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The Millennium Open at St Andrews will be a mecca for golfers worldwide and the Royal and Ancient have commendably ensured that everyone can afford to make the pilgrimage. Season tickets, if purchased before January 31 next year, are available at #95, which represents an increase of just #20 on this year's championship at Carnoustie. \"Demand for tickets has been unbelievably high, particularly from people outwith Scotland, and we have released prices to help with their arrangements,\" revealed R and A Championship secretary David Hill, who anticipates an attendance in excess of 200,000.

For him as her mainstay, she would very likely have foundered before she did. And it was she who succinctly summed him up, saying famously: 'Every Prime Minister needs a [WILLIE WHITELAW].' For Lord Whitelaw was very seldom addressed by his title. And certainly never at home. A sprawling colossus, he was a fiercely protective, if sentimental, family man. The Whitelaws lived together at Ennim, in 25 acres of some of Britain's most beautiful countryside, for 44 blissful years. And you can almost taste the memories as you wander through the nine bedrooms, looking across the garden to the stable block. Willie's escape hatch from the library and out through the conservatory is still there, as is the bullet-proof glass in his study and dressing room. Pictures of him are everywhere. Photographs, oils, watercolours. 'We decorated, just once, in 1955. I have changed nothing. His study is just how he left it. Papers scattered all about.' But, for Lady Whitelaw, the time has finally come to go. She is selling the 850,000 house and moving to live with her daughter Mary on her Borders estate in Peebles. Maybe part of me wants to close the chapter. It's time.' Whitelaw was dispatched to the Lords in 1983 and retired as a Minster four years later, after suffering what was to be his first stroke. And Lady Whitelaw nursed him at home up until his death in July 1999, forced to watch as the great eloquence gradually failed him. 'That was heartbreaking to see. He wasn't very well at all for the last six months. He was quite aware but he kept getting these little mini- strokes. It was tough. He was up and about and able to get round the garden. We made a lovely walk for ourselves which the children called the OAP Walk. But he wasn't really himself at the end. His memory had gone.

Never let it be said that the Americans do everything before the British.

The irony was that if he had not been so loyal to Edward Heath, Mr Whitelaw rather than Mrs [Margaret] Thatcher might have been the Tory prime minister of the 1980s. When Mr Heath submitted himself for re-election to the leadership in 1975, Mr Whitelaw declined to stand in the first ballot. He entered the second after Mr Heath had withdrawn, but by then Mrs Thatcher was a near-certain winner. The next morning she invited him to be her deputy, and thus the relationship continued: Mr Whitelaw as deputy leader of the opposition and shadow home secretary until 1979, then as home secretary and deputy leader of the Conservative party until 1983, and finally as leader of the House of Lords, Lord President of the Council and still deputy leader of the party until he suffered a mild stroke and retired from the government in 1988.

The Government was sufficiently upset about those and other reverses to issue a statement of explanation a few weeks ago. The problem, it said, was not the policies themselves but their ''presentation'' - almost exactly the same thing the Labor Party said of its own program after an election post- mortem. To correct the difficulty, the Prime Minister announced that she was appointing her deputy, Viscount Whitelaw, formerly William Whitelaw, to try to retore the luster to the Government's image. The muttering continued, and in her New Year's message, issued Friday, Mrs. [Margaret Thatcher] sought again to quiet it by declaring, ''Far from losing our way, we are just getting into our stride.'' Luck, Boredom or Touch ''A lot of us are wondering, and I think the public is wondering, too, whether she has run out of luck, whether we are getting bored, or whether our key people have lost their touch in the last few weeks,'' said a prominent Tory backbencher loyal to Mrs. Thatcher. One by one, the British press has been rehearsing all of those arguments recently. And it is noticeable that the popular newspapers, all of which except The Mirror gave Mrs. Thatcher unstinting support before the election, have begun to snipe at her.