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HELLP AUTYYMN AND D YO OU HELP H KIDS EVER EVERYYW WHERE Meet Autymn. Born with a severe lung condition called lled Bronchopulmonary D Dysplasia, she’s unable to breathe on her own. But at Nationwide de Children’s Hospital, Auttymn is getting a second chance. Our doctors and scientists have developed the world’s most advanced pulmonary treatments ments — innovations we’re sharing with hospitals acr cross the country to help thousandss of other children like Auttymn. When you support Nationwide Children’s, you help kids everywhere. Thank you to the Nicklauss family and Toournament presenting sponsor Nationwide nwide for generously supporting the Memorial Toournament nt Neonatal Intensive Care Unit at Nationwide Children’s Hospital. o
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ROBERT T. JONES, JR. 1976
WALTER HAGEN 1977
FRANCIS D. OUIMET 1978
GENE SARAZEN 1979
BYRON NELSON 1980
HARRY VARDON 1981
PATTY BERG 1988
SIR HENRY COTTON 1989
JIMMY DEMARET 1990
BABE ZAHARIAS 1991
JOSEPH C. DEY, JR. 1992
ARNOLD PALMER 1993
GLENNA COLLETT VARE 1982
MICKEY WRIGHT 1994
TOMMY ARMOUR 1983
SAM SNEAD 1984
CHARLES “CHICK” EVANS 1985
ROBERTO DE VICENZO 1986
TOM MORRIS, SR. & TOM MORRIS, JR. 1987
WILLIE ANDERSON 1995
JOHN BALL 1995
JAMES BRAID 1995
HAROLD HILTON 1995
J.H. TAYLOR 1995
JACK NICKLAUS 2000
PAYNE STEWART 2001
BOBBY LOCKE 2002
KATHY WHITWORTH 2002
CARY MIDDLECOFF 2005
BETSY RAWLS 2005
SIR MICHAEL BONALLACK 2006
CHARLIE COE 2006
CRAIG WOOD 2008
JACK BURKE, JR. 2009
JOANNE CARNER 2009
T HE BILLY CASPER 1996
GARY PLAYER 1997
PETER THOMSON 1998
BEN HOGAN 1999
M EMORIAL TOURNAMENT H ONOREES 1 9 7 6 – 2 0 1 5
JULIUS BOROS 2003
BILL CAMPBELL 2003
LEE TREVINO 2004
JOYCE WETHERED 2004
LAWSON LITTLE 2006
HENRY PICARD 2006
PAUL RUNYAN 2006
DENNY SHUTE 2006
DOW FINSTERWALD 2007
LOUISE SUGGS 2007
TONY JACKLIN 2008
RALPH GULDAHL 2008
CHARLES BLAIR MACDONALD 2008
SEVERIANO BALLESTEROS 2010
NANCY LOPEZ 2011
TOM WATSON 2012
RAYMOND FLOYD 2013
ANNIKA SÖRENSTAM 2014
JIM BARNES 2014
JOESEPH CARR 2014
WILLE PARK, SR. 2014
DOROTHY CAMPBELL 2015
JEROME TRAVERS 2015
WALTER TRAVIS 2015
ROBERT T. JONES, JR. 1976
WALTER HAGEN 1977
FRANCIS D. OUIMET 1978
GENE SARAZEN 1979
BYRON NELSON 1980
HARRY VARDON 1981
PATTY BERG 1988
SIR HENRY COTTON 1989
JIMMY DEMARET 1990
BABE ZAHARIAS 1991
JOSEPH C. DEY, JR. 1992
ARNOLD PALMER 1993
GLENNA COLLETT VARE 1982
MICKEY WRIGHT 1994
TOMMY ARMOUR 1983
SAM SNEAD 1984
CHARLES “CHICK” EVANS 1985
ROBERTO DE VICENZO 1986
TOM MORRIS, SR. & TOM MORRIS, JR. 1987
WILLIE ANDERSON 1995
JOHN BALL 1995
JAMES BRAID 1995
HAROLD HILTON 1995
J.H. TAYLOR 1995
JACK NICKLAUS 2000
PAYNE STEWART 2001
BOBBY LOCKE 2002
KATHY WHITWORTH 2002
CARY MIDDLECOFF 2005
BETSY RAWLS 2005
SIR MICHAEL BONALLACK 2006
CHARLIE COE 2006
CRAIG WOOD 2008
JACK BURKE, JR. 2009
JOANNE CARNER 2009
T HE BILLY CASPER 1996
GARY PLAYER 1997
PETER THOMSON 1998
BEN HOGAN 1999
M EMORIAL TOURNAMENT H ONOREES 1 9 7 6 – 2 0 1 5
JULIUS BOROS 2003
BILL CAMPBELL 2003
LEE TREVINO 2004
JOYCE WETHERED 2004
LAWSON LITTLE 2006
HENRY PICARD 2006
PAUL RUNYAN 2006
DENNY SHUTE 2006
DOW FINSTERWALD 2007
LOUISE SUGGS 2007
TONY JACKLIN 2008
RALPH GULDAHL 2008
CHARLES BLAIR MACDONALD 2008
SEVERIANO BALLESTEROS 2010
NANCY LOPEZ 2011
TOM WATSON 2012
RAYMOND FLOYD 2013
ANNIKA SÖRENSTAM 2014
JIM BARNES 2014
JOESEPH CARR 2014
WILLE PARK, SR. 2014
DOROTHY CAMPBELL 2015
JEROME TRAVERS 2015
WALTER TRAVIS 2015
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SIR NICK FALDO
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THE WEEK’S EVENTS/THE MEMORIAL ON TV
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THIS YEAR’S 40TH MEMORIAL IS AS SPECIAL AS THE FIRST A message from Memorial Tournament Founder and Host Jack Nicklaus
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A LASTING PARTNERSHIP A message from Nationwide CEO Steve Rasmussen
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40 YEARS, AND STILL GOING STRONG A message from General Chairman Jack Nicklaus II
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A LEGACY OF SUPPORT by Tom Sprouse The relationship between the Memorial Tournament and Nationwide Children’s Hospital has benefited central Ohio children for 40 years
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MILITARY APPRECIATION The Memorial welcomes our Armed Forces
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THE CAPTAINS CLUB The distinguished group that guides the Memorial Tournament
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SOLITARY MAN by Tim Rosaforte Talented, intensely driven and possessing an uncommon ability to focus, Sir Nick Faldo was happy as a lone wolf who stalked golfing greatness
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THREE OF A KIND by John Antonini Memorial honors three golf greats posthumously
ON THE COVER:
Sir Nick Faldo and his practice round partner, Jack Nicklaus, at the 1980 British Open at Muirfield, Scotland. Photo: Getty Images
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Dublin 40 years ago…
A decision to build a golf course changed Dublin’s journey.
…Standards were set for high quality development
…World-class golf brought thousands to Dublin
And today 43,000 people and 70,000 corporate residents call Dublin, Ohio home.
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TH E M EM O R IA L
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THE MEMORIAL CLUB Securing the Tournament’s future
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ASSISTANT TO THE KING by Bill Fields Doc Giffin, this year’s Memorial Golf Journalism Award recipient, was a fine newspaperman and PGA press secretary before taking on his most challenging task: assisting Arnold Palmer with his myriad media and business obligations
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MAJOR DREAMS by Eiko Oizumi Hideki Matsuyama is the latest golf star to emerge from Japan, and his Memorial win may be just the thing to propel him to the next level
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OFF TO A GOOD START by Dave Hackenberg Despite a broken driver and sudden-death playoff, Hideki Matsuyama breaks records while breaking through with his win in the 2014 Memorial Tournament
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LONG IN THE TOOTH by David Shedloski The Great White Shark, Greg Norman, is now a grandfather, but in his prime he took a big bite out of golf, including two Memorial wins
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HOLE BY HOLE Course photographs by Jim Mandeville
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SOMETHING SPECIAL by David Shedloski Jack Nicklaus’ dream was 10 years in the making, so he made sure his first Memorial Tournament was memorable; it also set a new standard for the future of tournament golfbs
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DEBUTANTE DAYS by Alex Miceli While marking the 40th playing of the Memorial Tournament, PGA TOUR players share their recollections of their first experience in the event 192
ESSAY: GOLF’S SPORTING UNIONS by Jim Moriarty Rivalries have always made the game more intriguing
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FICTION: A CONVERSATION WITH THE GOLF GODS by Frederick Waterman Illustrations by Michael Witte
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1976-2014 The Memorial Tournament Past Winners
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REFLECTIONS A celebration of golf in verse
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Dublin Our journey continues‌ Building our future. Progress ahead.
More housing, entertainment and cultural choices for residents. Riverfront parks. Robust healthcare sector, including Ohio University Heritage College of Osteopathic Medicine.
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THE MEMORIAL TOURNAMENT COMMITTEES & STAFF Founder and Host
Jack W. Nicklaus President
General Chairman
Chairman Emeritus
Steven C. Nicklaus
Jack W. Nicklaus II
Pandel Savic
THE CAPTAINS CLUB
Peter Alliss • Judy Bell • Peggy Kirk Bell • Sir Michael Bonallack • O. Gordon Brewer, Jr. • The Hon. George H.W. Bush Sir Sean Connery • Trey Holland • Tony Jacklin • Ken Lindsay • H. Colin Maclaine • Charles S. Mechem, Jr. Will F. Nicholson, Jr. • Barbara Nicklaus • Andy North • Hisamitsu Ohnishi • Arnold Palmer • Gary Player • Judy Rankin Fred S. Ridley • Johann Rupert • Carol Semple Thompson • Tom Watson EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
VICE CHAIRMEN
Jack W. Nicklaus • Jack W. Nicklaus II Steven C. Nicklaus • Larry Dornisch • Lon Fellenz Nicholas LaRocca • Paul B. Latshaw Daniel M. Maher • Andy O’Brien • Daniel P. Sullivan Emeritus: Ken Bowden • John F. Havens Pandel Savic
Donald “Ric” Baird III • Todd Bork • Chris Campisi John Ciotola • David Lauer • Jeff Logan • Nate Miles • Gary Nicklaus Chip Neale • Brendan O’Neill • Dayna Payne • Tom Welker Emeritus: David L. Barnes • Dr. Russell L. Bowermaster Alphonse P. Cincione • Richard R. Corna • James R. Fabyan John Keith • Paul B. Long, Jr. • James E. Nolan, Jr. • Jim M. Nolan H.M. “Butch” O’Neill • Fritz Schmidt • Ivor H. Young
CHAIRS, DIRECTORS AND ADVISORS
Jo Ann Bigler • Jeff Bordner • Malt Brown • Lt. David Buttler • Dan Cacchio • Debby Cacchio • Phil Campisi • Bill S. Cseplo Dick Curtis • Tony D’Angelo • Tim Doran • Bob Duda • John Ensign • Lt. Steve Farmer • Cpl. Thomas Gallagher • Rob Geis Chief Deputy Jim Gilbert • Chris Hale • Everett Hall • Paul Heller • Harold Howison • Deputy Chief Steve Hrytzik • Chief Deputy Gilbert Jones Chris Johnson • Lt. Kevin Knapp • Bob Laird • Chief Sean LeFever • Sheriff Russ Martin • George W. McCloy • Deputy Dave McMannis Sean Mentel • Ann Miles • Barb Miles • Chief Deputy Rick Minerd • Nancy Minton • Tom Nolan • Jillian Obenour • Dave Peters • Ken Peters Sgt. Marcus Pirrone • Tina Quinn • Lew Ramey • Daryll Rardon • Jim Rohal • Charlie Ruma • L. Jack Ruscilli • Dr. James Ryan • Bill Shulack John Scott • Sheriff Zach Scott • Todd Sloan • Frank Stavroff • Jeff Stavroff • Barb Stieg • John Stieg • Chief Gary Vest • Capt. Patrick Vessels Chief Heinz von Eckartsberg • Jan Wallace • Ike Wampler • Chris Welker • Joyce Wimmers • John Wortman • Chief Deputy Pat Yankie Emeritus: Jim Bean • Vern Krier • Scotty Patrick • Silas W. Thimmes • Carol Young WOMEN’S DIVISION COMMITTEE Chair-Elect
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Paula Ferguson Marcy Williams Paula Brose Anne Bogenrief • Paula Brose • Suzanne Colwell • Christina Copeland • Michelle Cotner • Patty Dixon • Cindy Eckert • Laura Farnham Paula Ferguson • Michelle Francisco • Jean Gans • Terri Heaphy • Barb Hilyard • Lauren Hoffman • Linda Kennedy • Heather Landers Donna LeCrone • Laura Lewis • Marcia Lutze • Betty Lou Magnuson • Sharon Morrison • Jessica Ossege • Marigale Rice Miranda Roberts • Joanie Roma • Julie Seiple • Kayra Smith • Elizabeth Sopko • Stephanie Stein • Jocelyn Varner • Shirl White Marcy Williams • Charlotte Wimmers • Julie Zogbaum TOURNAMENT ADMINISTRATIVE STAFF Director, Marketing & Community Relations
Director, Sales
Executive Director
Director, Communications
Heather M. Baxter
Susan Hosket
Daniel P. Sullivan
Thomas P. Sprouse
Tournament Administrator
Chris Stiffler
Tournament Coordinator
Admissions Coordinator
Executive Assistant
Sales Associate
Marketing Coordinator
Denise McBride
Elaine Leffel
Mary Peterson
Vince Hoffart
Pat Ross
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Rob Frederick • Tim Heitmann • Michael McGovern • Max Yankee
MUIRFIELD VILLAGE GOLF CLUB President
Chairman
Jack W. Nicklaus
Jack W. Nicklaus II
CAPTAINS OF MUIRFIELD VILLAGE GOLF CLUB
Jack W. Nicklaus (1980-81) • Ivor H. Young (1981-82) • Robert S. Hoag (1982-83) • Pandel Savic (1983-84) • Jack Grout (1984-85) Edwin D. Dodd (1985-86) • John F. Havens (1986-87) • John H. McConnell (1987-88) • H.M. “Butch” O’Neill (1988-89) James E. Nolan, Jr. (1989-90) • Fritz Schmidt (1990-91) • Richard F. Chapdelaine (1991-92) • Ken Bowden (1992-93) • James R. Fabyan (1993-94) Dr. Russell L. Bowermaster (1994-95) • Barbara Nicklaus (1995-96) • Jack Hesler (1996-97) • David G. Sherman (1997-98) Alphonse P. Cincione (1998-99) • David L. Barnes (1999–00) • Dr. Robert J. Murphy (2000-01) • David J. Harris (2001–02) Charles R. Carson (2002-03) • Kerry F.B. Packer (2003-04) • Richard R. Corna (2004-05) • Silas W. Thimmes (2005-06) Charles S. Mechem, Jr. (2006-07) • Carol Young (2007-08) • Paul B. Long, Jr. (2008-09) • John G. Hines (2009-10) George McCloy, Sr. (2010-11) • Phil Campisi (2011-2012) • Frank Bork (2012-2013) • L. Jack Ruscilli (2013-2014) • Jeff Logan (2014-15) DEPARTMENT HEADS
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General Manager & Chief Operating Officer
Chief Financial Officer
Paul B. Latshaw
Larry Dornisch
Nicholas LaRocca
John Jankovic
Course Superintendent
Executive Chef
Director, Membership
Director, Villa Operations
Director, Dining Operations
Executive Housekeeper
Matt Powell
Stephen Demeter
Sandi Karnes
Mike McKee
Nick Smithson
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EDITORIAL DIRECTOR
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Larry Hasak ASSOCIATE EDITOR
Debbie Falcone M O N D AY, J U N E 1
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Practice Rounds
Susan Balle • Amy Twigger
T U E S D AY, J U N E 2
CONTRIBUTING WRITERS
Practice Rounds
John Antonini • Bill Fields Dave Hackenberg • Alex Miceli Jim Moriarty • Eiko Oizumi Tim Rosaforte • David Shedloski Tom Sprouse • Frederick Waterman
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Practice Rounds Military Appreciation Day Junior Golf Day Nationwide Invitational at the Memorial – 7:30 a.m. Memorial Honoree Ceremony: Sir Nick Faldo Dorothy Campbell • Jerome Travers • Walter Travis Practice Range – 3 p.m. Jack Nicklaus Golf Clinic Practice Range – 4:30 p.m. Junior Golf Clinic Safari Golf Club – 5:30 p.m.
PHOTOGRAPHY
AP Images • Columbus Dispatch Corbis/Bettman Getty Images/Sports Illustrated Jack Nicklaus Museum Archive Jim Mandeville the Memorial Tournament Archive Nick Faldo Photos • PGA TOUR Images USGA • Jerry Wisler
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FROM THE FOUNDER AND HOST
THIS YEAR’S 40TH MEMORIAL IS AS SPECIAL AS THE FIRST
JACK NICKLAUS Founder and Host the Memorial Tournament presented by Nationwide
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T H E M E M O R I AL
JIM MANDEVILLE
I CAN REMEMBER SHARING with a group of friends just a few days before the inaugural Memorial Tournament in 1976 my feelings about how excited I was that my wish of bringing a significant golf event to my hometown of Columbus was finally going to happen. Then I confessed to them, “I’m like a kid with a new toy—a pretty big toy.” Well, here we are preparing for the 40th Memorial Tournament presented by Nationwide, and all these years later, I still feel like a kid with a new toy. I still get energized about hosting this Tournament and watching the finest players in the world work their way around Muirfield Village Golf Club. I still get a kick out of spending time with the players who have always been kind to support our event. It’s always special when we add new Tournament Honorees to our Memorial Park, a feature of the Memorial Tournament that I am pleased to say has always made us unique among PGA TOUR events. And as for the club and the Tournament being a pretty big toy, I can proudly say it’s an even bigger one now. This is because of the tremendous support and sponsorship of Nationwide—and its unwavering commitment to Nationwide Children’s Hospital, the Memorial’s primary beneficiary since our Tournament’s inception—the thousands of volunteers, and, of course, the great and respectful fans of Columbus and central Ohio. This year we are proud to welcome four more notably fine golfers to our circle of Tournament Honorees, starting with Sir Nick Faldo, who was clearly one of the top players of his era and, with six major championships, was the player who won the most majors from the late 1980s to the mid-90s. I did not cross paths often with Nick competitively, although we did play together in the final round of the 1989 Masters, which he won in a playoff. I was happy for Nick as he joined a small group of players to win consecutive green jackets. I always looked at Faldo as a bit like a Ben Hogan-type player—a hard worker who really focused on making his golf swing technically sound. I always appreciated that and his ability to handle the pressure when he got into contention in a major. He was as tough and focused as they came. He simply went about his business. I was much the same way. You concentrate so intensely that you block everything out, but many times that’s what it takes to win. I have gotten to know Nick a bit better now that he has become a television analyst. We have had the chance to work together, whether that is in the television booth at the Memorial for the CBS and Golf Channel broadcasts, or sharing stories in a Q&A for a fundraiser. Like all those in the audience or tuning in at home, I find him fun, engaging and certainly knowledgeable about the game we both love. Again, he is a worthy Honoree for us this year. And so are the three others we recognize this week, fine golfers from the early 20th century: Dorothy Campbell, Jerome Travers and Walter Travis. In closing, I would just like to again say how deeply gratified I am by the continued success of the Memorial Tournament and Muirfield Village Golf Club. In addition, I am equally pleased by the Tournament’s mission to not only give back to the game that has given me decades of joy, but also to my hometown, especially through our ability to raise money for charity. This is something very important to Barbara and me. As mentioned, the Memorial Tournament would not be quite as meaningful were it not for our partnership with Nationwide to generate charitable dollars for Nationwide Children’s Hospital and other central Ohio charities through the Memorial’s special alliance with the Nicklaus Children’s Health Care Foundation. I sincerely thank you for your support in attending the 40th Memorial Tournament presented by Nationwide. I believe we are going to have a terrific week of good golf and competition that will eventually determine a worthy winner. Enjoy the week.
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IT’S BEEN WELL DOCUMENTED that my father has a uniquely special connection to Augusta National. He’s not only a six-time Masters Tournament champion, but he also has been a proud member of Augusta National for a number of years. It’s a love affair that started the first time he drove down Magnolia Lane in 1959, and it is one that endures today. So it should not come as a surprise that when Jack Nicklaus was first inspired in the late 1960s to build Muirfield Village Golf Club and create the Memorial Tournament, Augusta National and the Masters stood as the shining examples of what he aspired to create. If imitation truly is the highest form of flattery, I imagine it can only be trumped by flattery from those you try to replicate. Perhaps no higher compliment was paid my father and the Memorial Tournament than when Clifford Roberts, co-founder of Augusta National and chairman of the Masters Tournament, said before the inaugural Memorial in 1976, “Jack, you have an opportunity to do in four years what it took us 40 years to do.” Mr. Roberts could have quit there, yet he went on to say, “Everything about this operation bespeaks quality.” Here we are this week, ready to host the 40th Memorial Tournament presented by Nationwide, and I can say with conviction that what my father and a dedicated team surrounding him have done—be it in four or 40 years—is astounding. My father long ago accomplished what he set out to do, and that was to bring a world-class golf tournament to the dedicated fans of central Ohio. Hopefully, the Memorial Tournament stands as a representation of his passion for tournament golf, just as Muirfield Village Golf Club stands as representation of his love and respect for the game of golf. This event has become the intersection of so many things that embody the legacy of Jack Nicklaus—champion, course designer, ambassador and philanthropist. My father will tell you, though, that many people contributed to write this success story, and none more important than the PGA TOUR players who have, since Day One, supported the Memorial and made it annually one of the strongest fields in golf. There has been amazing golf played on these rolling hills—from the very first year when Roger Maltbie beat Hale Irwin in a playoff to last year’s playoff in which Hideki Matsuyama beat Kevin Na. In between, we’ve seen some of the finest players in the world hoist the Memorial Trophy. When you add up the roll call of the 25 different golfers who have won the Memorial, they have totaled an astonishing 67 major championship titles. But the golf and the golfers who have excelled here are not necessarily what make the Memorial so unique. It is the much-anticipated tradition when we annually celebrate the lives and careers of great players and the game’s legendary figures. The Wednesday Honoree ceremony, highlighted this year by Sir Nick Faldo, has become an event within the event, and has been broadcast to fans worldwide. The final mission of the Memorial Tournament, and the one that will forever cement the legacy of this cherished event, is what we’ve been able to accomplish in raising money for charity. The Memorial is an incredible vehicle for Jack and Barbara Nicklaus to give back to the community, most significantly in the area of children’s healthcare. I can’t emphasize enough how important it has been for the Nicklaus family to raise awareness and money for our longtime beneficiary, Nationwide Children’s Hospital. In alliance with the Nicklaus Children’s Health Care Foundation, all Tournament proceeds are designated for Nationwide Children’s. Since the Tournament’s inception, we have raised nearly $25 million. As I have proudly and gratefully pointed out in the past, our charity efforts would not be possible without our volunteers, staff, and you, our patrons. Nor could we generate these impactful dollars without our tremendous partner, Nationwide. I can’t thank them and all of you enough for the support. I hope you have a wonderful week and enjoy the golf.
