Old Course Recap: Fox Wins, Road Bunker Blues And A McKellar Pod

Using hazards for the purpose of interest alone, he may use them in the way of emphasis to bring out the highlights of a hole. They can be made formidable or small. Often a tiny pit placed in just the right spot, so small that it can have little effect upon actual play, can be a mental hazard with tremendous effect upon the morale of the golfer. But to place such a pit is as truly an art as one revealing scratch of a pen by a Rembrandt which we ordinary mortals could not duplicate with a thousand scratches…the pseudo-golf architect will have the faint glimmerings of an idea and will try to catch it with numerous bunkers; whereas the true artist will place just one bunker upon the sore spot and it is done. Such a bunker is the Road bunker in the face of the seventeenth green at St. Andrews. To have placed such a bunker required rare imagination and audacity. MAX BEHR