Archive May 2011
Fare Thee Well, Old Friend
Harmon Killebrew
We’re not big on baseball here in Scotland. We wouldn’t know a home run from an error. But it doesn’t take a baseball supporter to know this: Harmon C. Killbebrew was as brilliant a man as one would ever meet. Today, he passed away after announcing recently that he would no longer fight the incurable esophageal cancer that he was diagnosed with in December.
Harmon loved golf, St Andrews and Monarchs House. He visited often and we will greatly miss our old friend. We wish his family strength and solace at this most difficult time
Flow gently, sweet Afton! amang thy green braes,
Flow gently, I’ll sing thee a song in thy praise.
~Robert Burns
Random Thoughts from the Home of Golf
The linksland of Castle Stuart
The golf world will miss the greatness and genius that was Seve Ballesteros. He won the Open Championship three times, twice at Royal Lytham & St Annes and once on the Old Course in 1984. Our favorite quote of Seve’s is indicative of his warmth, humour and ability to not take things too seriously. When asked about four putting the 16th green at the 1990 Masters, Seve memorably replied, “I miss, I miss, I miss, I make.” RIP Severiano Ballesteros.
