Welcome to August in St

Andrews Golf Magazine.

We are now just than a month away

from the 40th Ryder Cup matches and in

this edition of St Andrews Golf

Magazine we visit the place where all

the action will happen this September,

The Gleneagles Hotel.

We take a look inside the Dormy

Clubhouse and find out why Gleneagles

is just the perfect place for the Ryder

Cup. We also talk with the head

greenkeeper as the big week gets

closer.

In St Andrews we have had a busy

month with the New Golf Club Monthly

Medals Final and Autumn Meeting,

along with the International European

Men’s Amateur Championship

supported by All Square Golf.

This month’s big feature is on the

emigrating St Andrews professional

golfers who made the journey to the

United States over 100 years ago. Their

roles as club professionals at various

clubs across the north east of the

country and how they helped establish

the PGA of America.

We review the 96th PGA Championship

from Valhalla and we bring you an

insight into life on tour with Michael

Buttacavoli and Stefanie Kenoyer.

The best amateur golfers in Scotland

gathered last month at the Downfield

Golf Club in Dundee for the 2014

Fairstone Scottish Amateur

Championship. We were there to check

out the action and meet The Amateur

Champion Bradley Neil, who features in

our next edition.

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Matt Hooper

Colin Donaldson

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New Golf Club

Monthly Medals

Final

Saturday 2 August

2014

Old Course

Throughout the course of the golf season

the members of most golf clubs compete in

Medal competitions. Off the back tees and

with a pencil and scorecard, the hardest

form of the game for most club golfers. So

winning a Medal is a great achievement for

the average club golfer.

Each August the New Golf Club invites the

winners of all Medal competitions between

the previous June and the May of the

current year to participate in the Monthly

Medals Final. It is a chance for the club

golfer to, essentially, become the champion

of champions.

The winner of the Monthly Medals Final is

awarded the James Pirie Gold Medal.

James Pirie is one of the founder members

or promoters of the New Golf Club along

with Arthur C Aikman, Charles Donaldson,

George C Fisher, James L Smart, Edward

King, Robert C Stenhouse, and Herbert

Montague Singer.

Pirie (pictured below) started his working

life in his father’s bakehouse at the top of

Abbey Street. He would go on to take over

a China business on South Street before

moving it to Greyfriars Gardens.

The business left the premises in 2013 and

is now solely online at www.jamespirie.com

and sells a wide range of fine gifts. The

premises are now owned by Toppings

Independent Books and the new shop will

open in the autumn of 2014.

The Thomas Stewart Silver Medal was

donated to the club in 1921 by the great golf

cleek and club maker, and until 1947 was

presented to the winner of the Monthly

Medals Final.

The player finishing in third place is

awarded a bronze medal.

The Monthly Medals Final is played over 18

holes on the Old Course, with full handicap

allowance and in one class; 33 players

competed this year with handicaps ranging

from 24 to scratch.

After many days of glorious sunshine St

Andrews awoke to pouring rain and gusting

winds, hardly ideal weather for a round with

a pencil and scorecard. David Woodford

said “These are similar conditions to when

I won my medal, I shot nett 76 and thought

I had no chance of winning but many of the

field had walked off!”

“When I lived in the town I didn’t see the sun

for six months, and that was in summer!”

The scenes were more Winter Meeting than

Monthly Medals Final with most of the

competitors wrapped up in their

waterproofs, mittens and woolly hats.

Alisdair Wood got play under way at 1pm

off the first tee, playing with Angus

Graham, Graham Clelland and Alan

Newton.

Despite the tough conditions some decent

scores were returned with Gordon Banks

and Hamish Ireland sharing the best gross

award with rounds of 75. Some low

handicap players shot high scores and only

one player managed to shoot a score level

to their handicap. A round of 83 off 11 was

enough for Graham Clelland to take the

win and he will be presented with the Pirie

Medal at this year’s Presentation Evening.

The atmosphere of the day summed up the

atmosphere of the New Golf Club, friendly

and competitive. Paul McCabe took the

Thomas Stewart Medal for runner-up with a

score of 79, nett 74 and Jamie Robertson

finished third with a round of 89, nett 74.

Hamish Ireland warming up prior to his 75.

Michael De Vries won the 2014 Victory

Cup with two rounds of nett 68 playing off a

handicap of 1; in second place J Kerr shot

a best nett score of the competition – 67 in

the second round to snatch the runners-up

spot from John Kiernan and Paul McCabe

who shot 140 for two rounds.

The 2014 Fairstone Scottish Amateur

Championship was played at Downfield

Golf Club in the heart of Dundee last

month and a galaxy of Scottish golfing

talent combined to produce a week to

remember in Angus.

The Amateur Champion, Bradley Neil and

St Andrews Links Trophy winner, Grant

Forrest started the week as favourites at

the former European Tour venue and both

coasted through their early matches.

In the last 16 Neil came up against his

Blairgowrie colleague Glenn Campbell.

Campbell is a past Scottish Amateur

Champion and proved a tough task for the

18-year-old to defeat, but he did so 2&1 to

progress to the quarter-finals.

In the last 8 he came up against St

Andrews’ Josh Jamieson. A member of the

New Golf Club and sophomore at

Northwestern University in Chicago,

Jamieson had enjoyed a superb week. He

began the championship winning 5&4 over

Robbie Kemsley and followed that up with

a crushing win over Justin Duff by a 7&5

margin.

In the last 64 he narrowly advanced on the

final hole in his match with Murray

Naysmith. Then in the last 32 he returned

to his dominant ways by defeating Kenneth

Macaskill 5&4 to reach the last 16.

It was at the last 32 that the other great St

Andrews hope, Ben Kinsley, saw his title

dreams ended by Chris Robb, who ran out

a comfortable 5&4 winner. This ended the

chance of an all-St Andrews’ semi-final and

left Jamieson as the only contender from

the home of golf in Scotland’s national

amateur championship.

In the last 16 Jamieson narrowly

progressed to the quarter-finals with a 2&1

win over Kyle McClung, thus setting up a

match with The Amateur Champion Bradley

Neil.

Neil went into the match having

steamrollered most of his opponents

throughout the week and was the

overwhelming favourite.

Records are there to be broken, history to

be made and reputations to be upset.

