It was a time when gentlemen and their ladies would descend on St Andrews for the autumn meeting with reputations staked on a round of golf, the atmosphere often fortified by large amounts of port and wine.
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Descendants tee up to recreate golf’s most celebrated painting
Set on the most famous golf course in the world, it captures the great and the good of 19th-century Scottish society as they indulge in the most fashionable sport of the day.
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