5 experts offer diverse insights into success at St Andrews

Ask five golfers for the keys to success around St Andrews’ Old Course, host to this week’s 144th Open Championship, and you’re likely to get five different answers.

Nick Faldo won the 1990 Open there in 18 under par, a record beaten by a stroke by Tiger Woods 10 years later, who returned in 2005 and matched Faldo’s score second time around. Both Dustin Johnson and Shane Lowry have major championship ambitions and count St Andrews as one of their favourite courses, while two-time Open champion Pádraig Harrington has twice won the Dunhill Links Championship at the Old Course.

Ask them for the secrets of success and take note at their varying takes, all of which underline both the beauty and the challenge of playing at the Home of Golf, the world’s most famous piece of golfing linksland.