ST. ANDREWS, Scotland — Everywhere you look in this tiny ashen hamlet there are reminders of years gone by, a bounty of wonderful snapshots of history dating to the 8th century.
Everything you hear around here, it seems, involves wind.
Nowhere is the chatter of breezes, gusts and gales more prevalent than on the historical gem named the Old Course. In the 144th British Open, the velocity of the invisible that whistles off the adjacent North Sea determines the oldest championship in golf.
Will scores be low today? Depends on the wind. What will the cut be?