There is some unique history to golf courses in Mexico. In writing about Willie Smith, eldest of the Carnoustie golfing brothers, he said how, "he went down to mexico, where for years he was professional at the Country Club. He died there. Back in 1934, I stood in the room he occupied at the golf club at Mexico City. There were bullet holes in the plaster and woodwork, bullets fired there during the revolutionary battle, which was waged fiercely around the clubhouse, with the valiant Scot holding the fort until he had to flee for his life with his door battered down behind him."
Also, probably to visit him, a number of great Scottish players made the long trip down to see him as well. Tilly also once related this anecdote about Ben Sayrs and Andrew Kirkaldy. "Your correspondent had a most important experience with Ben Sayers when the Wild West Show was in Philadelphia. We went out together and after a special permit had given us entrée to the sections which the Indians used, the little man from North Berwick was in ecstasy. It seems that his rival, Andrew Kirkaldy, returned from Mexico some years ago with some startling stories of his adventures among bandits and Indians, and after I had assured him that these certainly were much wilder than anything that Ander had seen in Mexico, Ben vowed that, 'Ander had better not come around him with any more of his Swank.'"