{"id":580932,"date":"2026-05-13T02:38:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T02:38:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/580932\/"},"modified":"2026-05-13T02:38:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T02:38:11","slug":"this-putting-club-is-more-than-150-years-old-but-thats-not-what-sets-it-apart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/580932\/","title":{"rendered":"This putting club is more than 150 years old. But that’s not what sets it apart"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Himalayas isn\u2019t just a heaving mountain range in Asia \u2014 it\u2019s also a wildly undulating putting course between the famous Old Course at St. Andrews<\/a> and the West Sands beach. Making the green even more special is its role as the home of the Ladies Putting Club of St. Andrews, the world\u2019s oldest ladies putting club.<\/p>\n

Just a 10-minute walk from the St. Andrews town center, the Old Tom Morris<\/a>-designed \u201cminiature course\u201d debuted in 1867 as the St. Andrews Ladies Golf Club, with the stated goal of providing R&A members\u2019 daughters a suitable place to putt.<\/p>\n

By 1904, the putting club had several hundred members, about a third of whom were men who were not considered full members but assisted with scoring and could participate in some competitions. More than century later, in 2010, the passing of the UK Parliament\u2019s Equality Act stipulated that a club must decide if it wanted to be fully mixed-gender or single gender. The Ladies Putting Club of St. Andrews decided on the latter.<\/p>\n

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\n The putting course sits between the Old Course and West Sands beach.<\/p>\n

The Challengers <\/p>\n

The club membership now stands at 142 ladies, mostly between the ages of 75 and 85, though there is at least one active member who is 93. The club\u2019s putting season extends from April to the end of October, and there are two tournaments per week: Wednesday afternoon, played in twosomes over 36 holes, and a Thursday-morning 18-hole event. There are also inter-club matches between area clubs, including the R&A<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The course\u2019s hole locations change weekly and vary greatly. After each event, tea and coffee is served with cakes and biscuits, and prizes \u2014 including ball markers<\/a>, notepads and key chains \u2014 are awarded to the day\u2019s winner.<\/p>\n

The Himalayas course is open to the public every day in season, with certain tee times available to members only. A round on the Himalayas is undoubtedly one of the game\u2019s best deals. Prices are 4 GBP per round for adults and 2 GBP per round for seniors and children under 16.<\/p>\n

For more on the Ladies Putting Club of St. Andrews, check out \u201cChallengers,\u201d<\/a> an award-winning video series from Charles Schwab that profiles innovators who push the boundaries of the game. Among the other pioneers featured in the series are course photographer Evan Schiller and the apparel brand Holderness & Bourne.<\/p>\n

You can watch \u201cThe Ladies of the Himalayas\u201d in action here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Himalayas isn\u2019t just a heaving mountain range in Asia \u2014 it\u2019s also a wildly undulating putting course…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":580933,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[5904,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-580932","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-golf","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/580932","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=580932"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/580932\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/580933"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=580932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=580932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=580932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}