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St. Andrews is the least obvious course in the world. It is covered with concealed rolls, bunkers, hollows, and hummocks, which become more and more bewildering as the ground becomes harder. BOBBY JONES
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St. Andrews is the least obvious course in the world. It is covered with concealed rolls, bunkers, hollows, and hummocks, which become more and more bewildering as the ground becomes harder. BOBBY JONES
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Tiger On LIV Defectors: "They've turned their back on what has allowed them to get to this position"
Strong words from Tiger Woods ahead of The Open. On players who have left for the LIV Golf circuit:
I think that what they've done is they've turned their back on what has allowed them to get to this position.
Some players have never got a chance to even experience it. They've gone right from the amateur ranks right into that organisation and never really got a chance to play out here and what it feels like to play a TOUR schedule or to play in some big events.
And who knows what's going to happen in the near future with world-ranking points, the criteria for entering major championships. The governing body is going to have to figure that out.
Some of these players may not ever get a chance to play in major championships. That is a possibility. We don't know that for sure yet. It's up to all the major championship bodies to make that determination. But that is a possibility, that some players will never, ever get a chance to play in a major championship, never get a chance to experience this right here, walk down the fairways at Augusta National.
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I’m honored to have joined others in this No Laying Up pod discussing the Old Course.
Check it out wherever you do your listening!
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We may tee up our ball in front of the Royal and Ancient Clubhouse for one of the least calming tee shots in existence. In front of stretches a vast flat plain, and unless we slice the ball outrageously on to the sea beach, no harm can befall us. At the same time we had much better hit a good shot, because the Swilcan burn guards the green, and we want to carry it and get a four. It is an inglorious little stream enough: we could easily jump over it were were not afraid of looking foolish if we fell in, and yet it catches an amazing number of balls. BERNARD DARWIN
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From Gullane Hill to the Luffness Clubhouse is one huge stretch of turf, and such turf! The finest, smoothest and most delicate that was ever seen. It has been said of various people—I do not know who was the original subject—that nobody could be so wise as so-and-so looked; likewise, it might be said that no greens could be so good s the Gullane and Luffness greens look. Never they are are very good indeed, and so is the golf. BERNARD DARWIN
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Gullane Hill, untouched by the invading ploughshare, has left stretches of the most beautiful golfing country in the world. Turf of exceptional closeness and elasticity, natural sand bunkers of endless shape and variety, sierras of benty dunes and saharas of sand alternating with oases of verdure make the place a veritable golfers paradise. Here surely, if anywhere, must have been the home of our first golfing parents, for nowhere else in the world is the golfing prospect so expansive and enticing. Nowhere does the pursuit of the game seem so inevitable. JOYCE WETHERED
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Gullane Hill, untouched by the invading ploughshare, has left stretches of the most beautiful golfing country in the world. Turf of exceptional closeness and elasticity, natural sand bunkers of endless shape and variety, sierras of benty dunes and saharas of sand alternating with oases of verdure make the place a veritable golfers paradise. Here surely, if anywhere, must have been the home of our first golfing parents, for nowhere else in the world is the golfing prospect so expansive and enticing. Nowhere does the pursuit of the game seem so inevitable. JOYCE WETHERED
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Gullane Hill, untouched by the invading ploughshare, has left stretches of the most beautiful golfing country in the world. Turf of exceptional closeness and elasticity, natural sand bunkers of endless shape and variety, sierras of benty dunes and saharas of sand alternating with oases of verdure make the place a veritable golfers paradise. Here surely, if anywhere, must have been the home of our first golfing parents, for nowhere else in the world is the golfing prospect so expansive and enticing. Nowhere does the pursuit of the game seem so inevitable. JOYCE WETHERED
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From Gullane Hill to the Luffness Clubhouse is one huge stretch of turf, and such turf! The finest, smoothest and most delicate that was ever seen. It has been said of various people—I do not know who was the original subject—that nobody could be so wise as so-and-so looked; likewise, it might be said that no greens could be so good s the Gullane and Luffness greens look. Never they are are very good indeed, and so is the golf. BERNARD DARWIN
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From Gullane Hill to the Luffness Clubhouse is one huge stretch of turf, and such turf! The finest, smoothest and most delicate that was ever seen. It has been said of various people—I do not know who was the original subject—that nobody could be so wise as so-and-so looked; likewise, it might be said that no greens could be so good s the Gullane and Luffness greens look. Never they are are very good indeed, and so is the golf. BERNARD DARWIN
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On the 150th Open’s eve, the R&A is asking fans who planned to attend by rail to find other means of getting to St Andrews. This is a result of its on-going dispute between ScotRail and train drivers.
Last month Willie Rennie warned of the need for a contingency plan in this scenario.
Here is what the R&A sent to ticketholders:
Dear Ticketholder,
We are contacting you to provide an important update and guidance regarding travel to and from The 150th Open at St Andrews on 10-17 July.
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Take a narrow tableland, tilt it a little from right to left, dig a deep bunker on the front side, approach it diagonally, and you have the Redan. At North Berwick, of course, all these things were done in the beginning by nature. The only original thing that the greenkeeper did was to place the tee so that the shot had to be played cornerwise, so to speak, instead of directly down the tableland. C.B. MACDONALD
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