The emblem on the necktie reserved for the members of the Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St. Andrews - The Vatican of golf - is of St. Andrew himself bearing the slatier cross on which, once he was captured at Patras, he was to be stretched before he was crucified.Only the Scots would have thought of celebrating a national game with the figure of a tortured saint.

Fun & Games with Alistair Cooke: On Sport and Other Amusements (ed. Open Road Media, 2015) - ISBN: 9781497697942