St Andrews’ new serving time system? They think it’s very popular

A year ago, the St. Andrews Links Trust issued a new ordinance on how it fills the time of serving, which was abandoned.

The old single queue – customers would line up overnight and learn about their fate at sunrise – disappeared. New singles queue? This is digital, i.e. the night before, there was no hassle of sleeping on the sidewalk. For 13 months, Link Trust regards it as a major success.

Since its inception, the new singles queue has placed more than 3,600 visiting golfers into open slots on TEE paper. Most of the daily kick-off time is photographed by locals or eliminated by daily voting, and visitors can enter two days in advance. But there are three balls of free spots every day, or two local spots. While the old system did the same job of filling these positions with singles, the new system was more productive the night before, which was digitally prioritized, which allowed you a good night’s sleep before one of the more precious tee times in the sport.

How the new St Andrews serve time system works

Promising golfers entered their name between 9am and 5pm the day before, and actually Appear Go to the 1st T-shirt near the old route kiosk to submit its admission. Make sure the players are actually exist When St. Andrews enters, the submission of the submission requires a photo of the library.

That night, random drawings of singles queues occurred and those selected were notified. At that time, they were free to plan their day more effective than packing pillows to spend the night on the sidewalk at 40 degrees. That’s the main driver behind this system – making it more comfortable (and simplified) to sprinkle the extra spots on TEE paper.

According to Links Trust, nearly half of the entries (6,592) come from golfers in the United States. From this subgroup, 2,966 serve times were obtained. As our sample size, the visiting Americans succeeded with 45% clips, almost coin fiber.

While each drawing is random, the new system facilitates the idea that if you spend enough nights/days as headquarters in St Andrews town, you will end up being lucky. We don’t want to make you hopeful about the gambler’s fallacy because there is no benefit to the contestants who have been on a continuous night, but the more you enter, the greater your chances of success.

Overall, the success rate is more 25%. On average, about 12 to 20 cohort members were selected, with the most trafficked days in 2024 pulling into 227 entries. Good news: Any golfer who is frustrated by not being selected still has six other St Andrews courses to choose from.