Scott Macpherson

Thanks, Andy.

It's great to be here and I really appreciate the invite.

what the Lynx Trust have put on here in the biotheater is fantastic.

And an opportunity to talk about the old course with you is great.

I just know how passionate you guys are at the Fried Egg about history and about golf.

And so this feels like a fitting place to talk about it.

Yeah, so I'm a New Zealander by birth, hence the accent.

But my grandparents are Scottish and they emigrated to New Zealand when my father was born.

And we came back during the 80s.

We still had family here.

But I'd been working for, at one point, Peter Thompson in Melbourne, the great Peter Thompson, five times Open champion.

And this is in the mid 1990s towards the end.

And things had slowed down in the design side.

There was quite a lot of work in the Philippines and Asia.

And they slowed down.

And so Peter said, look, what do you want to do?

And there was an opportunity to stay with the company, but I really wanted to do a bit more travel.

I felt as a designer, I hadn't seen enough.

And so while I'd been to St Andrews previously in the 80s, at that point, I wasn't really a golfer.

I didn't come from a golfing family.