Dunhill: Day Three

Thousands of people are preparing to celebrate 30 years of Alfred Dunhill golf at St Andrews.

The St Andrews night sky is set to come alive with a dazzling firework display tonight, on the eve of the final day’s play in this year's Alfred Dunhill Links Championship.

Saturday's stunning fireworks spectacular also celebrates the 30th year that Alfred Dunhill has been supporting golf at St Andrews, first through the Alfred Dunhill Cup and now, since 2001, the Alfred Dunhill Links Championship. 

An annual favourite with golfers, spectators and St Andrews residents alike, the display will begin at 8.25pm tonight and take place on the West Sands, adjacent to the Old Course.

All residents and visitors in the town are invited to watch the show, which will be best viewed from the Links Road, the roadway running behind the 17th green on the Old Course, and from the track in front of the Old Course Hotel.

It will consist of shells up to 12" in diameter, roman candles, mines and rockets, which will all be detonated electronically and synchronised to music. To make it even more enjoyable for the thousands who come out to watch, this year the music will also be piped to spectators around the 1st and 18th holes.
 
The high class field for the Alfred Dunhill Links Championship includes world No.1 Rory McIlroy, who won back-to-back Major Championships at The Open at Hoylake and the US PGA at Valhalla, and US Open champion Martin Kaymer. Both are playing at St Andrews this week after the Ryder Cup at Gleneagles, along with Victor Dubuisson and Stephen Gallacher and European Ryder Cup captain Paul McGinley and Vice-Captain Padraig Harrington.

Among the celebrity amateurs playing are film and TV stars Hugh Grant, Jamie Dornan, Damian Lewis, Greg Kinnear and Kyle MacLachlan, rock legends Don Felder, Huey Lewis and Tico Torres and many great sporting idols including Sir Bobby Charlton, Johan Cruyff, Sir Ian Botham, Shane Warne, Brian O’Driscoll, Sir Steve Redgrave, Tim Henman and Damon Hill.

With a prize fund of US$5 million, the championship incorporates two separate competitions - an individual professional tournament for the world's leading golfers and a team event in which the professionals are paired with some of the most celebrated amateur golfers which creates a unique atmosphere.