![]() ![]() “My job is to play every shot until I finish it up on here in 18 and hope that’s going to be the lowest score of the week.” “I didn’t think about that,” Watson told CNN Sport. Had it not been for two agonizing runner-up finishes, Watson would have eclipsed Vardon’s haul, yet even during the first of those near misses in 1984 at St Andrews, he insists that the record was not on his mind. Tom Watson celebrates winning the 1975 Open at Carnoustie, Scotland, with his wife. His five Open successes between 19 leave him second only to Harry Vardon (six) in all-time wins at the event, consolidating his reputation as an outstanding links golfer. With eight major triumphs and 39 PGA Tour wins, the American is regarded as one of the game’s greatest-ever players. Yet incredibly – and not for the want of trying – Watson never lifted the Claret Jug at the historic links course. ![]() One of golf’s most iconic names, Watson is a five-time winner of the major, while the Old Course at St Andrews has hosted the Open more times than any other venue and will stage the 150th edition of the tournament later this month. He is Tom Watson, and few people and places are more synonymous with the Open than the 72-year-old and St Andrews. Laughing and joking, the group’s eagerness to play a legendary course steeped in Open Championship history is not lost on their audience. As a group of amateur golfers assemble on the first tee of the Old Course at St Andrews in Scotland, they are watched pensively by a man sat in the clubhouse pavilion. ![]()
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