Superb St Andrews property for sale

The ultimate golfing bolt hole has gone on the market in St Andrews. 9A Gibson Place is one of only a dozen residential properties alongside the 18th fairway of the Old Course.

9A Gibson Place

The ultimate golfing bolt hole has gone on the market in St Andrews. 9A Gibson Place is one of only a dozen residential properties alongside the 18th fairway of the Old Course.

Just yards from the Swilken Bridge with views across the 1st and 18th fairways and out towards West Sands, the location of this pad is tough to beat for lovers or our great game.

Set over two floors with two large reception rooms, two bedrooms and two bathrooms, 9A Gibson Place is being marketed by Savills with an asking price of offers over £1,500,000. The hefty price tag reflects the unique situation of this property, and the fact it has been beautifully refurbished by the current owners - American golf writer George Pepper and his wife Libby.

In the upstairs drawing room, from a writing desk overlooking the links, George penned numerous pieces including his famous book, "St. Andrews Sojourn: Two Years at Home on the Old Course."

The lower ground floor living space is a fantastic, open plan kitchen and living room with a glazed door in the bay window leading out, through a gate, onto the world's most famous links.

Properties along the 18th fairway very rarely come on the market and this one is sure to attract international interest.

For more details visit: residentialsearch.savills.co.uk/property-detail/213648

Fergus Bisset
Contributing Editor

Fergus is Golf Monthly's resident expert on the history of the game and has written extensively on that subject. He is a golf obsessive and 1-handicapper. Growing up in the North East of Scotland, golf runs through his veins and his passion for the sport was bolstered during his time at St Andrews university studying history. He went on to earn a post graduate diploma from the London School of Journalism. Fergus has worked for Golf Monthly since 2004 and has written two books on the game; "Great Golf Debates" together with Jezz Ellwood of Golf Monthly and the history section of "The Ultimate Golf Book" together with Neil Tappin , also of Golf Monthly. 

Fergus once shanked a ball from just over Granny Clark's Wynd on the 18th of the Old Course that struck the St Andrews Golf Club and rebounded into the Valley of Sin, from where he saved par. Who says there's no golfing god?