Cameron Smith and his caddie will have some changes to navigate when the winner of the 150th Open Championship returns to the Old Course in 2027 for the next edition of the links major at the Home of Golf.
It’s not often you drive the ball so poorly that it hits a human, a dog and a road and then grumbles back onto the 18th fairway as if it didn’t just nearly send multiple species to the emergency room. This is “Caddyshack” without the film set and safety precautions.
The world’s best players return to the home of the sport for the third time this week at the AIG Women’s Open, with Australia’s chances again led by Olympians Hannah Green and Minjee Lee.
A little more than 16,000 kilometres and nine time zones from the 18th green of the Old Course at St Andrews, host of this week’s AIG Women’s Open, is a golf course in the outback of Australia with a quirky place in the game.
Grandstands may line the 18th hole at St Andrews this week for the Open Championship, but starting next month, they’ll be replaced with the first ever permanent storefront featuring co-branded apparel and accessories from TravisMathew.
The task at St Andrews Opens is to provoke the best players in the world into displaying their peerless talents to the most evocative extent – no matter the winning score.
Gordon McKie is just the ninth superintendent since old Tom Morris. Amid the modern crises of distance and climate, his watch could be the most critical.
There’s little doubt the R&A is excited about hosting the 150th Open Championship this year at St Andrews. And in the run up to the big event in July, the governing body promises to hold a variety of smaller ones to get the rest of the world equally excited.
Australian Golf Digest