Jamieson belied his world amateur ranking

and defeated The Amateur Champion

Bradley Neil 3&2 in what was arguably the

match of the week in Dundee

The pair halved the first three holes with

pars before Jamieson made his move with

a stunning eagle three at the par five fourth

hole. Despite making a birdie of his own,

Bradley Neil was one down to the former

Scottish Boys Champion. Jamieson then

extended his lead with a birdie at the fifth

and this electric match exploded at the sixth

with both making birdies on the par three.

The next three holes were halved and

Jamieson remained 2 up with 9 holes to

play.

On the tenth hole Josh made a bogey to

narrow his lead to 1 hole, and despite

birdieing the par five 11th he could not

match the eagle of Bradley Neil and the

match was level. Then Jamieson went into

overdrive, at exactly the right time. He

parred the 12th to take a 1 up lead after Neil

made bogey and then reeled off three

successive birdies to extend his lead to 3

with 3 holes to play.

The match came to a conclusion on the

16th after both made bogey, handing the

game 3&2 to the underdog.

It has been 84 years since a member of the

New Golf Club won The Scottish Amateur

Championship, Ken Greig in 1930, but it

seemed that Jamieson, on the crest of a

wave, was set to end the long wait.

Jamieson had a superb junior career,

winning the 2011 Scottish Boys

Championship and was the Junior

Champion of the New Golf Club in 2009,

2010 and 2011.

The Scottish Amateur is a long week

though with 256 players starting on Monday

and the tournament finishing on Saturday,

this meant on a few days players had two

matches to play. And clearly the exertions

of beating the top player in the field had

taken a lot out of the young St Andrean.

In his semi-final with Chris Robb he just

couldn’t produce the same sort of golf he

had all week and with Robb playing well

and avoiding the major favourites he

eventually broke St Andrews’ hearts,

winning 4&3 to progress to the final, where

he met Graeme Robertson.

The 36-hole final took place on Saturday 2

August under angry skies.

Robb, 23, from Aberdeen, recently

graduated from the University of

Tennessee. He won twice on the US

collegiate circuit and finished tied for 14th at

the 2014 NCAA Championship in a highly

successful four years in the United States.

His opponent was Graeme Robertson, 26

from Stirling, who was a part of the

successful Scottish European Nations Cup

team in March.

Robertson took an early 2 up lead, birdieing

the fourth to go 1-under for the morning

round, but immediately gave 1 hole back at

the fifth with a bogey five.

Then a birdie 2 at the par 3 sixth from Robb

levelled the match, and from that hole

onward Robb was never behind again. He

took the lead at the 10th with a birdie 3 and

by the 14th tee he was 3up.

Robertson fought back valiantly to level the

match at the 20th but Robb was on fire,

birdieing 24th, 25th and 26th holes to take a

3 hole lead with 10 holes to play.

Robertson won the 27th and 28th to reduce

the deficit to 1 hole but there was just no

denying the prodigy from Aberdeenshire,

who went on to win the 29th, 30th and 31st to

take a 4 hole lead with 5 holes to play.

Following pars at the 32nd and 33rd the title

was Robb’s.

“I played good finishing in the US and from

then on I’ve just kept it going. Once you can

get a couple of good results, you just learn,

build on it and get a bit of confidence going

– confidence is everything really” said the

champion.

“This win hasn’t really sunk in yet; it always

sinks in the day after I think.”

The Scottish Amateur demonstrated the

wealth of Scottish amateur talent, but can

any of them take it on to the professional

tour and make a genuine impact.

Chris Robb will turn professional following

the European Amateur Championship in St

Andrews. Time will tell if he can go a step

further than the likes of Stephen Gallacher

and become a major force in the game.

Written by Matt Hooper.

European Amateur Championship

Following the Scottish Amateur in Dundee

many of Europe’s best gathered at the

home of golf for the International European

Men’s Amateur Championship sponsored

by All Square Golf.

The headquarters of the Scottish Golf

Union, the Duke’s Course, played host to

the four-day, 72-hole strokeplay

championship which offered an exemption

to the 2015 Open Championship on the Old

Course for the winner.

For the second consecutive year England’s

Ashley Chesters came out on top, earning

a dream start at the home of golf for golf’s

oldest major.

In wet and windy conditions Chesters

finished the week as the only player under

par, posting a 2-under-par score to win by

3 shots from Max Roehrig of Germany.

A full report and results, along with images

and audio from All Square Golf can be

found on the Scottish Golf Union website.

The presenting sponsors were All Square

Golf, it was the first event they had worked

together with the Scottish Golf Union in a

partnership announced at the Aberdeen

Asset Management Scottish Open in July.

Our coverage includes:

Road to St Andrews 2015

5 locals attempt to make their dreams come

true by qualifying for the 2015 Open

Championship at the home of golf, St

Andrews.

We bring you their golfing story and cover

their qualifying rounds on the road to St

Andrews.

Open Qualifying Series

Full coverage of every event in the Open

Qualifying Series

December – Emirates Australian Open

February – Joburg Open

March – Open Qualifying Series Thailand

June – Mizuno Open, Irish Open, Quicken

Loans National

July – Greenbrier Classic, Open de France

Alstom, Aberdeen Asset Management

Scottish Open and John Deere Classic

Inside St Andrews 2015

Local golfers’ reflections on the Open

Championships’ of 1970, 1984, 1990,

1995, 2000, 2005 and 2010

Interviews with the taxi driver, shopkeeper,

bartender, postman, bricklayer, roofer,

handyman and the school teacher and

beyond.

Big interviews with the big names of the

game

We will attempt to bring you interviews with

some of the biggest names in golf, including

past Open Champions, on the road to next

July.

All of this and more in St Andrews Golf

Magazine and on

www.standrewsgolfmagazine.com

St Andrews was once a place of pilgrimage

for thousands of religious pilgrims to the

town for many years until the reformation.

Nowadays thousands of golfing pilgrims

make the journey to East Fife to play the

Old Course. It is actually difficult to find a

reason, bar the weather, to leave this

beautiful and historic town. But St Andrews

does have many famous emigrants to other

parts of the world.

Old Tom Morris made his name as the

keeper of the green and course designer at

Prestwick in the 1860’s; Pop star K.T.