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The relationship between the Memorial Tournament and Nationwide Children’s Hospital has benefited central Ohio children for 40 years B Y T O M
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ACK AND BARBARA NICKLAUS have long been proponents of giving back, which has been one of the primary purposes for the creation in 1976 of the Memorial Tournament presented by Nationwide. As the Memorial Tournament heads into its 40th year, it’s worthwhile to review the impact the event has had well beyond the boundaries of Muirfield Village Golf Club, because the Memorial always has been about more than great golf competition. Staying true to their philanthropic vision, the Nicklauses have made sure that the Memorial’s longstanding partnership with Nationwide Children’s Hospital and the Memorial Tournament Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) has had a significant and meaningful impact on the lives of people in central Ohio. Pediatric care is the primary focus of that vision—and for good reason. It’s a very personal cause. The ties that have bound the Nicklaus family to the Hospital pre-date the Memorial by 10 years, beginning in 1966, when the Nicklauses’ 11-month-old Barbara Nicklaus with her daughter, Nan, experienced daughter Nan at Ohio State University Hospital. Nan was difficulty breathing. She born on May 5, 1965. Not long would occasionally choke after, father Jack fainted, as he and pass out. Jack and did immediately after the birth Barbara were living in of three of his other children. Columbus at the time, and they rushed young Nan to Nationwide Children’s Hospital. Unbeknownst to them, Nan had somehow inhaled a small piece of a crayon, and the doctors at Nationwide performed a delicate procedure to remove it. “She battled pneumonia and other complications while there, but the doctors and staff were terrific and they essentially saved her life,” Jack recalled. “It was at that time we began to make a strong commitment to children’s health care.”
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That same year, in 1966, Jack had the opportunity to act on his newfound commitment by participating in the first P R O U S E Columbus Pro-Am at Scioto Country Club, where he grew up learning the game. The primary purpose of the event was to raise charitable funds for Nationwide Children’s Hospital and Columbus Dispatch Charities. With Jack’s support, the event raised $66,905 that was split evenly between the two charities. That number climbed to $209,436 in 1975 when it was played at newly christened Muirfield Village Golf Club.
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The following year, with Above: The Nationwide the help of the same group of Children’s Hospital 12-story dedicated volunteers who patient tower built in 2012 supported the Columbus Pro- is the largest pedatric Am, the inaugural Memorial expansion to date. Tournament cut a check to Right: Historic photo of Nationwide Children’s for Columbus Children’s $59,000 and another one to Hospital in the mid-1970s. Dispatch Charities for $27,000, far surpassing officials’ pre-tournament estimates. That dedication to children’s charities and the relationship with Nationwide Children’s continued. In May 2005, the Memorial Tournament announced a multiyear, $5-million pledge with Nationwide Children’s, extending their successful partnership with the hospital as the Tournament’s primary charitable beneficiary. In recognition of the Memorial’s pledge, Nationwide Children’s dedicated its NICU in honor of the Tournament, officially naming it the Memorial Tournament NICU. “As America’s largest neonatal system, it is our mission to care for the most fragile newborns and to discover cures that help children everywhere,” said Edward Shepherd, MD, section chief of neonatology at Nationwide Children’s Hospital. “We are proud to be home to the Memorial Tournament NICU that serves as an enduring testament to this longstanding legacy of support. We are grateful to the Memorial Tournament presented by Nationwide for their enduring commitment to lifesaving neonatal research and care.” As the Memorial prospered into one of the premier events on the PGA TOUR, Jack and Barbara Nicklaus turned their attention increasingly to seeking ways to further strengthen 28
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their support for Nationwide Children’s Hospital. Thus, in 2010, they announced a special alliance, via the Memorial Tournament, between their own Nicklaus Children’s Health Care Foundation and Nationwide Children’s Hospital. The new alliance established Nicklaus Children’s Health Care Foundation as the primary beneficiary of the Memorial Tournament and supporter of Nationwide Children’s. The alliance better facilitates charitable contributions to Nationwide Children’s and the Memorial Tournament NICU. Driven by their passion to help children, the Nicklaus family formed their Foundation in 2004. Its mission is to support innovative programs that advance and enhance the diagnosis, treatment and prevention of childhood illnesses. In its relatively young history, the Foundation has raised more than $35 million for support of pediatric health care programs throughout south Florida, greater Columbus and beyond. By collaborating with pediatric hospitals nationwide, the
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Foundation has grown from a Above: The Magic Forest at vision to a stunning reality. Nationwide Children’s is a place of respite for children, families and staff. “Jack and I have always dreamed of being in a position Below: Nan Nicklaus recovered from a serious respiratory problem thanks to support children—and the to the doctors and caring staff at families who dearly love Nationwide Children’s. them—in the communities where we have lived and worked,” said Barbara Nicklaus, whose devotion to charity is one of the primary reasons she is receiving the 2015 Bob Jones Award next month from the U.S. Golf Association. “Our mission is a simple one but an important one: We are committed to ensuring that children have access to the best care possible. We recognize that children are not miniature adults, so they need specialized care and our hope is to make certain it is always accessible to them.” In addition to an alliance between the Foundation and the hospital, Nationwide committed to becoming the presenting sponsor of the Memorial Tournament in 2010. It was a perfect match. The insurance giant based in Columbus shares the Nicklauses’ driving desire to support Nationwide Children’s Hospital and give back to the community. “As a native of Columbus, I have watched and admired 30
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Nationwide’s growth and, more important, the company’s contributions to the community,” Jack said in welcoming Nationwide as presenting sponsor. “In addition, Nationwide has a rich history within the game of golf. It has been a strong supporter of professional golf and the important charities the game and tournaments benefit.” Fast-forward to the 2014 Memorial, when the Tournament raised $1.8 million for various organizations in central Ohio, including a record-setting $1,322,186 for Nationwide Children’s. Over the past 40 years, the Memorial has eclipsed $23.5 million in donations to central Ohio charities, with more than $13 million going to Nationwide Children’s Hospital. In recent years the Memorial has added a number of charitybased programs that significantly boost the Tournament’s ability to support Nationwide Children’s, including the Bears for Children’s campaign and the Legends Luncheon, which has raised a staggering $2.9 million since it was introduced in 2011. The inaugural FORE! Miler presented by OhioHealth, a 4-mile road race, was added to the Memorial’s stable of charity initiatives this year and kicked off the 40th playing of the Memorial Tournament. The growth of the Hospital has been equally impressive over its 120-year history. In 1892, the first year the hospital was founded, 70 patients were treated by a six-member staff and seven other employees. Today, Nationwide Children’s is the primary pediatric health care provider for 37 Ohio counties, with more than 1,100 medical staff members and 9,200 employees who provide expert care to children regardless of ability to pay. Last year the hospital provided care to children from all 50 states and from 41 countries. “On behalf of our patients, families and everyone at Nationwide Children’s Hospital, we are honored and grateful for this 40-year relationship,” said Steve Allen, MD, chief executive officer of Nationwide Children’s Hospital. “Our deepest appreciation to the Nicklaus family, the Memorial Tournament, Nationwide and the countless volunteers and fans who graciously support the hospital’s Memorial Tournament Neonatal Intensive Care Unit. As a result of your generosity, thousands of ill and premature newborns have been saved and generations more will benefit from lifesaving research and discoveries. We could not be more proud of this philanthropic partnership and what it has done to help children everywhere.” With the special alliance between the Nicklaus Children’s Health Care Foundation and Nationwide Children’s Hospital, the Memorial Tournament’s commitment to charity will continue to grow, assuring that children in need in central Ohio will find help and hope for the next 40 years and beyond. MT Tom Sprouse is director of communications for the Memorial Tournament.
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THE CAPTAINS CLUB an international group of authorities on the game of golf, has advised on the constitution and conduct of the Memorial Tournament since its inception in 1976. One of the Captains’ main tasks is to select the person or persons in whose honor the Memorial Tournament is played each year. They have selected Sir Nick Faldo, Dorothy Campbell, Jerome Travers and Walter Travis as this year’s Honorees. All members of the Captains Club give of their time on an honorary basis, and, as always, Memorial Founder and Host Jack Nicklaus and the Executive Committee are grateful for their contributions to the Tournament’s success.
PETER ALLISS Three-time British PGA champion; eight-time Ryder Cup player; international television golf commentator.
JUDY BELL Former President of the USGA (1996-97); Curtis Cup player and captain.
PEGGY KIRK BELL Top player and instructor; 1961 LPGA Teacher of the Year; 1990 recipient of the USGA’s Bob Jones Award.
SIR MICHAEL BONALLACK Former Secretary and Captain of the Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St. Andrews; five-time British Amateur champion.
O. GORDON BREWER, JR. Chairman of Pine Valley Golf Club; twice U.S. Senior Amateur champion.
THE HONORABLE GEORGE H.W. BUSH Former President of the United States of America.
SIR SEAN CONNERY Academy Award-winning actor; contributor to golf and charity.
TREY HOLLAND Former President of the USGA (2000-02).
TONY JACKLIN 1969 British Open and 1970 U.S. Open champion; member of the World Golf Hall of Fame.
KEN LINDSAY Former President of the PGA of America (1997-98).
H. COLIN MACLAINE Former Captain of the Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St. Andrews.
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Deceased Captains W. Ronald Alexander • John D. Ames J. Paul Austin • William C. Campbell Sir John Carmichael CHARLES S. MECHEM, JR. Commissioner Emeritus of the Ladies Professional Golf Association.
WILL F. NICHOLSON, JR. Former President of the USGA (1980-81); Masters Tournament Competition Committee Chairman.
BARBARA NICKLAUS Recognized as the “First Lady of Golf” and a tireless worker for charitable causes.
ANDY NORTH 1978 and 1985 U.S. Open champion; currently a television golf analyst.
Howard L. Clark • Bing Crosby Joseph C. Dey, Jr. • Charles Evans, Jr. Gerald R. Ford • William Ward Foshay Isaac B. Grainger • James Grimm Hord Hardin • Jay Hebert Totten P. Heffelfinger • Bob Hope Frederick E. Jones • George H. Love David Marr • Gerald H. Micklem
HISAMITSU OHNISHI A leader in the development of Japan’s professional golf tour and founder of one of its premier events.
ARNOLD PALMER Perhaps the most popular golf champion of all time.
GARY PLAYER South African winner of more than 150 tournaments around the world.
JUDY RANKIN Winner of 26 LPGA events; member of the World Golf Half of Fame, and ground-breaking television golf analyst.
John D. Montgomery, Sr. • Byron Nelson James L. O’Keefe • Eugene Pullia Bernard H. Ridder, Jr. • Clifford Roberts Gene Sarazen • Harton S. Semple Sir Iain Stewart • Philip H. Strubing F. Morgan Taylor, Jr. Richard S. Taylor • Robert W. Willits Herbert Warren Wind • John W. Winters, Jr.
FRED S. RIDLEY Former U.S. Amateur champion and a past President of the USGA (2004-05).
JOHANN RUPERT Chairman of the South African Tour and Chairman of the South African Golf Development Board.
CAROL SEMPLE THOMPSON Accomplished amateur player and former member of the USGA Executive Committee.
TOM WATSON Hall of Fame golfer and eight-time major champion; ardent supporter of junior golf development.
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SOLITARY MAN Talented, intensely driven and possessing an uncommon ability to focus, Sir Nick Faldo was happy as a lone wolf who stalked golfing greatness B Y
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ICK FALDO’S JOURNEY to the podium at this year’s Memorial Tournament presented by Nationwide starts with the man presenting Sir Nick as the Memorial Tournament Honoree, Jack Nicklaus. Forty-four years ago, the image of Nicklaus playing in the 1971 Masters appeared on the television at Faldo’s home in England, and the 13-year-old had found his calling. “That was the inspiration to try something different,” Faldo says.
To that point in his young life, Faldo excelled at all sports, from swimming to cycling to track and field to basketball, cricket and tennis. But it was the solitariness of golf that fit the DNA of an only child, and the inspiration of Nicklaus that kept popping up throughout the course of his Hall of Fame career. This isn’t lost on Faldo as he sits next to Nicklaus in the CBS tower on Saturdays and Sundays at Muirfield Village Golf Club during Memorial Tournament broadcasts. “Of course [the ’71 Masters] was filmed by CBS and beamed to the BBC,” he points out during a lengthy interview at his home in Winter Park, Fla. “So there’s another loop in my life.” A loop that reveals Sir Nick’s life—and his 42
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relationship with Nicklaus—in a different light. Faldo prides himself on coming to Muirfield Village with questions to pick Jack’s brain. Nicklaus brings not only his insight, but also his sense of humor. “It’s like his hidden sanctuary,” Faldo says. “He normally comes up for two segments and stays for two hours. I think he likes a bit of peace. We have a laugh. With me, the more respect I have with people, the more I give him a dig. He’s hard work at times.” In one case, Nicklaus started talking about the importance of breathing on the course. Since Faldo once studied biathletes and how they lowered their heart rate, he asked how Nicklaus breathed. Jack replied tongue-in-cheek, “In and out.”
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Right: A young Faldo with his father, George Arthur, and mother, Joyce.
The give-and-take in the tower between Nicklaus and Faldo was the same way as players at Augusta prior to Faldo’s first Masters victory in 1989. Faldo felt like he was playing great all season, but every week he would self-destruct. He bumped into Nicklaus on the practice green and expressed his confusion over whether to make it happen or let it happen. “He just said, ‘I know what you mean,’ ” says Faldo. “I’m like, ‘Hello, can you fill in the blanks?’ ”
“I THOUGHT FOR ME TO PLAY MY BEST GOLF I HAD TO BE TOTALLY ENGROSSED IN IT, AND THAT REALLY GAVE THE IMAGE FROM THE OUTSIDE OF WHO I WAS.” —NICK FALDO
Nicklaus not only inspired and playfully teased Faldo, he taught him, too. The strongest part of each man’s game was his mind, but where they differ is that Faldo never let the other side of his personality come out. Jack did while competing, in pressrooms and with the 44
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public. It wasn’t until he went into broadcasting that Faldo opened up and started connecting with an audience. “I thought for me to play my best golf I had to be totally engrossed in it, and that really gave the image from the outside of who I was,” Faldo says. “People now see me on television and think this is two different guys. I mess around, want to have fun and entertain. In a way, I wish I’d known how to do that on a golf course better. I’d have been a different character.” In Faldo’s mind, the character he played was a combination of the steely Nicklaus and the stoic manner of his competitive idol, Bjorn Borg. When caddie Fanny Sunesson tried to get Nick to lighten up, he would always want her bringing the conversation back to golf. With “head down and blinkers on,” he left the perception of being the modern day Ben Hogan. Curtis Strange said they only said three words during their 18-hole playoff for the 1988 U.S. Open. “Nick Faldo stared a lot of players down,” Strange says. “He had a way of folding his arms and looking at you as though he knew you were going to make a mistake.” This is the same Nick Faldo that will spend a large portion of a dinner doing impersonations of his favorite movie character, the daft Austin Powers. That indicates the Hogan in him won out over the Peter Jacobsen on the golf course, but off it, he’s the guy who won the Payne Stewart Award for the way he embodies charity, character and sportsmanship. Before we get started with the interview, he asks about the health of Greg Norman, who a month earlier nearly lost his left hand in a chainsaw accident at his home on Jupiter Island. “People think I’m invented both ways,” he says. “That I was intentionally trying to be cold and heartless, standoffish, always the shy guy. I couldn’t handle being in places, even on a golf
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course. [But] I always had the attitude that I’m here to play golf.” For an hour Faldo talks predominantly about Nicklaus and the many threads Jack has to his life. Faldo tells stories of getting Nicklaus’ autograph at the 1973 Open Championship, of competing against him as a 20 year old in his first Ryder Cup, of playing a practice round before the 1980 Open at Muirfield and getting paired with Jack on Sunday at Augusta National in 1990, when Faldo became the first player since Nicklaus in 1966 to win back-to-back Masters. It goes unsaid that without that Nicklaus inspiration, Faldo may never have won his three green jackets, his three Claret Jugs, set Ryder Cup records, been enshrined in the World Golf Hall of Fame, or been given knighthood by Queen Elizabeth II in 2009. The Sir before Nick, the Payne Stewart Award, the
broadcasting career on ABC, CBS and Golf Channel, his work around the world promoting junior golf through The Faldo Series, all of that might never have happened. Even the swing changes orchestrated with David Leadbetter that turned Faldo into the best player in the world had a Nicklaus connection, in that they first took place at Muirfield Village in 1985. We are sitting in the sunroom of Faldo’s new home overlooking Lake Maitland in the Orlando suburbs. It is a day in early November not long after Faldo has returned from a Faldo Series event at The Greenbrier, where he has a vacation home. He greets me at the door in shorts, flip-flops and a designer T-shirt that featured zippers. At 57, he can pull it off. Faldo once lived across town at Lake Nona, the gated golfing community where he and instructor David Leadbetter did their work. At the height of his career, Faldo lived in a mansion that backed up to the racetrack at Ascot,
Above: In 1975, Faldo won the English Amateur Championship at Royal Lytham & St. Annes. Right: Faldo returned to Royal Lytham for the 1977 Ryder Cup, where he competed
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Above: Faldo showing off his early swing mechanics at the 1979 European Open Championship at Turnberry. Above right: In 1978, Faldo was third on the European Tour’s Order of Merit. Right: Faldo with Seve Ballesteros at the 1978 Irish Open Championship at Portmarnock Golf Club.
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Berkshire, in England with a “MUIRFIELD” plate on wrought-iron gates. He was considered golf royalty, but he didn’t come from a privileged life. Growing up 20 miles north of London in Welwyn Garden City, his play toys before golf clubs were a ladder and a bucket from the family’s shed. “I laugh,” he says, “when people ask if I had a normal childhood.” The small, two-bedroom council house at 285 Knella Road was built after the Germans shelled London during World War II. Faldo tells the story of his father getting back change on $1 a week for rent. Faldo’s mother, Joyce, was born on this same street in a house that her father, a bricklayer, helped build. Faldo’s father, George Arthur, was an accountant at a chemical company. “By trying golf, this was just such an interesting sport to go and practice,” he says. “That was the thing. I was so happy going off and spending all day practicing on my own, but that kind of came later.” Chris Arnold, an assistant at the local club in Welwyn Garden City, was Faldo’s first instructor. His parents scraped up enough to buy a half set and six lessons that started with the basics of posture, alignment and stance—before Faldo was allowed to hit a ball. “It was 10 bob a lesson,” Arnold told The Independent in 1995. “He didn’t have any clubs, and I recommended that he buy a half set for 35 quid just in case he
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IN THE AFTERNOON AND INTO THE EVENINGS, HE WOULD PRACTICE IN A SCHOOLYARD NEAR HIS HOME, PULLING BALLS HE RUMMAGED FROM THE BUSHES…
didn’t want to carry on.” But Arnold knew immediately that he was going to hear from Faldo again. Most people, as Arnold said, are desperate to hit a golf ball. Arnold wanted to get Faldo swinging through an imaginary ball first. He described Faldo as a “very unusual student that was very keen to learn and understand.”
“That’s the discipline of the game, which I loved,” Faldo says. In the afternoon and into the evenings, he would practice in a schoolyard near his home, pulling balls he rummaged from the bushes from a cloth bag his mother had sewn. Faldo remembers having 20 balls. He would stand down the line of a football pitch and hit into the square of a long jump pit 80-100 yards away. Typical of the precision that was his trademark, Faldo would get angry every time he missed his target. “Sometimes I would get 18 out of 20,” he says. “I went back 10 years later and realized that was a real long jump pit, 16 feet by 8 feet. So I learned to focus.” Eventually he would ride his bicycle to the golf course with the clubs strapped to the front of his bike and a lunch in his backpack that
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Above: Faldo was a Ryder Cup staple for the European Team, making 11 appearances and captaining the 2008 squad at Valhalla Golf Club in Louisville, Ky. Right: Faldo’s first of three Open Championship victories came at Muirfield, in Scotland, in 1987.
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Joyce prepared. He told Sports Illustrated in 1989 that he loved the routine, even the same lunch (cheese and pickle sandwiches and a chocolate biscuit packed in Tupperware) every day. Further piquing his interest was a USA vs. The World series on TV. Nicklaus played, along with Arnold Palmer and Lee Trevino taking on the likes of Gary Player, Tony Jacklin and Roberto DeVicenzo. Ignoring his father’s suggestion to pursue a career in technical drawing, Faldo quit school to hone his golf game. Ian Connelly, the head professional at Welwyn Garden, convinced Faldo’s parents that their son had the talent. Working part-time as a carpet fitter, Faldo practiced diligently in 1973-74, setting up his breakthrough in amateur golf. “I had a green, a bunker and a flag to aim at,” he says. “Little did I realize every shot I hit had a purpose. That’s a tough thing. All you want to aim at is one blooming pin. It forces you to focus. All these things by chance happened.” In ’73, Faldo’s father packed the family’s white VW Beetle with camping gear and made the drive to the Open Championship at Royal Troon. On their way to the campground, Faldo saw Jacklin and Tom Weiskopf filling up their Rolls Royce with petrol in their Rupert Blair trousers and pastel cashmere sweaters. The image sticks with him today.
