Moving Inland
Trip Start
Jul 20, 2005
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Jul 31, 2005
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Ladybank , Kingdom Of Fife, United Kingdom
Wednesday, July 27, 2005
Moving Inland
Today we played our only inland course Ladybank, sounds very British doesn't it. Ladybank lies inland on A91 about 10 miles west of St Andrews. If anyone has been to Pinehurst, North Carolina they can relate to Ladybank. The architect of the original 6-hole course, Old Tom Morris, played in the Autumn Meeting that year as a 'stranger' and won despite his handicap of +3 strokes, the year 1879. The course has trees lining every hole and the fairways like most courses so far are very firm. The weather today was overcast and we played through rain for two holes. Just enough to put on rain gear.
I may have not mentioned this before but the Scots are more concerned with the game and not the amount of players they can put out on the golf course. Throughout our rounds only at St. Andrews were we paired with anyone else. At Dunbar we asked Jerry to join us, otherwise we would have play 2 ball, not as a twosome but two ball. We are getting lessons in the proper terminology of the game. Because we were a two ball match we had priority over 4 ball matches and were asked to play through several times. The Scots believe in fast play all the time. We played Ladybank in 3:10
Pub Crawling
Returning to St. Andrews we decided to visit the old cathedral and St. Rules Tower. Currently this is the resting place of "Old Tom Morris and Young Tom Morris" This took about 10 minutes due to the rain that started to come down. We paid our respects to "old Tom" even though we didn't find his grave. When life gives you lemons, you should make lemonade, so we headed for the pubs to have a pint in "old Tom's " memory. This seemed like the proper thing to do. This then turned into a pub crawl/diner. In one pub called Red River we watched this bloke dump about 40 pounds into a pinball machine that pays out in real money. We were also watching the "Celtic" football (soccer)team play on the telee. They are the most popular team in Scotland. After a tackle by one of the Celtic players, the bloke playing the machine says "ain't no fool(foul), ain't no fool. We later learned they lost to a team from Croatia 5-0. The poor guy probably cut his wrists. The next morning all the papers and tv shows were ready to fire the manager who managed his 1st game for the Celtics. We thought the rags in the states are tough on coaches, no way.
