The Saturday Interview: Jack Nicklaus: Nicklaus Rates Carnoustie As the Open's Toughest Test
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NO NOTE of discord ever sounded sweeter to the ears of Jack Nicklaus than the clamour of discomfited rivals complaining about the narrowness of the fairways or the height of the rough on the eve of major championships. The more other golfers moaned about the penal nature of the set-up, the better Nicklaus liked it. With every groan, he knew another man fewer stood in his way.
At Muirfield in 1966, on a return visit to East Lothian after the 1959 Walker Cup match had spirited him to Scotland for the first time, Nicklaus barely recognised the contours of golf's fairest links. Where the fairways had seemed generous in his amateur days, they now tapered in places to a mere 20 yards and were surrounded by acres of billowing rough.See the full content of this document
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The Saturday Interview: Jack Nicklaus: Nicklaus Rates Carnoustie As the Open's Toughest Test
Nicklaus grinned and recalled how you didn't dare go and look for a ball in that jungle of fescue grasses with a club in your hand because the chances were you would lose the iron. And if the caddie went in with the golf bag and put it down, you might lose that too.
Still, instead of falling into the trap of loathing the challenge Muirfield placed in front of him 41 years ago, Nicklaus realised precision would be his friend th...See the full content of this document
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