Tom Watson - "The 'Duel in the Sun' at Turnberry" SHORT TRACK

Intro Music 0:07

Straight down the middle. It went straight down the middle.

Tom Watson 0:13

Then it started to 77 was my breakout year on the tour. I'd made an adjustment in my golf swing in Japan uh in the late fall. And uh I stepped I I stuck with that swing thought and I was hitting the ball left or right, solid, beautiful, straight, I was driving in every fair way. Um of course I was still putting the eyes out, and I ended up winning the early on. I won the Bing Crosby, I won the Andy Williams San Diego Open, I won the Masters, I won the Western Open. Now I'm coming to uh uh coming to the Open Championship and I stopped at Barcelona. Uh Mark McCormick, used Norton had me playing an exhibition there, and I won that by 10 shots, a two-round exhibition. Um I was I was hitting on all cylinders and I came into uh Turnbury and an unknown golf course. Nobody had played it. And uh but I was I was playing really, really well. Uh and I just uh I said, well let's see if I can get it done again here. So uh as as luck would have it, uh I played uh some very good golf uh you know early on. I kept kept you know, kept it in you know, kept it within reach. Uh uh and then on Saturday we s we started to uh the horse race began and uh the two leading horses kind of started to separate themselves from the field, Jack and me. Jack and I. And uh and then the last round it was nip and tuck. Uh I I got behind by three shots after the fourth hole. Uh by two shots I was behind after the twelfth hole. And then uh uh I burgered the thirteenth hole, and then the the putt that I made at fifteen uh from off the green, that uh that was uh the harbinger for things to come for the rest of the round because that tied me with Jack, who played 16 the tough hole over the burn, and then 17 he missed a short putt. And eighteen is uh as you said, uh Jack makes about a 40-footer to force me to make my two-footer. And I made the two-footer to win by a shot. And as I walked off the green, uh probably the most uh enlightened comment in my whole career from another player happened, and that was from Jack. He grabbed my uh grabbed me around the neck like this. He looks at me, he said, Tom, I gave you my best shot that it wasn't good enough. Congratulations, I'm really happy for you. With him saying he gave me his best shot, I said, you know, maybe I can't play with the big boys.

Mike Gonzalez 2:57

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Intro Music 3:21

It went smack down the fairway. When 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.