Rusacks Hotel, Category B listed hotel in St Andrews, Scotland
Rusacks Hotel is a category B listed 5-star hotel in St Andrews, Scotland, sitting directly on Pilmour Links beside the Old Course. The building has guest rooms and a rooftop restaurant, both of which look out over the 1st and 18th greens.
The hotel opened in 1887 as the Marine Hotel and was later renamed after Johann Kristof Wilhelm Rusack, a German immigrant who settled in the area. During both World Wars it was taken over for military use, first as a conference facility and then as barracks.
Rusacks Hotel sits beside the 18th green of the Old Course, the most famous hole in golf. Guests on the terrace or in the rooftop restaurant can watch players finishing their round just a few steps away.
The hotel is right on the edge of the Old Course, so it is easy to combine a stay or a visit with a walk along the links. St Andrews sits on the coast and can be windy at any time of year, so bring warm layers even in summer.
The hotel takes its name from a German farmer, which is an unusual origin for a property so closely tied to one of the most celebrated courses in British golf. Most visitors walk past without realizing the name has no Scottish roots at all.
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