No golfer has completed his education until he has played and studied Royal Dornoch.

In golf, as in no other sport, your principal opponent is youself.

No golfer has completed his education until he has played and studied Royal Dornoch.

Golf without Jones would be like France without Paris: leaderless, lightless and lonely.

According to the Captain of The Honorable Company of Edinburgh Golfers, striking your opponent or caddie at St Andrews, Hoylake or Westward Ho! meant that you lost the hole, except on medal days when it counted as a rub of the green.

WHILE A MANS BATTLE against himself is undoubtedly at the heart of golfs abiding appeal, the setting in which it is played is, for most golfers, one of the most wonderful things about it.

Beyond the fact that it is a limitless arena for the full play of human nature, there is no sure accounting for golf's fascination... Perhaps it is nothing more than the best game man has ever devised.