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most nervous opening tee shot of your life. Hitting balls beforehand may help, but the driving range is either a shuttle ride (when available) or a 15-minute walk away, so leave plenty of time. Tour- ists and local residents will reverently stop and watch as you hopefully find a spot on the combined first and 18th fairways, an area wider than a football field (129 yards to be precise). One way to ease the tension is to hire a caddie. They are a varied lot, from St. Andrews University students to those who have worked on professional tours; take one for your first round, both for techni- cal guidance and for storytelling skills. They will help your breathing return to normal after a few holes, but adjusting to hitting off the extremely tight turf might take longer. Changing winds often require lower


shots, and think putter before wedge on short approaches. Avoid the gorse bushes (left) that inhale golf balls and the bunkers deep enough to swallow golfers. Also, on the Old Course, right


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1 Jigger Inn 2 Fisher and Donaldson Bakers


3 The Old Course 4 Holy Trinity Church 5 St. Andrews Cathedral


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is wrong—anything hit left, not right, will likely be found. The greens—seven of which share two holes—have their own lefts and rights, but just make sure you play to the correct flag: white for the outward nine holes and red for the inward nine, except for the 18th, which


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