To win on the same green where his late compatriot, Seve Ballesteros, had indulged in one of golf’s most iconic celebrations was, for the 54-year-old, a clearly emotional experience.
“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.