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Right: Faldo rebuilt his swing painstakingly under the direction of David Leadbetter. Below: Faldo wins his first of two consecutive Masters in 1989 with a sudden-death playoff victory over Scott Hoch.
What followed was his first meeting with Nicklaus. Faldo was around the back of Marine Hotel, just off the 18th fairway, when Nicklaus jumped the fence on his way to the practice ground. Faldo asked for his autograph, and then followed Nicklaus into the portable toilets and “widdled” in every urinal, so he could say he went to the bathroom where Jack Nicklaus did. Faldo opened with that story at a charity event years later that Nicklaus took part in. “[Jack] kept looking at me as if to say, ‘Where
are you going with this story?’ ” Faldo says. “But he liked it.” What Faldo liked most was sitting on the back of the range, watching his heroes and, in particular, “admiring the rhythm of Jerry Heard’s swing.” He would run the golf course from tee to green, getting in position to watch the shots from perfect angles. He did the same at Royal Lytham in 1974 and attempted to qualify for his first Open in 1975, the year he won the British Youths Open and the English Amateur. With those performances, the University of Houston, then the golf powerhouse in the United States, offered Faldo a scholarship. Faldo quickly realized that America and the college golf environment were not for him. After 10 weeks, he returned to England, turned professional, joined the European Professional Golfers Association and qualified for the Open at Royal Birkdale, where at 19 he finished T-28 with Player. His goal starting the 1977 season was to make his first Ryder Cup team. He did that by winning his first European Tour event and finishing eighth on the Order of Merit. At 20, as the youngest player in Ryder Cup history, Faldo was paired the second day at Royal Lytham with Peter Oosterhuis in a four-ball match against Raymond Floyd and Nicklaus. “I’ll never forget that,” Faldo says. “I was long in those days when Aldila came out with their first graphite shaft that I had on a Toney Penna head. I could hit it out there. On the 54
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Above: Faldo and Greg Norman walk arm-in-arm off the 18th green at Augusta National Golf Club after Faldo famously came from six strokes back to win the 1996 Masters. Below: Ben Crenshaw, the 1995 Masters winner, helps Faldo into his third green
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fourth hole I was 20 yards ahead of Jack, but I kept saying to myself, ‘Don’t look back,’ and wondering if Jack was thinking: ‘Who is this kid that just whipped it past me?’ ” The Englishmen won the match and Faldo’s record-setting Ryder Cup career had its jumping-off point with a 3-0 start. Faldo’s next encounter with Nicklaus came at the ’80 Open, when he asked to play a practice
round following Jack’s victory in the U.S. Open at Baltusrol. That led to a game between Nicklaus and Tom Watson against Faldo and Andy North. Faldo won 20 quid from Nicklaus and regrets not having it signed, framed and put on a wall. Two years later, they were paired at the Andy Williams San Diego Open. Even at 42, Nicklaus taught Faldo a lesson, shooting what appeared to be an effortless 64 in the final round at Torrey Pines to finish one stroke behind Johnny Miller. Faldo, who shot 73 that day, came away saying, “Wow, how did he do that?” Then, replaying it in his mind, Faldo analyzed the shot-making skills Jack had—and that he lacked. “That round must have sown the seeds to think my game is not good enough,” Faldo says. “I realized I’ve got to find a way to be able to do this. That’s where I started on the rebuild. I guess that’s the ultimate, coming out the other side, being able to shape a shot either way under pressure, to have both shots in your arsenal, being quite happy hitting a draw or a fade.” Leadbetter first remembers Faldo approaching him at Sun City in 1984 to take a look at his swing on the recommendation of Nick Price. Prior to that, the lanky Zimbabwean had walked a practice round with Faldo and noticed his steep swing created tee shots that ballooned in slight breezes. Leadbetter suggested a flatter swing and it wasn’t long after that Faldo went for the total overhaul. Said Leadbetter, “I think his exact words were, ‘You can throw the book at me because I really want to do it right. I don’t care how long it takes. I’m tired of playing mediocre golf and not reaching my potential.’”
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Top: Faldo holes the winning putt on the 18th green at the 1990 British Open at the Old Course at St. Andrews, Scotland. Above: Faldo with his second of three Claret Jugs.
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The press in Great Britain was all over him, shifting its emphasis from “Foldo,” after Nick’s failure to win the 1983 Open and the 1984 Masters, to the game change that involved 1,500 balls a day in the heat and humidity of Leadbetter’s original base camp at Grenelefe in Haines City, Fla. For every one step forward, there were two steps back. In 1985, Faldo had to play well at Walt Disney World in the season-ending event just to keep his PGA TOUR card. “He was sort of one of a kind,” Leadbetter says. “He had the mindset to do it. Ninety-nine percent of the players would say, ‘No way, it’s too frustrating for me.’ ”
Faldo’s commitment to Leadbetter paid off with his first Open Championship at Muirfield in 1987 and the legendary final round where he made 18 pars to beat Paul Azinger. Two months after that, he went back to Muirfield Village and went 3-1-1 in leading Europe to a victory over the team Nicklaus captained for Europe’s first win on American soil. Over the next nine years he would win five more majors, lose the playoff to Strange in the 1988 U.S. Open at The Country Club, and become the No. 1 player in the world for a total of 97 weeks. If there was a crowning moment in this run of greatness, it was being paired with the then 50-year-old Nicklaus in the final round of the 1990 Masters. The story Faldo tells says just how much he and Nicklaus were alike. “I thought, this was interesting … Jack had a reputation of not talking to people, and they gave me a hard time about it,” he says. “Jack didn’t say boo to me. Not boo. We walk on the first tee and we’re both playing Titleist. I said, ‘I’m playing a 1.’ Jack said, ‘I’m playing a 1,’
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Below: Rory McIlroy won the 2006 Faldo Junior Series’ Under 17 Division at Celtic Manor in Newport, Wales. Bottom: Faldo at a golf
spontaneously responded, “That’s older than me, Jack.” More silence. Faldo went on to shoot 69 and beat Raymond Floyd in a playoff—after Floyd, the 1976 Masters champion, surrendered a four-shot lead. In one of his last legitimate runs at a major, the 50-year-old Nicklaus shot 74 to finish tied for sixth. It was another case of Faldo learning from the Masters’ master on how to play Nicklaus golf. Five of his six majors came this way with opponents falling victim to the pressure while Faldo went to a passage in Golf My Way, where Nicklaus talked about his ability to envision his targets by “going to the movies.” “You read Jack had power of great concentration,” Faldo says. “Hogan had it, too. I think I developed that. It wasn’t natural. It’s like Sam Snead said, ‘I made millions of swings to make it look natural.’ I did it the old-fashioned way. I went to hit balls.” It was during the 10-year window between 1987-1996 that Faldo defined himself. A trademark of that era was his one-sided battles with Norman. He shot 67 to Norman’s 76 in the third round of his seven-stroke win in the Open at St. Andrews in 1990. Six years later he came from six strokes back on Sunday at
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and just looked at me … I went, ‘I’m playing a 4 then.’ ” Sunesson was angry. In that situation, she thought Faldo shouldn’t have deferred to Nicklaus. Their first words were at the 12th tee, where Faldo broke the silence by commenting how much he would hate to play the famed par-3 every week. Nicklaus offered, “I’ve been playing this one for 32 years.” Faldo
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“HE DIDN’T CARE WHAT PEOPLE THOUGHT ABOUT HIM. HE WASN’T PLAYING GOLF TO MAKE FRIENDS.” —BOB ROTELLA
Faldo’s professional golfing career has branched out into other areas of golf, including as a golf analyst for CBS Sports (with Jim Nantz, above) and Golf Channel and as a golf course designer (right).
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The Masters, shooting 67 to Norman’s 78. The hug with Norman on the 18th green was so out of character. “He didn’t care what people thought about him,’’ says the sports psychologist Bob Rotella. “He wasn’t playing golf to make friends. He was very comfortable with winning. He was Tigerlike with his focus. He would get into his own little world and live in his own little world.” Even though they were Ryder Cup partners and teammates, Bernhard Langer sensed this laser focus as well. “Sometimes he’d hardly recognize you walking by on driving range,” Langer says. “Sometimes he might say ‘Hey’ or ‘Morning.’ Very seldom would he get into deeper conversation of any sort. He was sort of introverted on the golf course but we all know he has an extroverted personality as well.” Leadbetter told Ian BakerFinch before his pairing with Faldo at St. Andrews in 1990 to anticipate no acknowledgement of a shot the entire day. “He will not even know you’re out there,” were Leadbetter’s words. “You’re playing on your own.” Twenty-five years later, Leadbetter offers this perspective. “You can’t criticize that because that’s the way he was successful,” he says. “Off the course he was a really, really funny guy. He stayed at the house, didn’t have a big circle of friends. Mostly, they were nongolfing types. He was witty, and yet, come game time, it was all business. People around him noticed the difference in demeanor and attitude, sort of like the mask came off.” Brandt Packer, the producer for ABC from 2004-2006, and for Golf Channel starting in 2007, was a key facilitator of that breakthrough. The chemistry started in their first meeting at the ’04 WGC-American Express Championship in Ireland. Sitting in a pub in Killarney, Faldo recited a line from an Austin Powers movie. For the next two hours they vamped on scenes from International Man of Mystery and the sequels. From that, a creative bond was established. “I literally love the guy and I love working with the guy,” Packer said. “It’s funny, I get two different responses. The first one, ‘Are you serious?’ comes from guys who dealt with him during his playing days. They can’t get over what it was like when he played. The other one, ‘That’s
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…OVER THE COURSE OF 10 YEARS [FALDO] BECAME MORE IDENTIFIABLE IN THE UNITED STATES AS A BROADCASTER THAN AS A GOLFER. interesting.’ That’s from people who didn’t play with him. We started with a clean slate and he’s made me a better producer.” The trademark of the years at ABC was the competitiveness in the booth between Faldo and Azinger, who were rivals since the ’87 Open at Muirfield. At first, Azinger stole the show, but Faldo eventually developed his own style and over the course of 10 years became more identifiable in the United States as a broadcaster than as a golfer. Faldo addressed this in a 2006 interview with Golf Digest, relaying a story with a customs official after returning to the country. “I hadn’t filled in the window listing my occupation, and he wrote, ‘Sports Analyst.’ I said, ‘Why not just write Golfer? What about the six majors?’ ” He said quietly, “We both know what you do best these days.” Two years later, Azinger got the best of Faldo as they squared off as Ryder Cup captains. But Packer tells the story of being out in the first
fairway as one of Azinger’s assistants on Saturday at Valhalla and feeling his cart being bumped. He turned and looked. It was Faldo saying, “Hey Mate. I heard we’re reunited again!” referencing Packer being moved from Champions Tour to PGA TOUR coverage on Golf Channel. On Sunday, Faldo hugged Packer and said, “I can’t wait to work with you next year, but if you wear red I’ll kill you.” The cheeky sense of Faldo’s humor comes from his dad, who suffered for years from dementia and passed away at 88 on the day Faldo received the Stewart Award. In the final years of his life, Faldo’s father still recognized the Royal Family, but didn’t know his only child by name or remember watching his son’s three Masters victories on TV. All George Arthur remembered is that he played golf. “I laugh,” Faldo says. “People ask, ‘Do your children have a normal childhood?’ Emma goes to school in a Maybach and she’s got an iPad and an iPhone. And she has more covers for her iPad than I ever had trousers. It’s hilarious what the norm is now for these kids. These kids probably have too much choice. They haven’t got a clue on what to focus on.” Sir Nick Faldo never had trouble with focus. MT Tim Rosaforte is a senior writer for Golf World and an analyst for Golf Channel.
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SIR NICK FALDO’S CAREER RECORD MAJOR CHAMPIONSHIP VICTORIES
INTERNATIONAL VICTORIES
1987 Open Championship
1979 ICL International
1989 Masters
1989 Suntory World Match Play Championship
1990 Masters, Open Championship
1990 Johnnie Walker Classic (Hong Kong)
1992 Open Championship
1992 Toyota World Match Play Championship, Johnnie Walker World Championship
1996 Masters PGA TOUR VICTORIES
1984 Sea Pines Heritage Classic
1994 Nedbank Million Dollar Challenge OTHER CAREER HIGHLIGHTS
1994 Doral-Ryder Open
• European Tour Golfer of the Year 1989, ’90, ’92
1997 Nissan Open
• Harry Vardon Trophy 1983, ’92
EUROPEAN TOUR VICTORIES
• Sir Henry Cotton Rookie of the Year 1977
1977 Skol Lager Individual
• PGA of America Player of the Year 1990
1978 Colgate PGA Championship
• Ryder Cup 1977, ’79, ’81, ’83, ’85, ’87, ’89, ’91, ’93, ’95, ’97
1980 Sun Alliance PGA Championship 1981 Sun Alliance PGA Championship
• All-time leading scorer in Ryder Cup with 25 points
1982 Haig Whiskey TPC
• Ryder Cup captain 2008
1983 Paco Rabanne French Open, Martini International, Car Care Plan International, Lawrence Batley International, Ebel Swiss Open-European Masters
• Seve Trophy captain 2007
1984 Car Care Plan International 1987 Peugeot Spanish Open
• Won 1975 British Youths’ Amateur Open and English Amateur Championship
1988 Peugeot French Open, Volvo Masters
• PGA TOUR Ambassador of Golf 2012
1989 Volvo PGA Championship, Dunhill British Masters, Peugeot French Open
• PGA TOUR Payne Stewart Award 2014
• World Cup 1977, ’91, ’98 • Alfred Dunhill Cup 1985, ’86, ’87, ’88, ’91, ’93
• Inducted into World Golf Hall of Fame 1998
1991 Carroll’s Irish Open
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DOROTHY CAMPBELL was golf’s first international female standout, winning the U.S. Women’s Amateur and the British Ladies Amateur in the same year
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OMEN’S GOLF in the 21st century is filled with international stars. But before Inbee Park and Lydia Ko, before Lorena Ochoa, Annika Sorenstam and Laura Davies, even before there was an LPGA Tour, there was Dorothy Campbell. A native of Scotland prior to emigrating to Canada and the United States, Campbell was the first great international female golfer, winning national championships in her native and adoptive lands more than 100 years ago. Already well known in Great Britain, Campbell attracted notice in America in 1909, when she became the first reigning British Ladies Amateur champion to win the U.S. Women’s Amateur. Campbell’s victory at Merion Golf Club came in her first appearance, and her debut was more than auspicious; it was record setting. In her opening match, Campbell beat C.W. McKelvey, 10 and 8. Only three other 18-hole matches in championship history have been completed in the fewest possible holes. In the final a few days later, Campbell defeated Nonna Barlow, 3 and 2. Campbell, who successfully defended her U.S. Amateur title in 1910, won with a steely resolve and uncanny accuracy from the fairway. Not happy with just hitting the putting surface, she is credited by golf historians with being the first woman to shoot for the flagstick on approaches. Her solid short game and a knack for making big putts offset her lack of distance off the tee. That combination resulted in 10 national championships in Scotland, Britain, the U.S. and Canada from 1905 to 1912. Born in Scotland in 1883, Campbell was raised next to North Berwick Golf Club. She quickly took to golf. “How would it be possible to avoid taking an interest in the game,” she wrote, “when the most insistent remembrances of infant summer days are the click of golf balls and the shouts of ‘fore’ as we were shepherded three times daily across the links by an anxious nurse on our way to the shore?” An engaging player who often named her clubs—“Thomas,” her mashie, and “Stella,” her putter, were 72
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her favorites—Campbell won three Scottish Ladies Amateur titles before moving to Canada in 1910. Three years later she married Jack V. Hurd of Pittsburgh and moved to the United States. They divorced in 1923—perhaps the spur Campbell needed to revamp her game. She married Edward Howe in 1937 and divorced again in 1943. Campbell employed the baseball grip and a short, sweeping swing better suited for accuracy than distance. In a
monthly column in Golf Illustrated, she explained the popular Vardon grip as being “distinctly unsuitable for women as their wrists are not strong enough to put sufficient driving power behind the ball.” She preferred placing “my right thumb along and my left thumb around the shaft for every shot.” But by 1923, Campbell realized she was being outplayed. Eschewing her usual swing for a more athletic one, and applying the Vardon grip she once disdained, the Scottish star won the 1924 U.S. Women’s Amateur at age 41. Campbell, who died on December 20, 1945, at age 61 after being struck by a train in Yemassee, S.C., remains the oldest winner in championship history.
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A golfing prodigy,
JEROME TRAVERS enjoyed a brief but successful amateur career
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EROME TRAVERS played in his first U.S. Amateur at age 15 and won the first of four Amateur titles in 1907 at age 20. He was such a dominant presence in the national championship that Francis Ouimet called him “the best match player in the country.” This year marks the 100th anniversary of his victory in the 1915 U.S. Open, after which—though he was not yet 30 years old—he walked away from the game. Born into a wealthy family on May 19, 1887, Travers first took to golf by practicing on a homemade, three-hole course he designed on the sprawling front yard of his family’s estate in Oyster Bay, Long Island. He began a noted rivalry with Walter Travis, the three-time Amateur champion, by beating the “Old Man” in
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the 1904 Nassau Invitational. Travers went on to eclipse Travis with his four U.S. Amateur titles in 1907, 1908, 1912 and 1913—a record later bested by Bobby Jones. Erratic off the tee, Travers often struggled in stroke-play competition, and the 1915 Open at Baltusrol Golf Club in Springfield, N.J., began no
differently. After an opening 76 left him in 10th place, Travers persevered by relying on his solid iron play to forge a one-stroke lead after 54 holes. He started slowly in the final round, going out in 39, but he played the final six holes 1-under par to beat Tom McNamara by a stroke. During that winning stretch, Travers called upon what newspapers of the day identified as “his old matchplay spirit and determination to do as well or better than his opponent.” That philosophy was best exemplified on the 15th hole, where he hit his third shot on the 462-yard, par-5 over water to within 3 feet of the flagstick. The birdie gave Travers a one-stroke advantage, and he used irons off the tee on the final three holes, playing to his strength in an accommodation to safety ingrained in that match-play spirit. Three pars later he became the second amateur, after Ouimet in 1913, to win the U.S. Open. It was a life-changing victory for the 28-year-old. Unable to accept the $300 first prize, Travers realized that earning a living and playing championship-level golf as an amateur were mutually exclusive. Returning to competition only on rare occasions, he spent the next 15 years on Wall Street with a seat on the New York Cotton Exchange. Travers and Payne Stewart are the only players to win the U.S. Open in their final appearance in the tournament. He lived affluently until the stockmarket crash of 1929 led to the Great Depression of the 1930s. In an effort to support his family, Travers sold his seat on the cotton exchange and became a reluctant professional, playing exhibitions while barnstorming across the country. According to a 2009 article in Golf Digest, he wasn’t very successful, perhaps because his heart wasn’t in it. “My father had the reverse mores of today,” Travers’ son David, told the magazine. “A good golfer never played for money.” In the 1940s Travers moved to Connecticut, and during World War II took a job as an inspector at the Pratt and Whitney Aircraft Company. He died in 1951 at age 63.
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“OLD MAN” WALTER TRAVIS may have come to golf later in life, but his impact on the game is still felt
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OLF CELEBRATED an “Old Man” long before the creation of a senior tour. Walter Travis was the sport’s first renaissance man, and although he didn’t touch a club until age 34, he became a champion golfer, a noted journalist and publisher, and an accomplished golf course architect and instructor. Above all he was an innovator without peer in his day. Never afraid to try new things, Travis was one of the first elite players to put the Haskell wound golf ball into play at the 1901 U.S. Amateur. It’s a familiar refrain today, but when manufacturer B.F. Goodrich Company claimed the Haskell ball would add as much as 25 yards to a drive, the short-hitting Travis was among the competitors who switched from the gutta percha ball. 76
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When Travis won the Amateur, the Haskell ball became a phenomenon, gaining acceptance around the world. One year later, Travis met Arthur Knight of Schenectady, N.Y., who had invented a center-shafted aluminum putter. Calling it “the best putter I have ever used,” Travis used the oddlooking flat stick to a runner-up finish in the 1902 U.S. Open, and once again the direction of equipment manufacturing in the U.S. was altered.
The Schenectady putter, as it became known, became a best seller. When Travis won the 1904 British Amateur with the putter, the Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St. Andrews, caretakers of the game and overseer of the sport’s rules, took notice. Eventually, in 1910, the R&A decided to outlaw “centered-shafted, mallet-headed implements.” The U.S. Golf Association, while concurring with the R&A’s stance on centershafted putters, did not agree that the Schenectady fell under this purview. Thus was born the separation of golf’s rulemaking bodies. Born in 1862 in Maldon, Australia, a gold-rush boomtown about 80 miles northwest of Melbourne, Travis came to the U.S. in 1886. He took to golf in 1896 at age 34, and became the top amateur in the U.S. at the turn of the century. He won his first U.S. Amateur in 1900 at age 38 and added victories in 1901 and 1903. That he found success at such an advanced age earned Travis the nickname “Grand Old Man,” which was soon shortened. More victories would follow, including the 1915 Met Amateur at age 53, but Travis excelled in more than golf competition. A course architect almost from the time he took up the game, Travis’ designs were renowned for creative sight lines, innovative bunkering and undulating green complexes, many of which baffle golfers to this day. He designed or helped redesign Garden City Golf Club, Westchester Country Club’s West Course and Canoe Brook’s South Course, among others. In 1908 Travis founded and edited The American Golfer magazine. Having written his first book, Practical Golf, in 1901, Travis was an accomplished writer and used his new forum to publish instruction articles. He focused on his strength—putting—and his writing was instrumental in nurturing the first phase of great American-born golfers, including Francis Ouimet and Bobby Jones. The “Old Man” died before he became a very old man, passing away in 1927 at age 65. MT John Antonini is a researcher and writer for Golf Channel and golfchannel.com.