Tunstall was born here in 1975 and has

been nominated for the Mercury Prize in

her nearly 30 year career;

Arguably the greatest collection of St

Andrews emigrants are the golf

professionals which made their own

pilgrimage to the United States and North

America in the late 1890’s and early 1900’s.

They played a pivotal role in establishing

the game in the United States and

educating Americans on how to swing their

golf clubs.

Perhaps the most important of these

individuals were John Reid and Robert

Lockhart, who were from Dunfermline, a

town 35 miles South West of St Andrews.

Reid was born in 1840 and emigrated from

Scotland to the United States as a teenager

and when returning to Scotland he was

inspired by talks given by Old Tom Morris

outside his shop by the 18th green of the Old

Course. Reid’s friend, Robert Lockhart,

who was also from Dunfermline, bought six

clubs and 12 gutta percha balls and took

them to the US.

Reid borrowed the clubs and tried to show

friends how the game was played, over

time this evolved into something more

formal and eventually in 1888 a club was

formed. Reid and Lockhart were joined by

Henry O Tallmadge, Harry Holbrook,

Kingman H Putnam and Alexander PW

Kinman in playing the game at an Apple

Orchard in Yonkers, New York.

At the end of their competitions the six used

to share a ‘Wee dram’ of Scotch Whisky by

one of the Apple Trees, and they quickly

became known as the ‘Apple Tree Gang’.

The club was formally established as the

Saint Andrews Golf Club in Yonkers, New

York. The club has been on its current site

since 1897 and in 1983 the course was

redesigned by Jack Nicklaus.

The Saint Andrews Golf Club was one of

the clubs which founded the United States

Golf Association in 1895 along with

Newport Golf Club, Shinnecock Hills Golf

Club, The Country Club and Chicago Golf

Club.

One of the very first St Andreans to find

their way to the other side of the Atlantic

was James Beveridge. Born in 1872 he

became the professional at the former

Royal Isle of Wight Golf Club in 1888 and

departed the role in 1894 and immigrated to

Southampton, New York. There he became

the professional at the Shinnecock Hills

Golf Club.

Beveridge passed away in 1899, cutting his

time as professional on Long Island short.

Beveridge was followed by a flock of

professionals from one family, namely the

Herds. Fred Herd was born in St Andrews

in 1874 and in 1898 he emigrated from the

east coast of Scotland to the north east of

the United States, specifically to the

industrial city of Chicago.

He served his apprenticeship with Forgan

and Son, along with William Yeoman. The

two would later go on to set up a club

making and golf retail business, as I

discuss later in this piece. Herd became the

club professional at South Shore Country

Club on the shores of Lake Michigan in that

same year.

He went on to win the 1898 US Open

representing South Shore. His tenure at the

club lasted until 1920.

Fred was one of five golfing brothers from

the home of golf and his older brother

David joined him at South Shore in 1919.

Another golfing family from St Andrews was

the Foulis’s and in 1895 James Foulis

became the head professional at Chicago

Golf Club after an offer from CB

Macdonald. 12 months later Foulis won the

US Open at Shinnecock Hills Golf Club.

After ten years at the helm James was

succeeded by his brother David. He stayed

at the Wheaton, Illinois club until 1916.

Another golfing family from St Andrews is of

course the Auchterlonies and in 1899

Laurence Auchterlonie came to America

as the professional at the St Andrews Golf

Club in Yonkers, New York. Laurence had

three spells at the club as professional as

well as making his way down to Bellevue

Country Club in Florida in 1908 and to

Ravisloe Country Club near Chicago in

1913. He won the 1902 US Open at Garden

City in New York, he is listed as

representing Chicago Golf Club although

there seems to be no record of him holding

the professional’s position at the club.

David Cuthbert was born in St Andrews in

1885 and was a caddie on the links, he

became the professional at Huntingdon

Valley Country Club in Pennsylvania in

1915.

There were many other Scots who made

the journey to the United States, along with

the men from the home of golf, St Andrews.

Travel to America 100 years ago was an

arduous process by boat, usually from

Southampton on the south coast of

England.

The journey would take anywhere between

7 and 12 days across the Atlantic Ocean

and ships did not have the luxurious

accommodation and facilities of the later

20th and early 21st century.

Within a dozen years of the game being

introduced to the United States there were

over 1,000 golf courses across the country.

The game was booming, and with the role

of the club professional becoming even

more important and the demand for

equipment spiralling, many sporting goods

stores began selling golf equipment to the

masses.

Fred Herd and William Yeoman set up on

of, if not the first, golf club manufacturing

and retail store in the United States in 1910

in Chicago. There were many others in the

industrial North and North East United

States too, with the likes of Allied Golf Corp.

Chicago and ATCO in New York selling golf

equipment in their sporting goods stores.

Jack Jolly, from St Andrews, was a pioneer

of golf equipment manufacture in the United

States. Jolly was a sailor who had stayed in

New York after catching Malaria.

He was put in charge of the New Jersey

affiliate to the St Mungo Company and after

meeting James Smart, also from St

Andrews, in a Manhattan store, took up the

role as professional at Forest Hill Golf Club

in New Jersey.

In the 1920’s and 1930’s two of

America’s most prominent department

and clothing stores Abercrombie & Fitch

and R.H. Macy and Co. sold golf

equipment.

It was in department stores across

America and Canada that Harry Vardon

performed exhibitions in 1900, helping

to popularize the game to the masses.

With club makers and club professional’s

role growing in importance and evolving it

was clear that an association or union for

these many thousands of professionals

was needed by the mid 1910’s.

And it was another department store which

played the pivotal role in making this

association into a reality.

John Wanamaker opened his store,

Wanamaker’s, in 1876 and the store was

the first department store in Philadelphia.

In 1863 John Wanamaker and his wife

Mary Erringer Brown had a child called

Lewis Rodman Wanamaker. Rodman

joined his father’s business at the age of 23

after studying at Princeton University. In

1889 he went to Paris to manage the

Wanamaker Store in the French capital.

When his father purchased the former

Alexander Turney Stewart business in New

York Rodman returned and made it a

success.

With his father ageing Rodman took on a

more prominent role. He had a passion for

golf and on January 17, 1916 he invited a

group of 35 golf club professionals and

industry representatives to a luncheon in

New York at the Taplow Club in the now

Radisson Hotel Martinique on Broadway.

