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Muirfield's male membership rules still exist, but the UK open is embracing a different form of change.
Proof in holes 7, 13, 16 and 17, where large LED scoreboard is installed for the Open of Version 14. Such on-
The course screen is a regular attraction for the PGA Tour, but they are the first for any large golf tournament.
They show the video highlights, photos and biographical information of the players, andto-the-
Instantaneous data on fairways and green are regulated.
Standing close on Friday, people can hear the power they need to make all these fancy sounds.
However, above the 18 th Lane, the sound effects inside the two giant yellow scoreboard are different, and the two scoreboard have long been twin sentries in the open closing hole.
With shuffling feet, firm delivery of orders, the scraping of plastic letters and business cards quickly slipped into the slot and occasionally a shout of victory: "We beat Cranley.
Whether there is an LED revolution or not, the most obvious and important scoreboard on the open is still manually operated.
Manual labor has long been provided by students and alumni of Cranley and hothouse schools, two boarding schools in the southeast of England, Surrey Fuyu County.
The workforce at Muirfield High School is well aware of the contradiction that modern teenagers are so low
In a digital era, science and technology work.
"It's kind of ironic," said 16-year-old William Leger. year-
From Charterhouse.
"Obviously, like my age, my generation, we all grew up with iPads and iPods.
So I'm not surprised by the number scoreboard here.
But I think it's great to do manual scoreboard.
We are not only involved in opening up, but also in the traditional opening up.
"Charterhouse started running one of the two main scoreboard at the 1979 Open.
According to Hugh Gamel, a teacher of the original group, the school received plum homework, because a coach at the time did a similar scoreboard job while playing golf at Oxford University.
Gammell, 63, said: "When he came to Charterhouse to teach, he booked us a scoreboard jobyear-
Old and laughing, he supervised the operation of the charter company from a regular table and chair on the second floor of the two floors of the scoreboard.
Cranleigh was only a short drive from Charterhouse and after being recommended by the same teacher, was eventually assigned another 18-hole scoreboard.
More than 20 years later, it is still a proud thing to first release an update to the leadership committee.
"It's quite a competition between us," said 16-year-old Daniel Federer. year-
From Charterhouse.
He added that the game was "quite intense and they were really slow yesterday, by the way.
"Maybe, but Cranley is faster than last year, because Ernie Ayers is really important after the royal Latham win.
Cranley first posted: "Ernie played very well.
See you in Muirfield 2013.
"Unfortunately, I think we may have lost," said Harry Wright, 18. year-
From Charterhouse.
There are 18 staff members in each school, including 4 staff members.
They're in 10-
This year, they are in the same camp near North Berwick.
It is difficult to see the windows in the scoreboard, therefore, the competitor's students track each other's progress by stripping the corners of numbers and letters placed in the slot, and then peeping from the small opening.
The two groups also happily provide quality control for the other group, communicate through the airspace above the lane 18, and communicate green through the intercomtalkies.
Gammell raised the walkie-talkie and said, "We are staring at them and we are happy to point out that they have made a mistake --"talkie.
Cranley's team is supervised by Sarah Greenwood, a math teacher in charge of school golf.
"I personally think this is very outdated and should be electronic," she said of manual scoreboard . ".
"I understand why this is not the case: because of tradition and the fact that they want to keep it, and because of traditional logistics, they are able to move the scoreboard that has to be so large to a different position.
If the Open is held in the same place every year, that's fine.
Other British summer sports, Wimbledon, now has an electronic scoreboard at the Central Stadium.
But in golf, only the Masters are on a permanent venue, and there is no plan to introduce electronic scoreboard.
To the surprise of people who are not active, Muirfield's manual scoreboard-
Names and Numbers of their players
It's just Manual to some extent.
Gammell had surgery with the help of one hand
Computers that provide updates to the central scoring system.
He announced any leading change in his student crew, who jumped out of the recliner like a group of sailors who had just been ordered to lift the sail.
"I don't know why we're doing this," said Greenwood, shaking his head . ".
"But it's lovely to do that.
"The same system works for other places on the pitch, on smaller manual scoreboard scattered around other holes.
These are operated by students and others, some of whom are far from their teenagers.
On Friday, on a low platform next to the ninth green, 32-year-old Stephen Bullyear-
The old man from Leeds has a hand
When he posted the update in a hurry, he had a computer in his left hand and a plastic business card in his right hand.
He said it was 15 times he worked on the scoreboard.
But the arrival of LED screens has reduced the number of such jobs this year, and has also increased how people feel about manual scoreboard being typewriters of their time.
"These are all good because you know exactly which group the next one is, and more importantly, which player the next one is, which is very useful from a bystander's point of view, kenneth Kilpatrick, 51, saidyear-
An old audience from Glasgow stood in front of the LED screen near Green 17 on Friday.
"Compared to most other sports, this is a sport that is hard to keep up.
Here it's not all in front of you and you don't know what's going on in the rest of the course.
This screen is information.
Constant information and excitement.
Watching fans in the stands behind hole 17 on Friday was watching a group behave more like a TV audience with their eyes staring at the screen.
In the distance, the first of the Forth was blue and bright;
The clouds changed their shape on top of their heads, and the next group of players approached, getting bigger and bigger, but never as big as their head shots on the screen.
"Earlier today, we didn't get the electronic scoreboard on the 13 th," Gammell said . ".
"I find it very irritating because it always switches from one thing to another.
With a lot of information.
Then, the screen freezes and gets stuck, whether you believe it or not.
So the whole team is here. we don't know who they are.
Now, the scoreboard for manual operation does not happen.
What you get is the information you need to know. No more.
But the US company IDS, which runs the scoring system and the Open Screen, will certainly debug any issues this year.
It is very likely that the manual scoreboard will continue to disappear, but maybe, just maybe, not extinct.
"I think there will always be a manual," said Ryan McDonald, senior business development manager at IDS . ".
"If you look at what they did when they were 18, I don't see this going to go away.
When the tournament is over, they come up with "play well Ernie" and these are the little things you can never match the LEDs.
This is tradition.