ST. ANDREWS, Scotland – Getting the chance to play at St. Andrews Links is a bucket-list opportunity for many golfers, a once-in-a lifetime chance for many who play the game.

But on a good week for Ethan Mangum, he’ll play four times. A slow week? Maybe once. And those special opportunities have given Mangum, who is a graduate student at St. Andrews University and a member of the men’s golf team, a unique insight into what it takes to navigate the Jubilee and Old courses, where he’s competing this week in the St. Andrews Links Collegiate tournament .

“It caters to a lower ball flight,” Mangum said about what these venues demand. “Learning how to chase the ball up the fairway and then chase the ball into the green has been the most beneficial on each course.”

Although it’s the “compl

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