I hope you have the camera with you and the batteries charged up....
I did, indeed, AC. At considerable risk of a rain-damaged camera, I shot a number of photos and two short videos (one from under cover toward the various public pavilions and the other in a driving rainstorm while crossing Swilken Bridge). We'll get everything posted ASAP.
How bad was it? Well, the R&A called off its much anticipated former Champions four-hole exhibition. When you cancel a round of Golf in Scotland because of weather, now that's serious!
Meanwhile, from behind the first green at 'sunny' St. Andrews . . .
"H-e-e-e-e-r-e's Yoda!"
And, now having crossed the famed Swilken Bridge . . .
Last year, on another blessed day at St. Andrews and standing atop golf's most famous landmark -- Swilken Bridge -- this . . .
I like this picture better
Can't believe that was almost a year ago Lynn also at least we finished our round after the squall that we played through at the turn
Alex
I like this picture better
Can't believe that was almost a year ago Lynn also at least we finished our round after the squall that we played through at the turn
Alex
I remember, Alex: We had 'all four seasons' in that round, excluding only snow!
Here's my photo that day of Alex on Swilken Burn:
My three weeks there last year began with the Scottish Open at Loch Lomond and proceeded to The Open Championship at Turnberry. During those two weeks and the next that followed, I taught at various venues. Then, the real fun:
Well, today was quite a day. We woke up this morning to rain, and the early players practiced and played in it.
Then, when the rain stopped, the wind kicked up in earnest: Twenty-five miles an hour with gusts to forty. W - O - W ! !
On #13 -- the hole that prompted the later wind suspension of play -- BG backed off his ball and re-marked four times as the ball wobbled about -- no, moved about -- on the green. Each player in the group three-putted, all missing second putts from less than four feet (and one from less than 12 inches). When the group behind us reached the green, Paul Goydos refused to play.
Fifteen minutes later, the horn -- the "hooter" as they call it here -- sounded, and play was suspended for an hour. Here's a shot of the players and caddies in Brian's group laying about in the grass awaiting the play of their third shots into the 14th, your basic 618-yard par 5. Don't look for Kip (BG's caddie): He was "starving" and off to get in a quick sandwich.
I noticed no appreciable difference in the wind velocity once play resumed. BG bogeyed #15 and #16 -- a three-putt including the one-stroke penalty he called on himself when the ball moved after he had soled the club -- then tripled #17 from the tough rough left off the tee. A birdie on the home hole brought him in at +11 for the day and for the tournament.
Not what we wanted or expected, of course, but it's what we got.
Hybrid Mode
