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Andy Johnson

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4441 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

The Fried Egg Golf Podcast
Live from St. Andrews - The Old Course and Fife

If you could take us to the early days of golf at the old course, what did it look like and what did the golf course look like?

The Fried Egg Golf Podcast
Live from St. Andrews - The Old Course and Fife

Would it be, if you look at the beach and you see the dunes, right, would it be almost imagining looking at that and there'd be just, you'd pick a point in the distance and play there?

The Fried Egg Golf Podcast
Live from St. Andrews - The Old Course and Fife

A drive, yeah.

The Fried Egg Golf Podcast
Live from St. Andrews - The Old Course and Fife

Like ricocheted across, yeah.

The Fried Egg Golf Podcast
Live from St. Andrews - The Old Course and Fife

Yeah.

The Fried Egg Golf Podcast
Live from St. Andrews - The Old Course and Fife

I mean, wild time.

The Fried Egg Golf Podcast
Live from St. Andrews - The Old Course and Fife

Yeah.

The Fried Egg Golf Podcast
Live from St. Andrews - The Old Course and Fife

When did it become an 18-hole course?

The Fried Egg Golf Podcast
Live from St. Andrews - The Old Course and Fife

And when was it this reversible course?

The Fried Egg Golf Podcast
Live from St. Andrews - The Old Course and Fife

Or what was the terminology then of this course?

The Fried Egg Golf Podcast
Live from St. Andrews - The Old Course and Fife

When did that come to be?

The Fried Egg Golf Podcast
Live from St. Andrews - The Old Course and Fife

An amazing trivia item would be, what are the newest holes on the old course?

The Fried Egg Golf Podcast
Live from St. Andrews - The Old Course and Fife

Most people wouldn't ever think it'd be one in 18.

The Fried Egg Golf Podcast
Live from St. Andrews - The Old Course and Fife

Unbelievable.

The Fried Egg Golf Podcast
Live from St. Andrews - The Old Course and Fife

It's like all these societal influences that led to golf and the hole being built.

The Fried Egg Golf Podcast
Live from St. Andrews - The Old Course and Fife

Um,

The Fried Egg Golf Podcast
Live from St. Andrews - The Old Course and Fife

At this point, is it a reversible course?

The Fried Egg Golf Podcast
Live from St. Andrews - The Old Course and Fife

And how did it work?

The Fried Egg Golf Podcast
Live from St. Andrews - The Old Course and Fife

How did they go about changing which direction you played in?

The Fried Egg Golf Podcast
Live from St. Andrews - The Old Course and Fife

So effectively, because most people here will experience this, because you're playing and you're going to have tee shots going in opposite directions while people are playing hole, that's how they decided the right-hand course had to win out.