THE LAST WORD
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Hats off to Tom Watson.
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It is unusual, and perhaps even had e-mailed Watson: “Even the During the final round at Turnberry,
unprecedented, for a golfer to be Taliban are rooting for you.”). Watson he and Nicklaus stood on a tee,
celebrated on the op-ed pages of The split the fairway with his drive and waiting for the huge galleries to clear
New York Times, but that’s exactly his approach looked perfect but the landing area.
what happened last July when the took a hard bounce and ran through “This is what it’s all about, isn’t it,”
paper’s Pulitzer Prize-winning foreign the green. He then hit an admirable he said.
affairs columnist, Tom Friedman, approach but missed the par putt. “You bet it is,” said Nicklaus.
took a break from trying to make The rest is history. After his loss to Cink, Watson
sense of the world’s usual suspects to What is impressive about Watson spoke to Friedman.
write an appreciation of Tom Watson is not so much his considerable “The only comment I can make is
after the 59-year-old lost in a playoff skills, which earned him 39 PGA one that the immortal Bobby Jones
to Stewart Cink at the British Open. TOUR victories, including eight related,” said Watson. “One learns
Watson’s performance at Turnberry major championships, but the way from defeat, not from victory. I may
was inspirational, even magical. It he’s carried himself both on and off never have the chance again to beat
was a triumph of the spirit. Coming the golf course. He never complains the kids, but I took one thing from
to the home hole on Sunday, all he and the more pressure he’s under, the the last hole: hitting both the tee shot
needed was a par to win his sixth better he seems to perform, which and the approach shot exactly the
British Open, tying him for the helps explain why his famous duels way I meant to wasn’t good enough...
most victories in the game’s oldest with Jack Nicklaus, most famously I had to finish.”
championship with Harry Vardon. at Turnberry in the 1977 British In the end, Tiger Woods will likely be
With thousands of adoring Scots Open and at the 1982 U.S. Open at the PGA TOUR’s Player of the Year,
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cheering him on (and tens of million Pebble Beach, were the stuff of high but Tom Watson was the story of the
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around the world doing the same, on drama. That Watson won them both year... and what a story it was. ■
MICHAEL
the eve of the final round, Friedman is almost incidental. Don Wade, Editor
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