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Friday, 02 July 2010 02:00 |
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The Old Course at St. Andrews officially closed to visitors on Saturday 19th June allowing the greenkeepers three full weeks of maintenance and fine tweaking prior to the week of the 150th Open Championship.
A view across Granny Clark's Wynd that dissects the 1st & 18th fairways on the Old Course.
The majority of the grandstands have been erected with those along the 16th fairway and the new 17th Road hole tee nearing completion. The experience of playing the Old Course, with the infrastructure in place, for the amateur golfers is excellent and we have only seen a couple of shots from the 1st tee ending up in the seating area down the right of the fairway!
The wonderful 18th green, Tom Morris, on the Old Course.
The golf course is looking a wee bit green in this set of photographs but the last two weeks of warm and sunny weather has begun to 'brown' up the fairways, creating the hard running, fast, bouncy and fiery look that is an integral part of any Open Championship. The five day weather forecast is for light showers, more sun and warm weather which will good news to the Head Greenkeeper and the R&A.
One of golf's great views from behind the 18th green on the Old Course.
The last of the Open Qualifier rounds were held last Tuesday, 29th June, on four local courses. Two were traditional qualifiers, Scotscraig and Ladybank and two were holding the event for the first time, Kingsbarns and The Torrance at St. Andrews Bay.
There were three spots up for grabs at each of the venues over a 36 hole shoot out. Tense stuff with play-offs being required at Kingsbarns and Scotscraig for two places a piece.
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