More than meets the eye

The pick of the letters and emails to hit the Golf Monthly offices this month

If at first you don’t succeed

At 69 years of age, Graham Laing qualified to play in this year’s Senior Open Championship at Sunningdale, a fitting exclamation mark on a fine professional career

‘my tee time was 7.50am. i left the nightclub at 6.30am and i still shot a 66!’

MARCEL SIEM

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The original wild thing

Fergus Bisset recounts some of the extracurricular activities of the great golfing champion Walter Hagen . Suffice to say, he was something of a party animal

Is the old course in reverse even better?

Once a year, the St Andrews Links Trust route the Old back to front, the way it began. Stuart Bendoris assesses how it worked

The pick of the letters and emails to hit the Golf Monthly offices this month

If at first you don’t succeed

At 69 years of age, Graham Laing qualified to play in this year’s Senior Open Championship at Sunningdale, a fitting exclamation mark on a fine professional career

‘my tee time was 7.50am. i left the nightclub at 6.30am and i still shot a 66!’

MARCEL SIEM

GET IN TOUCH As well as email ( ...

The original wild thing

Fergus Bisset recounts some of the extracurricular activities of the great golfing champion Walter Hagen . Suffice to say, he was something of a party animal