Comments on: St Andrews In The Snow – Episode #2

By: Michael Landgrebe

Michael Landgrebe — Fri, 01 May 2009 18:30:01 +0000

Love this video Andy,

I have never seen The Old Course like that….Awesome and ironically inspiring.

Michael

By: Kahu Maremare

Kahu Maremare — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 05:40:03 +0000

Kia Ora Andy. (Maori informal phrase for ‘how are you’.)

Really liked the interview with the people fro the Dunvegan Hotel and the one of St Andrews covered in snoW. I have a question.

Why do they at times play the course in reverse?

Keep up all the good work you’re doing its ‘Great!

Andy’s Reply:

Hi Kahu,

Playing the course in reverse is an annual 3 day event to recreate the way the Old Course used to play many years ago.

Cheers

Andy

By: Ron

Ron — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 11:22:45 +0000

Andy

Great vidio showing the vagaries of the british weather,as an artist,this is what I love about the UK

My worst weather experiance was last Friday,27.March.being battered by hailstones.ouch.

Ron.

By: Fran

Fran — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 00:20:44 +0000

This looks like Buffalo, NY. The worst day of golf I ever had was in Hilton Head, South Carolina. It was February and and we started playing with temps around 60 when all of a sudden the temps dropped and on the 15th hole it started to snow. In a matter of minutes, there was an inch of snow on the ground. Needless to say, it was hard to putt.(A little humor there)

By: Trevor

Trevor — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 06:47:29 +0000

That’s easy – In October 2004 our we played the Jubilee course. The forecast was bad and on arrival the club house would not let us enter the front door as the wind off the sea, from the South East was so bad. Anyway we decided to go out: It started to rain, horizontally in the wind gusting up to 40 mph. Constant rain. Standing on the T clasping my 4 Rescue club I felt my shoes filling rapidly with water. On the first hole all our trolleys had blown over at least 3 times each. Pleting rain, gale off the sea on the right, lucky to see where the ball went. Wonderful!

We survived the first 9 and then threw in the towel, sorry, we grabbed the towel in the change room. Completely soaked. Gore tex was defeated. The caddy said (dryly) “That’s as bad as it gets”.

By: Russell Garland

Russell Garland — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 07:33:36 +0000

Here at Mt Maunganui on the east coast of the North Island of New Zealand, conditions are just hell. I mean it’s purgatory out there. It’s warm, there’s no wind and the course is in immaculate condition. There’s just the sound of the tui (native song bird) in the pohutukawa (native trees), just heaven on earth.

And the trouble with these conditions? What do you blame the bad golf on????

By: Guy

Guy — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 21:17:21 +0000

Hi Andy,

Looks like your enjoying yourself, liked the Faldo vid he has always been one of my heros.

Played Scarborough north cliff a couple of years ago half of it is links, storm force wind and driving rain no escape whatsoever after that i never wanted to play golf again.

Remember pal its nice to be nice, tarra

By: Greg

Greg — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 14:30:11 +0000

Sound quality is much improved, but if you could resist the nervous tension that causes you to move around so much while filming it would look much more professional and less distracting.

As for the worst weather I ever played in; it would have to be the day I was walking a very long course in 100+ degree fahrenheit weather (38-40 Celsius). Playing the par 3 at the farthest spot on the course with nothing around for protection, save a willow bush, and being extremely lightly dressed, a thunder storm came from out of nowhere, but not raining water, rather ice! I took to the cover of the willow, which provided virtually none, and huddled up for the duration that lasted for what seemed a very long time. So much hail fell that the course looked like those pictures of St. Andrews in your video, but I was so lightly dressed that I had to fight to not pass out from the sudden cold – far colder than I ever got in the Fulda Gap in Germany in the harshest winter storms! Though the lightning hadn’t abated I decided the willow didn’t provide enough protection to make it worthwhile, so I ended up walking back to the clubhouse through the ice instead of freezing in place in August in Florida.

By: e j carr

e j carr — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 10:25:42 +0000

andy, by far Ballybunion, last november. Arrived in a gale,50 mph winds , sideways rain that lasted for two days. I usually carry my bag, but decided to use a trolley. Wind actually lifted bag off of trolley and carried it down the fairway. Hitting drivers into 120 yd par threes? yikes.

By: Peter Killick

Peter Killick — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 19:02:02 +0000

As they say : “Behind every great male golfer is a great woman” I believe we can hear yours laughing in the background It would be nice to put a face to Mrs Brown in a forthcoming episode Enjoying your snapshot of the Home of Golf Please keep up the good work
Kind regards
Peter