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The Battalion Thursday, July 19,1990 an had little to do with creating t. Andrews’ famous Old Course 1ST. ANDREWS, Scotland (AP) —No one built the ||d Course. It just came to be. B“A vast, flat plain,” British golf historian Bernard u Sett ® rw i n wrote in 1910; a plain shaped by the centuries, c " the sea and the wind. hes, yoiifflghggp h ac i something to do with the formation of the lunctioriHj Course at St. Andrews. Man had very little to do cayetUJth it. how;!® “I’d like to thank Mother Nature for the golf course,” an y gi'iBen Crenshaw said in the presentation ceremony fol lowing the 1978 British Open. a stud)■ The oldest of the world’s golf tournaments returns to VifjsHe oldest course — the birthplace of the game — this [gcsts (ijweek for the 119th British Open. °n r e<p “The Old Course remains a monument to the origins ig whit 0 f golf as a game played on links by the sea,” the late can wBritish writer Pat Ward-Thomas said, ular sh“In the beginning, it knew no architect but nature; it jnymjijcame into being by evolution rather than design; and 1 R no other course is the hand of man less evident.” vhat s«| j No one really knows how old it is. But on a piece of its bycftrdunent, dated Jan. 25, 1552, the Archbishop of St. itiomiMjndrews gave the public the right to play golf on the ving, Skffliksland, as well as the right to breed rabbits on it. I The game had been played here for more than 200 inthei|®ars when the St. Andrews Society of Golfers, later the -d, crowoyal and Ancient Golf Club, was formed in 1754. ercaul The course, covering 93‘/a acres of land between the itally date, i il cira- tional. compti town and the Bay of St. Andrews, has changed little since then. There are no trees, and little definition where the fairways end and the gorse and heather be gin. There are nine holes out, with the sea on the right, and nine holes back. Fourteen of them share seven dou ble greens. The tee shot on the par-3 11th crosses over the fairway of the par-4 seventh. “Without the wind, it’s a pretty easy course,” said Ar nold Palmer, who played his first British Open here 30 years ago and is making a farewell appearance this year. But it’s a rare day when the wind doesn’t blow. And it is so fickle that it’s not unusual for a player to have the wind in his face all the way out, then find it change and be in his face all the way in. Generally speaking, the 6,933-yard course is flat. But there are humps and swales — and bunkers, 140 of them, formed by sheep burrowing into dunes to escape the wintry gales off the sea, and by people digging for shells. Many are deep pits, the pot bunkers that Darwin said were only large enough to accommodate “an angry man and his niblick.” The layout puts most of the trouble on the right — the sea going out, out-of-bounds coming home. But, in almost every case, the better approach to the green is from the right, a tee shot between the sheep-formed bunkers and the sea. e assn-K >'par .won )hys®| a W[ aca® brash Photo by Sdndra JV. Robbins Texas A&M quarterback Lance Pavlas practices on Kyle Field Wednesday afternoon. Pavlas completed 134 of 227 passes last year for 1,681 yards and a John Hancock Bowl berth. Bo knows 4 dingers’ „ NEW YORK (AP) — Bo hits long home runs, we all know that. iketbal : diw fror wasx Bo hits hard home runs, we know that, too. But what, pray tell, will happen when he puts everything together one night? We still don’t know the answer to that one. ''"'’I Jackson had an amazing I enough game Wednesday night j.EStj at Yankee Stadium. He homered ( his first three times up against WfO 1 Andy Hawkins. | What would have happened if Bo got up again? Would he have hit the ball hard enough to crack one of those famous monuments out be- c hind the left-field fence? \U Would the ball have flown out of Yankee Stadium? Would he have done some thing no one can even dream of? Or would he have just struck out and broken yet another bat with his bare hands? We’ll never know. That’s because Jackson par tially dislocated his left shoulder trying to catch Deion Sanders’ sinking line drive in Kansas City’s 10-7 victory. So instead of Bo coming up to try for his fourth homer, there was Willie Wilson striding to the plate. “I certainly didn’t expect a night like I had, especially getting hurt,” Jackson said through Roy als spokesman Steve Fink after returning to his hotel from a hos pital. “But the X-rays came back negative and I should be all right in a few r days.” It was an unglamorous game between two last-place teams. With three of Jackson’s swings, it became, well, an event. Texas state park soon a favorite spot for campers JUNCTION (AP) — Cool, crystal clear water bubbled over a bed of pristine, white limestone as the river meandered lazily between thick pe can bottomland. A few feet away, two yearling white-tailed does stared curiously from the security of their thicket hideaway. Nearby a turkey hen darted from shadow to shade trying to be inconspicuous. It may have been 95 degrees, even in the shade, but sitting on the banks of the South Llano River with feet dangling in the water enjoying the pecan canopy and a cool breeze rus tling through it, this newest jewel in the state parks system crown felt like an oasis on the high Texas Plains. The South Llano River State Park, which opened July 3, will quickly be come a favorite with both campers and day visitors who wish to enjoy the unspoiled beauty that still exists in parts of Texas. The park and adjacent Walter Buck Wildlife Management Areaen- compasses 2,630 acres on the south side of the South Llano River, ap proximately 5 miles south of Junc tion off U.S. 377 on Park Road 73. Land for the park was donated to the state in 1977 by Walter Buck, a longtime Kimble County rancher for whom the Buck Management Area is named. One story says that Buck climbed on top of a high hill on the property, looked down upon what he had, and thought what a shame it was that “city folks” wouldn’t be able to see the sight he was enjoying and de cided to make sure they would have that opportunity. Buck’s original homestead, built in 1910, is being restored for use as the park headquarters, and will con tain much of the flavor of the color ful bachelor rancher. The walls of one room in the headquarters were left unrestored because they contain some of the “writings” of Buck, who liked to use his walls as message pads. One section of wall holds a mes sage dated 20 Oct. 1965, which sim ply states: “90 cows and c (calves), one bull,” no doubt an update on Buck’s herd at the time. A section of window frame has a list of clothing taken to be laun dered, and another window sill con tains the name and address of a friend. The Buck homestead will look much as it did when originally built, says park superintendent Wayne Haley. Haley noted that the state has tried its best to match the shades of paint and type of wallpaper that Buck used in building the house. Buck, who died in 1978, did not live to see the park become a reality. The park will offer a day use area with at least 25 picnic sites, 58 multi use camp sites, 12 walk-in camp sites and a large primitive camping area. Located down on the river, the day use picnic area will offer conve nient access to the river for swim ming or fishing, and will be close to two stocked ponds for fishermen. Follow the AGGIES to Hawaii! $390 Roimdtrlp airfare from College Station Only lO seats remain Tuesday, August 28- Sunday, September 2 846-1702 AGGIE LAND TRAVEL BIG BILL? 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