And The Huggy Goes To...The R&A For Best Point Missing By A Governing Body

John Huggan files his annual Huggies and I'm glad to see the Point Misser award went to the R&A for its setup of the Road Hole.

They said they wanted the Road Hole to play the way it used to. Which is why they moved the tee back 50 yards or so (not that the ball is going too far these days of course). But then they let the rough grow on the left side of the fairway. On the last day of the Open, eventual runner-up Lee Westwood was seen hacking away to no great effect from long grass that had no place on the Old Course at St Andrews. The contrast with the iconic shot Seve Ballesteros was able to play from approximately the same spot in 1984 was more than marked.

So the hole did not play the way it used to. Not even close, in fact. For that basic missing of the point, the Huggy - not their first and surely not their last - goes to the R&A.