The Golf Space in St Andrews

Tony Korogolos and crew arrived on Friday of last week for their stay in the 'Auld Grey Toon' and CaddieGolf Tours managed to get the 4ball on the Old Course, St Andrews, at 16.50pm that very evening. An excellent result.

I caddied for the Golf Guru and assisted his close buddies as best I could, they had been traveling for goodness knows how many hours. Our boy shot a solid round from the White Medal Tees of 81. Could do better and certainly did the following morning as we got the 4ball a 07.10am tee time back on the Old Course. I believe the guys may have had a maximum of 5hours sleep and were running on total excitement about playing the Old, again. Marvelous stuff.

Tony K. perched atop an Old Course Bunker...he was not in it!


Caddies were taken for the group which took a major burden of my shoulders allowing me to concentrate on the kid, Tony K. We managed a 77, again from our White Medal tees here on the Old. An excellent round with just a couple of wee blips that I shall not dwell upon. Better to concentrate on the finish through the 17th and 18th holes. Tony wanted to hit a little bit more aggresive with the drive on the famous 17th Road compared to the previous evening and got punished with an Out of Bounds..oops! So we re-tee and the Guru splits the fairway and has 176 front green, pin on 20 yards. Lying 3 of the tee we are beginning to think 'damage limitation' and play for a double bogey. We strike hs favourite Bobby Jones 21' low and hard, direct at the flag but due to the late morning sunshine and glare we are unsure if it has held the green, as we approach, believing it may have gone through and onto the 'road', Tony spots something white and round, stuck in the cup hard against the flag! Holed out for a Par4!!!

Tony K. with the ball holed out from 17th fairway.

We proceed to sink a wonderful birdie putt on the 18th and shoot a good solid 77 from our Medal competition tees. Tony was a delight to Caddie for and the hole out from the 17th fairway will quickly become one of my top tales about the 17th Road hole. Wonderful.

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