Wandering around the home of golf
Hello Hello Hivians and welcome to our first Wednesday in March!
I can't wait for some good weather!
In the meantime we keep walking, and this is a continuation of the Strolling along The Scores in St Andrews Fife Scotland 🏴 walk from two weeks ago.
Living on the edge?
We were walking down the Scores towards the home of golf and I thought I would take a picture of the cliff from further away. What a view those houses must have. But with seagulls perching on there, I bet it can be a bit noisy come breeding season!
Past the aquarium and Italian restaurant is another information board.
This one is for the Martyr's Monument.
Patrick Hamilton was one of the first critics of the Catholic Church in Scotland to be tried and burnt at the stake, in 1528, for promoting the doctrines of Martin Luther. Others who followed in his footsteps are commemorated by this monument.
As a kid I remember running round it in summertime when I was through visiting family.
Talking about playing as a kid, I also remember running up and down this bank to the bandstand more that a few times!
I was an energetic rascal as a kid!
I can remember my grandmother sitting gossiping with her friends on the bench whilst me and her neighbours children would run around like wee shits 🤣
Old Tom Morris
Golf does not really seem to be a thing on Hive. I know @ablaze hits the greens but not many other Hivians talk about golf.
Having Fifers as parents and grandparents it was inevitable I grew up playing golf.
St Andrews is the home of golf and this man Old Tom Morris is often described as the Grand Old Man of Golf.
You might ask why he is called Old Tom Morris , well his son is called Young Tom Morris so there you go.
Actually he had a fascinating career and did so much for golf. As a player he was incredibly good!
The statue of him does have stones with some of his achievements and qualities etched into them...
The Grand Old Man of Golf
From being an awesome golfer to designing courses and equipment, he did it all!
He was instrumental in getting the Open competition started.
The Church Elder
Historically St Andrews was a hotbed of religious activity what with the cathedral and so many people on both sides Roman Catholics and Protestants being killed.
Old Tom Morris was like so many prominent people a Church Elder.
Advocate of Ladies Golf
This was pointed out by Mrs T and was great to see. It was long held that men and ladies did not mix in golf. They even had separate rooms in the club house etc.
They were even excluded from playing for decades.
It is great that he was such an advocate for ladies golf. Such a pity that in his day they were treated with such contempt.
He laid out over 100 courses
He was sacked by his employer for daring to use a new type of golf ball. He ended working across the country in Prestwick where he started to design and lay out golf courses. Now you must realise that in Fife every town and village has its own golf course!
In the end he laid out over 100 fluffing courses!
The superstar who was a local lad
He was born in North Street which quite literally is a hop skip and a jump from the Old Course and where this monument is!
The Old Course
The original golf course.
I last played here when I was 14 in a competition and came second and won a rosette!
Fun times and what I did as kid in summer. Stay with my grandparents playing golf!
Those were the days!
The Royal & Ancient Golf Club of St Andrews
The Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St Andrews was founded on 14 May 1754, with the first Challenge for the Silver Club. Evolving over 250 colourful years of British history, it has grown from a small society into a club with 2,500 members worldwide.
The Royal and Ancient Clubhouse is situated behind the 1st tee of the famed Old Course.
You can see the balcony on the Clubhouse where members could watch the players coming up the final fairway.
They could also see possibly the most iconic scene in world golf!
The 700 year old Swilcan Bridge
The Swilcan Bridge is a stone bridge that crosses the Swilcan Burn between the 1st and 18th fairways of the Old Course at St Andrews in Scotland.
The bridge was built over 700 years ago to allow shepherds to cross the burn with their flocks
It's considered one of the most iconic bridges in golf and many stop to take photos as you can see these two women doing!
We shall finish here as we need to put up an embrella!
Although this was February it was more like April with all the showers!
Cheers everyone!
Well this post is for #wednesdaywalk which was inspired by @tattoodjay
Thanks for visiting and I hope you managed to get out for a walk this week.
All images and ramblings are from me, the mad Scotsman TengoLoTodo unless otherwise stated. Note images are all snapped by me with my Google Pixel 9 XL Pro smartphone on the 15th February 2025 and some were used in canva to make the lead image.
@tengolotodo March 5th 2025
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So much golfign history there,
\Golf was a sport i never go into, the idea of walking the 18 holes does appeal to me, but the couple of times I played or shall I say tried to play golf I think I got a dud Golf Ball, as it never seemed to go in the direction I wanted it to :)
Thanks for joining the Wednesday walk
Have a great day
Golf is great and I did play alot all over the world.
But those dud balls, they seem to become more common the older we get hahaha!
But yeah it is always special going to the home of golf!
Thanks Jay and I hope you have a wonderful Wednesday!
thanks and I hope your day is going well
as for sport, even though Golf is popular in NZ, rugby is the most popular sport and the one i played
I work very close to a golf course, and some of the guests that was staying at the villa play golf, but I have never actually go into the golf course area as it is other establishment. I don't even understand the game at all.
haha
Ah well if you don't play you don't need to go hehe!
I tend to prefer disc golfing. I have clubs, but I only bust them out maybe once every ten years or so. I suck, like really really bad. I'm sure with practice I could be decent. What great memories you have of this place!
It's so nice to reminisce about those memories in your childhood. Why did you stop playing afterwards?
It is time consuming and I moved nowhere near courses that were accessible and then my bones said no more 🤣
The place is wide and a good place to play a golf. You have a wonderful place @tengolotodo. Hope you enjoy your day.
Yep it is a beautiful wide open links course by the seaside!
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That is brilliant news, thank you so much @lauramica it is always an honour and privilege to be featured in the daily digest.
You are very welcome @tengolotodo! it was well deserved. ☀️
Keep up the great work 💪
The only thing I know about golf is that Tiger Woods was one of the best and his career went down the tubes because he infidel! I don't understand the game very much and I think that in Venezuela it is not practiced very much because for that you need, as it is evident from your photos, hectares and hectares of land with perfect grass. Golf must be a very elitist sport. How much can a good golf club cost? I send you a hug, Ed the golfer!!!
In Scotland every village had a golf course and it was for the people! Now of course everything gets expensive and they even destroy golf courses to build houses for people! It annoys me, so many times our planet would be better if there were no people!
Thank you Nancy the watcher for the hug :)
Loved this walk through history! Your memories and the rich golf heritage of St Andrews made this a great read.
It is a great place and so many memories there right enough
Good heavens those are absolutely majestic photos! What an incredible setting for golf. I had no idea it even existed. Looks like there is just so much history there!
Yeah it si something else, the history of golf all started here but there so much religious persecution as well. You are right it is steeped in history.
That man loved his golfing! Pretty cool what he achieved and even became a church elder to boot! I love the scenery around, so nice and rustic. Maybe a little gray in the skies, but it's Scotland, right? Thanks for the awesome tour!
I really love the buildings and the wide green fields in your area, Uncle Ed.