Opened in July 2002, the course has been designed by Gene Sarazen and Bruce Devlin. The course has been constructed in an American style with 2 man made lakes, but the layout honours the tradition of golf at St Andrews with 2 double greens and numerous deep pot bunkers. Ridge holes open up to the panorama of the white water crashing on the rocky shoreline below and over the body of the North Sea to the Grampian mountains which dominate the horizon.