Not even Peyton Manning is allowed to play from the tips at St. Andrews

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From Golf Digest

Not even Peyton Manning is allowed to play from the tips at St. Andrews

By Alex Myers

NFL superstar Peyton Manning's umpteenth interview with NFL reporter Peter Kingactually produced a brand new nugget of information -- even if it had nothing to do with football. King asked Manning "What's the best round of golf in your life?" and got this response:

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"I shot even par, 72, at St. Andrews. Me, Cooper and Eli, and my dad went three summers ago. But, we were playing from the 'up' tees -- because they made you. They get so much play. Everybody wants to go and play where the pros play. They'd be six-hour rounds. So they say, 'Hey, this is where you're playing.' It's probably 6,400 yards. Not a long course at all. I like to say that even if I was all the way back there, I had it dialed in that day. So it was fun. Obviously, that's my favorite golf foursome of all time."

Perhaps the greatest quarterback in history playing golf's most historic course? Pretty cool. And pretty crazy that even Manning, whose golf resume also includes a 77 at Augusta National and two holes-in-one, wasn't allowed to play from the set of tees he wanted. Although, we're not sure if the leader of the Denver Broncos put up much of a fight at a place that's known for running a pretty tight ship.

Among the "10 things you need to know if you are playing the Old Course" listed on the course's website are the requirement that golfers bring their official handicap certificate and that fairway mats -- mats that you bring with you to hit balls off of in the fairway and rough -- are to be used from November to March. Even the use of pull carts is limited to help maintain the course's condition.

http://www.golfdigest.com/blogs/the-loop/2014/09/peyton-manning-golf-st-andrews.html

[iacas]

Good.

I got to play from the back tees. Not the one or two tees that are technically on the New Course that they use in the British Open, but on every other tee I played as far back as they had tees.

Unless, of course, they literally build new tees and then take them down…?

P.S. The caddies moved my bag forward several times on the first tee. I don't know why they even have tee markers farther back if they really don't want anyone to play from them.

[Gunther]

I remember you had to play the tees they had put out but I recall some being back, some being up. It wasn't like playing the whites. Was a little disappointed until I got to 17 and saw the new pro tee box about 100 yards back. Not even sure I could have gotten it over the shed from there.

[weekend hacker1]

To be honest, I'm pretty sure that few people in the UK would know who PM is.

[iacas]

To be honest, I'm pretty sure that few people in the UK would know who PM is.

Seriously.

Russell Wilson, on the other hand… :D

[Chris223]

Now I can't imagine he is able to play golf all THAT much... how in the heck does he shoot those scores.

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Now I can't imagine he is able to play golf all THAT much... how in the heck does he shoot those scores.

I think he plays a lot in the off season.  He was at Pebble Beach just a couple of days after the Super Bowl playing with Tom Brady and Bill Belichick.

[weekend hacker1]

Ha ha, yes. I get that, watching a bit of NFL myself. Ii must say that Jim Nantz's sycophantic drooling over PM is a bad as he gets with Tiger...

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Ha ha, yes. I get that, watching a bit of NFL myself. Ii must say that Jim Nantz's sycophantic drooling over PM is a bad as he gets with Tiger...

It's worse than you can imagine.  He also is in many commercials!  I have no ill will toward him as he appears to be an upstanding gentlemen, which the league surely needs.