After further meetings the Professional

Golfers’ Association of America was

formally established on April 10, 1916 and

the inaugural PGA Championship was

contested at Siwanoy Country Club in

Bronxville, New York from 10 to 14

October. 32 professionals contested 36-

hole matches over five days with England’s

Jim Barnes and St Andrews’ Jock

Hutchison reaching the final.

Barnes prevailed 3&1 but Hutchison would

go on to win the 1920 Championship and

on his return to his native St Andrews, as a

naturalized American, won the 1921 Open

Championship – he was the first US citizen

to win the claret jug and remains the last

man from St Andrews to win The Open.

Despite that inaugural win by an

Englishman, it was only apt that a man from

St Andrews, would take his place in the first

final of the PGA Championship.

Jock Hutchison was born in St. Andrews, in

1884. He immigrated to the US in the early

1900s, settling in Pittsburgh at the

Allegheny Country Club. By 1918, he was

at Glen View Club in the Village of Golf,

Illinois. In 1919, he became a PGA

professional.

The PGA and the PGA Championship was

off and running. Just as St Andrews played

a crucial role in the development of the

game and spread of it, they did so in the

establishment of what is now the largest

operating sports organization in the world.

By Matt Hooper.

"At the moment, no aspects of my

game are strong and I'm just

feeling a bit lost at the moment."

"It feels good on the range and I can hit all

the shots, but when I get out on the course

it really does not seem to be there.

"Off the tee, I am missing one right and then

missing one left and it's just not going

where I want it. It gets you in two minds

every time you are playing a tee shot," he

explained. "The game is just not coming

easy to me at the moment and while I was

struggling at this point last year, I was able

to turn the corner in the middle of the

summer and have a great end to my

season. I don't know whether it's a matter

of trying to play my way out of it or just keep

grinding away on the range or whatever."

This was Rory McIlroy speaking after his

first round of 74 in the 2013 Irish Open. He

was in the midst of a year which saw him

fall from the lofty perch of world number one

at the end of 2012. But at the 2013 PGA

Championship he finished in a tie for 8th and

ever since he has been on an upward

curve.

He outplayed Adam Scott in the final round

of the Emirates Australian Open to overturn

a 4 shot deficit and claim his first win since

Dubai 2012.Then this May he came from 6

behind Thomas Bjorn to win the BMW PGA

Championship at Wentworth.

Last month he dominated the field at

Hoylake to win a first Open Championship,

and then in the week before this year’s PGA

Championship he came from 3 behind

Sergio Garcia to win his first WGC at

Firestone.

Coming into the PGA Championship at

Valhalla Rory was the overwhelming

favourite. With four wins and 13 top ten

finishes in his last 27 starts he was back as

world number one and looking like the force

in golf again.

If the first three major wins of the Ulsterman

were processions of excellence then this

dramatic, pulsating PGA Championship win

was one of guts, grit and determination.

The first three days seemed to have an

inevitability about them with the world

number one finding his way to the top of the

leaderboard with rounds of 66, 67 and 67 to

hold a one stroke lead over Austrian Bernd

Wiesberger.

Wiesberger and McIlroy got off to a

struggling start and, playing in the group in

front, Rickie Fowler and Phil Mickelson took

full advantage.

The 2005 PGA Champion Mickelson rolled

in a 30-footer at the first to reduce the deficit

to McIlroy to 2 shots and then at the par

three third he made a second birdie to

reach -12. Fowler bogeyed the 2nd hole to

fall back but then three consecutive birdies

took him into pole position. With McIlroy

bogeying the 3rd and 6th he was, for a short

period, 3 shots behind the 25-year-old

American.

McIlroy birdied the par five 7th to reduce the

deficit to 2 shots but an outward 36 to

Fowler’s 32, Mickelson’s 31 and Henrik

Stenson’s 30 left The Open champion

struggling to maintain his major

momentum.

The Swede Stenson was -13 and Fowler

and Mickelson were tied for the lead at -14,

with McIlroy two shots back at -12. But

certain moments are reserved for certain

players. The 10th hole at Valhalla is a par

five of 590 yards and was a critical hole in

the championship for McIlroy. If he was

going to make a comeback it had to start

here.

After yet another drive of over 300 yards

down the middle of the fairway, he hit over

70 drives in 3 weeks over 300 yards, he

pulled out his 3 wood. This club had been a

worry for Rory all week, hooking one out of

bounds at the very same hole on Thursday.

He produced a shot and a moment usually

reserved for his Nike stable mate, Tiger

Woods. He hit a running shot up the left

side of the green which rolled round and

finished around 8 feet from the hole.

The crowd reaction was raucous and this

was the moment for McIlroy to get back into

the picture. He holed the putt and tied

Mickelson at -14, one stroke behind Fowler,

who had birdied the 10th to move to -15.

Mickelson birdied the 11th to tie Fowler at

15-under-par and when Henrik Stenson

birdied the short par four 13th the four

players were separated by one shot.

Another critical moment for McIlroy came at

the same hole when he rolled in a putt to

reach -15 and tie Fowler and Mickelson. He

reacted with emotion, with a fist pump

which would probably have knocked you

out.

Stenson and Fowler bogeyed the 14th and

when Mickelson bogeyed the 16th there

was an opportunity for McIlroy to shut the

door. Having pushed his drive into a bunker

he played a superb shot to 10 feet and

rolled in the putt dead centre to open up a

2 shot lead over his rivals. It was a ‘Tiger’

moment.

With torrential rain having delayed play

earlier in the day the light was fading,

Fowler and Mickelson offered McIlroy and

Wiesberger the opportunity to play the 18th

hole together with the second from last

pairing to save time.

McIlroy lost his drive slightly right and the

ball hung just yards from the hazard. Up at

the green Mickelson knew he needed an

eagle and with his trademark flamboyant

short game he all but holed his third shot to

finish on -15.

McIlroy’s lay-up found the greenside

bunker but it was to prove no problem for

the champion to be as he two-putted for par

to hold on to a one stroke win over

Mickelson.

