Tony Jacklin - "Hello There T.J.! The Tip That Won the U.S. Open" SHORT TRACK
Two-time major winner and World Golf Hall of Fame member, Tony Jacklin, recalls with glee the two things that won him the 1970 U.S. Open at Hazeltine, links-like weather for the opening round where he was the only player to break par, and a post-practice round putting tip from Bert Yancey’s brother that resulted in his career-best putting week, Tony Jacklin remembers the joy of a major victory, “Fore the Good of the Game.”
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Four. Straight down the middle. It went straight down the middle. Then it started.
Tony JacklinTwo main things happened. I played a practice round with Yancey and Weiskoff on Wednesday. And I'm playing nicely. And Jim Yancey, who was Bert's older brother, walked with us. And we come in off and I'm a bit sort of down, you know, my putting wasn't it was a bit sort of and and he said, Jim said, Have you ever tried putting looking at the hole? I said, What are you talking about? He said, I dress the ball. So we go over to the putting green. Now we finished the practice round. Drop three balls, I dress the ball. But I don't know. Look at the hole and putt. And I'd never believe it or not, I'd never done it. I was twenty-five years old, I'd I already want to major. And I'd never ever tried to do this. And I started doing it one after another after another. And I got this incredible feel for distance. You know Now I couldn't bring mys I stayed there for uh an hour and a bit. Uh and I couldn't bring myself to do it in the tournament, but I did everything but do it. I s my eyes spent more time looking at the whole end and I would come back and park you know, just short. Anyway, that b that was the ma first thing. And the second thing was I woke up to a forty mile an hour gale you know, the first round. Which was like it was like old home week. I'd been weaned on that in uh in England, you know, playing all those lynx courses. It was howling winds in Highland, Port Marnock places, you know, and just I loved playing in the wind. It didn't bother me one one bit. So I got on the first hull, I got in the first grain, I had a 20-footer, and I'm trying my putting deal, and I give it the long look, but putting in. In. Hello! Hello there, TJ.
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Intro MusicIt went smack down fairway. It went straight down the middle.