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THE MEMORIAL CLUB was established to allow the Tournament to plan prudently for the future and to continue the development and maintenance of needed facilities. Funds generated from the endowment are used to provide new and better facilities for spectators and fans and to assure the Tournament’s support of several worthwhile charities. The members of the Memorial Club are:
IN 1986 THE MEMORIAL TOURNAMENT ENDOWMENT
HAROLD P. ANDREWS GREGORY ANTHES WILLIAM E. ARTHUR ABNER H. BAGENSTOSE DONALD F. BAIRD DAVID L. BARNES TIMOTHY J. BATTAGLIA DR. RICHARD BECKETT WILLIAM BRADLEY BENNETT MICHAEL D. BLOCH ROBERT W. BOICH TODD E. BORK KEN BOWDEN RUSSELL L. BOWERMASTER BARRY G. BOYLES GEORGE P. BRAY JAMES G. BROCKSMITH, JR. DAN C. BROWER FRED C. BROWN JAMES B. BURKE RONALD E. CALHOUN THOMAS L. CAMPBELL PHILIP D. CAMPISI STEPHEN P. CASCIANI CRAIG CASSADY RICHARD F. CHAPDELAINE ANTHONY T. CHAPEKIS GRANT CHRISTMAN JOHN J. CHIMENTO JOSEPH A. CHLAPATY RALPH R. CIOFFI DAVID CLARK STEPHEN B. CLARK PETER M. CLARKSON JOSEPH P. COCHRAN RICHARD T. COCHRAN JACK J. CONIE, III. RICHARD R. CORNA WILLIAM P. CSEPLO MILLARD M. CUMMINS DOMINIC J. CURCIO SCOTT E. DESANO JON P. DIAMOND JAMES DIDION ALVA N. DOPKING, JR. THOMAS B. DYER JOHN R. EVANS T. WILLIAM EVANS PHILIP G. FANKHAUSER BRETT A. FEBUS S. TREVOR FERGER LARRY J. FOX
WILLIAM H. FRANZ TAKEO FUKUI ROBERT P. GARDNER R. WILLIAM GARDNER JOSEPH J. GASPER JOHN B. GERLACH, JR. CATHY GERRING LEONARD GORSUCH THOMAS A. GOSNELL KIM D. GREAVES LOWELL “ROCKE” GREER BRUCE R. HAGUE FRANK D. HARMON JOHN R. HARPER ALBERT J. HART, JR. THOMAS A. HASSFURTHER HENRY W. HAUSER JOHN F. HAVENS LEO J. HAWK LAWRENCE J. HAYES PAUL G. HELLER MILAN B. HERCEG KOKI HIRASHIMA WILLIAM E. HOBAN RALPH E. HODGES THEODORE J. HOST J. PATRICK HUBER JOHN B. HUTCHENS J. LAWRENCE HUTTA JAMES T. HUTTA MARTIN INGLIS VICTOR D. IRELAN PETER J. JOCHUMS JILL EVANS JOHNSON C. LEE JOHNSON THOMAS B. JOHNSON FRITZ KAISER JAMES R. KARPAC KEN ARMEN KAZARIAN NEIL E. KELLEY JOHN P. KENNEDY JOHN W. KESSLER BENJAMIN T. KING JACK E. KING SAMUEL B. KING JAMES M. KOSTELAC THOMAS C. KRUSE JOHN KUCHARCZYK ROBERT A. LANDTHORN RICHARD S. LANGDALE DAVID P. LAUER PETER J. LAVERTY LARRY L. LIEBERT
JEFFREY D. LOGAN PAUL B. LONG, JR. PAUL B. LOYD, JR. JACK E. LUCKS CHRISTIAN D. MAHER DANIEL M. MAHER DONAL H. MALENICK STEPHEN J. MANGUM JAMES P. MANOS ROBERT J. MASSEY JAMES A. MAXWELL, JR. MICHAEL W. McCARTY GEORGE W. McCLOY RUSTY McCLURE JOHN P. McCONNELL DAN R. McFARLAND JOHN W. McKITRICK LAWRENCE A. McLERNON ROBERT D. McNEIL JOHN T. McNICHOLAS ROBERT S. MEEDER VAIL K. MILLER CAMERON MITCHELL DAVID J. MLICKI JACK MOLL THOMAS E. MOSURE SIGMUND MUNSTER MICHAEL R. MURNANE MASAO NAGAHARA DENISON “CHIP” NEALE, JR. BARBARA NICKLAUS JACK W. NICKLAUS JACK W. NICKLAUS II STEVEN C. NICKLAUS H.M. “BUTCH” O’NEILL RICHARD G. ORLANDO TERENCE A. OSBORN NILES C. OVERLY WILLIAM D. PARKER JOHN W. PARTRIDGE, JR. MICHAEL C. PASCUCCI ROBERT D. PATRELLA DARYL L. PETERMAN LOYAL M. PETERMAN CECIL J. PETITTI, II. MARK PHELAN PERRY E. PIPES HAROLD T. PONTIUS BENJAMIN B. PRICE WILLIAM B. PRICE GARY L. RACEY H.R.”BUSS” RANSOM STEPHEN S. RASMUSSEN
MERWIN J. RAY FRANK R. RAYMOND C. MICHAEL REARDON WILLIAM E. ROBERTS JEFFREY A. ROBY BRADLEY H. ROSELY ANDREW J. ROTH L. JACK RUSCILLI LOUIS V. RUSCILLI ROBERT A. RUSCILLI, JR. MICHAEL D. RYAN BRIAN P. SAVAGE PANDEL SAVIC MARTIN L. SAVKO RONALD E. SCHERER FRITZ SCHMIDT GREGORY E. SCHNEIDER GARY L. SCHOTTENSTEIN JOHN J. SCOTT, III. KEVIN SHANAHAN STEVEN P. SHEPARD J. ROBERT SIERRA CHARLES M. SIMON WILLIAM E. SLOAN SAMUEL E. SMILEY DOUGLAS A. SMITH JEFFREY H. SOPP SCOTT W. STEARNS DAN STERGIOU JOHN C. STIEG NORMAN C. STRAKER JOSEPH W. TAYLOR DAVID T. TERRY RAYMOND J. TESNER JERRY L. TRABUE CHARLES C. UNGUREAN BRUCE L. VOR BROKER WAYNE C. WALKER RAY C. WASIELEWSKI THOMAS B. WEIHE ALFRED J. WEISBROD KENNETH J. WESTERHEIDE RANDY WILCOX JEFF WILKINS EVAN A. WILLIAMS R. MAX WILLIAMSON JAMES L. WILMERS JOHN O. WINCHESTER MICHAEL A. WOLCOTT JIM D. WRIGHT TROY WRIGHT IVOR H. YOUNG
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Doc Giffin, this year’s Memorial Golf Journalism Award recipient, was a fine newspaperman and PGA press secretary before taking on his most challenging task: assisting Arnold Palmer with his myriad media and business obligations
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to Arnold Palmer—have meant nearly five decades working closely with one of sport’s iconic figures. Detailing everything Giffin has done for his fellow western Pennsylvanian, though, can be more difficult than changing lanes on the Fort Pitt Bridge during rush hour. “You’d have a hard time writing up a job description,” says Giffin, who at age 86 still fills the role. “It’s always been, ‘When something comes up, deal with it.’ ” The way Giffin has handled his position—a large part of which has been organizing Palmer’s many media obligations— is the reason he has received the Memorial Golf Journalism Award for 2015. Giffin, who had been a sportswriter for the Pittsburgh Press and the PGA of America’s traveling press secretary for its Tournament Players Division prior to being hired by Palmer in 1966, is, like his boss, one of golf’s good guys. “Doc does his job with class and grace,” says veteran sportswriter Marino Parascenzo, who was honored by the Memorial Tournament in 2004. “You run into people doing his kind of work who can be devious and off-putting. Doc isn’t like that. He’ll tell you straight out, and that hasn’t varied in all the years I’ve known him.” Palmer met Giffin in 1959 at a reception at the Pittsburgh Field Club promoting that year’s Western Open. As golf’s top draw in the 1960s, Palmer relied heavily on Giffin, who was the PGA’s traveling press secretary for five years starting in 1962. “In those days, even if Arnold wasn’t winning the tournament or leading the tournament, reporters still wanted to talk to him about his round,” Giffin says. “He was in the press room almost every time he played, and that’s how we got to know each other so well.” Giffin’s last day as press secretary was the final round of
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Previous page: Doc Giffin is tasked with keeping his boss, Arnold Palmer, up to speed on all the goings on at Arnold Palmer Enterprises. Right: Giffin was a PGA media official from 1962-66 before going to work for Palmer, pictured here with the late Ken Venturi.
the 1966 PGA Championship at Firestone Country Club won by Al Geiberger—a day that ended with the tragic news that Tony Lema and his wife had been killed in a plane crash outside Chicago. “There were only a couple of us still at Firestone when word came back that it had happened,” Giffin says. “I called Arnold, and he had already heard about it from a radio guy in Pittsburgh.” The following morning, July 25, 1966, Giffin began his jack-ofall-trades career with Palmer by accompanying him to Jack Nicklaus’ charity pro-am at Scioto Country Club. And so started one of the most enduring and close collaborations a marquee athlete has ever had with someone on his payroll. “I certainly depend on him for almost everything,” Palmer says of Giffin. “He has been great through the years, a fantastic guy who is very knowledgeable and helpful.” While Palmer’s life was influenced heavily by his father, Deacon, the greenskeeper and pro at Latrobe (Pa.) Country Club, Giffin, born and raised in Crafton, Pa., a bedroom borough seven miles from downtown
“I CERTAINLY DEPEND ON HIM FOR ALMOST EVERYTHING. HE HAS BEEN GREAT THROUGH THE YEARS, A FANTASTIC GUY WHO IS VERY KNOWLEDGEABLE AND HELPFUL.” — ARNOLD PALMER
Pittsburgh, wasn’t as fortunate. Born with a weak heart and worn down by the pressures of the Great Depression, John Giffin, a bank cashier, died when Doc was only 6 years old. “My grandfather, Rudolph, had a drug store in Crafton,” says Giffin, “and when my father died, my younger brother and my mother and I moved in with my grandparents and two uncles. We had seven people in a two-bedroom apartment over the drug store.” Giffin, who jokes that former Pittsburgh Steelers head coach Bill Cowher is the secondmost famous native of Crafton, benefited from 86
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two good turns while he was in high school. He got his first taste of journalism by helping out on the Crafton-Ingram Times, a weekly newspaper started by his grandfather and several other local businessmen. And he earned a scholarship to attend the University of Pittsburgh. “I certainly would have tried everything I could to go to college, but I probably wouldn’t have been able to afford it without that scholarship,” Giffin says. He was a political science major and interested in being a lawyer until he was fortunate to get a spot on the sports staff of the student newspaper, The Pitt News, as a freshman. “I fell in love with it,” recalls Giffin, who became the publication’s sports editor and editor, “and I decided that was what I was going to be.” Giffin worked for the United Press wire service after graduating from Pitt in 1950, then spent two years in the U.S. Army during the Korean War. After getting out of the service, Giffin worked at the Pittsburgh Press for nine years, most of that span in the sports department. One of his colleagues was the colorful Bob Drum, a chronicler of Palmer’s early exploits. Giffin “handled all of Drum’s copy,” at the paper, filled in when Drum couldn’t handle a golf assignment and edited the first instruction book his friend wrote for Palmer. Drum introduced Giffin to Palmer in 1959
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Herb Graffis • Bernard Darwin O.B. Keeler • Grantland Rice Henry Longhurst
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Pat Ward-Thomas Charles A. Bartlett
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Charles Price
Will Grimsley
Leonard Crawley
Bob Harlow
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William D. Richardson
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Jack Whitaker
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Jim Murray
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Percy Huggins
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Michael Williams
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Bob Drum • Ronald Heager Peter Ryde • Lincoln A. Werden
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Dave Anderson • Renton Laidlaw Nick Seitz
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Leonard Kamsler • Michael McDonnell Tom Ramsey • Robert Sommers
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Kaye Kessler
Al Barkow
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Marino Parascenzo
2005
Jim McKay
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Frank Chirkinian
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Ken Bowden
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Both Palmer and Giffin, now in their 80s, show no signs of slowing down or stepping back from the game—and life—they love.
not only in sports,” Giffin says. “To be on the and convinced Doc to take the tour job when it sidelines, helping him organize things, has been was offered to him two years later. “His parting pretty spectacular. It’s been exciting.” words were, ‘Doctor, you don’t take this job, Giffin has always done his job with grace, I’ll never speak to you again,’ ” Giffin says. The efficiency and humor. Describing the memoraweek after Nicklaus made his professional bilia of Palmer dentist and debut, earning $33.33 at the superfan Dr. Howdy Giles to 1962 Los Angeles Open, “AS FAR AS the Philadelphia Inquirer in Giffin arrived on the national REPRESENTING 1993, Giffin said: “His house golf scene at San Diego as the is done in Early, Middle and tour’s second press secretary, ARNOLD, HE Late Palmer.” replacing Jim Gaquin, who For Giffin, in his early days had been promoted to tourna- COULDN’T HAVE working for Palmer, to have ment manager. BEEN BETTER,” imagined that the gig would be Being around Palmer so — NICK SEITZ going on with both men well much, Giffin observed a downinto their 80s would be to to-earth man who treated think people could one day people right. It was how Giffin take a picture with their handled the job once he began phone. “Not at all,” Giffin says. “I wasn’t even sure working for Palmer. he and I would still be on this earth at our ages.” “As far as representing Arnold, he couldn’t But, moving a little slower, they are. “I’ve have been better,” says Nick Seitz, former edicut back a little bit,” Giffin says. “I take torial director of Golf Digest and a 2000 Wednesdays off and play golf with the seniors at Memorial journalism winner. “Doc knows the the club. I’ll take an afternoon off now and then newspaper and magazine mind and knows how to cater to it. He is a class act and has never too. But I’m not retired yet.” MT ducked anything. He’d level with you.” It has been quite a ride for the boy in that Bill Fields has written about golf for three decades. crowded apartment. “Over the years Arnold has An anthology of his stories, Arnie, Seve, and a been involved with so many important people, Fleck of Golf History, was published in 2014.
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N AN EARLY MONDAY MORNING LAST JUNE, golf fans across Japan eagerly watched the final round of the Memorial Tournament presented by Nationwide as Hideki Matsuyama, in his first full season on the PGA TOUR, was in contention to capture his first U.S. victory.
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Final round Sunday on the East Coast of the United States is actually Monday morning in Japan. Across the country, businessmen (commonly referred to as “salary men”), watched the final round unfold while getting ready for work, some knowing that they would be late. They were treated to a playoff between Matsuyama and Kevin Na, which Matsuyama would win on the first extra hole by saving par, making him, at just 22 years old, the youngest Japanese player to win on the PGA TOUR. And all of Japan celebrated. Japan’s mainstream media picked up the story, making it the hottest topic on morning talk shows, and triggering special editions of at least half a dozen sports newspaper publications. Winning Jack Nicklaus’ Memorial Tournament, widely considered to be one of the most elite events on TOUR, makes Matsuyama the fourth Japanese player to win on the PGA TOUR, joining Isao Aoki, Shigeki Maruyama and Ryuji Imada. Is Matsuyama’s win more significant than the others? It could very well turn out to be the case. Consider the three players who preceded Matsuyama with PGA TOUR victories. The man with the magic putter, Aoki, was so skilled he could roll a ball over a single grain of sand. Three years after
finishing a heartbreaking second to Jack Nicklaus in the 1980 U.S. Open, Aoki became the first Japanese player to win on the PGA TOUR when he holed out with a wedge for an eagle on the 72nd hole to win the 1983 Hawaiian Open. Following him, Shigeki Maruyama won the 2001 Greater Milwaukee Open in only his second year on TOUR and became the first Japanese player to win on the U.S. mainland. He is also the first, and thus far, only Japanese multiple winner on the PGA TOUR with three titles (he also won the 2002 Verizon Byron Nelson Classic and the 2003 Chrysler Classic of Greensboro). During the time leading up to Maruyama’s win, Joe Ozaki, youngest brother of Hall of Famer Jumbo Ozaki, competed on the PGA TOUR from 1993 for eight years. He came close several times, but was never able to break through. Japanese people began to understand that PGA TOUR wins are incredibly difficult to achieve, especially when you consider language barriers, cultural challenges, changes in course setup and the different types of grasses found in America. This was in addition to physically being smaller than other players from overseas. Even after fighting off superstars like Tiger Woods, Phil Mickelson and Ernie Els at the 2002 Verizon Byron Nelson THE MEMORIAL
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UNTIL NOW, THE WORD “SUCCESS” FOR JAPANESE PLAYERS ON THE PGA TOUR WAS MOSTLY CENTERED AROUND WINNING… Classic for his second victory, Maruyama said, “Golf is a physical competition; Ernie and Phil have different bodies than me. It’s like the difference between a child and an adult.” Ryuji Imada, the third Japanese winner on the PGA TOUR, went about things a different way, though his strategy has yet to fully pay off. At age 14, Imada moved to Tampa, Fla., to adapt to the language and culture while playing competitive golf. Even with most of his training here in the U.S., he has only won once so far (2008 AT&T Classic), and has since lost his PGA TOUR exemption. Until now, the word “success” for Japanese players on the PGA TOUR was mostly centered around winning, and we hadn’t heard of too many Japanese players’ “success” recently. Then came Hideki Matsuyama. In just his second year as a professional, he showed his ability to compete in big events, finishing strong in the majors and World Golf Championship events. This
earned him enough FedExCup points for PGA TOUR playing privileges. In addition to Matsuyama becoming the youngest Japanese player to win on the PGA TOUR, he also became the first player in history to win the Memorial in his first attempt (not counting the inaugural Memorial in 1976 won by Roger Maltbie). With a list of winners that includes Tom Watson, Greg Norman, Fred Couples, Ernie Els, Tiger Woods and Host Jack Nicklaus, the Memorial is a special event and carries a lot of meaning for most Japanese players who have not had the same success themselves and understand how difficult it is to compete on the PGA TOUR. The way in which Matsuyama was able to win, playing the final round with then-world No. 1 Adam Scott and rallying past Masters champion Bubba Watson, makes the achievement even more meaningful. Vice Captain for the International Team in the 2013 Presidents Cup at Muirfield Village, Maruyama, who finished fourth at the 2002 Memorial, said: “It’s difficult for Japanese players to compete at the Memorial. Making the cut in your rookie year is a feat in itself.” Matsuyama says his dream is to win majors. Many Japanese players have competed overseas and in many majors through the years, but only
Japanese phenom Hideki Matsuyama won the 2010 Asian Amateur Championship and earned a berth in the Masters Tournament while he was a freshman at Tohoku Fukushi University. He defended his title the following year at Singapore
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Above: In 2011, at the age of 19, Matsuyama became the first Japanese amateur player to compete in the Masters Tournament, and he won the award for Low Amateur.
Right: Following his appearance in the Masters and while still an amateur, Matsuyama earned his first victory on the Japan Golf Tour: the 2011 Sumitomo VISA Taiheiyo Masters in Japan.
