To see the quaintness of the shops, the old stone buildings under red and gray roofs, leaves you with a good feeling. A relative, Willie Auchterlonie, won the Open in 1893. At the cemetery at St. Andrews College, you can look up the memorial and tomb of Young Tom Morris. In the United States, the national championship is played in metropolitan areas. Over here, it is played in small towns, all of which have the village look.
People walk and ride their bicycles.
A few miles away there are farms and fields of waving grain, narrow roads and sheep in the meadows. The friendly Scots are frugal and industrious. And above all, they love their golf. They play for the love of the game, and they know their history. They can tell you about the pairing of Greg Norman and Nick Faldo in 1990 at St. Andrews and the disaster that followed with Faldo scoring 67 and Norman 76.