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I played in 2002...it was like a religous experience.

I think I paid $150.00 for a round at the time. I gave my name at the starter shack and waited about 1 1/2 and I was on the first tee hitting the most NERVE racking tee shot of my life...

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I played St Andrews Old, New, and Jubilee July of 1998. Also Carnoustie, Nairn, Royal Dornoch, Royal Montrose among others. Best 2 weeks of my life. My knees were knocking together on the old course 1st tee so bad in front of the R&A; I had to back off my ball 3 times.

It was $125 old, 85 new, and 72 jubilee when I went.

Carnoustie is the hardest course I have ever seen. The widest fairway is like 17 yards. The 1st fairway is like 8-10 yards wide. What a test of golf. Plus 7520 off the "Tiger" tees.

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I played it in summer 1974, a couple of months after my 15th birthday. Green fees were 4 pounds, the equivalent of about 8 bucks. No kidding.

I remember looking at the posted signs and memberships -- or user fees, whatever they called them -- for locals were maybe $300 or less for all year. They ran everything out of a small starter's-type shack behind and slightly to the right of the 18th green. That's where my dad asked for rental clubs and they pulled out a couple of weathered pathetic looking bags with lightly rusted clubs. I wasn't complaining but it was depressing I'd have to play the ultimate course with those sticks instead of my trusty Haig Ultras back in Miami. There was no such thing as toting our own clubs in those days. We shipped our Apache camper to Europe on the Italian liner Raffaello and bought a Renault car. My dad was worried we already had too much luggage.

My opening tee shot was a solid line drive but fairly low. I wasn't particularly thrilled with it at the time since I was a good player, but looking back 35 years later I'm thrilled I hit it dead straight. My memories of specific shots are scarce, other than #18 when I barely cleared the road on my drive while hitting into the wind. My second shot found the Valley of Sin. It was very tight in that area so I putted but my shot drifted well to the right of the hole and I failed to make the par putt. I can't believe I have no recollection of how I did on #17, other than the tee shot was so weird. We were all aiming in different directions.

I can picture the gorse, and being mesmerized by it, but I don't think I got into too much trouble with it. Course workers in little green carts, filled with sand, would scoot past us often.

A highlight was the Himalayas putting green. We were one of many families playing that near dusk, laughter everywhere as the ball rolled off the elephant backs. As far as I remember, that was absolutely free.

At that point the course was closed on Sundays. We were touring the old grey city on Sunday and watched dozens of families stroll across the #1 and #18 fairways toward the beach, carrying picnic necessities and seemingly oblivious a golf course was present.

Actually, my most memorable shot was a day or two later, one of my best ever. I played the New Course at St. Andrews with my little sister as caddie. That day was a howl, incredible winds. I wish we had played the Old Course in those conditions. On a par 3 of maybe 180 yards, fairly early in the round, the wind was roaring left to right and hurting us slightly. It was a slingshot wind. I took out the 4 wood and aimed well left of the green, no idea what to expect. I nailed it and can still picture the flight. It dominated the elements until nearly catching up with the green. At that point it detoured straight right for about 30 yards before crashing to the green.

The ball rolled sideways, within 3 feet of the cup. My sister and I couldn't restrain the impulsive shared laughter. We were looking at a flagstick bending toward the ground and somehow my ball had become its neighbor.

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I played Old and New in '03. We wrapped up the last round on the Old at 8:00 pm and two members of the R&A; came out and invited the two of us into the clubhouse for drinks. Playing the old course was awesome, having drinks in the clubhouse was life changing.

One of my favorite memories of the stop in SA was sitting in the outside area of the Jigger having pints when I saw a ball coming at us from the 17th tee over the hotel and was too drunk to react or tell my table mates there was inbound fire. The ball landed in the middle of our table and smashed pints glasses everywhere.

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When I was in 10th grade we lived near Reading, west of London. I was not much of a golfer then (didn't really get into it until about a 2 years ago at age 26) but we took a couple trips to Scotland and my dad and I played one of the other courses at St. Andrews (maybe a shorter one - mostly 3's and a few par 4's - my memory is hazy). My dad played the old course a couple times and I remember watching him tee off (I was nowhere near good enough to play it at the time). He said he was really nervous but I think he shot a 79 one of those times.

Even back then I think I pretty much understood its significance, even though I wasn't all that in to golf. I WILL return some day and play all the famous and not-so-famous courses. I have Scottish heritage so I always feel a pull to the country and now to the game; there is something mystical about golf and Scotland to me.

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Played it a few times but have never really grown to like it as a course; albeit there are some very good holes. Definitely worth it for the game's history though and I made 4 up the Road Hole last time so I'll always remember that!

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Have visited St Andrews each even year since 1998. Odds are Ireland. St Andrews was 135 pound last year and for first time in many years they kept rate same for this year. There's a great website for St Andrews. Got to play the Castle[the new course] and it was pretty spectacular. Last year a pound traded at 2 for one so it was about $270. This it's trading at 1.5 to one so about $200. If you can.....Ya gotta go....
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I visited St. Andrews in 1996. I was not a golfer then but soon realized how historic that place was. They had 9-hole putting green (par 27), which cost about 5 pounds, IIRC. It was a lot of fun because of all the hills.

I checked the green fee for the old course and it was less than 100 pounds, IIRC.

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I played it in 1968. Just walked up to the starter's shack, rented a half set, bought a sleeve of balls, waited for the group on the first tee to leave, and I was on as a single.

I got eaten alive through 16, then got a 3 on the Road Hole: drive over the hotel, 3-iron onto the green, ~20-footer in the can.
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I played in April 2002, was stationed in England at the time, about 6 1/2 hours away. I think it was right around 100 pounds for the Old Course, and around 90 pounds for the New Course, Eden, and Jubilee.

Left at Midnight on Wednesday night/Thursday morning, arrived in time for breakfast at 6:30, played the Old Course, ate lunch, then played Eden. Found a B&B;, woke up and played the New Course, ate lunch, played Jubilee, ate dinner and got back home around 1:00 am Saturday morning.

A very quick trip that cost me about $600-$700, but well worth it. The price for golf was good, it was all the money I spent at the gift shop for myself, friends, and family that really killed me.

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I've played it 20+ times so far, but my question to you is, wtf is a religous experience?

Maybe you've played it too often or it's too easy for you to get on so it's not was big of a deal, but for those of us that get 1 or 2 shots at it in a lifetime, it is like a religious experience....calming, energizing and electrifying all in one to walk the fairways and see up close all of the nuances of a great golf course. It was similar to my first time at Augusta when you see it all in person and realize how hard some of those shots are that you take for granted when watching a pro play it.

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I was there last month when they were setting up everything for the Open. I was so nervous on the first tee that I blasted one almost right into the stands then thinned an iron onto the green and 3 putted before I could get a rhythm. Maybe being only 17 made it so that I felt less of a religious experience there but it was still great golf and something that any serious golfer should experience.

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