The Sunday was a thrilling and compelling

battle which had echoes of the great 1975

Masters tussle between Johnny Miller, Tom

Wieskopf and Jack Nicklaus.

It was also an exhibition of golf of all

different styles and an example of why golf

is a game for life. With Phil Mickelson (44)

and Henrik Stenson (38) battling Rory

McIlroy and Rickie Fowler (both 25) for one

of the game’s flagship titles.

It is also a potential preview of the drama

we can expect at Gleneagles next month in

the 40th Ryder Cup.

We also saw a different Rory McIlroy but

one which can now dominate this game. He

hit every sort of shot imaginable over the

four days at Valhalla, he came back from

the brink and he showed resilience with

three of the best players in the world

fighting him all the way.

The PGA Championship underlined that he

is beyond any doubt the world’s greatest

player today, and with Tiger’s troubles the

second Sunday in August 2014 could well

be the day the baton was passed from

Woods to McIlroy as golf’s number one

draw.

14 months ago he was a Lost Boy, but this

August he was Lost Boy Found.

By Matt Hooper.

I left off the last article getting ready for 3

events in a row in Saskatoon, Winnipeg,

and Thunder Bay. After grinding to make

the cut in the first two, I was happy with

myself for getting to play the weekend. I

was not playing my best golf for those two

weeks and I made the most of it.

I was able to turn things around in Thunder

Bay. Unfortunately it wasn't the ending I

had planned. With a -5 start through 9 holes

on Sunday, I was charging up the

leaderboard. I was in 4th place and 5 back

from the lead. I tried too hard to make

birdies and my score suffered on the back

nine because of it. Several mental mistakes

coming in led to a T28 finish.

After a week off, I played two more events

in Calgary and Ottawa. With two missed

cuts in a row, I had a week to rest and get

my game back in shape. I knew I wasn't

putting my best but besides that I couldn't

really put my finger on what was causing

the higher scores.

After a lot of practice putting and a bigger

focus on course management, I arrived to

Kingston this week for the first of four

tournaments in a row to end the Canada

season. I will probably need to win one of

the last few events to move up to the

Web.com Tour. Fortunately, I still am in

excellent shape on PGA Tour

Latinoamérica. I have secured my status for

PGA Tour Canada for next year. I also

learned a lot from the season that will help

me prepare for the second half in Latin

America. Whether I move up through Latin

America or Canada, it should be an exciting

finish to my year.

Thank you again for following my progress.

You can follow my journey on

www.pgatourcanada.com and through my

Twitter/Instagram accounts @mbutta326.

Well it’s hard to believe but the 2014

season is slowly winding down. With only

three more tournaments on the schedule

for the Symetra Tour, I am actually

spending a few days at home recharging

my batteries (and actually unpacking my

suitcase for once!) in order to refocus for

the last and final push.

The best thing about the tour is that one or

two good finishes can really boost you up

on the money list and I am feeling really

great about the direction my game is going.

However, before thinking about this last

month of tournament play coming up, I

have had a chance to reflect on some of the

experiences I have gained and beautiful

places I have seen so far.

Just in the last month I have driven through

fifteen different states. I have played

countless rounds of golf with new people,

some of those rounds better than others,

but nonetheless still getting to do what I

love every day. I have stayed in the homes

of families all over the country as they

"adopt" me for the week.

Arranging private housing is one of the best

things the tour does for us. It allows us the

chance to establish some sort of normalcy

and develop relationships with these

families as we travel the country as

nomads, living practically out of our cars.

Some of these families have become a real

part of my life, sending Christmas cards

and encouraging emails throughout the

year, often with updates about their children

whom I have watched grow over the last

few years of being with them.

One of my favorite stops on the tour every

year has been in Richmond, Virginia and

this year was my fourth year playing in that

event. My first year there I stayed with a

family with three sons, and since I grew up

as one of three girls it was fun getting a

chance to see what having brothers would

be like.

Their youngest son was just finishing

second grade when I met them and their

oldest was not even in high school yet. I

have continued to go back and visit with my

little Richmond family, although now they

are all taller than I am and their oldest is

looking at colleges!

It is such a wonderful experience to get to

know these families all over the country and

I truly believe I have an extended family all

over the world!

From Richmond I was able to work my way

down the east coast and visit with my

TaylorMade family at their facility in

Greensboro, Georgia. I always love

spending time there since usually I am able

to come home with some new toys!

I spent a few days playing the courses there

at Reynolds Plantation and getting a little

tune up for clubs to really make sure I am

ready for the last set of tournaments.

However, while I was there I was able to

announce that I will be adding a tournament

to my schedule, as I have been invited to

play in Golf Channel's first annual Big Break

Invitational this fall!

I was so excited and honoured to be asked

to play, especially since they only chose

twenty girls and twenty guys from all of the

past twenty one seasons of the show's

history.

As this will be my third stint with the show, I

thought I would have a pretty good handle

on what was to be expected, but in true Big

Break fashion they always know how to

throw in a twist! This time we will be

competing in a LIVE four day tournament,

just as if it were a PGA or LPGA event.

Speaking of the PGA tour, another Big

Breaker and two time winner out there,

Tommy "Two-Gloves" Gainey will also be

playing, so I know the competition will be

tough!

I couldn't be more excited to see how my

skills will stack up. As for now, I better get

back out to practice, lots of work to do

before I head back out on the road!

By Stefanie Kenoyer.

12 months ago Tommy Fleetwood claimed

his first win on the European Tour after a

play-off with Scotland’s Stephen Gallacher

and Argentina’s Ricardo Gonzalez. It was a

day of high drama on the PGA Centenary

Course and recently Matt Hooper caught up

with Tommy to discuss this and much more.

1. What are your reflections

on that amazing day last

August at Gleneagles?

“It seems a long time ago now, I

think it opened up a lot of doors

towards the end of the year. As

well as showing myself I could

win, it gave me a lot of chances to

play in big tournaments at the end

of the year and be in high profile

groups.”

2. Obviously after winning for

the first time it is not easy to

win straight away again, did

you find this?

“You get the winning bug and then

you want to win again as soon as

you can. I have had a few chances

since and it’s enjoyable when you

have the chance to contend.”

3. Winning at the place where

Sir Nick Faldo won his first

title must be a special thing to

you?

