{"id":305662,"date":"2025-12-08T20:30:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-08T20:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/305662\/"},"modified":"2025-12-08T20:30:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-08T20:30:09","slug":"rebrand-for-st-andrews-golf-course-named-after-former-prince-andrew","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/305662\/","title":{"rendered":"Rebrand for St Andrews golf course named after former prince Andrew"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Andrew has given up his honorary membership, as part of his retreat from public life in the wake of the scandal about his close friendship with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/c93n7yg47deo\" class=\"ssrcss-f6h2dj-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">paedophile and sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The course and club are also to come under the management of the St Andrews Links Trust on a long-term lease. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The club&#8217;s logo is also being changed, to remove the royal association.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">An illustration featuring trees will replace a lion rampant holding a saltire flag.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The trust already runs seven public courses around the Fife town, including the world famous Old Course, which hosts the Open Championship every five years. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Until 5 January, the Duke&#8217;s will continue to be run by golf resort operator Kohler, alongside its ownership of the Old Course Hotel.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">From then on it will be know as the Craigtoun Course.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Andrew has given up his honorary membership, as part of his retreat from public life in the wake&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":305663,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[5904,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-305662","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-golf","8":"tag-golf","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305662","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=305662"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305662\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/305663"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=305662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=305662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=305662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}