ONE of David Law’s first competitive rounds on the Old Course well over a decade ago ended with him signing for a jaw-shuddering 85. Back in yonder days of yesteryear, that kind of score would’ve been good enough to set the Open heather on fire. Tom Kidd, for instance, won the first Claret Jug to be presented in St Andrews in 1873 with a 91 and an 88.
It’s a different ba’ game these days, of course. Thankfully, Law’s Old Course experience this week has been much more fulfilling than that sobering St Andrews Links Trophy outing as an amateur back in 2009. “The 85 was memorable I suppose, but for all the wrong reasons,” he chuckled.