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a few have been as straightforward about stating publicly that they want to win them. With exceptions like Ryo Ishikawa, another promising young Japanese player who won 10 times on the Japan Tour but still seeks his first PGA TOUR victory while in his third season, few Japanese players set such goals. Matsuyama clearly stating his goal gives Japanese fans the hope that he has the potential to do what no other Japanese player before him has done. “… But 22 years old. That’s how old I was when I won my first tournament,” Memorial Founder and Host Jack Nicklaus said. “So I think he’s got a little time left. … I think you’ve just seen the start of what’s going to be truly one of the world’s great players over the next 10 to 15 years.” Hideki Matsuyama was born February 25, 1992, in Matsuyama City, Ehime Prefecture. Matsuyama’s father, Mikio, was a top-ranked amateur golfer in Japan and started taking Hideki to the driving range with him when he was 4 years old. He learned the basics by practicing with an adult set that his father cut down for him. At the age of 6, he had the opportunity
to see Isao Aoki at a nearby practice facility and has said he was moved by Aoki’s ball striking and pitch shots around the greens. Some of Matsuyama’s interests outside of golf include bowling and baseball. In school, he bowled a game over 280, and on TOUR, he plays catch as a way to get some exercise. Also, in his free time on TOUR, he sometimes enjoys going to major league baseball games. He is very competitive and a perfectionist in everything he does. He even hates to lose in a simple game of janken (rock, paper, scissors). Matsuyama is known as a practice fiend on the TOUR, hitting balls well into the darkness, something that has not changed since his high school and college days. In school, he was known to stay alone hitting balls at the driving range well after the rest of his teammates had finished. All of the hard work paid off when he began to get some attention while playing at Tohoku Fukushi University. In 2010, as a freshman, he won the Asian Amateur Championship and became the first Japanese player to compete, as an amateur, in the Masters at age 19. He finished 27th, capturing the Low Amateur honor. Later that year, he won the Sumitomo VISA Taiheiyo Masters for his first Japan Golf Tour win, joining Massy Kuramoto and Ryo Ishikawa as the third player to win a professional event as an amateur. He defended his Asian Amateur title the following year and competed in the Masters a second time. After turning professional in April 2013, he won the second event he played in on the Japan Golf Tour, the Tsuruya Open. He went on to
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“I DON’T LIKE INTENSE TRAINING. BUT IF THAT’S WHAT IT TAKES TO WIN A MAJOR, I’M NOT COMPLAINING.” —HIDEKI MATSUYAMA
Matsuyama was a member of the 2013 Presidents Cup International Team, which also included, standing (left to right): Mark McNulty, Richard Sterne, Branden Grace, Graham DeLaet, Brendan de Jonge, Nick Price, Matsuyama, Louis Oosthuizen, Tony Johnstone and Shigeki Maruyama; and sitting (left to right): Jason Day, Adam Scott, Ernie Els, Angel Cabrera, Charl Schwartzel and Marc Leishman. The United States Team won the competition contested at Muirfield Village
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capture four more tournaments to become the first rookie to win the money title on the Japan Golf Tour. In addition, he finished 10th at the U.S. Open at Merion and sixth at The Open Championship held at Muirfield, Scotland, becoming the first Japanese player to finish in the top-10 in two consecutive majors. What makes Matsuyama different from other Japanese players? In addition to his golf skills are his size (5 feet 11, 170 pounds) and a mental toughness that allows him to play fearlessly in big events. As golf courses on the PGA TOUR have gotten longer, being long off the tee is now more of an advantage. Often, it’s tough for an average-sized golfer to compete if they are not able to hit it as far as other, larger competitors. Following last year’s Memorial, Jack Nicklaus made a point to emphasize Matsuyama’s size and strength. He recalled the well-known Japanese players of his era— “Jumbo was a big guy. Aoki was tall but not as strong”—and said that Matsuyama “has the
ability to be able to play golf courses well within himself and doesn’t have to push for distance and strength.” Matsuyama was actually relatively skinny in college, but he took some important early advice from Aoki to gain weight and began to eat more and exercise to build muscle mass. His swing has also benefitted from his training, and he has become more consistent, helping him become fourth on the “Strokes Gained Tee to Green” list on the PGA TOUR last season. In other words, he’s the fourth best player on TOUR at getting the ball from the tee to the green. “I don’t like intense training, but if that’s what it takes to win a major, I’m not complaining,” Matsuyama said. Yasuhiko Abe, Matsuyama’s coach at Tohoku Fukushi University, says that his mental strength is a trait that can’t be ignored. Abe mentored Matsuyama prior to going to college and told him how hard he needed to work in order to compete on the world stage. Matsuyama listened. During college, Abe was like a father figure for Matsuyama—someone he could trust and discuss anything with. According to Abe, “Hideki is the type of player whose concentration becomes stronger the bigger the event, but his personality is easygoing.” Matsuyama is so “easygoing” that he has
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learn, even with his victory. “I’m so happy to win at one of Jack Nicklaus’ courses,” he said. “It was not an easy course, so it gives me a lot of confidence. However, I was able to win today with some missed shots. If I play like this in a major, winning is far away. I’ll try to work harder from tomorrow.” Matsuyama’s win came a year earlier than he had expected, but it didn’t translate into further success on the PGA TOUR the rest of the season, and he didn’t play up to his standards in the 2014 majors. “This year was just one of those years,” he said. “Next year, I need to first work hard to get into each of the majors. I need to continue to perfect my skills, mentally and physically, in order to finish high up on the leaderboard. If I have the ability to win the Memorial, I have the ability to win a major. Everything you do is important to winning a major. Even if the end result isn’t great, working on every detail little by little will help bring about a chance to win.” MT Eiko Oizumi, editor in chief of GOLF TODAY magazine in Japan, has been covering golf for more than 20 years, including 80 majors.
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the ability to fall asleep anytime and anywhere. He also can be forgetful. Or maybe he is just intensely focused on his game. On several occasions he had to be reminded by his coach not to forget to take his golf shoes home from the clubhouse. However, Matsuyama’s focus also has probably been a challenge for him. His somewhat imperturbable attitude on the course gives him the ability to hit shots without worrying too much about details. He can concentrate just enough to hit the right shot but not get too concerned with the troubles or risks. But the problem comes with playing at his own pace, and he remains so focused that he becomes unaware of his pace of play. But he is still learning, and as he competes more on the world stage, he’ll improve. Matsuyama knows that he still has a lot to
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Despite a broken driver and sudden-death playoff, Hideki Matsuyama breaks records and breaks through with his win in the 2014 Memorial Tournament D A V E
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NE OF THE MORE UNIQUE FEATURES of the Memorial Tournament presented by Nationwide is the winner’s press conference in the media center theater. Traditionally, the game’s greatest champion attends and even might help conduct the interview. Lo and behold, the nugget of illumination that came from Hideki Matsuyama’s press conference on June 1, 2014, came courtesy of Tournament Founder and Host Jack Nicklaus. “He’s 22 years old,” Nicklaus mused. “That’s how old I was when I won my first tournament.”
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Muirfield Village gets the rare chance to run firm and fast, and with both wind and internal pressure whipping up unpredictably, there was turmoil on the leaderboard. Scott was 14 under after a birdie at No. 11 but suffered a double-bogey and three bogeys among his next five holes and faded. He hit one shot into water, took two shots to get out of a bunker, and had the misfortune of an approach shot crashing into the flagstick and caroming off a green at the par-5 15th. Watson, the leader entering the final day, was 15 under with five holes to play, but he opened that final stretch with a bogey-double and bogey salvo, badly hooking a couple of drives, including one that left the premises on the 15th. He then managed no more than par the last three holes. Of course, to measure the full and complete 2014 carnage, we have to flash back to Day 2 and Rory McIlroy’s crash-andburn misfortunes. McIlroy did a number—63 to be precise—on Muirfield Village in the opening round. His back nine included two eagles, and it was so good that even Rory McIlroy got off to a terrific a sloppy double bogey at No. 14 start with a 9-under-par 63, couldn’t get in the way. but he struggled to a 78 in the A day later, double bogeys very second round and ended up much got in his way. McIlroy had not being a factor as he tied three of them in a row, at holes 13-15, for 15th place.
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The comparison between the two careers will be written over time. If and when Matsuyama arrives at 18 major championships, we’ll stop the presses and rewrite. For now, though, as Nicklaus said, everyone’s “gotta start somewhere.” And there are few better and more prestigious places for a breakthrough win than in the PGA TOUR’s annual stop at Muirfield Village Golf Club. Matsuyama’s first PGA TOUR win and first triumph on American soil allowed him to supplant Tiger Woods as the youngest Memorial champion by more than a year. He also became just the fourth Japanese-born player to win a PGA TOUR event, joining, among others, the great Isao Aoki. So, just seven paragraphs in and we have lumped Matsuyama, in one manner or another, with Nicklaus, Woods and Aoki. Not bad company. He wasn’t in bad company on the scoreboard at Muirfield Village Golf Club either. Adam Scott, the world’s No. 1-ranked player, was right there. So was Bubba Watson, fairly fresh off his second Masters victory. And Kevin Na, nearly two hours before Matsuyama came to the final holes, already had posted a gem, an 8-under-par 64, to work his way atop the leaderboard. But as is often the case on a hot, sunny Sunday, when
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Kevin Na (above), Bubba Watson (above right) and Adam Scott (lower right) all had their chances to win the 39th Memorial Tournament but slipped at some point on Sunday.
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and the latter represented a four-stroke swing from Thursday’s eagle. He shuffled in three bogeys, too, and it added up to a bloated 78. “I missed fairways,” McIlroy said. “I didn’t realize how thick the rough was until I got in it today. Obviously that little three-hole stretch— 13, 14, 15—didn’t help. It seemed like anything that could sort of go wrong did go wrong out there with having a double hit on 15 and hitting a couple of branches on 13.” When all was said and done, McIlroy was tied for 15th, seven shots out of the suddendeath playoff between Matsuyama and Na that decided things. Even Matsuyama wasn’t immune, and it took a little fancy footwork to avoid some costly land mines at the end. He had but six pars during the final round
and hit his tee shot on the par-3 16th into the water for a double bogey. When he bogeyed the 17th, he arrived at the tee box on the 72nd hole needing a birdie to tie Na and force a playoff. And Matsuyama hit what he believed was not a very good drive as his ball drifted right. He gave his driver a disappointed slap on the ground—by no means did he “Happy Gilmore” it—and the head popped off. “I was really shocked because I didn’t, I really didn’t hit it that hard,” Matsuyama said. “If you look at the replay, he almost just dropped the club … it was not a whack,” Nicklaus observed. If Matsuyama was shocked by the damage he inflicted on his club, imagine his shock when he looked down the 18th and saw his ball, thanks to a friendly carom, sitting up nicely in the fairway. “I had a lot of missed shots,” he said. “The double-bogey at 16, bogey at 17, not a real good
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tee shot, I thought, at 18. But when I saw the ball on the fairway, that’s when I was able to think, ‘I still have a chance.’ ” Aided by a left-to-right wind, Matsuyama hit a 7-iron to 5 feet and calmly made the putt for birdie, becoming the first player in Memorial history to birdie the closing hole in four straight rounds. It capped a 3-under 69 and lifted him into a tie with Na at 13-under 275. Speaking of Na, he had spent much of the previous two hours on a sofa in the clubhouse watching on TV as some of the on-course calamities unfolded. He had to be wondering if maybe he might win his second TOUR title without striking another shot. Matsuyama’s birdie at 18 dictated otherwise, and when Na did again swing the club— the playoff started at the 18th tee—he hooked his drive into the creek hugging the left side of the fairway. Matsuyama didn’t exactly bring the hole to its knees. Without a replacement for his broken driver, he hit a 3-wood drive that landed in a bunker. He hooked a 5-iron shot left that glanced off a spectator, and then hit a flop shot to 10 feet. Na was about the same distance with a putt for bogey, but Matsuyama’s par putt was true to end it. Matsuyama became the first Memorial winner since the very first Memorial victor, Roger Maltbie in 1976, to win the event in his first start at Muirfield Village. But that was something of a technicality. Matsuyama got a feel for the place while playing in five Presidents Cup matches on the course the previous year, winning one match and halving another during another U.S. victory in the biennial event. “I remember watching him before The Presidents Cup here,” Nicklaus said. “I saw him play in a couple of tournaments, and I loved his tempo. Hideki has very good size… He has the ability to be able to play golf courses well within himself and doesn’t have to push for distance and strength.” “I just think you’ve seen the start of what’s going to be truly one of [the] world’s great players over the next 10 to 15 years.” Matsuyama is all for it. “One of my goals since I was a little guy was to win on the U.S. PGA TOUR,” he said. “And now that I’ve done that, my next goal would be to win one of the four majors.” We’ll see how that plays out. But at age 22, the Memorial title was indeed a great start. MT
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The Great White Shark, Greg Norman, is now a grandfather, but in his prime he took a big bite out of golf, including two Memorial wins B Y
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REG NORMAN ISN’T EXAGGERATING when he says a lot has happened in his life—“I couldn’t possibly list it all,” he says—in the last 25 years since he won the 1990 Memorial Tournament. “Well, right at the top of my list,” he begins, “back then I was a father of two young children, and now I’m a grandfather, which is very exciting. That’s the first thing that comes to mind.”
Indeed, since being declared the winner of the 15th Memorial while standing with a 3-iron in his hands on the driving range here at Muirfield Village Golf Club on a rainy Sunday in May, Norman has been a busy man. Here’s a quick list we put together on behalf of the iconic Great White Shark: He won his second major title at the 1993 Open Championship; started his own business, Great White Shark Enterprises, that same year; won his second Memorial in 1995; set a record for number of weeks ranked No. 1 in the world; famously lost the ’96 Masters (to this year’s Tournament Honoree, Sir Nick Faldo) but dealt with the disappointment with exemplary class; began designing critically acclaimed golf courses; was inducted into the World Golf Hall of Fame in 2001; nearly won a third Open in 2008 at age 53 at Royal Birkdale before finishing third; twice captained the International Team in The Presidents Cup; and underwent 12 surgical procedures for a variety of injuries. 114
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About that last item: No operation was more serious than the surgery required last September when Norman suffered a severe wrist injury from a chain saw he was operating in his backyard in Jupiter, Fla. A heavy limb forced his left wrist onto the running blade, missing his main artery by millimeters. He sustained nerve damage but avoided muscular impairment. Miraculously, he was back playing golf in December at his own Shark Shootout, participating in the pro-am but skipping the main event. “It’s way better off than it could have been,” says the Shark, who turned 60 in February. “Swinging the golf club is one thing, feeling what happens at impact is another. But I really don’t have any problems overall. I’m a very lucky guy.” Luck was a commodity Norman rarely enjoyed during his prime. Though he won often and was indisputably the world’s top golfer, he weathered a remarkable series of disappointments
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WHEN RAINY AND CHILLY WEATHER RETURNED ON SATURDAY, IT WAS NORMAN’S TIME TO SHINE; HE CARDED A 69 THAT MATCHED THE LOW ROUND OF THE DAY. Above: Greg Norman (top left) and Fred Couples (top right) made their own fashion statements while battling the inclement weather. Bottom right: Keeping the course playable was a constant battle for the dedicated grounds crew.
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when his opponents orchestrated final-hole miracle shots to beat him. But in the 1990 Memorial, fate smiled favorably on him. The Tournament began amid the most difficult scoring conditions since the second round of 1979, the famed “Ferocious Friday” when only Tom Watson, with a phenomenal 69, broke par. Eleven years later Fred Couples was the lone par breaker, also shooting 69 on a day when temperatures dipped into the 40s and
winds gusted to nearly 40 mph. The field scoring average of 78.792 eclipsed the record from the ’79 edition. Norman eked out an opening 73, and then stayed within striking distance when he matched Couples’ 74 on Friday as scoring remained difficult. The cut of 13-over 157 matched the Tournament record. Fifteen players who failed to break 80 in the opening round still qualified for the weekend. When rainy and chilly weather returned on Saturday, it was Norman’s turn to shine; he carded a 69 that matched the low round of the day. The Shark birdied 11, 14 and 17 after turning in even par, and then converted a 10-foot par save at 18 after finding a greenside bunker. That clutch stroke kept him one shot ahead of Payne Stewart, who also managed to post a 69. “When you tee it up on the first day, you
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Don Pooley
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have to hit every shot like it’s the last shot you’re going to play, because you just never know what’s going to happen,” says Norman, who learned that he held the 54-hole lead later that night—after watching a local TV newscast. “That’s the importance you have to put on every stroke. Turns out, that was the last shot I played that week, and it was very important. “I did all the right things to close out the day.” Conversely, Couples, who would go on to win the 1998 Memorial, closed out the day about as abysmally as possible. After turning in 34 to open a four-stroke lead, he bogeyed 11, 14 and 16. Now tied with Norman, he pulled his tee shot into the left rough at 18. Bad went to worse when he couldn’t find the ball, and it was assumed it trundled into the nearby creek. The mishap led to a double-bogey and a 75. He never had a chance to hit another shot. With 10 holes declared unplayable after heavy morning showers, the final round was canceled. Stewart delivered the news to Norman on the practice range, and the Shark swam into the interview room with his ninth PGA TOUR title. “It’s a good break, but I don’t want to say it’s one I got back,” Norman said at the time. “I don’t think it works that way. You can never make up for something that’s gone.” It was the field that needed a break in 1995, when the Shark returned and tore up a rain-softened Muirfield Village with rounds of 66-70-6766—269, one off Tom Lehman’s Tournament record set the previous year. With that four stroke victory, Norman joined Tournament host Jack Nicklaus and Hale Irwin as multiple winners of the Memorial. Watson added a second victory in 1996. Kenny Perry and Tiger Woods have since won it three and five times, respectively. Norman’s 91 worldwide titles include 20 on the PGA TOUR. He considers his two Memorial triumphs among his most important after his wins in the 1987 and ’93 Open Championships, his two major titles. “When you consider that the Memorial Tournament is played on one of the best courses in the world with one of the best fields, and then you add the influence of Jack Nicklaus, who I idolized growing up, the Memorial is very special,” Norman says. “It was one of the first events that gave me an exemption in the United States [in 1977], so it’s meaningful to me in that regard as well. I’ve played golf all over the world. I can tell you that the Memorial is in the top five or six in the world, period.” MT David Shedloski is editorial director of The Memorial.
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but challenging the right side of the fairway is the best play because trees impede the approach from a drive hit too far left, and the green is bunkered at front right and rear left. Accuracy is at a premium on one of the tougher par 4s.
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3 A D O W N H I L L D R I V E to a generous fairway, then an approach over a lake to a small, two-tiered green
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2014 AVERAGE SCORE: 3.095 • DIFFICULTY: 9TH 1976-20 1 4 AV E R A G E S C O R E : 3 . 1 6 7 • D I F F I C U LT Y: 3 R D
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4 THIS FIRST OF THE FOUR par 3s slopes gently downhill to a long, narrow, heavily bunkered green cut into a hillside.
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5 D O W N H I L L A G A I N from the tee, between wooded hillsides to a wide, level fairway. Then the fun starts. Some 300 yards out,
a creek bordering the left side of the hole swings into the fairway, which it then bisects all the way to the green. The creek finally becomes a moat around the entire left side of the green, which is bunkered at right and left rear. The green is small and one of the most undulating on the course. Altogether, a unique and demanding hole.
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2014 AVERAGE SCORE: 3.877 • DIFFICULTY: 14TH 1976-201 4 AV E R A G E S C O R E : 4 . 0 9 9 • D I F F I C U LT Y: 1 2 T H
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on the tee shot. The ideal line is the left-center of the fairway, leaving a clear shot over water and sand to a medium-size green. A challenging hole that can require a long-iron or even a metalwood second shot when it plays against the wind.
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7 A N E X P O S E D , E L E V AT E D , bunker-lined, double-dogleg hole, reachable in two by only the longest hitters. A rough-grassed swale
sweeps in from the right side across in front of the green. Bunkers guard the front left, right and rear right of the putting surface, which breaks severely off to the left towards a wooded ravine. Not an easy hole to birdie, but the farther left the conservative player is on his second shot, the easier his third becomes. T H E M E M O R I A L 137
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holes. The tee shot is appealingly downhill, but the plateau green is almost entirely surrounded by sand, including a pot bunker guarding the back left. The valley between tee and green adds to the difficulty of club selection by making the hole look longer than it is.
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2014 AVERAGE SCORE: 3.985 • DIFFICULTY: 12TH 1976-201 4 AV E R A G E S C O R E : 4 . 1 1 4 • D I F F I C U LT Y: 1 1 T H
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9 O N E O F M U I R F I E L D V I L L A G E ’ S most challenging driving holes. Too far right from the tee and trees block the approach.
Too far left and a steep, wooded hillside threatens even more serious trouble. The tilted green is spectacularly framed by a lake, a creek and a bold hillside and must often be approached from an angled lie, even off a good drive. A strong par 4 demanding courage and finesse from tee to cup. T H E M E M O R I A L 141
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2014 AVERAGE SCORE: 4.095 â&#x20AC;˘ DIFFICULTY: 8TH 1976-20 1 4 AV E R A G E S C O R E : 4 . 1 5 6 â&#x20AC;˘ D I F F I C U LT Y: 5 T H
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10 C O M P A R AT I V E LY O P E N terrain and, along with the 15th hole, one of only two uphill drives at Muirfield Village.
Sand guards both sides of the driving zone and a large, many-fingered bunker fronting the green threatens the under-hit approach. A rugged hole demanding both power and precision, and one of the toughest par 4s on the second nine, especially when played into the wind. T H E M E M O R I A L 143
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11 R U N N I N G T H E L E N G T H of a lovely valley between high, wooded hills, this hole is the arena for a huge amphitheater
capable of accommodating a great many spectators. The drive is enticingly downhill to a wide fairway, but a creek cuts diagonally across the fairway at about 320 yards from the tee, then hugs it on the right before swinging left again in front of the small, elevated green. An inviting hole to gamble on, but two perfect shots are necessary to get home. T H E M E M O R I A L 145
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12 M U I R F I E L D V I L L A G E G O L F C L U B ’ S favorite hole among photographers features the course’s largest lake. The tee shot is played
from a wooded hillside entirely across water to a two-tiered, kidney-shaped green cut into another hillside and set diagonally to the line of play. Bunkers flank the right front and rear left of the green. Miss it and the ball will generally find either sand or water.
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2014 AVERAGE SCORE: 4.115 â&#x20AC;˘ DIFFICULTY: 6TH 1976-201 4 AV E R A G E S C O R E : 4 . 1 1 9 â&#x20AC;˘ D I F F I C U LT Y: 1 0 T H
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13 T H E D R I V E I S D O W N H I L L to level ground, through a wooded chute to a narrow but normally fast-running and gently curving fairway.
Finding the right half of the fairway sets up the best angle into the long and narrow green, which runs away from the player. Bunkers stretching almost the full length of the green on either side demand a precise approach shot, generally with a mid- to long-iron.
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14 A N O T H E R D O W N H I L L T E E S H O T, once again into a wide, tree-lined valley. About 245 yards from the championship tee,
a creek emerges from the left woods to border the fairway for some 40 yards before angling across it and then on down to flank the right side of the green. The green is long and narrow and heavily guarded left by several bunkers. A definite birdie opportunity, but only for the very accurate player. T H E M E M O R I A L 151
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2014 AVERAGE SCORE: 4.476 窶｢ DIFFICULTY: 18TH 1976-201 4 AV E R A G E S C O R E : 4 . 6 9 0 窶｢ D I F F I C U LT Y: 1 8 T H
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15 A N I N T R I G U I N G P A R 5 cut arrow-straight through the heart of a forest. The ideal drive is to the crest of the hill,
from where the long hitter should be trying to get home in two. Thwarting him will be the steep slope fronting the green, a couple of deep bunkers and the small size of the target窶馬ot to mention the trees crowding in left and right. There will be many birdies here, but there also will be some disasters. T H E M E M O R I A L 153
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16 A F I N E P A R 3 I S N O W an even better and more visually intimidating hole and already has produced added excitement. Redesigned in
2010 with The Presidents Cup in mind, this hole now features a pond guarding the length of the green on the left. The putting surface also is smaller and turned more horizontally to the teeing ground. A front hole location is very difficult sitting between the water and two bunkers.
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17 S T R E T C H I N G 4 7 8 YA R D S , this strong hole offers a stiff test off the tee. Twenty yards separate two bunkers midway up the fairway,
leaving a mid- or short-iron to the green. A lay-up off the tee leaves a mid-iron, or, depending on the wind, a long-iron approach. The green itself is slightly elevated with bunkers along the right and back left. An approach to the left side of the green allows for an easier putt.
