Duffers take heart! The "Old Guys" are playing golf in the "womb" of the sport. That is to say the British Senior Open is underway at the Royal Aberdeen Golf Course. Okay, so it’s not Saint Andrews, but it is in Scotland and I’m told they make whiskey in that part of Britain, too. Read on for the story.

My uncle Ed is a fictional character who appears in my book "A Look at Golf Through Poetry and Prose with Tongue-In-Cheek." This brief encounter with Ed has created a story line for another book with a working title of "Ed is Dead," which is coming to a bookstore near you in the not so distant .future.