David Graham - "Don't Cry for Me Argentina" SHORT TRACK

Lee Trevino 0:07

Straight down the middle. It went straight down the middle. Then it started to push.

Mike Gonzalez 0:15

What's your recollections, both of you, of the of the World Cup uh win? Uh this was a a country event. Two man teams, yeah. Yep, two-man teams. Uh and I think you guys were up against the defending champs, or at least the host team. You were up against the host team down Argentina, yeah.

Bruce Devlin 0:31

Correct. Yeah. We uh I think b both David and I played in the Australian Open the week before. And then we played together in uh Was it called the World Cup then or was it still the Canada Cup? It was the World Cup, yeah. And we were uh we we were fortunate enough to uh to win the team event there and David'll back me up on this. It was it was pretty tough uh going down there and beating Roberto Di Vincenzo and uh what's the other boy's name?

Mike Gonzalez 1:03

I you know what I don't remember. Yeah, there you go. Yeah, yeah.

Bruce Devlin 1:10

They uh I I vividly remember the first hole. I drove it. I drove it down the right side of the f might have might have been just in the rough, and you know, everybody else teethed off and we're walking down there, and I get down there, my ball's under a tree.

David Graham 1:26

Yeah, no ropes, no gallery ropes. It was crazy.

Bruce Devlin 1:30

Oh, this is gonna be a long day. But we ended up we ended up victorious, which was nice.

David Graham 1:38

Well, we were more than victorious. We absolutely destroyed the field. Yeah, we did. One by nineteen strokes or something crazy.

Mike Gonzalez 1:46

Something silly, yeah. So it was a it was a butter ball stroke play event then. It wasn't uh Forsom's play or any of that. Uh it was all butterball?

Bruce Devlin 1:55

No, it was add them up.

Mike Gonzalez 1:57

Oh, it was both of you add them all up. Okay.

Bruce Devlin 2:00

And there was an there was an individual as well.

Mike Gonzalez 2:04

Did you win the individual?

Bruce Devlin 2:05

No, I finished second. Finished second too to Devin Sense. That's right. Roberto won the individual, but Yeah.

David Graham 2:13

That's before you taught me how to play bunker shots. When I had a simple little bunker shot on 17 and I flobbed it out about eight feet. If you'd have taught me earlier, I'd have got that up and down and maybe one.

Bruce Devlin 2:26

Why we won in the playoffs.

David Graham 2:29

What did we do after we won?

Bruce Devlin 2:31

Oh God, I can't remember, David. That's right. You've got to be kidding me. That's halfway that's fifty-one.

David Graham 2:36

We got in the courtesy car, we got halfway to the hotel. And you said, No, we're I'm I'm hungry, and we stopped and ate pizza. That's probably Gloria was with us. That's right. Yeah, Gloria was with us. No, the accident happened in Adelaide. Yeah. And I was driving and I got on the wrong side of the road, and your father was in the back seat.

Mike Gonzalez 3:00

Yeah. Now uh I think I heard you say this, and and I asked Bruce about it in 1970. I thought I heard remember you saying that that you flew down in coach and flew back in first class.

David Graham 3:12

I did, that's exactly true.

Mike Gonzalez 3:14

Were you guys not traveling together then? No, we weren't. Okay.

David Graham 3:17

No. And I and I got to the airport in Buenos Aires, and whoever was supposed to pick me up never showed up. And I sat at the airport for, I don't know, an hour or two, and finally another player got off the plane and saw me sitting there, and I don't even remember who it was, and they said, Well, my car is over here, why don't you come and ride with me?

Bruce Devlin 3:38

So they uh stranded him at the airport.

David Graham 3:42

And now I can remember interestingly, uh Bruce and I won$1,500 each.

Mike Gonzalez 3:50

And cost you how much to make that trip?

David Graham 3:52

Well, they paid they paid my coach fare. They paid Bruce, I'm sure he went first class, but then they they put me in first class on the way. That's when you could smoke cigars in airplanes and you get on there.

Bruce Devlin 4:04

Isn't that crazy to think that we ever did that? It's just astounding. Trevor Burrus, Jr.

David Graham 4:09

And we flew back to Miami. But you know, in those days to get from Australia to Buenos Aires was no easy feat. You had to come all the way back to LA, and then you had to go all the way across to Miami, and then you had to make like three stops to get to Buenos Aires. Stop in Bogota, and you'd stop in Lima, Peru, and Columbia. Columbia.

Bruce Devlin 4:30

Yeah.

David Graham 4:31

It was Yeah, it was a long trip.

Mike Gonzalez 4:33

I think you recounted one of your travels too to get, was it to to Scotland?

Bruce Devlin 4:37

Yeah, when I w when I first went to uh Scotland uh play the old course in the original in the uh inaugural Eisenhower Cup matches. Uh from the time I left Sydney Airport until the time I landed at Glasgow Airport, it was fifty-two hours with a seven-hour layover in New York. So it went uh Fiji, Honolulu, LA, New York, New Finland, London, Glasgow.

Mike Gonzalez 5:07

The Concord was fully booked, huh? I wish it would have been.

David Graham 5:11

Now you can go to DFW and you can get on a plane go nonstop to Dublin. Crazy.

Mike Gonzalez 5:18

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Lee Trevino 5:38

It went smack down the fairway. And it started to slice just smidge off line. It headed for two, but it bounced off nine. My caddies, as long as you're still in the state, you're okay.