Scott Macpherson

at that point, well, it still would have been the St Andrews, sight of St Andrews golfers having become the RNA at that point.

So there would have been familiarity.

And then there's more people coming, people who don't know each other probably don't know the golf course.

So there's this buildup, the course is getting wider and busier, and there's this need to try and have some degree of separation between the two courses.

So

From really around the 1870s up until sort of just after the open in 1873, up until about 1905, there was the left and right-hand course, which was the terminology of the day.

And it alternated week on week.

And the idea was that the competition course was always the right-hand course.

And that stood except for one time.

And that's the course they play today, the right-hand course.

Correct, correct.

So we now play the right-hand course.

And so the question was, well, why did they choose...

to length in the right-hand course?

And the answer really is safety related in terms of the reverse course or the left-hand course has three crossovers.

It's possible to do it with two crossovers, but at the moment, really, it's always been three crossovers.

So you have one in 18, and then you've got sort of seven and 11, which we kind of have

And then there's 9 and 10.

And so that's a less safe course than what the right-hand course is with just a single crossover at 7 and 11.

Yeah, I think it was as simple as that.