“I didn’t actually know that,

hopefully I can follow some of his

other achievements. It is always

nice to be associated with Nick

Faldo.”

4. Looking ahead to next July,

The Open returns to St

Andrews, how special would

it be to win any tournament at

the home of golf?

“I always wanted to win the St

Andrews Links Trophy but never

quite got there, but to win an Open

at St Andrews – it doesn’t get any

better than that. I think that is

every golfers dream.”

Interview conducted and written by Matt

Hooper

Gleneagles Hotel is of course hosting the

40th Ryder Cup Matches next month, but

the resort is also celebrating its 90th

anniversary this year. 90 years of going the

extra mile for their guests and 90 years of

world class golf in the heart of Scotland.

Many people have criticized the decision to

take the Ryder Cup to Gleneagles and not

to take it to traditional links courses like

Turnberry, Carnoustie or Muirfield. In reality

nowhere in Scotland could be better suited

to hosting golf’s greatest showpiece event.

Its central location is accessible from

airports in Edinburgh and Glasgow; it is just

an hour away from St Andrews by road and

over half of Scotland’s population lives

within 90 minutes of the venue.

Above all though it is the resort, the golf

courses, the resort’s experience of staging

major events and providing five star service

every day which makes it the best venue in

all of Scotland for the 40th Ryder Cup.

Last month I visited Gleneagles to get a

look at the golf course, the new Dormy

clubhouse and speak to Heather Edment,

Golf Business Manager and Steve

Chappell, Head greenkeeper on the PGA

Centenary Course.

As part of a major investment into the resort

to ready it for the 2014 Ryder Cup the

Dormy Clubhouse underwent a major

extension and refurbishment which was

completed in 2011. I started by asking

Heather if the changes had been well

received by guests?

“Yes very much so. We tripled the size of

our specific dining area and created a much

bigger private dining area so it has become

an all-day offering. So not only is it popular

with our golfing visitors but our hotel guests

and seasonal ownership too.”

“Everybody who comes to Gleneagles will,

I imagine, have at least a cup of coffee in

here. Because the views are so nice and

they can come and purchase items from the

golf shop etc.”

The shop has changed dramatically too

in recent years?

“The shop was extended at the same time

as the refurbishment of the restaurant and

bar areas of the building. Part of the focus

of the retail plan has been Ryder Cup

merchandise as well.”

When viewers around the world are

tuning in to watch the 2014 Ryder Cup it

will be a shame that the hotel and

clubhouse aren’t visible from the

course. Was any thought given to

relocating the clubhouse?

“No, this clubhouse serves all three courses

so it is ideally placed for the King’s and

Queen’s courses. And it has been here for

90 years so there has never been any

serious consideration for moving the

clubhouse.”

Is this a really exceptionally busy time at

Gleneagles?

“In the last five years, like everyone else,

coming out of recession business has

remained strong in certain parts and less

strong in other parts. It is certainly the

busiest the PGA Centenary Course has

ever been.”

How important is it for future business

for Gleneagles that you get the Ryder

Cup right off course, as well as on the

course?

“It is crucial, but it is no more crucial than

today’s business or next January’s

business. We aim to get our business right

365 days of the year, so in many ways,

although the Ryder Cup is a very special

week, it is another piece of business no

more or less important than if you were

coming tomorrow for a family celebration.”

“Our aim during Ryder Cup in the team

areas is to try and make the players feel at

home and that they have an environment

that they can try and focus on the job in

hand.”

“We will embrace our American guests as

much as our European guests.”

How much will the clubhouse get used

during the Ryder Cup?

“The teams will use the clubhouse as a day

base, with the team rooms and the locker

room. They will also have a base in the

hotel.”

“Part of this building will be used for families

and officials, and other guests who are not

actually staying at Gleneagles.”

Are you taking on additional staff during

Ryder Cup week?

“There will be additional staff but not

employed by Gleneagles, our staff stays

around 900.”

Does Gleneagles welcome local

residents to use the clubhouse on a

regular basis and will any part of the

clubhouse be open to the public during

the Ryder Cup?

“The clubhouse, as well as the hotel, is

open to the general public. People who live

in the general vicinity of Gleneagles use the

facilities on a regular basis.”

“During Ryder Cup week only ticket holders

and accredited staff can use the facilities,

but is only that week from Monday to

Sunday.”

Following Medinah is a tough act to

follow, do you think Gleneagles are

really well-placed to follow one of the

great events of all-time?

“Each Ryder Cup is special and we will

have our own memories and moments of

history.”

The hotel certainly has history, 90 years of

it and in 2014 it will shine brighter than ever

before. 2014 is the 21st year of the PGA

Centenary Course, the course has never

been under a greater microscope than it will

be under this September.

Construction of The Monarch’s Course

began in the spring of 1989, the course

used land previously occupied by the

Prince’s and Glendevon Courses. When

you visit Gleneagles today you can still see

two of the old holes which began the

Princes course, they lay next to the lakes

which sit in the shadow of the magnificent

hotel.

The course opened on 15th May 1993 and

was to be the modern tournament course

for the hotel as the King’s Course was

becoming too short to host the world’s

professionals.

Upon opening the course was the longest

inland course in Europe and it wasn’t

cheap, costing £5.6million to build.

Covering 104 hectares the course fitted

beautifully into the natural surroundings.

It was to be six years before the first

tournament was staged on the course, the

1999 Scottish PGA Championship, which

was won by Englishman Warren Bennett

with a score of 6-under-par.

Sweden’s Pierre Fulke and England’s Paul

Casey were victorious in 2000 and 2001

and then came a performance which

reverberated throughout the Glen.

In 2001, to celebrate the centenary of the

Professional Golfers’ Association, the

course was renamed the PGA Centenary

Course.

Australia’s Adam Scott, aged 22, in his

second season on the European Tour, shot

rounds of 67, 65, 67 and 63 to win by 10

shots from Raymond Russell. His total of

262 was 26-under-par.

It was clear changes needed to be made to

keep the course challenging for the

professionals on the European Tour. These

changes were undertaken by Scottish golf

course architect David MacLay Kidd over a

three year period between 2004 and 2007.

The changes took a while to mature and

were not universally popular with the

players in the Johnnie Walker

Championship. In 2011 Jack Nicklaus

returned to remodel the 9th and 18th holes

and oversee a complete remodelling of the

bunkers.

