Gary Player - "Winning (and losing) at Carnoustie" SHORT TRACK

If you look at your open championship wins, Gary, uh three pretty impressive places to win and very, very tough tests of golf.

Well, the toughest is Carnoustie. Uh Beerfield's a marvelous golf course. Litherman St. Hands is a very tough, deceptive golf course. And uh when I was playing at Carnousty, there were five of us going into the 14th hole the last round. I'm one shot ahead. Nicholas, and I'm playing with him. Bob Charles, Morris Bembridge, and Billy Casper. And the 14th hole, the wind's blowing into her face. I love to play in wind. That was my my great dream was playing in wind. Didn't like rain very much. But anyway, I hit the drive up the right-hand side of the fairway, and I can see that flag fluttering in the breeze, and I take out this three wood and I hit it eight inches from the hole. And Nicholas Birdie's the hole. And I now go two shots ahead, and I stayed two shots ahead until the last hole. And unlike Van der Velva, I didn't say Vibola France. I said, win it, win it for essay. South Africa. So I took an iron off the Ton for my and an iron for my second. I knew Nicholas could reach the green and two, I couldn't. I said, if he eagles the hole, good luck to him, we'll go in the playoff and we'll see who wins. But I mean, there's Vanta Velva. My wife sat in our suite. She was crying like a little whip pup watching this guy. He takes a driver and he was unlucky that he never went in the water. If he went in the water, they also at least commentators again. Oh, how lucky he is he never went in the water. If he goes in the water, he has to drop on the side of the bank and he chips it out down the fairway. He's on for four and he two putts and he wins the tournament. But now he's got to go for the green. As Bruce knows, there's out of bounds on the left. You ain't going there. And there's a stand on the right and there's water in the front. And the clown, I'm sorry to say that not in a derogatory fashion, decides he's going for the green. Are you mad? Are you mad? You need a you need a double bogey to win. You take out a wedge and you knock it up the fairway, and you take another wedge and you put it in there. You might make power, but you make bogey. And then he puts in the water, and then he puts it in the water, and then he thinks he can walk across the water. He realized he couldn't. His feet went down, he sunk. So I mean, yeah, the poor guy was punch drunk, you can imagine. I mean, it was the most sad, and I'll tell you what, I admire that guy van der Velva. He took it so well. He took it so well. But I mean, before he dies, as he's on his deathbed, he's gonna say go newsy.

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Smack down the fairway. It went smack down the fairway. And it started to slice, just spit off line. My head is as long as you're still in the state, you're okay.