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18 A N I N V I T I N G D O W N H I L L drive leads to an ample fairway, though bunkers threaten at the corner of the dogleg to the right.
A long drive hit too far left can find the creek threading the tree line or can be blocked by a cluster of black walnut trees. The approach is uphill across a swale to a large two-tiered green bunkered at front left, front right, left and rear right. A spectacular finishing hole capable of accommodating more than 20,000 spectators. T H E M E M O R I A L 159
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MONG THE MANY INSPIRATIONS derived from the first Memorial Tournament was a brief but memorably humorous interlude in the film Tin Cup. True story. The movie’s tortured hero, a driving range instructor named Roy McAvoy, played by Kevin Costner, is flabbergasted when he finds brand-new Titleist golf balls on the driving range at the U.S. Open. McAvoy picks one up and then whispers in the ear of his caddie, Romeo, played by Cheech Marin, to surreptitiously stuff a few in his golf bag.
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CBS golf announcer Gary McCord, who appeared in the film and served as a technical assistant, was responsible for that bit of cinematic humor. A former PGA TOUR player, McCord was one of the 92 competitors in the inaugural Memorial Tournament in 1976. He missed the cut with scores of 76-82, but he didn’t leave empty-handed. Squirreled away in the trunk of his shiny Lincoln-Mercury courtesy car were more than three-dozen new MacGregor golf balls. “We had no idea what to expect, and we get there and we have never seen anything like it,” McCord says of Muirfield Village Golf Club. “The first time we step on the practice area, it was
hard for me and for the other guys to even take a divot. It was perfect. It was in better shape than the golf courses we’d been playing. “And then there were practice balls. Not only were they brand new, but for the first time on the TOUR, they were free. We had to pay $5 for a bag of balls before this. So I tell my caddie that I’m going to go make a ruckus over here on the left, and when everyone turns around I want him to drop some in my bag. And that’s what he does. Then we dumped them out in the trunk of my car. We did this every day. THE MEMORIAL
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THE INAUGURAL MEMORIAL TOURNAMENT, HELD MAY 27-30, 1976, WAS A TRAILBLAZING EVENT IN MANY RESPECTS.
Legendary player Sam Snead, who turned 64 on the first day of the inaugural Memorial Tournament, joins Founder and Host Jack Nicklaus on the Muirfield Village Golf Club driving range during a golf clinic that featured several top players, including Johnny Miller, Hubert Green and Hale Irwin.
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“I told the story to Ron Shelton [Tin Cup writer and director]. He laughed and said, ‘We’re going to put that in the movie.’ And that’s how it got in the movie.” McCord has a special relationship with the Memorial Tournament presented by Nationwide. A decade later, he began his wisecracking CBS broadcasting career at Muirfield Village under the direction of legendary producer Frank Chirkinian. “I actually came clean not long ago and told Jack. He just shook his head; he couldn’t believe it,” McCord reveals. “But you have to understand that we all were just blown away by what we saw and how we were treated. This was a tournament on another level entirely.”
Indeed it was. The inaugural Memorial Tournament, held May 27-30, 1976, was a trailblazing event in many respects. Before there was The Players Championship or the World Golf Championships or any number of other high-profile tournaments, there was Nicklaus’ Memorial, the only event that could rival the Masters Tournament in terms of course conditioning, amenities and overall excellence. The Memorial added yet another layer of preeminence, however, by celebrating the lives and careers of golf’s notable figures. Amateur great Robert T. Jones, Jr., was the natural first selection. Says Andy North, who competed in ’76 and is now a member of the Tournament’s Captains Club, the group that advises Nicklaus on the conduct of the Tournament and selects the Honoree: “The Memorial Tournament put everything that we’d seen before it to shame. There was absolutely nothing overlooked. We never had to ask for a thing. There wasn’t anything you could think of to ask for.” Roger Maltbie, who stunned Hale Irwin in a playoff to win that first Memorial with the assistance of one of the luckiest bounces in PGA TOUR history, remembers that the Memorial remained a topic of conversation for weeks among those who competed in it. “Guys who chose not to go or who had not earned an invitation were a bit jealous about not being there,” Maltbie recalls. “We were all raving about it, and a lot of players said they were going to make a point to get there the next year.” One of those players was Tom Watson, who was forced to withdraw from the first Memorial because of elbow tendonitis but appeared in the second edition. He went on to win the Memorial in 1979 and 1996, and he missed it only once between 1977 and ’97. “If you equate the Memorial to a sports team, Jack was like a players’ owner—the type of owner who put his players first,” says Watson, another member of the Captains Club and the 2012 Tournament Honoree. “He took care of the players like no one ever had. Obviously, he styled it after the Masters, but in some ways he went one step beyond the Masters, and that made a huge impression.” Even one of the founders of Augusta National Golf Club was impressed. Before the inaugural Memorial, Masters Tournament and Augusta National Chairman Clifford Roberts, one of the original members of the Captains Club, told the young Golden Bear, “Jack, you have an opportunity to do in four years what it took us 40 years to do. “Everything about this operation bespeaks quality.”
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✳ ✳ ✳ ✳ ✳ Below: The clubhouse at Muirfield Village Golf Club, circa 1976. Bottom: The Tournament provided quaint transportation options for fans.
PEERING THROUGH the prism of the tourna-
ment landscape in 1976 is the only way to properly assess the importance of the Memorial Tournament’s inception. Former PGA TOUR Commissioner Deane Beman, a Nicklaus confidant during their amateur
careers, remembers its immediate impact. “The fact that Jack wanted to host a golf tournament, with his stature, was very important,” says Beman, who succeeded Joseph C. Dey as the second commissioner in 1974. “He’d built a tremendous golf course that was just coming into maturity and was in impeccable condition, and we felt that this was a tournament that was going to be around a long time. “Back in the early ’70s there was a lot of turnover to tournaments. We knew what we had with Jack’s event, and that it was going to have stability and was going to be done right. And communities like Columbus were the kind that showed great support for golf. Needless to say, we were pretty enthusiastic about it.” Beman adds that the concept of an active PGA TOUR professional hosting his own tournament was a truly novel idea—and one that few players could pull off. Celebrities such as Bob Hope, Bing Crosby and Jackie Gleason had hosted events, while the Dallas stop on the TOUR was named after legendary Byron Nelson. Meanwhile, Arnold Palmer was still three years away from transforming the Florida Citrus Classic into an invitational he would begin to host at his Bay Hill Club in Orlando, Fla., now called, of course, the Arnold Palmer Invitational. “More than anything, we were pleased that Jack wanted to put the full weight of his name and reputation into an annual tournament,” Beman says. “I was fully convinced that once he made that commitment, we were going to have one of the finest tournaments on the PGA
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Nicklaus admittedly took his cues from an exemplary template. “Augusta puts forth what is good and right in the game of golf,” he said in a 1975 interview. “That matches what I’m trying to do here. If there is any place to copy, it’s Augusta.”
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THE RUN-UP to the Memorial was perhaps more
intense than any preparations Nicklaus had undertaken for a major championship. He knew he could leave nothing to chance, particularly with regards to the golf course. Muirfield Village Golf Club had made a good first impression during the 1975 Columbus Pro-Am the day after Nicklaus won the PGA Championship at Firestone Country Club in Akron. But the stakes were much higher for the first Memorial Tournament, because it was an official TOUR event, and because Jack Nicklaus had put his name and reputation on the line. Sharing that sense of urgency was Ed Etchells, Muirfield’s first superintendent, who was brought on long before construction was complete. The superintendent at nearby Brook170
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expected to be a rich source of news, but it was one day that did not go according to plan. Hope and Gleason renewed their grudge match while paired with Sam Snead. When
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side Golf & Country Club, Etchells was offered the Muirfield position in July 1972. Construction had just begun; the centerlines had barely been cleared. As the Memorial Tournament neared, preparations on the 7,072-yard course reached a level of detail that Etchells still recalls fondly. “Every time I saw Jack, he had another little list for me. And then the big list came after that first Tournament. It wasn’t perfect, but it was darn good compared to what players were going to see anywhere else. “The condition was what the players noticed the most. They were saying, ‘This is the Augusta of the north.’ ” In the month leading up to the Tournament, Etchells was quoted in a local magazine raving about the greens and the height of the rough. He promised that the rough would be grown up to 8 inches in some places. “That was no lie; it was 8 inches outside the rope lines and 3-4 easily everywhere else,” he says. “There was rye mixed in there, and it could grow up to a halfinch overnight. You combine that with the speed of the greens, and you had yourself a heck of a hard golf course.” Gordy Glenz, a PGA TOUR official, said at the time that Muirfield Village “is in anybody’s top five we’ll play this year,” and of the condition of it he added that, “the greens are perfect for putt-ability and consistency.” Noted Lee Trevino, “Putting is always a key to tournament play, but it may be as much a factor here as in a U.S. Open, where the greens are like billiard tabletops.” Jack Tuthill, a member of the TOUR field staff, predicted that pace of play would be slower than usual because of the speed of the greens. Sure enough, rounds would average close to five hours for threesomes. “A lot of thought has gone into building the course, no doubt about that,” Tuthill added. “Jack … did a marvelous job for tournament golf.” In the end, while the course required minimal adjustment throughout the week, there was another design element that needed attention. Traffic patterns were a constant challenge because souvenir seekers were stealing the directional signs to the parking lots. And this was before the days of eBay.
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TOPPING ALL OF THAT WAS HOST NICKLAUS AND HIS TEAM FINISHING LAST WITH A SCORE OF 97. WELL, THEY DIDN’T ACTUALLY SHOOT 97, BUT THAT’S WHAT THE CARD READ. Joining Jack Nicklaus in the Memorial Pro-Am were, from left: comedian Flip Wilson; Pandel Savic, the Tournament general chairman; President of MacGregor Co., Jack Curran; and Ohio Governor James A. Rhodes.
Hope referred to Gleason as “my favorite pigeon,” Gleason responded, “You know what pigeons do to people.” But Gleason eventually was forced to fork over $10,000 that Hope passed on to charity. Celebrity daredevil Evil Knievel made a late arrival, via helicopter, that forced a juggling of the tee times. Ohio State football coach Woody Hayes, another close
Nicklaus friend, lingered by the first tee and found himself inundated with autograph requests from the loyal home fans. Somewhat fittingly, however, when Snead sauntered up, Hayes was just another wide-eyed spectator, and he asked Snead to sign his pairings guide. Topping all of that, however, was host Nicklaus and his team finishing last with a score of 97. Well, they didn’t actually shoot 97, but that’s what the card read. Comedian Flip Wilson, Ohio Governor James A. Rhodes and MacGregor Co. President Jack Curran joined Nicklaus. So did Pandel Savic, the longtime Tournament general chairman, who was a late replacement for Crosby. While attending a dinner at the Columbus Club the previous evening, the famous crooner swallowed a piece of meat sooner than he should have. It lodged in his esophagus, and he was rushed to Riverside Hospital, where he spent the night after a quick surgical procedure. He was advised not to play golf. Though Rhodes excused himself after nine holes, the team scored a respectable 33-34—67. (Bob Murphy’s group, which included Hord Hardin, the future Masters chairman, won with a handsome 57.) But something strange happened to the Nicklaus card on the way to scoring. Somehow, instead of a 4 on the 18th hole, the nine-hole score of “34” was penciled in that box for the team, resulting in an inward 64 and 97 aggregate total and setting a record that’s not likely to be broken. Despite heavy commotion swirling around him, Nicklaus shot 73 on his own ball. Trevino posted the day’s low round, carding a 70, but his parting shot proved more consequential and noteworthy. When it was suggested that Muirfield Village compared favorably to Augusta National, Trevino, never a fan of the Masters course, launched a verbal missile. “Don’t you ever try to compare this course with Augusta National,” he snapped. “There’s no comparison. Augusta National wished they had this golf course. Do I think it’s better? Does there happen to be a zillion or trillion? That’s how many times better this one is better. Whatever the biggest number is.” Speaking of Augusta National, each of the amateurs walked away with a truly unique gift—a replica of Bob Jones’ famed putter, “Calamity Jane,” the hickory-shafted blade Jones wielded throughout most
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Above: Memorial Tournament Captains Club member Joseph C. Dey, the former U.S. Golf Association executive director, makes a few remarks at the Honoree Ceremony that celebrated the life and career of Bob Jones. Right: Jack Nicklaus grins
of his career. Swilken of St. Andrews, Scotland, makers of the original “Calamity Jane,” forged the putter heads, and the rest of the club was replicated as close to the original as possible, right down to the signature Jones burned into the wooden shaft. The original “Calamity Jane” still is on display in Augusta’s Trophy Room Grill. ✳ ✳ ✳ ✳ ✳
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THE INAUGURAL Honoree Ceremony was not the production it is today. Near the rear of the 18th green, folding chairs were stationed behind a standard banquet-style table draped with a white cloth emblazoned with the Tournament logo. A large portrait of Robert T. Jones, Jr., was propped up in front of the table. It was simple,
yes, but it was poignant and meaningful and gave the Memorial Tournament something even the Masters didn’t possess: gravitas. Dey, who in 1992 was the Tournament Honoree, served as master of ceremonies. One of 19 original members of the Captains Club, Dey lent assistance to Nicklaus in developing
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The inaugural Memorial Tournament drew large crowds all week.
the Memorial’s tradition of honoring golf’s notable figures. Dey began his remarks by properly marking the occasion as, “The birth of a tradition.” Fourteen members of the Captains Club, don-
ning their newly issued gray blazers, were in attendance, including Roberts, who was Jones’ close friend and co-founder of Augusta National. “If Bob were here today, he would be proud of Jack Nicklaus and think well of this Tournament and course,” Roberts remarked. Gene Sarazen, the legendary Squire, added, “I don’t know of a greater place to honor Bob Jones than Muirfield Village.” When Nicklaus took to the microphone, he provided the perfect touch of authenticity and emotion in talking about his boyhood idol and the moment at hand, which, of course, was 10 long, sometimes trying years in the making. Here was the game’s finest player standing on the sculpted ground of his own golf course talking about the most consequential golf figure in history. “Bob Jones was the man next door, but I had never met him,” the Golden Bear began, noting how much he had heard about Jones from his father, Charlie, and members of Scioto Country Club, where Jones won the 1926 U.S. Open. Nicklaus shared stories of meeting Jones and how their friendship developed. But he struggled with his emotions near the end of his speech. “I couldn’t be more pleased than to have Bob Jones honored by our first Memorial Tournament.” He paused, and then added in a halting voice, “I’m a little sentimental about that.” Columbus Dispatch Sports Editor Paul Hornung described the momentous scene in his column the following day. Wrote Hornung, “This was a chapter of golf history, maybe the preface to a whole book of golf history.” “I think one of the most memorable parts of the week was simply listening to Jack talk about Bobby Jones during the [Honoree] Ceremony and the respect and admiration he had for him,” says Joel Walker, former publisher of the Troy Daily News, who had yet to miss a Memorial heading into 2015. “That set a tone for the Tournament as far as what it meant, what it stood for. It set it apart from every other event, including the Masters, right from the start.”
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attended the following year—perfectly timed to watch Jack win. Along with Watson, the reigning British Open champion, who withdrew due to the aforementioned injury, Ray Floyd, the reigning Masters champion who had tied Nicklaus’ tournament record of 271 the month prior, withdrew with an illness. And Billy Casper, who owned the third most wins of the era behind Nicklaus and Palmer, simply took a pass. Still, 20 of the top 22 players on the money list and 50 of the top 60 were present, including reigning U.S. Open champion Lou Graham and the 1975 PGA champion—Jack W. Nicklaus. Up to that point in the year, the Memorial boasted the second strongest field behind The Players. ✳ ✳ ✳ ✳ ✳
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THE FIELD of the inaugural Memorial was impressive, yet it did not meet initial expectations. There were 104 invitations extended, but after several withdrawals the final field was composed of 91 professionals and one amateur. Some noteworthy names were missing but for good reasons. Arnold Palmer and Gary Player, the “Big Three” teammates of Nicklaus, were the most prominent absentees. Palmer was defending his title at the British PGA the same week, while Player also competed in that event due to a contractual obligation. Both men
Juan Capistrano, Calif., etched his name into Memorial Tournament history by striking the first shot. He’s quite thankful that the significance of the occasion didn’t occur to him on the downswing. “It was the first year of the event, and we knew that it was important because Jack was involved and he had built a great golf course,” says Meyer, who was paired with fellow Californian Alan Tapie and U.S. Amateur champion Fred Ridley. “It was simply, ‘play on.’ It didn’t occur to me that this was the start of a tournament that was going to have a long and storied history and I was going to hit the first tee shot. What an honor. Thank God I didn’t think of it then. I’d have topped it. How would that have been for the start of the Tournament?” Two years earlier, to the day, Jack Nicklaus had blasted the first ceremonial drive to mark the grand opening of Muirfield Village. He proceeded to produce a 6-under-par 66, which stood as the course record for nearly a decade. But he did not reprise the act to officially start the competition, as he does today as one of three men, with Palmer and Player, who hit ceremonial tee shots to begin the Masters Tournament. Then again, there were no honorary starters in the 1934 Masters, either; the tradition didn’t begin until 1963. That’s why Ralph Stonehouse holds his own special place in golf lore; he is the answer to the trivia question, “Who hit the first shot in Masters history?” “I was too busy doing 1,001 things to even give that [hitting an opening tee shot] a thought,” says Nicklaus, who not only had to prepare for his opening round at 10:14 a.m., but also took it upon himself to embark on an early morning inspection of the course. He was
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“BESIDES PLAYING IN THE U.S. OPEN A COUPLE OF TIMES, THE MEMORIAL WAS THE MOST IMPORTANT EVENT I PLAYED IN.” —DENNIE MEYER
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pleased to find there were still 18 tees, 18 greens and 18 cups. Meyer’s journey to Muirfield Village was rather implausible. He competed on the TOUR in 1968-69 but was sidelined by the first of eight shoulder surgeries. When he won the Southern California PGA Section Championship in 1975, he decided to give his career another shot. He captured the Magnolia Classic in 1976, which boosted his official earnings enough to earn a Memorial invitation. That was huge. “Besides playing in the U.S. Open a couple of times, the Memorial was the most important event I played in,” he says. “You felt important.
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Right: Roger Maltbie watches an approach shot during the final round. Below: Maltbie with the Memorial trophy after beating Hale Irwin in a playoff. Joining the first winner were Host Jack Nicklaus and Captains Club member George H. Love, one of the co-founders of Laurel
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Well, I was really kind of taken aback by the grandeur of the whole place, the magnificence of the place. I had played with Jack at the PGA Championship at Firestone the first two rounds that he won in ’75, and he invited me to play in a Children’s Hospital Pro-Am that he was having at Muirfield Village right after that. My first look at the place was, “You’ve got to be kidding me.” Obviously, when I came back in 1976 I liked it even more. At this point I hadn’t seen Augusta National, so greens of that kind of speed and quality … they were magnificent. That first grass that Jack had, that Toronto C-15 that they had at Butler National and they had at Glen Abbey up in Canada, was perfect. At 3 in the afternoon the greens were as good as they were at 7 in the morning. No spike marks. It was incredible. These greens were so fast and so pure, I had never seen anything like that in my life. Interestingly enough, I got paired with Ohio Governor James Rhodes, and I think we were five holes behind the group ahead of us because this guy shook every hand of every person around every green and along every fairway. And they must have had 50,000 people out there that day. The crowd was unbelievable.
EW TOURNAMENTS ON THE PGA TOUR, or even around the world, for that matter, make a first impression quite like the Memorial Tournament presented by Nationwide. Ever since it debuted in 1976, the Memorial has been a source of inspiration both for the players who compete in it and for other tournaments that try to emulate it. When a player steps on the grounds of Muirfield Village Golf Club for the first time, he definitely gets a sense that a special experience awaits him. That’s exactly what Tournament Founder and Host Jack Nicklaus intended when he began the event here in his hometown of Columbus, Ohio. Among his goals was providing a unique and unparalleled experience for players entered in his Tournament, so that they could play to their potential on one of golf’s most acclaimed golf courses, one that would be a rigorous test but in tip-top condition. “I played it my first year on TOUR, in 2001, and I remember being really excited about the opportunity,” says 2006 U.S. Open champion Geoff Ogilvy. “I wasn’t disappointed. It really felt like a big-time deal. It felt like a privilege to be there, like a Masters-light almost. It had that kind of aura to it. I think it still does.” “In my mind, this is the quintessential PGA TOUR event,” says 2009 British Open champion Stewart Cink. “The way that we are treated, the way things are done here, it’s the model tournament. And the golf course is ideal when you think about what the test should be. If you hit the ball nicely here and put the ball in the right places and be smart about it, you can get a lot of looks at birdies. But if you’re off, the penalty is severe, and if you think about it, that’s the way a golf course should play.” This year marks the 40th playing of the Memorial Tournament, and in each of the previous editions a collection of new players have been introduced to Nicklaus’ prized creation and to a one-of-a-kind experience on the TOUR. On the following pages, PGA TOUR players from various eras share their memories of their first time visiting Muirfield Village. THE MEMORIAL
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FRED COUPLES
BUBBA WATSON
(1982, WINNER 1998)
The first time I went to Memorial, Mr. Nicklaus asked me to be in the clinic with him. To be able to do that, hit balls in front of Mr. Nicklaus, was a treat. To talk to him was a treat, to shake his hand was a treat, knowing he’s the face of golf. He started the buzz around golf. That’s pretty neat, to be able to hang out with him for an hour or so. Going there, going to the golf course, knowing the history behind the golf course, knowing the history behind the Tournament, yeah, it was a big thrill for me.
I got in and played a practice round, and it was beautiful. Hard, spectacular, great service, great driving range. Just was … for a 23 year old, I mean, I don’t know if these guys really quite get it now. Every course is good. Back then, 1982, a lot of the courses we played were not in great shape. Memorial probably started the trend. It was laughable how good it was, plus great service and food. I ate most of my meals there, filled my belly up, went home, and I didn’t have to eat at Wendy’s.
