Maybe a lot of you guys don’t know who he is but he had the brilliant Ondine fish restaurant on George 1V Bridge in Edinburgh which was JK Rowling’s favourite eatery.

And now Roy has just opened Ondine in the new Seaton House Hotel on the Scores in St Andrews. Which is a big plus for St Andrews may I say. Whey hey.

But what a lovely man. He came across as down to earth and very humble and a really nice genuine guy. You see I have had some bad experiences with chefs in my day and am always a bit wary all said. Of course I had an awful experience with the then Development Chef for the Dean Banks outfit when I worked at Deans flagship place at the Pompadour in Edinburgh. And that was just a total eye opener for me. This guy was thoroughly obnoxious and a conceited ass who actually tried to knock a tray of glasses out of my hands in the kitchen one day in pure spite (he just missed as I have rather quick reactions- to his great chagrin!) He was actually given the boot soon after that and I heard he was up in court for physical assault. But anyway enough of him.

So I am delighted that Ondine is run by a very decent chap and I will hopefully be using them for the first stop on my food tour to take in a few oysters and a nice wee glass of sauvignon blanc while watching the waves rolling in on the West Sands, the evening sun shimmering, setting and fading away over St Andrews Bay.

Not too shabby a gig. It certainly beats working for a living.

What a roll this man is on at the moment! President of America, geopolitical deal maker and yet another golf club championship in the bag, even though it’s at one of his clubs. All quite staggering on the golf front, because I think about ten years ago it was quoted that he had 19 club championships under his belt. This is almost unbelievable. Kind of like him being President of the USA in fact.

Any golfer knows this is not feasible, not that de facto some absolute numpty is president of the USA, but to win so many club championships. I mean I do know that Brian Erskine, a fellow caddie in St Andrews, did win the Merchants of Edinburgh club championship 9 times but that is quite extraordinary and he is a very capable golfer with a sound swing. I will leave the rest to you.

Now, I had a most wretched time last Friday in the semi-finals of the Winter Foursomes at Mortonhall and just couldn’t hit a ball for toffee. It was woeful. However I proceeded to the driving range on Saturday morning in St Andrews and tried a wee tip which I’d picked up on Instagram. I was booming drives away over 300 yards on the screen. Now that’s not bad for a 62 year old bloke. I was indeed a whole different man to the previous day. My swing was solid. However can I carry this forward?

And this is the beauty and challenge and allure of golf. We keep getting these moments when we have ‘got it’. They are rare of course.

I mean we are not all Donald Trump who seems to have found something that works period and can bag scores of club championships at his will.

However I did hear that his caddie’s sobriquet is Pele.

Gid get me a train.