Leave My ball Alone
And the early Scots didn’t believe taking your ball faraway from you. They thought you ought to be ready to play the round with an equivalent ball. Sure they designed many places on the course where you didn’t want to hit your ball,
but the penalty isn't a lost ball. Your penalty has to alight into ‘The Coffins’ and play out backwards.
Just watching the names of the holes in Scottish golf links design and their prominent features, you'll see what proportion the Scots love this name. Who wouldn’t celebrate playing Cartgate, beverage and Tom Morris. And who else names traps with gems like Admiral’s,
The Beardies, and therefore the Principal’s Nose. ‘Hey Joe, how’d you are doing today?’. ‘I had a right good round going until I put my drive
into The Beardies’.
So the Scots have these easy walking courses, with many variables per hole, played under wildly changing weather , where you'll use a putter from 20 yards off the green, with bunkers you'll stray in, and holes that are fun for you also as Tiger.
Throw in the hospitality and therefore the scotch and you've got the right equation for fun on the golf links . I just don’t get why modern architects don’t have the
smarts and/or guts to undertake this mix . Maybe it takes an entire different level of understanding to ascertain where Mother Nature has already laid out the holes. Build it and that we will come!
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