ST. ANDREWS, Scotland – Let’s be honest: The St. Andrews Links Collegiate is not your typical college golf tournament. It’s just not. And while it tries to masquerade as one, with a pop-up tent on the first tee sporting the tournament’s name along with bananas and bottled water for the student athletes competing, it’s impossible to conceal the Royal and Ancient clubhouse looming 25 feet behind the first tee at the Old Course.

Cal-Berkeley, Michigan State, Princeton and St. Andrews University were the fortunate teams selected to play in this year’s tournament, and each of the school’s respective flags flapped in a light breeze beside the first tee Wednesday morning. The teams played two days of stroke play on the nearby Jubilee Course before teeing it up on the Old Course for the final day

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