Bobby Jones scornfully called it a cow pasture the first time he played it; the second time, when his score was better, he called it the greatest course in the world. St. Andrews golf course, perhaps the world's toughest, curls like a giant fishhook along the east Scottish coast, its fairways pocked by traps deep as bomb craters. Roads and railroads run in & around it, and on the famed 17th hole the players have to drive over an enormous coal shed. Last week, in the British Open golf championship, the local boys, who knew the course, the wind and the...
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