Sandy Lyle - "I Got a Belt" SHORT TRACK

Intro Music 0:07

Straight down the middle. It went straight down the middle. Then it started to hook just a little bit.

Mike Gonzalez 0:16

So you were uh the first British winner since Tony Jacqueline, 1969. He won at Lithum, and the first Scott since Tommy Armour, which goes way back, doesn't it?

Sandy Lyle 0:26

Way, way back. And the other thing to point out with you, during after the speeches are made and da-da-da-da, and we go back into the recorders area and lots of things to sign. And I kept this uh one guy or ladies or managing company from McCormick says, We've got some people from uh um from Presswick Golf Club want to want to give you a belt, the presentation of a belt. And it's like, can't you see I'm busy? You know, you want my time to get presented with a belt, and I I didn't know anything about the belt. Um obviously it all happened there, but um it's something I'm very proud of because it the Open Championship was played for way back in the 18th century as a belt.

Mike Gonzalez 1:13

1860 was the first in Pressworth.

Sandy Lyle 1:16

1860. And then uh Tom Morris Jr. won the belt and they gave him the belt after three years. So in 1871, I think it was, the uh there was no trophy played for because there wasn't a belt and it wasn't played, it was just scrapped for that particular year. So um coming up uh this year um for the open championship is gonna be the 150th anniversary of the belt. And it was one, two, five when I won it. So I'm out of all the open championship winners, you know, obviously Nicholas and Tom Watson had won it many times, the open, I'm one of the very few that does have a have the the belt. And Louis Louis Oosthaisen, when he won it at St. Andrews, was the hundred and something every 25 years they make a replica belt. And so the only two living golfers right now was uh Louis Oosthazen and myself have the uh replica belt of the Open Championship. So that was something I was just lucky back in 85 when I won it, uh was one of the belts, and there will be another belt uh producer getting honored with the belt, uh, whoever wins the open uh this year.

Mike Gonzalez 2:35

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Intro Music 3:00

It went smack down the fairway. When it started this light, just smit offline. It headed for two, but it bounced off nine. My cadets, as long as you're still in the stage, you're okay.