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A few weeks ago, we went to St. Andrews. This will probably be our last visit there for a while as it's a popular tourist destination during the summer months, when it can get very busy. Known the world over as "the home of golf", the game has been played there, since at least 1457 when it was popular enough for King James II to ban it on the grounds that it interfered with archery practice!
We treated ourselves to lunch at the Old Course Hotel. The restaurant is on the top floor and overlooks the 17th fairway, known as the "Road Hole": reputedly the most difficult hole in the Open. I noticed from the blurb on the menu that the bar stocks 174 malts - one from every distillery in Scotland - which is fine, if you happen to like whisky. After lunch, we took a walk along the West Sands. It was here that the beach
scenes were filmed for "Chariots of Fire".
There you have it. One clue and three red herrings!