The first and 18th holes at the Old Course is a magical stretch of golf, but also one that provides plenty of pressure. It’s common to have pretty big galleries watching golfers start and finish their rounds there—even if they’re not named Harry Styles. Plus, there’s all the history. Oh, the history.
New Asia-Pacific Amateur champion Harrison Crowe joined an illustrious group of just three Australians (Antonio Murdaca in 2014 and Curtis Luck in 2016) to win the prestigious amateur event, but the Sydneysider remains in another club all on his own after pulling off this miraculous
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.
“A Course Called Scotland” has a dimension most golf books lack. Forget a worthwhile endeavour on Scottish golf; Tom Coyne’s project is one of the best golf books this century.
Of the 13,145 professional rounds played on the Old Course, no one has shot a lower score than Ross Fisher did overnight during the final round of the European Tour’s Alfred Dunhill Links Championship.
An Open Championship played over the Old Course at St Andrews may not have much in common with this week’s Turkish Airlines Open at the Regnum Carya Golf and Spa Resort, but there is at least one thing binding the two.