St Andrews Golf Vacations - St Andrews University Honouring Golf Legends

We were delighted to attend St Andrews University who were Honouring Golf Legends, Nick Faldo, Peter Thompson and Peter Alliss. Laura Davies was also honoured but was unable to attend

We managed to get a few photographs of the event and even managed to also meet Bruce Forsyth who is no mean golfer himself !


PRESS RELEASE
Four of the biggest names in world golf have been awarded degrees by Scotland's oldest university, St Andrews University to mark the beginning of the 134th Open Championship.

Players Nick Faldo, Laura Davies and Peter Thomson have been honoured by St Andrews University, along with BBC commentator Peter Alliss. The golfers joined several other stars of the sport to be honoured by the university, including Jack Nicklaus, Gary Player, Colin Montgomerie and Seve Ballesteros.

Peter Alliss was one of Britain's leading professionals but is now best known as a broadcaster for ABC in the US and the BBC in Europe.

Nick Faldo won 30 times on the European Tour, six times on the USPGA Tour and has six majors to his name while Laura Davies was the first woman ever to win all three major golfing tournaments in one year during the 1980s.

Peter Thomson, an Australian, is regarded as one of the world's best links golfers.


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