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Old Holes
What’s in a Name? The 18 Holes of the Old Course
Courses , International
July 8, 2022
Golf historians may quibble over where the game was invented, but when it comes to charting the origin of the game as we know it today, most will concede that St. Andrews is the acknowledged Home of Golf. Golf has been played there since the early 15th century over common land that today is held in trust by the Links Trust of St. Andrews under an act of Parliament.
The Old Course (aka “The Grand Old Lady”) didn’t get its name until 1895 when the New Course debuted next door. At one time, it featured 22 holes, but the course has evolved, and the present incarnation that is known so well around the world features 18 holes that each have their own unique character—and history. Part of that history involves their names.
Where do those names come from? Here’s a look at what we know.
The opening hole at the Old Course could have been called a lot of things, from “Clubhouse” to “Double-O.B.” to “Away-Ye-Go.” But the opener here takes its name from the Swilcan Burn that fronts the green. Players must take care not to drive into it from the tee or find it with their approach shots to the green, which is tucked just one pace from its edge. Extremely lucky players have been known to bounce mishit approach shots over this hazard on occasion, but your best bet is to play well over the burn on “Burn.”
In Scotland, the word “dyke” can mean wall. This hole shares a green with hole 16, “Corner of the Dyke”—the first of fourteen holes with shared greens on the course. Today, the course’s chief hazard is not a wall, but Cheape’s bunker—a large, inhospitable fairway bunker from which saving par is a rare affair.
Did the two Cartgate holes at St. Andrews get their names from a gate through which carts traversed the course, perhaps en route to the sandy shore of St. Andrews Bay? Or was it so named because threading your tee shot between the bunkers and undulations of its fairway seem like passing through a cart gate? No one seems to know. The answer, by all accounts, is lost in the mists of time.
For many years, players coming off the green of this tough par four would stop for a moment of refreshment at a simple ginger beer stand located behind the green. The stand, which was little more than a wheeled cart, was manned by David “Auld Da” Anderson, a local clubmaker. Rumor has it that stronger stuff than ginger beer may also have been on offer, too. Today, there’s a more substantial trailer offering snacks and beverages behind the 4th green, but you can still get a ginger beer there.
It’s not clear where this hole got its name. Some have opined that there was once a cross located in this area, which also gives the par-four 13th hole (which shares a green with the 5th) its name. Others say it’s because of a chasm that had to be crossed. It could just as easily be due to the enormous size of the green—over an acre—which might encourage the faithful to make the sign of the cross before commencing putting.
The 6th hole at the Old Course shares a green with the 12th, Heathery (In). These holes reportedly got their name from the rough nature of their putting surface back in the day, which apparently sported patches of heather (just to make three-putting easier).
The 7th hole shares a green with the 11th—“High (In).” This green is sited on one of the higher points on the course, at the edge of the Eden Estuary and just above the dastardly Shell bunker. It’s where the course does its little loop, from the 7th through to the 11th, before turning back toward the clubhouse for the remaining inward holes.
There are only two par threes on the Old Course. This is the first one-shotter players encounter. It’s not the shortest hole on the course—that honor goes to the other par three, the 11th (by one yard).
This short, straight par four isn’t located at the end of the course, but it is the end of the front nine. And if you find yourself in any of the deep pot bunkers reachable from the tee, it could also be the end of your quest to play to your handicap.
Bobby Jones was a favorite son of St. Andrews, even though he was born far across the pond in Georgia. Jones first came to St. Andrews for the 1921 Open, an event he quit in a huff after failing to extricate his ball from a bunker after four attempts. Jones returned to St. Andrews in 1927 and captured his second Claret Jug in a row there. In 1930, he launched his successful assault on the Grand Slam by winning the British Amateur title on the course. Jones so endeared himself to the people of St. Andrews that they gave him the key to the city in 1958, and after he died in 1971, this hole was named after him.
The 11th is the hole where Bobby Jones lost his cool in 1921, but because it shares its green with the 7th Hole, High (In), it also carries the “High” name. Looking down from the green, you can see all the trouble that gives this par three its unofficial moniker: “The toughest par five on the course.”
It’s easy to see where this hole got its name. At 614 yards, it’s one of the longest holes in major championship golf, and when the players tee it up in the 150th Open it will play as the longest hole in Open Championship history to date. Should they hit their ball into Hell bunker, their day will get considerably longer.
Every golf enthusiast knows where this hole gets its name—from Old Station Road, which runs immediately behind the back of the elevated green. In the 2010 Open Championship, Miguel Angel Jimenez hit his approach shot over that road and played one of the most unlikely recovery shots in golf history when he banked his third shot off the rough stone wall on the far side of the road and flew it backward onto the green. Many players, amateurs, and professionals alike have found themselves playing from the road over the years. It’s not an easy shot, in part due to the rough nature of the road surface. This road also gave one of the world’s most famous bunkers its name: the Road Bunker, a pit of despair from which Tommy Nakajima took four shots to escape in the 1978 Open.
Old Tom Morris, for whom this hole was named, was four times an Open Champion, a renowned club and ball maker, and a resident of St. Andrews. He also served as keeper of the links in St. Andrews and had a hand in adjusting many aspects of the course’s design through the years—including his tweaking of the 18th green and its dreaded Valley of Sin. Today, the Tom Morris Golf Shop that once stood at 8 The Links is managed by the R&A and is called The Open Store.
What are your favorite holes on the Old Course at St. Andrews?
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M. Night Shyamalan's new horror movie Old leaves some lingering questions about its mysterious beach that causes people to age rapidly.