And now 13 years after being awarded the

right to host the 2014 Ryder Cup, the PGA

Centenary Course is ready for the greatest

show in golf. Steve Chappell is the head

greenkeeper of the course and I had the

opportunity to speak to him at the Dormy

Clubhouse this summer. I started by asking

him if this was the busiest he has ever

been in the job?

“I would say so, we are now reaching the

final leg of a very long journey and all of the

team are putting in the hours and effort

required to make sure we get the golf

course across the finish line.”

So what goes into planning an event of

this scale from a golf course point of

view?

“We have had 2 main things to focus in

preparing the golf course for the event,

firstly to ensure that the golf course remains

dry and firm for the event and secondly to

drive consistency within all of the playing

surfaces around the golf course.”

“This has been achieved by in depth

planning of aeration and top dressing works

and correct timings of nutrianal and

biological inputs onto the turf.”

What are the challenges of preparing a

course for the Ryder Cup?

“I would say managing the impact of the

infrastructure build around the course more

so than managing the playing surfaces. We

have also had to manage the high volumes

of golf that we have seen over the last 18

months here on the PGA Centenary

Course.”

The course has not staged an event this

late in the year before, how big a

challenge is it to prepare the course to

be in peak condition for the Ryder Cup?

“In many ways the timing of the event suits

this type of golf course as I feel that inland

courses are generally at their best during

the late Summer/early autumn period so I

don’t see this as a great challenge.”

What is your biggest fear?

“The weather as it is the one thing we have

no control over. The golf course will be able

to cope with a sensible amount of rain fall

due to the amount of drainage and aeration

work undertaken over the last few years,

however extreme rain is always very

difficult to deal with.”

How many extra staff will you have

during Ryder Cup week?

“During the week of the event we our staff

of 23 greenkeepers will be joined by the 32

greenkeepers that maintain the Kings &

Queens course along with a further 40

volunteer greenkeepers from all around the

world.”

What is the typical number of rounds

played on the course and has this

increased the closer we get to the Ryder

Cup?

“We have been averaging 200 rounds per

day on the Centenary course (April to

October) for the 2013 & 2014 season.

Historically the PGA was always the least

played course on the resort, however this

has changed significantly with over 45% of

all golf at Gleneagles now being played on

the Centenary Course.”

When does the course close/re-open?

“The golf course closes for play on the 1st of

September and reopens on the 1st of

October.”

Do the King’s and Queen’s courses

close in this period too?

“They both close of the 20th September and

reopen on 30th September.”

Where the tented village, opening

ceremony and practice facilities be

located?

“The tented village will be located on the

Academy range field. The first of the King’s

course will be used as the range for the

event with the 18th as putting and chipping

greens. The opening ceremony will take

place on the pitch and putt course in front

of the hotel.”

Would it be fair to say that the PGA

Centenary Course is better suited to

match play and the Ryder Cup will show

the course in its best light?

“Having hosted 13 consecutive European

Tour events prior to 2014 the golf course is

well suited to Stroke play events. The

layout of the course and the Ryder Cup

format will be a good match for match play

golf also.”

The course has been very publicly

criticized in the media and by the

players, how difficult is that to take and

does it act as a motivation for all of you?

“It’s never nice to have your work publicly

criticized however everyone has an opinion

and unfortunate you’re not always going to

like them.”

“It does help motivate the team into raise

the standards even higher. We all know that

the Centenary course is a very good golf

course and we are all looking forward to the

eyes of the world seeing her in her best light

come September.”

Next month the eyes of the world will

certainly be on Gleneagles and the PGA

Centenary Course as the best 12 golfers

from Europe welcome the best 12 golfers

from the United States.

It is the fortieth Ryder Cup, Gleneagles is

ready and the anticipation has reached

fever pitch for an event unlike any other.

Written by Matt Hooper, with thanks to

Kate Newton, Heather Edment and Steve

Chappell

Dustin Johnson takes

leave from the game of

golf to “face up to

challenges”.

Dustin Johnson, a lock for the 2014 US

Ryder Cup team, has decided to take an

indefinite period of time away from the

game to confront challenges in his life. The

rumour mill has been in overdrive with no

firm confirmation as yet to the reasons

behind this decision.

The 2010 and 2012 US Ryder Cup team

member will surely be missed by Tom

Watson, especially with the likes of Jason

Dufner, Matt Kuchar struggling with injury

and Tiger Woods struggling with injury and

form.

We hope to see Johnson back in the game

once he is ready to return to golf.

Tiger Woods withdraws

from consideration for

Ryder Cup wildcard.

Following his withdrawal from the WGC-

Bridgestone Invitational and missed cut at

the 96th PGA Championship Tiger Woods

has told US Ryder Cup captain Tom

Watson that he wishes to be withdrawn

from consideration for a wildcard. Woods

has only missed one Ryder Cup since he

turned professional in 1996.

The United States won the 2008 Ryder Cup

without him at Valhalla and Woods was

selected as a controversial wildcard by

Corey Pavin in 2010, when he missed out

on qualification for the PGA Tour’s FedEx

Cup playoffs.

This is a great move for Tiger first and

foremost. He will finally, properly

rehabilitate his back with nearly four

months off and he will be able to prepare for

a full season in 2015. It is also a great move

for the United States. Tiger has had the

worst season of his career and it is highly

doubtful if he could contribute anything to

the cause at Gleneagles anyway. And

finally it is a great move for Tom Watson.

Had Woods not said anything the hype and

pressure on Watson to select him or

otherwise would have been enormous.

Now there will be no questions to him in

New York about why he did or didn't pick

Tiger. Now the United States can solely

focus on getting together the strongest

possible team and heading to Scotland in

September will the sole aim of ending 21

years of defeats in Europe.

Captain Tom Watson to

announce 40th United

States Ryder Cup team

at Live TV event in New

York on September 2.

Tom Watson will announce the final three

players for the 40th United States Ryder

Cup team in the most high profile

announcement of a team ever. NBC's

Studio 8H, the home of Saturday Night

Live, will host the announcement live and

fans can vote for who they would pick, with

the person who matches Watson's picks

potentially winning a trip to Gleneagles for

the 2014 Ryder Cup and meet the US

Ryder Cup captain.

