Andy Johnson

When we started talking about doing a podcast about the old course and the reversed old course, my brain went to one person to talk and talk to and have come up here and be the expert on the old course.

Our guest is Scott McPherson.

He is a golf course architect.

who found himself in St.

Andrews, spending a lot of time researching St.

Andrews while he was building a golf course nearby, which led him eventually to producing kind of, I would say...

a declarative book on, on the history of, of St.

Andrews.

It's, it's incredibly well-researched and incredibly well laid out.

Uh, the book is called St.

Andrews, the evolution of the old course.

So immediately when I was asked if we'd want to do a lot of live podcasts from here, immediately, I was like, well, we've got to get Scott involved because he knows everything about the old course.

There is to know that I, you know, there are probably some other great historians too, but that I've come across.

So, uh,

I'm honored to be joined by Scott tonight and get to do this podcast.

Yes, yes.

Let's get into it.

Can you bring us back to your first visit to the old course?

Your early golf life.

Oh, I'm working for Peter Thompson.