Tom, thank you for pointing me to the article.
It is beautifully written and expresses the pleasure of his experience wonderfully. To me it sounds like how the game must originally have been played. No sense of par, just the competition between people to see who could get the ball in the hole in the fewest shots and where imagination and strategy could give one person an edge over the other.
Truely inspiring, I hope that I will one day get a chance to play at least one round like this.