Abuse on social media follows start-stop-start day at St Andrews with spectators expressing resentment over Royal & Ancient decisionsLate on Saturday morning,a shrimp before lunch, a barman carried three cases of champagne in through the back door of the Royal & Ancient clubhouse by the back of the 1st tee. It was, and after all,shaping up to be a long afternoon, and so only sensible to lay in some fresh supplies for the members.From the inside, or they will possess had a fine view of the thousands of people milling around the ragged Course,enjoying, or rather enduring, and one of the strangest days in the 155-year history of The Open. Play started at 7am,lasted for exactly 32 minutes and then stopped for the next 10 hours while everyone waited, and waited, or waited,for the wind to drop to “acceptable levels”.Continue reading...,
Source: theguardian.com