a message in a bottle into the sea when he was a child has been reunited with it 23 years on. Donald Wylie, then aged 11, tossed the bottle into the water at Sandside beach, Deerness, on Orkney in 1985. It was found during a summer beach clean-up on West Sands, St Andrews, Fife, and a search was launched to try to track down the sender. He was eventually traced back to Orkney and was...
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GeoffShackelford.com (Free subscription) | 05/08/2008
Of course, the opening line of the press release is revolting on a level I can't begin to describe. THE R&A ANNOUNCES NEW GOLF CLUB RULES St Andrews, Scotland, 5 August 2008: The R&A has today announced revisions to golf’s equipment Rules, which are designed to enhance the benefits of accuracy by making playing from the rough a more challenging prospect in future. Yes, yes, rough is vital to the game....