(2006)
JUSTIN ROSE
PAUL GOYDOS
(2004, WINNER 2010):
The Tournament had the feel of something really, really special. It was something you earned your way into being in the top 70 on the current Money List. It was a fantastic golf course and in fantastic condition and just a wonderful atmosphere. It was in a sense not like a major but had that feel to it, especially for a second-year guy. I just knew a little from watching television, but I didn’t understand they’d treat you so much better and whatnot than just about anywhere else.
I’m trying to remember, I think it was ’04, and I was lucky enough to get in contention and have a great week [fourth place]. It’s still one of my favorite tournaments, and it starts at the practice tee, and it’s in the locker room, and it’s the golf course itself, and it’s the crowd and the atmosphere. I’ve always had a group of loyal supporters that come out and follow me there. That’s all aside of it being Jack’s Tournament. On top of everything else I’ve said, that makes it incredibly special.
(1994)
ERNIE ELS TOM WATSON
(1977, WINNER 1979, 1996)
The course was really hard. They weren’t going to let [anyone] shoot 15 under on that golf course. You know, it was long. It was long, and the greens were as fast as we played any greens. That was Jack’s style. They were really, really fast, as fast as we played all year, so you had to be careful. I just felt right from the start … like at No. 2 with the water down the right and the water right by the green, you get on a hole like 12, the par 3, you had to play smart. There were a lot of disasters waiting to happen, and you had to think about what you wanted to do. And that’s still the nature of the golf course is that you have to hit good shots, but you also have to think your way around. That’s why you don’t see too many guys win the first time they see Muirfield Village.
(1994, WINNER 2004)
I got an invitation to play, and I remember playing with Tom Watson. The night before, I was in the Bogey Inn having a little fun, and then I shot 67 with him. I don’t know how I did that because the Bogey Inn was quite a night. But yeah, ever since then I’ve played in it. I just loved it, always loved it. Between Augusta and Muirfield, it’s like a coin flip which one is the better-conditioned golf course. I think Muirfield— Jack has changed some stuff. Some of the guys don’t like it too much, but I still believe it’s the best course we play on the regular TOUR. JIM FURYK
My first Memorial was ’95, my second year on TOUR, and I was pretty excited about it. I had never played the course. I had heard so much about it. It’s Jack’s course, Jack’s Tournament, someone I had looked up to a lot, so I was excited about 184
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AARON BADDELEY
(2000)
First time, I would have been 19, and I got in because I was the Australian Open champion. I did a clinic with Tiger, and I was supposed to do long irons and he was supposed to do driving, and then we were both hitting balls next to each other, and he goes, do you want to do driving? I was like, sure, I’ll do driving. So we flipped it. Yeah, that was a pretty cool experience being at Memorial the first time. I remember just thinking, “This is unbelievable, this place.” I remember when he—I was in the locker room, and I said, “Oh, Mr. Nicklaus, this course is really good. The condition is nearly as good as Augusta.” And he said, “Nearly as good as Augusta? It’s in better condition than Augusta.” I didn’t know you could say that. But it was. I remember how great it was, just every part of it was amazing. BILL HAAS
(2005)
Jack gave me a sponsor exemption right when I turned pro, and that was great because I had caddied for my dad in the Tournament when I was in college. So I had that … I kind of saw it then inside the ropes. Then to play there, I don’t know, there’s a lot of courses that we play that I wouldn’t call them dreams come true, but when I was growing up, I never thought I’d be playing them just like I was watching my dad play them. So that was certainly 186
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one that stuck in my mind that was pretty special just to play. KEN DUKE
(2007)
I think the first thing you think is that it’s kind of like going to Augusta. It’s just a classic place. And then what comes across the mind is the respect for Mr. Nicklaus, and you’re playing in his event, and it just all feels very special.
synonymous with Jack makes it truly special, I think. I had watched the Memorial on TV, but the first time I saw it I was watching the Ryder Cup there in 1987. The place is immaculate. It’s just a shame they don’t get more good weather because the conditioning of the golf course is spectacular. KENNY PERRY (1987, WINNER 1991, 2003, 2008)
LEE WESTWOOD
(2003)
It’s an incredible place, a great golf course, a beautiful piece of property. Being
I was star struck. In awe. It was Jack, the guy I looked up to. And then the golf course, the facilities, every-
thing was so pristine and so perfect and so keen. I’ll never forget that big Lincoln Continental I got [for a courtesy car]. I think Lincoln was it before they changed it. It’s just a magical place, in my opinion, because of the man who hosts it. The golf course intimidated the heck out of me the first three or four years I played there. I never did feel comfortable at that place, and finally I got comfortable and I got to where I loved it. It became one of my favorite places. WEBB SIMPSON
PHIL MICKELSON
(1991)
I was an amateur my first Memorial. That was in 1991 after I had won the U.S. Amateur, but I had actually played Muirfield Village when I was 16 in the U.S. Junior (in 1986). That was when I first remember what a great golf course it was. I had never seen such a lush, beautiful course with so much water, so much green grass, coming from southern California. Trees were stunning. I just remember it was a fun course to play, and I’ve always liked playing Nicklaus-designed golf courses.
(2009)
Obviously I always wanted to play in that Tournament because of Jack. The thing I knew about Memorial was how quick the greens were. It was fun to get there and see what everybody was talking about with the bestconditioned course on the PGA TOUR. I think I made the cut, played OK, but it was fun to see, as much as I had heard about how well they kept the course, how I could do. It was hard. JUSTIN LEONARD
(1995)
It was really cool. I won the U.S. Amateur there in ’92, and then played there in ’95; I guess that was my first time in the Tournament. The course played much harder, but it was really fun to be able to get back there. It’s fun to spend time with Jack. You look forward to seeing him in the locker room, because he really does, he hangs out quite a bit. You hope to get a meal in with him at some point, either a breakfast or a lunch when he’s around. BEN CURTIS
(2003)
I used to skip school, go
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(1992, WINNER 1997)
I remember it was just an incredible golf course, and I was in awe of the place. I loved every bit of it. The fairways were like greens to me. It was just a great place to play golf. DAVIS LOVE III
(1986)
I just remember it being the best-conditioned golf course we played other than Augusta. The best greens, the best bunkers, everything was perfect, the best food ... he did everything right. It was amazing that you would get to go play there. We always said it was kind of like a major because back in the early days there weren’t that many tournaments that took care of us like that. He set the stage for sure. STEWART CINK
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I already knew what to expect for my first Memorial. It was great. I played in a college event here before then; Ohio State hosted it, I believe, in the fall of 2012. It was one of the most impressive places I had ever seen. The facilities, the driving range, the short game area … and the overall treatment in the locker room and elsewhere … just incredible. There are just few places that get close to this. It’s like going to Augusta. So coming here was special, and then I started to compare other places back to Muirfield Village, and that was a hard thing to do. down and watch the shootout, catch Jack and Trevino and Fuzzy and all those guys back in the day, and I enjoyed how they used to interact with the fans. It was neat to see them up close. Back in that time, still a lot of people there, but being that I was a little kid, I could climb up to the front row. During the 188
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Tournament I’d watch Payne [Stewart] and [Paul] Azinger go at it, and that was always fun to watch. Always seemed like there were great finishes. So when I got a chance to play in the Tournament, it was pretty special to be out there instead of watching from behind the ropes.
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You’re darn right I remember my first Memorial. I was on the Nike Tour [now Web.com Tour] at the time, but I was the Jack Nicklaus Award winner as the College Player of the Year the previous year, in 1995. In fact, the NCAAs were at the Scarlet [Course at The Ohio State University] that year, so I came here to accept the award on television with Jack, but I didn’t get to play, obviously. So winning the Jack Nicklaus Award, I was allowed to come back and play in the Tournament, so in the middle of my rookie year on the Nike Tour, I got to play in the Memorial Tournament. I made the cut (T43), played with Jeff Maggert in the last round, and just had a great week at one of the best tournaments in the world. In a
way, it was, for me, kind of like the Masters, because I knew all the holes from watching the Memorial on TV, and it’s a great course, and then just hanging around with Jack and all the players. For a guy on the Nike Tour, it was pretty special. In fact, I was so excited about that experience that I went out and qualified for the U.S. Open the Monday after and then I won the Nike Tour event in Missouri. Beat R.W. Eaks in a playoff. It meant a lot to me. It gave me a lot of confidence playing well [in the Memorial]. CARL PETTERSSON (2003, WINNER 2006)
First time in the Memorial? I thought it was cool to play Jack’s Tournament, just how the condition was, the course was … it was a big tournament. I’d watched the Tournament on TV growing up. Yeah, it ranks up there as a big event, I think. CHARLES HOWELL III
(2001)
I played a practice round with Jack Nicklaus and Gary [Nicklaus] because Gary was on TOUR then, and I remember I went up there on that Tuesday with Jack and Gary, and it was the first time I had seen the golf course, and playing with Mr. Nicklaus was incredible. It’s the most nervous practice round I’ve ever had. I do remember that. The Memorial is one of those tournaments that once you play it the first time, you think, “Well, as long as I’m in the Tournament, I can’t skip this one.” And I never will. MT Alex Miceli is a Golfweek contributor.
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HERE’S SOMETHING about a good, old-fashioned golf rivalry that feels a bit like an 11th century arranged marriage between bloody minded royal families but without the handy escape clauses of exile to a bleak monastery, a papal annulment or even a comprehensive dose of strychnine in the evening gruel. With a golf rival, once you’ve got him (or her), there’s no getting rid of him. It’s a sporting union with its own unique stages. There is the awkwardness of the first meeting, followed by the get-to-know-me phase. There’s the period of mistrust—this guy would do anything to win—that gives way to the rise of grudging admiration. Eventually, inevitably really, it morphs into lions of winter, at peace with the knowledge that they were at their very best only with each other, wedded by their own great deeds for a time that winds up looking all too brief in their rearview mirrors. Below: The greatest golf rivalry in the modern era began at the 1962 U.S. Open at Oakmont Country Club, near Pittsburgh, when Jack Nicklaus, right, defeated local hero Arnold Palmer in an 18-hole playoff.
“Great golfers have always come along in pairs,” wrote Charles Price in his story, The Haig, and “much of their greatness having been achieved by beating one another. Harry Vardon had his J.H. Taylor, Ben Hogan his Sam Snead, Jack Nicklaus his Arnold Palmer. Walter Hagen had Bobby Jones, no less.”
Gene Sarazen, who already had won a U.S. Open and a PGA Championship at age 20, didn’t like it when Hagen kept calling him “kid.” “I wasn’t any young upstart, I was a champion, and I wanted Hagen to respect me as a champion and his equal,” he wrote in Walter Hagen–My Hero, My Rival. Palmer had the same experience with Hogan. “It’s pretty well known that Ben Hogan didn’t bond with anyone, but I have to say, he was particularly chilly with me,” says Palmer. “He very pointedly referred to me as ‘Fellah,’ even face to face.” Champions don’t give ground; it has to be taken and inevitably, it’s taken grudgingly from one another. “Competition always motivated me,” says Nicklaus. “I love the game of golf, but the game of golf was my vehicle to the competition.” In his autobiography My Story, Jack writes, “I liked Arnie a lot as a person—who could not like such an appealing character? Also, having a pretty good idea of what it had taken to compile, I had appropriate respect for his record. Beyond that, however, I guess the best I can say for myself is that I looked on Arnold just the way you would expect of a blinkered youth fixated on bullheading his way to the top of the mountain. … I wanted to win, and then win and win and win again—every time I teed it up, now and forever. If that meant not simply beating Arnold Palmer, but also
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toppling a legend and throwing half the population into deep depression, well, so long as it was done fairly and squarely, fine and dandy.” After Nicklaus beat Palmer in their ’62 U.S. Open playoff at Oakmont Country Club, Jack, Arnold and Gary Player combined to win five of the next 10 majors, merrily bumping one another off along the way. In all likelihood, the two Scottish shepherds determined to impress each other whacking stones around a field with wooden crooks would have felt precisely the same way Jack and Arnold did with their steel shafts. Ray Kroc, the man who took McDonald’s from a hamburger stand to an international cholesterol conglomerate, held a dim view of his competition. “If they
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were drowning to death, I would put a hose in their mouth,” he once said. And, like Nick Faldo wrapping his arm around the neck of Greg Norman on the 18th green of Augusta National in 1996, he would probably whisper something like, “Don’t let the bastards get you down,” as they sank beneath the surface. Jousting on the mountaintop can be a cruel calling but, like Hyman Roth says in Godfather II, “This is the business we’ve chosen.” There will be plenty of time to be generous once the deed is done. Because results in golf frequently, and devilishly, refuse to follow any preconceived form or expectations, its unpredictability makes the genuine rivalries as romantic and revered as a Gauguin oil painting. Just because you want a piece of No. 1 doesn’t mean you’re going to get it. In most of the big moments Nos. 2 through
50 seem to get a say so. In the Jazz Age, managers looking to cash in on whatever big title a player held at the moment could whip up a “Match of Century” faster than four cheese Hamburger Helper. Hagen, alone, could have been induced to play a “Match of the Century” every week, including passing up a PGA Championship for one. He lost one to Sarazen, won one against Cyril Walker and another against Abe Mitchell and lost to Harry Cooper. The Thrilla in Manila wasn’t any bigger than Hagen vs. Jones in 1926. “I won the match 12 up with eleven holes to play,” Hagen says in his book The Walter Hagen Story. “For that match I received the biggest fee ever paid a golfer for a seventy-two hole exhibition or challenge match…$7,600. I bought a beautiful set of diamond and platinum cuff links for Bobby and cleared $6,800.” Just in case you think it was nothing more than an exhibition to Jones, he never wore them. If you think there’s a lot of pressure when a million dollars is on offer, try playing when first place barely made you gas money. The smaller the pie, the bigger the grudges, and Byron Nelson, Hogan and Snead sure had them. “I haven’t seen Ben Hogan since he showed up
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at the Masters in 1980, as I remember it,” wrote Snead in his book, Slammin’ Sam. “Byron Nelson did talk to him, and Byron said that Hogan didn’t want to come out of his home in the country for anything or anybody. ... I won my third PGA Championship in 1951, the same year Hogan and I started trading the Masters Championship back and forth. But whatever else Ben and I had done in the past, our real cliffhanger came in 1954.” That was the year
the amateur Billy Joe Patton stole the Masters’ heart, but it was Hogan and Snead who tied for first place in regulation, with Snead winning in the playoff, 70 to 71. “Though I continued to win tourneys right up into the 1970s,” Snead wrote, “the 1954 Masters was my last national title, and I’m proud to have played it with Hogan.” Later, he would add, “When Ben Hogan died, I said it felt like I’d lost a brother. Some people didn’t understand that, because Ben and I never socialized and rarely talked. But we were like brothers, because we both made the other guy better. A lot of blood brothers can’t say that.” Whether it was Sarazen and Hagen, Hogan and Snead, or Palmer and Nicklaus, what always washes up on shore in the end is the flotsam and jetsam of respect and an elegant gratitude known only to a very few, the ultimate fighter’s thanks for the game. “We had some pretty good contests, yes we did,” says Tom Watson of Nicklaus. “To be honest, we’re fellow competitors, and we played a lot with each other. And we wanted to beat each other. I wanted to beat Jack Nicklaus because Jack Nicklaus was the best in the game. I wasn’t afraid of him, but I certainly had tremendous respect for him. Trying to play and beat the best at the game, that’s what I was out there to do. He was the best there was. Any time you played in a tournament, if neither of you won, you always compared yourself to Jack. Did I beat Jack that week or did he beat me? First and foremost, you’re there to win a golf tournament, but if it happens to be against the best, that’s the ideal situation you want to be in. And the more you beat heads against each other, the more you get to know each other even better. You have stories to tell each other, share with each other. Did I have Jack Nicklaus’ number? Let’s see: I did get the better of Jack at the British Open in 1977, at the U.S. Open in 1982, and the Masters in 1981. But he finished first in majors 18 times and in the top three 46 times. So did I have his number? The short answer—and it can’t be any shorter—is no.” With a competitive career that left big footprints in three decades, Nicklaus remains the paradigm. “I believe I have a great relationship with every player I had a rivalry with, because I respected their game and they knew I respected their game, and I treated them with respect,” Nicklaus says. “In turn, I like to think I got the same from each of them. That’s what is great about the game of golf. Here you have two competitors, Arnold and I, and we’re still going at it and having fun with it. We’re great friends. That’s only because neither one of us turned a
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…DESPITE THE RIVALRY THE PUBLIC HAD CLAMORED FOR, THE YOUNGER JONES AND THE OLDER HAGEN ... HADN’T REALLY KNOWN EACH OTHER WELL. Bubba Watson, left, is just one of the potential rivals for the latest player to take over No. 1 in the Official World Golf Ranking, Rory McIlroy.
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friendly rivalry into something negative when we were younger. The same with Gary Player, Lee Trevino or Tom Watson. Whether I won or lost at Turnberry against Tom, we had a lot of fun. Or whether I won or lost in ’75 with [Johnny] Miller and [Tom] Weiskopf coming down the stretch, I had a lot of fun. You get a great sense of accomplishment of being able to come down the stretch seeing Watson and Trevino and Palmer on the board and finishing strong. I’m just delighted I was one of the two in the rivalry.” The golf writer, Charles Price, knew both
Hagen and Jones well. “From 1923 through 1930, Jones played in twenty-one major national championships, passing up eleven others. The Haig played in thirty-two passing up nothing. In that period, Jones played in only seven tournaments that were not national championships. The Haig played in at least three hundred,” Price wrote. “Jones played exhibitions only for an occasional charity, perhaps in those years no more than half a dozen. The Haig played more than one thousand, all of them for cash. When not competing, Jones played no more golf than the average dentist, probably not more than eighty rounds a year, and this in the comparative solitude of his home club near Atlanta. The Haig, who had no home club, played every day he wasn’t on an ocean liner, often twice a day, usually on a course he had never seen before and always in front of a stampeding gallery.” Later, when Price traveled to see Jones at Augusta National, the club’s founder would ask him questions about Hagen. It occurred to Price that, despite the rivalry the public had clamored so heartily for, the younger Jones and the older Hagen, separated in age by 10 years, hadn’t really known each other well. The only part they’d seen was each other’s soul. Jones just wanted to fill in the details. Now the question is, who is going to make Rory McIlroy better? Phil Mickelson had a run at him in last year’s PGA Championship at Valhalla, but he’s not just on the back nine of his career, he’s on the closing holes. Can Tiger Woods’ health return sufficiently for him to become a facsimile of himself before the sand runs out of his hourglass? “It would be great to see him get back, and it would be great to test myself against possibly the best player that’s ever lived,” Rory has said. Will Rickie Fowler, who elevated his game working with Butch Harmon, be up to the challenge of his contemporary, McIlroy? Will Bubba Watson find a game that can travel outside the city limits of Augusta, Ga.? Maybe Masters champion Jordan Spieth, four years younger than McIlroy, will transition from consistent challenger to consistent winner. There will be someone. The timeline is too long since we’ve seen a riveting rivalry on the TOUR. “If you want to be great, you have to learn to go through the fire,” says sports psychologist Bob Rotella. “When you take a piece of metal out of the ground you put it in a blast furnace and it burns away all the impurities and makes it into a precious metal. That’s what sport does to us. It tries to burn all the impurities away.” MT Jim Moriarty joined Golf World magazine in 1979 and was there for last call in 2014.
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IN THE DIM LIGHT, THE OLD CADDIE TOOK A FLASK OUT OF A COAT POCKET, UNCORKED IT, AND SAVORED A LONG PULL. “THIS WILL HELP.” IT WAS WHISKEY, AND HE WAS RIGHT. And that is why, tonight, on the 194th birthday of Old Tom Morris, I am standing next to the brownstone starter’s hut at St. Andrews, wondering who or what I am waiting for. One minute before midnight, a church bell began tolling. As I counted, I became uneasy: The ringing was coming from the southeast, from the direction of St. Andrews Cathedral, which has lain in ruins for centuries and is where Old Tom was buried. On the stroke of 12, the door to the starter’s
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hut opened, and a man stepped out wearing clothes I have never seen in real life: a threecornered hat, a long coat with two rows of brass buttons, and breeches; under his arm were a half-dozen, wood-shafted golf clubs, held in the manner of early caddies. “Aye!” he exclaimed. “Step right in if ya will indulge me, it’s a ride we’ll be goin’ fer.” I entered the starter’s hut, and the door closed behind me. The hut seemed to rise, and I had the G-force sensation of standing in an elevator that was accelerating to an unnerving, otherworldly speed. In the dim light, the old caddie took a flask out of a coat pocket, uncorked it, and savored a long pull. “This will help,” he offered. It was whiskey, and he was right. The hut, or whatever we were in, slowed to a stop. The door opened, and I stepped out, bewildered, into daylight. Before me was a perfect golf tee box: the grass was neatly mown and iridescent green, with a hint of morning dew. Two white arrows served as tee markers, but they did not point down a fairway because there was no fairway, nor a green, just lowlying white clouds stretching to the horizon in every direction. At the back of the tee box, on two benches, sat four figures, their heads down; at a glance, I knew them all, and each of them was staring, incongruously, at an iPhone he was holding.
