Andy North - "The U.S. Open Albatross No One Saw" SHORT TRACK
2-time U.S. Open Champion Andy North wins the 1985 event at Oakland Hills when T.C. Chen, leading by four strokes at the time, famously two-chipped his way to a quadruple bogey on the 5th hole of the final round. Often lost in the story is the albatross he made in the first round at the second hole. We talk about it here, "FORE the Good of the Game."
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"FORE the Good of the Game” is a golf podcast featuring interviews with World Golf Hall of Fame members, winners of major championships and other people of influence in and around the game of golf. Highlighting the positive aspects of the game, we aim to create and provide an engaging and timeless repository of content that listeners can enjoy now and forever. Co-hosted by PGA Tour star Bruce Devlin, our podcast focuses on telling their life stories, in their voices. Join Bruce and Mike Gonzalez “FORE the Good of the Game.”
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Straight down the middle. It went straight down the middle.
Mike GonzalezThen it's probably one of the more iconic golf shots is of that shot of uh of T C Chen there uh uh on the fifth when he makes his two-chip quad. What a lot of people probably aren't aware is that TC Chen actually made an albatross in the first round. It was the first albatross in U.S. Open history. You guys remember Ralph Landrum.
Andy NorthYeah.
Mike GonzalezRalph Landrum was playing with TC Chen in the first round when he made that deuce, and Ralph was quoted as saying there were only a couple of fans standing there, and they didn't even clap because they were holding beers.
Andy NorthWell, it's you know, he went on to win the LA Open and and ended up playing some nice golf back in uh his home country. Um we the senior open was uh up in the northern part of the Detroit area. This is probably 10, 12 years ago, that he had turned 50 and he was playing there, and one of his sons was catting, and they went down and actually played Oakland Hills that week, and they wrote you know wrote some nice articles about how cool that was for him to get back there and that sort of thing.
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Intro MusicWhack down the fairway. It went smack down the fairway. Then it started to slice just smidge offline. It headed for two, but it bounced off nine. My caddy says long as you're still in the state, you're okay. Yes, it went straight down the middle.
