• 'It is the constant and undying hope
    for improvement that makes golf so
    exquisitely worth the playing'

    Bernard Darwin






  • 'Art and nature thus in line
    Go to make a pefrect nine'

    W.S. Gilbert on Royal Worlington






  • 'Don't play too much golf.
    Two rounds a day is plenty'

    Harry Vardon




  • 'Saturday by Saturday and mostly on Sundays too,
    we did receive a golfing education which could
    be matched by young fellows of that age in no
    other way.'

    Henry Longhurst

The Boyd Quaich

Founded in 1946, in memory of two St Andrews students who were killed during WWII, the Boyd Quaich Memorial Tournament is an invitational competition, played across both the Old and New Courses. Organised and run by the Athletic Union of the University of St Andrews, it receives significant grant aid from the Royal and Ancient Golf Club with support from the St Andrews Links Trust.

Former Light Blue Benjamin "Bobby" Wescoe (2010-11) won the 2011 Boyd Quaich Memorial Tournament by one shot, carding a five-under par 281 (73, 70, 67, 71), a record for the event.

A report on this year's tournament can be found on the University of St Andrews's sports website: http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/sport/Sport/Golf/BoydQuaich/Report/

Alternatively, you can watch a short video on this year's competition, introduced by Thomas Marr, convenor of the 2011 Boyd Quaich Memorial Event on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2YNnII34b5k

Photo: Courtesy of University of St Andrews