The organizers of The Open insist they would welcome a record-breaking sub-60 round at St Andrews, despite suggestions that the Old Course is becoming obsolete.
At 7,313 metres, the historic link is one of the shortest of today’s major sites and this week it has hard, fast running fairways after continued dry and windy conditions.
It has been speculated that, if the winds don’t blow hard during tournament days, the course will be defenseless against the world’s best professionals tearing it apart and possibly setting the lowest lap in great men’s history.