How The New Course Gave Us The Old Course
/There’s a nice story from Christopher Clarey in the New York Times on the New Course at St. Andrews, an Old Tom Morris original. Though it's used this week for other purposes, the New has its admirers. If nothing else for giving us The Old Course name that has become iconic.
This was fun:
“It’s probably the oldest new course,” said George Wilkinson, a starter on the New Course. “Maybe they could market it that way.”
Said Moir: “Up until the New Course was built, the Old Course was just known as the Links. It was only when they built the New Course that they said, ‘We’ll call it the Old.’ They had a lot of imagination in those days.”
The New was designed by Tom Morris, who, despite the assignment, was known as Old Tom Morris to distinguish him from his son, who was known as Young Tom. (New Tom apparently was not an option.)
