Newsletters  | Mobile  Scottish Caddies: A Dying Breed?  Bobby
Wood   Age 71  "It's only my opinion, but Muirfield is
Scotland's best golf course. It's definitely the fairest. If you
hit your ball down the middle at St. Andrews you could end up in
a pot bunker. There's nothing like that here. There are no
tricks. If you place your ball in the right spot on the fairway,
then you've got a chance.  That isn't to say the course is easy.
Not a chance, especially when the wind blows. There was one day
we had a group going off the tenth tee. The fog was down and you
could only see about thirty yards, so we lined them up using
divots on the tee. They all played great for a few holes—nothing
worse than par—but then the fog lifted and everything changed.
They could see the rough swaying in the wind, and it played with
their heads. After that, it was nothing but sixes and sevens.
If that's what Muirfield can do to good golfers, you should see
what happens to the bad ones. You are supposed to be an eighteen
handicap or