The most wonderful time of the year

Editor Neil Tappin neil.tappin@futurenet.com here are a handful of golfing experiences that those of us prone to hyperbole and soppy enough to actually say it would describe as ‘spiritual’. I’m lucky enough to have experienced two of these. The first came in September 1999. I had received a place at the University of St Andrews to read English. My first sight of the giant square of lush green that encroaches on the town and creates a quasi-stadium effect for the 1st and 18th holes was the day be...