| The UK will host two of golf’s greatest competitions later this year: the Open Championship, on the Old Course at St Andrews for the 28th time, and the Ryder Cup for the first time in Wales. Amidst the hoopla and gossip—talk about Tiger’s tumble, speculation about whether Tom Watson can duplicate his wondrous 2009 run at Turnberry, and the strut toward Celtic Manor—an unobtrusive, modest pair of contributors will assist in making sure that neither event experiences a glitch on the greens: the flagsticks and the cups. They’ll do their best work if the wind is up, but whatever the conditions, the flagsticks will bend with the wind, and the cups will shine bright, their luminous white liners visible not just to the players on the greens but to galleries and TV audiences world-wide. Big deal, you say—it’s a flagstick right; it’s a cup, correct? |
