The glorious Perthshire resort hosted the first ‘Ryder Cup’-style match against the United States over nine decades ago. Some say that it can even lay claim to be its spiritual home … if only that first encounter had not gone quite so badly!
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Written by Dale Concannon
Photography by Old Golf Images
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