I attended the final day of The Open at Royal St Georges. What probably made the biggest impact on me was that overseas supporters really do follow their players around the course cheering them on and actually following all the action.

By comparison, the Nedbank Challenge at Sun City sees the vast majority of supporters walking about three holes before returning back to the main hospitality areas – you would never have a crowd of 3 000 or 4 000 people following, for example Phil Mickelson. It was played under some pretty tough weather, although they always seem to make it look worse on TV than it really is. Certainly it was superbly organized and hosted with high speed trains from London (although they stopped repeatedly along the way) to Sandwich.