The Old Course at St Andrews is the most famous golf course in
world golf and the Mecca to which every golfer aspires to make
pilgrimage at least once in a golfing lifetime. Here is to be found
the spiritual home of the game. It is here that the ghosts of Old
Tom Morris and Allan Robertson roam the ancient links and where the
rules and standards that have set golf apart as the game of highest
principle and personal integrity have long since been set down.
This St Andrews golf course is the classic seaside links although
the sea is seldom in view other than at the first and last holes.
There are no great sand dunes as for instance at Royal Aberdeen,
the fairways are wide and the double greens immense but the
bunkering is among the severest to be found on a golf course
anywhere the game is played. The bunkers, once described by Bernard
Darwin as ‘these greedy, lurking enemies’, are the key to survival
on this unique and mystical links.
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