Scott Macpherson

You know, you don't say very much.

You definitely kept up.

And, you know, I saw parts of the course that I had never seen before.

And it really just...

And having spent the time with Peter and knowing what I thought I knew and then hearing from the caddies, all the bunkers were made by sheep and, you know, the railway station was built in, make up a year, particularly as they're coming towards the end of the round and wanting a bigger gratuity, a bigger tip, make up anything.

And I was like, well, there has to be some data, some information, and I couldn't.

So that's what really started me on, you know, what became the book eventually.

It's just a personal research project.

Yeah, I think certainly, probably it takes about 20 rounds, would be my feeling, before you really start to understand the strategy of the old course.

And my experience was that it started to build up almost an aerial view.

So what you were seeing off the ground, and, you know, sort of at that point, sort of seven of the first nine holes were blind off the tee.

So for a first-timer, it's very discombobulating.

You're really not sure where you're going.

It's

double greens and where do I take my bag?

And so, yeah, I think from a caddy perspective, pretty early on in the round, usually by halfway down the first hole, if not the second, you've figured out the level of ability that you've got.

And the idea, you know, in those days, Rick McKenzie was like, right, Scott, you've got to make your own yardage book.

Can you imagine that?

You know, now we've got lasers, you buy everything.

There was no yardage books.