YOU ARE THE DEFENDER.
Clan Fraser
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Every tribe gets its colours. Production isn't confirmed yet. This list decides which tribes go first once it is. The first run is numbered. Your place is permanent.
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Clan Fraser
The golfer who never lets the group down.
Superpower — Reliability
When the group needs a point, you deliver it. Not spectacularly. Solidly.
The group knows what they are getting from you before you reach the tee.
Blind Spot — Safety
You protect the score so well you occasionally forget to attack. You leave shots out there that a more aggressive player would have taken.
How You Play
You never give anything away cheaply. You grind out pars when others are taking doubles.
Your partner trusts you with the shot that has to go in. You deliver it.
Who You Clash With
The Conqueror — Clan Donald
The Conqueror goes for everything. You think they play too fast and loose. They think you play too safe. One of you attacks. One of you holds. On most days, holding wins the round.
Why This Tribe Fits You
You talked him back through what he was doing well. You took the safe line and made it count. Je suis prest.
Tribe Oath
We are always ready.
— YOUR TRIBE'S STORY —
Some golfers chase the round. Defenders protect it. Clan Fraser's story starts with readiness. Legend holds that in 1513, a messenger asked Simon Fraser if he was prepared for battle, and he answered simply: Je suis prest. I am ready. The clan took it as its motto ever since.
The readiness was tested hard. In 1544, the Frasers fought the MacDonalds of Clanranald at the Battle of the Shirts, so called because the heat forced both sides to strip off their plaids and fight in their shirtsleeves. Only five Frasers and eight MacDonalds survived.
Two centuries later, Simon Fraser, 11th Lord Lovat, backed the government in 1715, then switched to the Jacobites in 1745 — a gamble that cost him his head. He was beheaded on Tower Hill in 1747, the last person in Britain ever executed that way. The name recovered anyway. In 1944, the 15th Lord Lovat led his Commando brigade ashore at Normandy and had his personal piper play them onto the beach. Frasers, coming home to France, ready as ever.
Belonging to The Defender
To belong to Clan Fraser is to value steadiness above everything. Je suis prest.
Golf Connection — Nairn
Nairn Golf Club sits on the Moray Firth, at the edge of Fraser ground, founded in 1887. It hosted the 1999 Walker Cup, where Great Britain and Ireland held their line and won.
Play This Ground — Inverness-shire
Castle Stuart, a modern links on the Moray Firth that's hosted the Scottish Open. Inverness Golf Club, barely a mile from the city centre. Fortrose & Rosemarkie, out on the Black Isle, where dolphins sometimes surface off the tee.