St. Andrews just unveiled the perfect spot to visit before your round

You’ve got an early afternoon tee time on the Old Course in St. Andrews and you couldn’t be happier. You’re making your way through town, trudging onto North Street and then turning at the Dunvegan — perhaps the world’s most famous golf pub — onto a road called Golf Place. It’s a fitting name.

There’s golf shops on the left and a rental called Golf House on the right. In front of you is the R&A Clubhouse, one of the most famous in the entire sport, and sprawling out before it is the course itself. The 18th green is just steps from the 1st tee. But there are four and a half hours of your future between them, which you’ve been thinking about for … days? Weeks? Months? Forever?

But now there’s a new step in your pre-round journey. Before nervously jumping out onto the 1st tee, golfers should make a new stop on that walk, just across the road and behind the R&A clubhouse. They should visit the newest statue in town, unveiled this week — a tribute to Old Tom Morris, the man who established golf as we know it.

Old tom Morris statue

The Old Tom statue is the brainchild of a few Fife locals who looked around and didn’t see enough of an obvious ode to the preeminent father of the game. A group of nine, led by Ronald Sandford (a friend and golf lifer), has been working for years to put the man on display in the town that now is best known for the sport he helped foster. Sandford came across an Old Tom statue at a course in Ireland and made it his personal quest to deliver a bronzed replica of Old Tom to the doorstep of his greatest piece of work.

 

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