It was a day to make hay while the sun shone. Then again, Romain Langasque whipped up a storming surge that should’ve been accompanied by a series of tightly packed isobars as he hurtled to the top of the field during round one of the Alfred Dunhill Links Championship.
Those tightly packed thingamajigs were set to wreak havoc today with a particularly grotty forecast forcing tournament officials into a shotgun start in an attempt to limit any disruption caused by Mother Nature’s menacing meddling.
Yesterday, though, it was the calm before the storm. And what a pastoral scene it was. St Andrews was bathed in lovely autumnal sunshine while the lack of wind made the Old Course as vulnerable as a newly born gazelle tottering to its feet within sniffing distance of a pack of salivating hyenas.