Warning: MAJOR SPOILERS ahead for Old .
M. Night Shyamalan's new thriller Old eventually reveals why its unlucky characters have been lured to a beach that causes them to rapidly age, but there are still some unanswered questions and mysteries left over at the end of the film.
Based on the graphic novel Sandcastle , by Pierre Oscar Lévy and Frederik Peeters, Old 's story begins with married couple Guy and Prisca taking their children, Trent and Maddox, on a luxury resort vacation. The resort's manager invites them to take a trip to a secluded beach, arranging a bus to transport them and even supplying them with a strangely over-generous supply of food. Too late, the family realizes that the beach causes people to age a year for every half-hour they spend there, and once they've arrived there's no way to escape.
The ending of Old reveals that the resort is actually run by Warren & Warren, a pharmaceutical company that has discovered the beach's unique properties and is using it to fast-track long-term studies on medical treatments. The personalized cocktails that people are given on arrival contain experimental drugs, and they are lured to the beach so that scientists can see if their medicine is effective over months and years - all of which pass in the space of a day. Shyamalan's movie goes a lot further than the original graphic novel did in explaining the nature of the beach (if anything, the movie over-explains things), but here are the biggest mysteries, plot holes, and unanswered questions left at over the end.
A line from the trailer for Old , in which Guy says that the resort has a "no kids allowed" policy, turns out in the movie to simply be a joke that Guy makes to tease his children. It does raise the question, however, of why exactly the resort manager not only allows but encourages children to go to the beach with their parents. All of the test subjects who are given treatments for their conditions are adults, and the pharmaceutical staff have a moment of silence for their "sacrifice" after each experiment is complete. The resort manager also gives a pep talk to the Warren & Warren staff in which he justifies the loss of life on the beach by pointing out the thousands of lives that are saved by the drugs they're developing.
But if this is the justification used to ease the collective consciences of the scientists and doctors conducting the experiments, unnecessarily including children in the experiment with no scientific benefit at all would surely be a morale-killer. It would be easy enough to filter out under-16s from their experiments, since many real vacation resorts are limited to adults only. Without such a policy, Warren & Warren's list of potential hires is limited to people are not only OK with murdering people for the sake of science, but are also OK with killing innocent children for no reason.
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After floating his decompression sickness theory, Jarin suggests a way that they could escape through the canyon: by moving a single step at a time, allowing their bodies to adjust before taking each step. Passing through the canyon in this way would cost a person around 20 years of their lifespan, which is a heavy price to pay, but certainly a better option than simply waiting to die on the beach. However, no one tests this theory - not even Jarin, who takes the far greater risk of trying to swim to freedom and ends up drowning soon afterwards.
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As Guy and Prisca grow old, they begin to forget why they ever wanted to leave the beach in the first place and stop trying to escape. Trent and Maddox also lose begin to relax, sleeping away decades of their lives. Even after they realize that they can escape through the coral, they first stop and take the time to build a sandcastle together. This slowing down echoes the idea in Sandcastle that the value of life isn't in how long it lasts, but how it is spent.
Perhaps one of the biggest plot holes created by Old 's flaw of over-explaining things is a line addressing why the characters' hair and nails don't grow or change as the rest of their bodies do. This is put down to nails and hair being "dead cells" that are therefore unaffected by the beach's power, which only impacts living cells. The discussion was most likely intended to justify Old 's production not spending eye-watering amounts of money on different wigs, but it contradicts the fact that the dead bodies on the beach - which also consist of "dead cells" - decompose at the same accelerated speed that living bodies age.
Old explains that Warren & Warren lures test subjects to its resort by carefully targeting people with diseases that they're interested in studying, and the resort also has plenty of regular guests to camouflage its true purpose. However, if this is Test #73 then that means that there have been dozens of tests and hundreds of previous subjects who have died on the beach. The only explanation offered for how the resort covers this up is that the guests are told to leave their passports in their rooms. That's quite a thin cover for the massive plot hole of no one noticing that hundreds of missing persons all vanished after heading to the exact same vacation resort. Destroying passports after the fact wouldn't prevent people from telling their friends, families and workplaces where they were heading on their upcoming vacation.
Though Old isn't explicitly connected to any of M. Night Shyamalan's previous films , it does have some interesting links to them. Shyamalan's horror movie The Visit was also built upon the fear of aging, though in that movie it manifested through the main characters' fear of their elderly grandparents. The symbols on the coded notes that Idlib writes to Trent are reminiscent of the crop circles in Signs . The premise of people trying to survive the sudden appearance of an invisible force that's trying to kill them brings to mind the killer plant toxins of The Happening . And Chrystal's calcium deficiency (and the horrifying consequences of it) shares a common thread with Mr. Glass, the brittle-boned character played by Samuel L. Jackson in Shyamalan's Unbreakable trilogy.
Out of Shyamalan's filmography, Old has the most in common with the magical realism of the Unbreakable trilogy, where a mostly ordinary world is elevated by a few strange and fantastical phenomena. Old could easily have fit in an ending twist revealing that Mr. Glass was connected to Warren & Warren, and was using Chrystal to test a possible cure for his osteogenesis imperfecta. Perhaps it's for the best that Shyamalan avoided that explicit link, especially since it would be too similar to Split 's ending twist. Nonetheless, it's interesting that Old exists in that same delicate intersection of fantasy and science fiction. And like David Dunn's invincibility and The Beast's transformation, the true nature of the beach is never fully explained.
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