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about 320,” said Young Tom. “Eighteenth hole, and the oldest gent missed a 2-foot putt to win. His playing partner called him ‘pathetic.’ Any suggestions?” “Give the man the yips,” said Ballesteros. Young Tom nodded, “I like that.” He punched the keys on his iPhone. “One year of the yips coming up.” Hagen, wearing a sweater, tie, and tailored plus-fours, was the first to notice me. He stood up. “We have a guest,” he announced. The others rose to their feet. I was stunned, but I understood. “You’re the golf gods!” “That we are!” Old Tom’s smile, though hidden by his white beard, was revealed in his eyes. “At least, we’re today’s crew.” “I never thought about who the golf gods might be, but, they had to be all of you, of course.” “In service to the game.” Hagen assumed a military bearing and clicked his heels. The game’s first showman, the Haig was cheerful and at ease; he looked to be in his 30s, in his prime, though he had lived to his 70s. “ ‘Today’s crew’?” I repeated. Ballesteros, young and tanned, answered. “You could guess the others: Vardon, Jones, Snead, Zaharias, Hogan, Nelson, Ouimet, Wethered, and Sarazen.” He gave each name a Spanish richness. “They all like a turn.” I gestured toward the iPhones that each of the greats held. “So, that’s how you keep track of all the golf in the world.” Young Tom, who never did grow old, was wearing the large belt buckle of the British Open champion. He glanced at the iPhone in his hand and laughed. “I could never have guessed what the world would become. You’ve invented so much! The only electricity I saw was up in the sky; now you’ve got YouTube.” “Before computers,” Hagen explained, “we only had the supernatural. Millions of golf shots are hit each day, and we were trying to watch them all. We hired some of the other gods—the Greek gods don’t have much to do anymore. Apollo and Athena were diligent, but Zeus always kept trying to take charge. Now, with the iPhones and some filters, we can hang out here and watch only what’s important. Punishment or reward in a few seconds.” “Or have some fun,” said Ballesteros, his dark eyes mischievous. Hagen’s phone beeped. He looked at the small screen and said, “We’ve got a 25 year old about to tee off at Royal Melbourne. Good athlete, former rugby star, been playing golf for a year. He’s hoping to break 90 today for the first time, and he probably will. What should we do?” “Instead of breaking 90...” Ballesteros said, pausing for
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“AND, LIKE ALL OTHER GOLFERS, WE ENJOY WATCHING CADDYSHACK” SAID YOUNG TOM, “SO WE INVITED BILL MURRAY.” dramatic effect, “...what if he breaks 80 instead?” “Yes!” chortled Young Tom. “He’ll walk off the course saying he’s got the game figured out!” “And the next day,“ said Old Tom, “he shoots 105!” Hagen grinned and tapped the keys on his iPhone, setting the Aussie’s fate. Young Tom, addressing me, said, “And you must be wondering why you are here.” “Well, yes.” “You know golf history, you love the game, and you don’t cheat,” he said. “No Mulligans, no ‘gimmes,’ no claims that ‘The handicap system says I can’t take higher than a 7.’ ” “Bo-gus,” said Ballesteros, drawing out the word. 212
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“And,” said Young Tom, “you lost to your father twice, on purpose, when he was getting older.” “I never told... ” “... anyone,” Hagen said, completing my thought. “Right. But, we knew.” “I assume I’m not here to write about this.” “Who would believe you?” he asked. “No one.” “Consider it a reward for being true to the game. Enjoy the visit, we’ve invited only a few mortals up here,” Hagen said. “Who?” “Seinfeld. And Dave Chappelle—we think he’s funny. A few others—Kate Upton—twice,” he said. “Of course.” “And, like all other golfers, we enjoy watching Caddyshack,” said Young Tom, “so we invited Bill Murray.” He pointed at Old Tom. “Father, what is your favorite line?” In his fine Scottish brogue, Old Tom Morris said, “Big hitter, the Lama.” We all laughed, and I thought that this was, easily, the strangest moment of my life.
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“WHAT DO YOU DO TO THE CHEATERS?” “OUT IN CALIFORNIA … IS A GOLFER WITH NO HONOR AT ALL. WE GIVE HIM HOLES-IN-ONE … DOZENS OF HOLES-IN-ONE, AND HE’S ALWAYS ALONE.” “Where did the golf gods come from?” I asked. “I started them,” said Old Tom. “Someone needed to keep an eye on things and make sure the game stayed clean. I didn’t want it to become a sport only for gamblers—like horse racing, or one that always needed a referee to keep it fair—like boxing. I wanted this to remain a game of honor, a place for people to be at their best—and for golf to be a refuge from the rest of life.” “So,” I said, “that’s why, if a golfer makes fun of someone else’s bad shot, the golf gods make him hit an even worse one. You’re always listening, always watching.”
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“Right,” said Old Tom. “Tell me, what do you do to the cheaters?” “We hate them but we love the payback,” Young Tom said. “Out in California—and, oh, I would have loved to play that Cypress Point course—in Hillsborough is a golfer with no honor at all. He moves his ball in the rough, drops a ‘lost’ ball down his pants’ leg and suddenly ‘finds’ it, and puts Vaseline on the clubface so the ball won’t hook or slice. He’s got all the moves.” “What have you done to him?” “This was Seve’s idea—and it was pure genius,” Hagen said with admiration. “We give him holes-in-one.” “What?” “Dozens of holes-in-one—and he’s always alone,” Hagen laughed. “The first few times, he tried to tell people what happened, and they mocked him, so he gave up. Now, after every ace, he just swears at us. Mouth like a sailor. He usually takes the ball out of the hole and throws it into a pond or into the woods, as if it was cursed. Once, we gave him three aces in nine holes. He hates us. He rarely plays alone anymore.”
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“HE DOESN’T BELIEVE IN GOD AND HE DOESN’T KNOW WHAT A GOLF GOD IS,” SAID HAGEN. “DO WE BREAK HIM QUICK OR TORTURE HIM FOR A WHILE?” ASKED BALLESTEROS.
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“And, we have a solution for guys who hit shots over an elevated green and, if they can’t find their ball, drop one when nobody is looking,” said Old Tom. “When an opponent goes to putt, he finds the cheater’s first ball in the cup. That usually causes some shouting.” ”What about the good golfers, the honest ones?” I asked. “We can only affect things on the course,” Hagen said. “So, if a golfer calls a penalty on himself or even disqualifies himself for breaking a rule, we can’t give him a winning lottery ticket.” “But, if it’s a tournament,“ said Young Tom, “a lass in the crowd might take a shine to him.” “Do you ever see anything new?” I asked.
They looked at one another, then Old Tom said, “A few years ago, there was an original thinker in North Carolina: He carried an outof-bounds stake in his bag. Whenever he was just beyond the course boundary, he’d put that stake down and show his opponent that he was in-bounds. At night, he’d come back and get it.” Ballesteros’ iPhone beeped. He read the screen and said, “There’s a new golfer in Hawaii, mid-30s, that we could have some fun with—he’s an atheist!” Hagen and Young Tom whooped like schoolboys. “Now we’re talking!” “A most unfortunate lad.” “He’s learning to play because his boss plays,” Ballesteros added. “So, he doesn’t believe in God, and he doesn’t know what a golf god is,” said Hagen. “He’s completely pure: no superstitions ...” “... yet,” added Old Tom. “Do we break him quick or torture him for a while?” asked Ballesteros, feigning innocence, then he joined the others as they all said the same words: “Torture him!” The Spaniard typed the novice’s fate into the phone.
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“YOU ALL HAVE A SENSE OF HUMOR. I’VE MET SCRATCH GOLFERS WHO’VE NEVER HAD A HOLE-IN-ONE, BUT YOU GAVE ONE TO A 4-YEAR-OLD GIRL AND ANOTHER TO A 102-YEAR-OLD LADY.”
“They get so confused,” said Old Tom, shaking his head. “The atheists don’t want to believe in anything except what they can see, but, out on the golf course there are too many coincidences, too many patterns.” Hagen said, “I’ll admit that I was surprised the first time I heard an atheist whispering prayers to us.” “You all have a sense of humor,” I said. “I’ve met scratch golfers who’ve never had a holein-one, but you gave one to a 4-year-old girl and another to a 102-year-old lady. And you
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like to have shots ricochet off trees and rocks and end up back in play.” “Little lessons in humility,” said Old Tom. Hagen’s iPhone beeped, then Ballesteros’, Old Tom’s, and Young Tom’s, in rapid succession one after the other. I heard the sound of a door behind me, and the old caddie in the three-cornered hat stepped forward and cleared his throat. “You’ve got work to do,” I said to the golf gods. “Thanks for the visit. It all makes a lot more sense now.” “We thought you’d like it,” said Hagen. I stepped into the elevator, then leaned out the door. “Old Tom, would you do me a favor?” “Sure, laddie.” “Say it again.” Old Tom smiled, then, in his grand brogue said, “Big hitter, the Lama.” I laughed all the way back to Earth. MT Frederick Waterman, a former sportswriter for UPI, has covered the Olympics, the Super Bowl, the World Series, and Wimbledon. He also worked as a Broadway critic and covered presidential elections.
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THE WEEK AFTER THE TOURNAMENT, NICKLAUS SENT NOTES TO ALL THE PARTICIPANTS ASKING THEM FOR INPUT ON THE GOLF COURSE.
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Jack made you feel that way. It was like nothing you ever played in. It was the best-conditioned course any of us had ever seen.” Meyer went on to tie for 38th with a 14over 302 total. He earned $780. A year later he was off the TOUR again with another shoulder injury, and this time he was done for good. He bought a pest control business in LaGrange, Ga., an enterprise in which he could include his family, and today he still is president of Meyer Pest Services. Last April he underwent his second shoulder replacement. It hasn’t kept him from playing the occasional round of golf. “It’s not completely out of my thought process yet,” he says. Neither is that experience at Muirfield
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Village. One of Meyer’s most prized possessions is a letter he received from the Golden Bear. The week after the Tournament, Nicklaus sent notes to all the participants asking them for input on the golf course. Meyer dutifully responded, with remarks in particular on holes 13 and 14, where he thought the greens were too severe. Nicklaus followed up with a personal dispatch. Dated July 15, 1976, the letter simply thanks Meyer for his remarks, and it concludes, “I look forward to seeing you sometime soon.” Meyer, who never played again in the Memorial, had the letter framed, and it hangs on the wall of his “golf room” where he also keeps his trophies. “Isn’t that funny? That he took the time to write a little note back again, that just says it all about Jack,” Meyer says. “One of the coolest things I own. It reminds me that I was there.” And he made some history, too. ✳ ✳ ✳ ✳ ✳ JACK NICKLAUS originally intended to forgo competing in the Memorial Tournament and
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serve solely as host. Still in his prime—earlier that year he had won his second Players Championship and finished third in defense of his fifth Masters title—Nicklaus eventually relented after prodding from family and friends. Plus, the Golden Bear was aware that Jones, though retired from competition, had played in his own Masters Tournament several times. That being said, Nicklaus still had his misgivings about competing in the Tournament even as he accepted the fact that his participation was important. His practice time was sporadic. And then there was the sticky matter of winning the thing. He fretted over how an immediate conquest at Muirfield Village might be received by his fellow players. “Actually I have mixed emotions about winning my own tournament the first year,” he told reporters on the eve of Tournament week. “I want to win. I always want to win every time I tee it up. But this time, in this tournament, it may look better if someone else won. If I do win I’ll be delighted. But I also want everybody else to play well, and I want us to wind up with a good champion.” Getting properly prepared was problematic. The week prior, Nicklaus played only nine holes each day before sprinting off to one or another meeting. Many last-minute details needed attending to—and he was not above pitching in, no matter how menial the task. Four days before the opening round, he could be found on his knees arranging books on the clubhouse shelves. “I tried to prepare. I probably was distracted from the playing part of it a bit more than I would care to admit,” Nicklaus recalls. “Playing was sort of secondary as far as where my time was spent, which was probably the first time that ever happened to me. “I felt like I was ready mentally to play from the first tee shot, but I don’t know if I thought much about golf up to that point. And when I won in 1977, that was why I said what I said about it being one of the most special wins of my career—because it was. It took a lot for me to win my own tournament.” Nicklaus teed off Thursday in the 12th group with Grier Jones of Wichita, Kan., and Marty Fleckman of New Caney, Texas. Following a serviceable 71, Nicklaus had to admit that he didn’t truly get into the round until he made a 35-foot eagle putt at the fifth hole. “I suppose getting away with 71, I can’t be too unhappy,” he said at the time. He was right, of course, especially after taking into account that his mind tended to wander over practically all of the 220 acres of his course all day long. “I very rarely play a round like that,” he acknowledged after canceling his eagle and six birdies with five bogeys and a double bogey. “I found a rock in the fairway on one hole [No. 15], and I got somebody to fix that. I had them change the roping on 12. I was still doing silly stuff like that.” Nicklaus also was breaking in a new set of MacGregor irons. And yet, with all that, he still was one of just seven men to better par. Don Bies, with a 68, held the lead. Hubert Green was next with a 69, Gibby Gilbert had 70, and then Maltbie, Irwin and fellow Ohioan Jerry McGee tied Nicklaus.
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THE GRAMMY AWARD FOR BEST SONG IN 1976 WAS JUDY COLLINS’ “SEND IN THE CLOWNS.” THE THEME FOR ROUND TWO OF THE MEMORIAL TOURNAMENT WAS A SNAPPY NEW DITTY: “SEND IN THE FROWNS.” Meanwhile, 16 players failed to break 80. By week’s end, there would be just 31 scores below par but 42 rounds over 80. “I didn’t think it was going to be this difficult,” Nicklaus said then, adding that his course seemed to have a little “monster” in it. A monster with an insatiable appetite for destruction. ✳ ✳ ✳ ✳ ✳ THE GRAMMY AWARD for Best Song in 1976 was Judy Collins’ “Send in the Clowns.” The theme for round two of the Memorial Tournament was a snappy new ditty: “Send in the Frowns.”
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Scoring soared. Or left egos sore, take your pick. The cut of 157 was the highest of the year by seven strokes. With greens as slick as a frozen pond and the wind shifting out of the northeast, Muirfield Village proved so uninviting that even the host could do no better than a 75. That left him five behind Green, who carded a 72 for a 141 total. Maltbie, after a second straight 71, was a stroke behind, while Rod Funseth tied Bies for third after a remarkable 67 that held up as the low round of the Tournament. Eight players with 80 or higher on their scorecards in one of the first two rounds still qualified for the weekend. All the Ohioans in the field survived: Nicklaus; Tom Weiskopf, who at the time was a Muirfield Village member; McGee; Bob Wynn; and Ed Sneed, a Columbus native who sat three behind Green after 36 holes with an even-par 144 total. Enjoying some familiarity with Muirfield Village, Sneed had predicted that 284 might win, but he changed his mind after seeing the course in tournament shape for two rounds. “I really think I could win the Tournament if I stayed at par,” he mused. He was correct, as it turned out.
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✳ ✳ ✳ ✳ ✳ THE STORY OF HOW MALTBIE emerged as the first Memorial winner always begins with the gallery stake his ball struck on the third playoff hole against Irwin. His 4-iron shot into the 17th green from 186 yards started left and began hooking, but it miraculously caromed off the stake and settled 20 feet from the hole, enabling him to save par. The 1975 PGA TOUR Rookie of the Year, Maltbie cashed in on the next hole by converting a 20-foot birdie putt on the par-4 18th in sudden death to take home the oblong crystal trophy and $40,000. Little has been mentioned, however, of his par save on 18 Saturday to close out the third round, which enabled him to maintain a twostroke lead, as well as a measure of sanity. Having led by as many as five strokes in the middle of the round, Maltbie’s grip on the Tournament started to weaken when he bogeyed three holes in a row. And after a birdie at 17, he hit his drive on 18 into kneehigh weeds at the edge of the creek left of the fairway. He waded into the creek barefoot and slapped a splashy recovery into the fairway.
From there he wedged on to 10 feet and made the putt. His 2-under 70 kept him two in front of Bies, three ahead of Funseth. “Any time you ever go thinking you’re a better player than it is a golf course, it’s going to jump up and grab you,” he said after posting 4under 212. Few of his peers were about to disagree. Green, the second-round leader, and Miller each shot 79, with Miller carding an inward 44. Gary Koch had an 85. Meanwhile, Nicklaus “became a good host again,” he said, after putting two in the water at the par-3 12th and suffering a quadruple-bogey 7 to send him to a 73.
“ANY TIME YOU EVER GO THINKING YOU’RE A BETTER PLAYER THAN IT IS A GOLF COURSE, IT’S GOING TO JUMP UP AND GRAB YOU.” —ROGER MALTBIE
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“NINE-IRON, 8-IRON, 8-IRON, PUTT, PUTT,” JACK SAID BEFORE HE EVEN SAT DOWN FOR HIS POST-ROUND PRESS CONFERENCE, REVIEWING THE CARNAGE. “Nine-iron, 8-iron, 8-iron, putt, putt,” Jack said before he even sat down for his post-round press conference, reviewing the carnage. That mini-disaster would prove quite costly, because the Host still had a chance on Sunday. He was just two behind when he three-putted the 14th hole from 12 feet. He birdied the 15th, meaning, had he holed the birdie at 14, he would have effectively been tied for the lead. “That really hurt,” he lamented. Of course, no one suffered more injury than Irwin. He had worked himself into the playoff with a brilliant 69, the second best score of the
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day, while Maltbie limped in with a 76. The seven-stroke comeback was the largest on the PGA TOUR that year, and it forced the first three-hole playoff in TOUR history, another Nicklaus creation because he detested the sudden-death variety. (Beman nixed the threehole system the following year, but, in a turn of searing irony, The Players, the TOUR’s flagship event, now employs it.) After each man made birdie and par, respectively, at 15 and 16, Irwin easily could have called an air press on 17 when he saw the direction of Maltbie’s approach. In fact, he just about did, remarking in the immediate aftermath that, “Seeing it in the air … it looked dead.” “You know,” Irwin says in a candid moment just last year, “few things that have happened to me in golf have ever bothered me more than that one shot.” Obviously shaken, the 1974 U.S. Open champion could have won at 17 but missed his birdie try from 16 feet. A poor drive at 18 then prevented Irwin from reaching the green in regulation, but Maltbie’s birdie was too good. Still, Irwin was gracious after the disappointment,
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noting, “It’s very difficult for me to lose the way I did, but Roger played great golf.” Maltbie’s play wasn’t that great down the stretch, but the 25-year-old Californian stepped up in the playoff and finished in style with only the sixth birdie at the 18th hole the final day. And although he noted how lucky he was, he also felt a sense of accomplishment with his third career title. “This is my 45th pro tournament, and it’s the first time I’ve beaten Nicklaus—and I did it on his course,” he said. “I finally dazzled myself.” ✳ ✳ ✳ ✳ ✳ JACK NICKLAUS was dazzled, too.
“Wasn’t that a great finish?” he said to reporters not long after the last putt dropped. Someone then asked him if he was relieved to have it behind him. “I want it to go on a couple more months,” he said. “I’m enjoying every minute still.” And 40 years later he still enjoys every minute. “Why wouldn’t I? This golf course and this Tournament, it’s what I wanted to do,” Nicklaus says. “I wanted to give something back to the community and my hometown, and I wanted to put something back into the game of golf. I knew at some point that my playing career would be over, but this keeps me in the game. I had 10 years of going through this thing and wanting it to happen before we ever had a Tournament. Getting it started meant an awful lot to me. As I’ve said before, this has been a fairly emotional thing for me.” That was evident from the beginning. Back to the inaugural Honoree Ceremony, which truly set the tone for all that the Memorial Tournament would become. Joe Dey was clearly overcome by the moment. “Jack Nicklaus has won 16 major tournaments [at the time, including his two U.S. Amateur titles], but I’m sure we agree this golf course represents one of his greatest achievements and accomplishments.” The first shot in the Memorial had not even been struck, and yet those words echo forward with prophetic clarity. So do the words of Nicklaus, who completed his remarks, haltingly, with this: “I know from the support we’ve had from you people, the support we’ve had from the city of Columbus, the club members, the Captains Club, the people in the game of golf, someday our hopes are that we really make this into something Bob Jones and all of you will be very proud of. “As time goes on,” he added, “we’re really looking forward to having something special here.” Time has gone on. The Memorial Tournament turns 40 years old and represents an immense personal triumph for Jack Nicklaus, surpassing perhaps anything else he has accomplished in the game. Bob Jones would, indeed, be proud. MT David Shedloski is editorial director of The Memorial.
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THE MEMORIAL TOURNAMENT PAST WINNERS
ROGER MALTBIE 1976
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JACK NICKLAUS 1977
KEITH FERGUS 1981
RAYMOND FLOYD 1982
DON POOLEY 1987
T O M WAT S O N 1979
JIM SIMONS 1978
DAVID GRAHAM 1980
HALE IRWIN 1983
JACK NICKLAUS 1984
HALE IRWIN 1985
HAL SUTTON 1986
CURTIS STRANGE 1988
B O B T WAY 1989
GREG NORMAN 1990
KENNY PERRY 1991
D AV I D E D WA R D S 1992
PAUL AZINGER 1993
TOM LEHMAN 1994
GREG NORMAN 1995
TOM WATSON 1996
V I J AY S I N G H 1997
FRED COUPLES 1998
TIGER WOODS 1999
TIGER WOODS 2000
TIGER WOODS 2001
JIM FURYK 2002
KENNY PERRY 2003
ERNIE ELS 2004
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B A R T B R YA N T 2005
CARL PETTERSSON 2006
JUSTIN ROSE 2010
STEVE STRICKER 2011
K.J. CHOI 2007
TIGER WOODS 2012
KENNY PERRY 2008
M AT T K U C H A R 2013
TIGER WOODS 2009
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40 Forty. Read the Good Book and you will find that your first instinct is sacred worth. It reigns throughout, it breathes on its own. Like Genesis: “And the rain was upon the earth for forty days and nights.” Then Noah waited 40 more. Before he dared to look upon a shore. Forty. Just wait. It gives a man a sense of things. Of time that’s passed and, perhaps, spent well awake if he has brought some of his dreams alive. Or better, if he could create his own snowflake— something special and iconic and pure. His lasting mark, he might say. Genuine. Secured. Forty. Life begins here? Brave boast perhaps. Because two scores is halfway to home, or more, and those who ponder want to feel like they can begin again, make new what’s old or feeble or sore. Ask Jack, who reached back, rebuilt and found himself. And at 40 put two more majors on his shelf. Forty. Do not be caught snatching 40 winks. But hope to be measured by your 40-dash blaze. An anniversary marked at 40 is ruby. A gem of brilliant color that falls pleasingly on a golfer’s gaze. An idea of perfection, 40, St. Augustine prayed. And so it is. Perfect. Memorials never fade. SHEDLOSKI GETTY IMAGES
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