What is the perception in Scotland of American golf?
My sense (granted, it’s only a sense) is that while the Scots rather believe that the ground-and-wind game of the links is the way golf was meant to be played, American golf has a novelty value which makes it just as appealing to them as that which they’re used to. I heard the concept of ‘target golf’ gently bashed in the abstract by one or two fellow students and local St. Andreans, but I don’t think too many Scots are as proprietary about the game as some Americans are. I think many Americans fall into one of two camps: the larger group which doesn’t know St. Andrews from Adam and thinks that Augusta National is the pinnacle of architecture to which all courses should aspire, and the vociferous minority which thinks American golf has become more and more of a perversion of the true Scottish ideal. Both camps find fault with the ‘errors’ of the other ” but the Scots can enjoy the contrasting styles more equally, and more fully, even if they sometimes view the PGA Tour with a curiosity
