Why the St. Andrews Links Collegiate was the family trip of a lifetime

Attending to compete on the Old Course at St. Andrews is particular already, however attending to do it surrounded by household is a complete different stage.

Whereas the Notre Dame males’s and ladies’s golf groups had been already surrounded by their Preventing Irish household for the inaugural St. Andrews Collegiate, in addition they obtained to play the first-of-its-kind faculty occasion with their very own households in attendance.

GOLF tagged together with the Notre Dame squads as they ready for and performed within the one-of-a-kind faculty occasion that includes three different faculties: Georgetown, North Carolina and Vanderbilt. The journey and occasion had been documented in GOLF’s newest documentary, Beyond The Bend, which you’ll be able to watch in full above.

Whereas many mother and father and households do journey for a lot of faculty occasions round america, going across the pond to Scotland for a university occasion with your loved ones in tow is a once-in-a-lifetime experience.

“To have every of our gamers have their mother and father right here or somebody from their household was tremendous particular,” ladies’s workforce coach Caroline Powers Ellis mentioned. “And particularly for [assistant] coach Kari [Bellville] and I to have our households right here too— to get to rejoice it as an entire Notre Dame household was one thing actually cool.”

Males’s workforce coach John Handrigan added that household is without doubt one of the most necessary values to Notre Dame golf.

“Having all of the households right here to rejoice this second— I noticed tears from dads when their youngster was strolling up 18 and having this expertise with our households has been nice,” Handrigan mentioned. “Nothing higher than household.”

“You simply by no means know what life has in retailer so to have this second with them perpetually, I’m actually grateful for it,” added graduate pupil captain Palmer Jackson.

For extra on Notre Dame’s journey to the House of Golf for the St. Andrews Hyperlinks Collegiate, you’ll be able to watch GOLF’s full documentary, Past The Bend, here.

Jack Hirsh

Golf.com Editor

Jack Hirsh is an assistant editor at GOLF. A Pennsylvania native, Jack is a 2020 graduate of Penn State College, incomes levels in broadcast journalism and political science. He was captain of his highschool golf workforce and just lately returned to this system to function head coach. Jack additionally nonetheless *tries* to stay aggressive in native amateurs. Earlier than becoming a member of GOLF, Jack spent two years working at a TV station in Bend, Oregon, primarily as a Multimedia Journalist/reporter, but in addition producing, anchoring and even presenting the climate. He could be reached at jack.hirsh@golf.com.