Open Championship venue has a second track, which is (somewhat) this week’s race

Portrush in Northern Ireland – Due to personality flaws that appear on my golf course and go well beyond it, I would rather play Little Ellie courses on the East Coast of Scotland than anywhere else (although I love it all). In Merion, crossing the river and passing through the buses at my home in the city limits of Philadelphia, I prefer the route of the west rather than the famous East, which is known by the companies Jones, Hogan and Hogan & Rose. This is just my second trip after my first six years as the open Shane Lowry won. I stumbled upon two so-called other classes on Tuesday, once from the beach, and then at the end of the day, it seemed like a few days were over.

They took the course for the 153rd Open Championship this week, the Dunluce course at the Royal Porthush Golf Club, which is both great and grand, Dunesy, Dunesy, Windy, and full of Swales. But, between the “Champion Stadium” under all the Queen Je and the Atlantic Ocean, a Valley course designed by Harry Colt, 6,300 yards, all stretched, unresolved, fell into the huge Linksland and will make your heart compete for the first time in love.

Valley Stadium is closed this week, although the flagpole (just sticks, not flags) is still on many greens. Many bunkers have rakes inside. The lads playing in public were at a loss. The racing range and short season area were built this week by the repurposed Valley course. This still leaves a huge valley route that can make your walking and hiking fun. The dunes are very big. You can expand them.

Good courses are like excellent Italian restaurants, and you know you are in the right place when you walk through the door and breathe garlic, red wine, freshly baked bread. The same goes for the route of this valley: salty air, pale fairways, the corridor of Tee-Green Promise.

I don’t know what this is, I don’t care. I just want to take the course and I can see anyone on the Royal Portrush website. Anyone able! Large courses, same. That is the Holy Spirit.

Really, this is the spirit. That’s the spirit that makes the game so good. All royal and royal; lunch rules and gentlemen’s bars and the rest of the coats, this is just dressing for the windows.

About golf The golf in the Kingdom is golf. Course, players are on them; wind, turf, pace, seaside air. You can measure the wind speed on your cheeks and the direction on your ears. (When you feel the wind balance on the left and right ears, your nose points to the wind.) Anyway, it’s smaller than you think.