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The historic R&A is a private golf club. Members do not own the Old Course where it sits, but the R&A has a long history of support for those who do, the Town Council and later the St. Andrews Links Trust as of 1974. According to their web site, “The club's origins lie in the creation of the Society of St Andrews Golfers by 22 Noblemen and Gentlemen of the Kingdom of Fife in 1754.”

Sally Ross retired from the University of Georgia Department of Language and Literacy, after many wonderful years of working with Georgia English teachers. She now thrives on travel, hiking, golf, and photography, making Scotland the perfect destination for several months every summer. Sally has always been a photographer, but creating fine art photography has now become a passion, a profession, and a path to learning and personal expression. “My work,” she says, “is often described as painterly, an effect I strive to achieve through my eye as an artist, my sense of composition, and my knowledge and use of the camera as a creative tool. I have come to understand that the central theme of my work—and my life—is to live and to create...