Fisher Declares It Tough Being A Rules Official At This Year’s Alfred Dunhill Links

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Brutal, very brutal!

England golfer Ross Fisher was very much not alone in describing the past two days of the 40th anniversary Alfred Dunhill Championship as two of the more brutal days of his golfing career.

Fisher began the event on a bright note posting an opening 65 on the St. Andrews Old Course but was left lamenting four second round bogeys in a horror 76 yesterday at the wind and rain lashed Carnoustie course.

He was out at Kingsbarns today (Saturday) for the 12.30am shot gun start to day three, and had just hit his second shot into the 10th green, and Fisher’s opening hole when advised a competitor playing the ajoining ninth hole and back towards the clubhouse that play had been suspended.

GolfByTourMiss caught-up with Fisher at the New Clubhouse at St. Andrews just moments after he had arrived back from Kingsbarns.

“Yesterday at Carnoustie was pretty horrific and looking back, the organisers left it around at least an hour too late than they should have done to call a halt to play”, said Fisher in catching-up with the 44-year-old five-time Tour winner.

“When they did the conditions were just very, very bad.  We can understand why the organisers wanted to continue but then on the flipside is that we all knew the bad weather was coming, so why did not we tee-off an hour earlier or do a shot gun start yesterday (Friday) knowing the storm was coming.

“If they’d started an hour earlier everyone would have go around.

“Then there is today?  Everyone finished this morning in completely different winds but then we teed-off this afternoon and I was out at Kingsbarns but then I hit my tee shot down the 10th and then hit onto the green but then a player competing on the ninth hole beside me said ‘No, play has been suspended’.

“Though it wasn’t issues at Kingsbarns but balls blowing off the greens here at St. Andrews.

“I know one thing it would have been tough being a rules official today”.

Fisher now heads into the third and now final round sharing 73rd place at three-under and desperately looking for a strong finish.  He had missed the cut in the Dunhill last year while it’s not been the best of 2025 seasons for him having arrived back into Scotland having contested 21 DP World Tour events and a best finish of T33rd in the recent British Masters.

The affable Englishman Fisher has only made the halfway cut in eight of those events and is currently lying 174th on the Race to Dubai money list.



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