St Andrews Golf Magazine will be on air at

10pm BST / 5pm ET with

#TuesdayTeeTime reacting to the

European Ryder Cup team announcement

earlier in the day and giving final thoughts

on the US Ryder Cup team; Golf Channel

will have a 1-hour preview show from 11pm

BST / 6pm ET and the PGA of America

show will be on air from 12am BST / 7pm

ET.

#TuesdayTeeTime 10pm BST / 5pm ET

Golf Channel 11pm BST / 6pm ET

40th United States Ryder Cup Team

Announcement 12pm BST / 7pm ET

“I'm delighted with the nine players who

have made the team," said Watson. "I

believe that each player has the ability to

play great golf and compete at the highest

level in the Ryder Cup. The selection of the

three Captain's picks for the 40th Ryder

Cup at Gleneagles in Scotland is my focus

the next few weeks. MyCaptainsPicks is a

fun opportunity for fans to engage with the

Ryder Cup in a style that’s unprecedented.

I hope the winners have a great trip to the

Ryder Cup!"

PGA President Ted Bishop added: "With

each of the nine automatic qualifiers ranked

among the Top 30 in the World Golf

Rankings, the U.S. Ryder Cup Team is

building a formidable squad to compete

against Europe's best. Through social

media and extraordinary digital access, a

new generation of golf fans will discover the

passion of the Ryder Cup.

MyCaptainsPicks is an exciting and

innovative way for fans to engage and

compete to win a trip to Scotland and cheer

on Team USA."

Fans may vote multiple times through Sept.

2 at 12 a.m. ET, but only their last entry will

count towards the sweepstakes. The

winner will be selected in a random drawing

on Sept. 3.

NBC and Golf Channel will broadcast an

entire European-based Ryder Cup for the

first time this year and St Andrews Golf

Magazine will provide a full television guide

for both the UK and US in our September

edition.

Tony Jacklin CBE, the greatest Ryder Cup

Captain of all time, launched a

commemorative Ryder Cup art collection,

on Sunday 17 August 2014, at Macdonald

Rusacks Hotel, St Andrews.

Tony Jacklin’s personal selection of the

golfers who have made the greatest

contribution to The Ryder Cup throughout

its history will form the ‘Tony Jacklin

Ryder Cup Collection’.

The Collection will consist of oil painted

portraits by world renowned golf artist Joe

Austen and will be permanently exhibited in

the Austen Gallery of Champions in

Macdonald Rusacks Hotel, a few feet from

the 18th fairway of The Old Course, St

Andrews.

More than 30 golfing greats are anticipated

to make it into the ‘Tony Jacklin Ryder Cup

Collection’. The portraits of the first 14 have

been announced and are now on display in

the Austen Gallery of Champions, these

include:

Tony Jacklin, Jack Nicklaus, Tom Watson,

Paul McGinley, Seve Ballesteros, Ian

Poulter, Arnold Palmer, Samuel Ryder, Abe

Mitchell, Walter Hagen, Phil Mickelson,

Paul Azinger, Sam Torrance CBE and Ian

Woosnam CBE

Further champions will be added to the

growing Collection throughout 2014 and

announced at a later date.

Tony Jacklin, said: “It goes without saying

that the Ryder Cup is very close to my heart

and I strongly believe that the competition

would not have become the worldwide

phenomenon that it is today without the

sporting greats of the past like Samuel

Ryder, Abe Mitchell, Walter Hagen and so

many others.

“The rich history of the Ryder Cup interests

me greatly and the idea of capturing this

legacy for generations to come inspired me

to work with Joe Austen. It is with this

collection that I hope to honour both the

historical champions and the present

players who have made, and continue to

make, the greatest contribution to the

Ryder Cup.”

Joe Austen, Tony Jacklin Ryder Cup

Collection artist, said: “This has been a

fantastic opportunity to collaborate with

Tony to bring the Tony Jacklin Ryder Cup

Collection to fruition. As the person who

has done the most to transform the Ryder

Cup into the spectacle it has become, Tony

Jacklin is best placed to select the golfing

greats who will be included in his

Collection.

“The Austen Gallery of Champions is also

an ideal location to showcase this

Collection at Macdonald Rusacks Hotel due

to its position by the 18th fairway of The Old

Course in the Home of Golf.”

Exclusive Limited Edition Prints of the

Collection, co-signed by Tony Jacklin and

Joe Austen, are being produced in order to

pay tribute to the golfers selected and to

celebrate the return of The Ryder Cup to

Scotland.

The prints will be available to purchase

from www.rydercupcollection.com.

Chris Feeney, General Manager,

Macdonald Rusacks Hotel, commented:

“Macdonald Rusacks Hotel is very proud to

be chosen to display Joe Austen’s paintings

of Tony Jacklin’s collection of European

and US Ryder Cup greats within what is

one of the world’s most iconic golfing

hotels.

“With the acclaimed Rocca Bar & Grill

restaurant and many of our bedrooms

overlooking the 18th fairway of the Old

Course, Macdonald Rusacks Hotel attracts

golfers from around the world. The decision

by such a world renowned artist to place the

Ryder Cup Collection permanently within

our hotel is a tremendous honour and I am

sure will prove highly popular with our

guests and visitors alike.”

The Tony Jacklin Ryder Cup Collection is

part of The Austen Gallery of Champions

and is located in the Macdonald Rusacks

Hotel in St Andrews.

The gallery is free to visit, just ask at the

reception of the hotel.

Macdonald Rusacks Hotel is arguably the

world’s most iconic golfing hotels.

Established in 1887, the 4-star 70 bedroom

hotel is part of Macdonald Hotels &

Resorts, 2013-2014 AA Hotel Group of the

Year.

Attracting golfers from all over the world,

within the acclaimed 3 AA rosette Rocca

Bar & Grill, visitors dine on the finest

freshest produce while enjoying views over

the 18 fairway of the Old Course.

In May 2013, Macdonald Rusacks Hotel

completed a £700,000 refurbishment of 39

bedrooms. All are named after golfing

greats and / or links to the famous Old

Course. This includes the stunning Old

Tom Morris and Young Tom Morris

bedroom suites.