What Is an Amateur and Changes at St Andrews
13 November 2025

What Is an Amateur and Changes at St Andrews

Hack It Out Golf

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In today's episode, Lou, Mark, and Greg revisit and expand some of their recent discussion on professionals regaining their amateur status, pulling on a lot of threads of what is a challenging conversation with (pardon the pun) a lot of pros and cons. Then they discuss the announced changes being made to the Old Course at St Andrews.



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