Offers Of Acorns Pouring In From Around The Globe!

As the shock of losing golf's most famous tree wears off, Dalmeny Golf Club is offering an acorn to Augusta National Golf Club to replace the fallen Eisenhower Tree. But unlike the thousands of offers that will undoubtedly come in--hopefully not including shoes, water and blood--this one has ties to the former President.

Martin Dempster explains:

It has come from the private Dalmeny Golf Club, which is now home of golf’s sole tree named after Dwight D Eisenhower, the one at the South Queensferry course having been planted by the former US President during a visit to Edinburgh to receive the freedom of the city in 1946.

“If this had happened to our one, we’d be devastated as well,” said club secretary Wullie Ruffle after hearing the fate of arguably the most famous tree in golf. “It would be good to keep the Eisen-hower connection going at Augusta, so we would be quite happy to send some Acorns from our tree over to them.”