The Great Britain and Ireland team's 15 to 9 victory was the biggest in the 77 year's history of the event. And in 2012 the Great Britain and Ireland ladies team made a remarkable comeback at the Curtis Cup event, winning 10 and a half to 9 and a half and for the first time in history, the Curtis Cup, the Walker Cup, the Solheim Cup and the Ryder Cup are all in European hands.
Nairn is one of the easier Scottish championship courses, unless you land in the revetted bunkers, and in my case not one of the revetted bunkers in front of the “Home” hole green. Instead it was the left-hand fairway bunker which put paid to my otherwise excellent round. A nine at “Home” hole wasn’t a nice way to end my time at Nairn. However in the words of General Douglas MacArthur, “I shall return,” and get my revenge and then pop up the road to play Castle Stuart.
Now it's on to Royal Aberdeen with the thought-provoking question. Was it here, not St Andrews or Edinburgh where the Royal and Ancient game began?
Royal Aberdeen's web site also informs the reader that the club was founded in 1780 and is, "The sixth oldest golf club in the world," and on the matter of flying the Saltire I must admit to employing artistic license. The flagstaff is for real and so is the Saltire it's just that they didn't come together on that particular day. And given the historical significance of Royal Aberdeen I consider it an appropriate opportunity to share the history of the Saltire as the sovereign flag of Scotland.