Tony Jacklin - "How Good is This Guy" SHORT TRACK

Intro Music 0:07

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

Mike Gonzalez 0:16

You know, you you mentioned uh Ben Hogan, Tony. Uh who were some other uh guys that sort of influenced you as a young man uh relative to the game? Because I know you had a chance to see some oh at least a couple of great golfers really as a uh as almost a boy uh locally where you grew up, didn't you?

Tony Jacklin 0:34

Well, yeah, Bobby Locke came and and uh he played Ted Ted Muscroff one Sunday. They uh the tournaments in the UK all finished on Saturdays uh before the early 70s because there's a organization out there called the Lord's Day Observant Society and they didn't allow sport on Sundays. Sundays were the most boring day ever. Anyway, these top uh pros used to do exhibitions and uh Locke came to uh scontort and played with with Ted Muscroft. I I picked the the balls up. I just uh quick story, this gospel truth. It's been raining and Locke's first shot was uh eight iron and they dispatched me off to the pick the balls up, you know, with a shag bag and the first ball he hits plugs in the hole in the ground. I'm thirteen years old. So I ease it out, wipe it off, put it in the bag, and I'm damned if the next ball he hit didn't go in the same pitch mark, plug mark as the first one. I mean, I'm 13 and I'm thinking, God, how good is this guy?

Mike Gonzalez 1:56

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Intro Music 2:17

But it went straight down the middle, like they say down the fairway. It went smack down the fairway. And it started just like just smacking off line. It had it for two, but it mounted off now. My candidates, as long as you're still in the state, you're okay.