Scott Macpherson

But that sort of defined the other thing.

So I'm thinking, right, okay, great.

We've got a plan 1821 and the parameters are kind of defined.

And at that point, there is...

18 holes, right, 18 holes.

But actually, there's only 10 holes.

So it's an 18-hole course.

But if you think about it, they dig a hole for one, they dig a hole for two, three, all the way out to nine.

So there's nine holes in the ground.

and then they have to play back so they're at nine and then they play back to the eighth hole back to the seventh hole back to the sixth and then they have to have one home hole so there's actually only 10 physical holes in the ground even though and the holes at this point they aren't like what we think of as holes no so at that point the hole cutter hadn't been invented um and there's great conversations around that it was a drain pipe and it was old tom and

I think there's still a little bit of myth around there.

But certainly in 1821, there was not a hole cutter.

And we found some material when the book was updated.

And it was a story about how the caddies would go out.

The first caddies of the day would go out and cut the holes.

So you can imagine, it's still pretty wild out there.

They find a lovely bit of fescue ground.

They're like, right, we're going to cut the hole here.

Literally have a hand trowel and dig a hole in the ground, right?

Like you're in a garden.