While St. Andrews was pleased that a Scotsman broke the record and won the first prize, some worthies had a feeling that a figure so low as 68 was scarcely befitting the dignity of the classic Old Course. Had it been anyone but Duncan who had dared to do such a thing, these veterans would have been vigorously annoyed. We'll need a wheen mair bunkers," was the remark of one of them.
Dunean's score, however, is an answer to the many medium-class English professionals who have been growling at the what they allege is the unfairness of the course, the balls being undeservedly kicked into bunkers. Loo many of the grumblers are apt to regard parks with holes in them as the last word in golf construction. They don't like sand.
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