That is great....My brothers and I toured around Scotland a few years back and we got to play the new course at St. Andrews. The whole area is steeped in tradition and memories. Standing on the bridge on the 18th and trying to get our heads around the fact that it was 400 yrs old (give or take) was a definite hilight!!
Do you remember Arnie standing on that bridge to the roars of the crowd as it was his last professional British Open.
We purposefully hit into bunkers just to see what it was like inside them and try( not very successfully)to get out. We didn't care what our scores were. We were like kids in a candy store.
One tidbit I did learn is that the old course is played backwards from its original design. That is why when you are standing on the teebox, you cannot see the dangers of the fairway bunkers that are out there and trust me, they are everywhere.
There is also no real definition of each hole. We had to follow the group of locals ahead of us, just to see where the next hole was.
It was a truly memorable and hopefully not once in a lifetime experience. I twill be the old course for me the next time though...
Cheers
Do take time if you can for some fishing...we need pictures!
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