{"id":126,"date":"2007-08-08T23:16:48","date_gmt":"2007-08-08T13:16:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.travelsignposts.com\/wordpress\/?p=126"},"modified":"2007-08-08T23:16:48","modified_gmt":"2007-08-08T13:16:48","slug":"st-andrews-links-scotland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.travelsignposts.com\/wordpress\/britain-ireland\/st-andrews-links-scotland","title":{"rendered":"St. Andrews Links &#8211; Scotland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"float: right\"><script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\r\ngoogle_ad_client = \"pub-1009507070974015\";\r\ngoogle_alternate_ad_url = \"http:\/\/www.travelsignposts.com\/google_adsense_script.html\";\r\ngoogle_ad_width = 300;\r\ngoogle_ad_height = 250;\r\ngoogle_ad_format = \"300x250_as\";\r\ngoogle_ad_type = \"text_image\";\r\n\/\/2007-06-30: TSBlog 300x250\r\ngoogle_ad_channel = \"2928184950\";\r\ngoogle_color_border = \"FFFFFF\";\r\ngoogle_color_bg = \"FFFFFF\";\r\ngoogle_color_link = \"FF6600\";\r\ngoogle_color_text = \"000000\";\r\ngoogle_color_url = \"339933\";\r\n\/\/-->\r\n<\/script>\r\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"\r\n  src=\"http:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/show_ads.js\">\r\n<\/script><\/p>\n<p>DAY 4 &#8211; This was our day for visiting St. Andrews, where golf was born in the 15th century.\u00a0 On our journey there we\u00a0crossed the Firth <img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" vspace=\"3\" align=\"right\" width=\"110\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.travelsignposts.com\/Destination\/d\/22186-2\/Scot_0146.jpg?resize=110%2C85\" hspace=\"3\" alt=\"Firth of Forth Bridge\" height=\"85\" style=\"width: 110px; height: 85px\" title=\"Firth of Forth Bridge\" \/>of Forth, a bridge that was\u00a0completed in 1890.\u00a0 The Forth\u00a0was heavily over-constructed in an attempt to regain\u00a0the public&#8217;s confidence after the tragic collapse of the Tay Bridge.\u00a0 It was a daring design for its times and when completed, it was the longest span in the world.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" vspace=\"3\" align=\"left\" width=\"85\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.travelsignposts.com\/Destination\/d\/22198-2\/Scot_0152.jpg?resize=85%2C110\" hspace=\"3\" alt=\"St Andrews Links\" height=\"110\" style=\"width: 85px; height: 110px\" title=\"St Andrews Links\" \/>Did you know that the earliest known reference to golf dates to 1457, when King James II of Scotland banned golf and football on the grounds that they were keeping his subjects from their archery practice&#8230;and rightly so!\u00a0 What good is golf when one&#8217;s kingdom is being beseiged?\u00a0 The ban was repeated in 1471 by James III and also in 1491 by James IV for the same reason. 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