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🗓️ 19 July 2018
⏱️ 45 minutes
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0:00.0 | If you're a big golf fan and statistically speaking, you're almost certainly not, but |
0:06.8 | if you are, you know this is the week of the Open Championship for what Americans call |
0:11.9 | the British Open. |
0:13.4 | It is the oldest and arguably most important major tournament in golf. |
0:17.8 | This year it's being held at the Scottish Course Carnusti, which is so difficult, it's |
0:21.8 | often called Carnasty. |
0:24.4 | Carnusti also hosted the Open back in 1999. |
0:28.1 | The golf course was so hard that it inevitably was going to give us some bizarre conclusion. |
0:34.6 | That's Brandyl Schambley. |
0:35.9 | He played on the PGA Tour for 15 years. |
0:38.8 | Now he's an analyst for the golf channel. |
0:41.2 | There was going to be a train wreck at some point. |
0:43.8 | And yet on the tournament's final day, on the final hole, stood a man who had tamed the |
0:48.7 | Savage Course. |
0:49.9 | The golfing gods are with the young man at this moment and it'll be interesting to see |
0:53.1 | what he does now. |
0:54.4 | This man, with one hole to play, held a three stroke lead. |
0:58.1 | So obvious was his impending victory that his name had already been engraved on the |
1:03.0 | Open's iconic trophy, the Claret jug. |
1:05.8 | It read John Van Develd. |
1:07.6 | He was a very handsome, debonair Frenchman, you know, and he had a gorgeous golf swing. |
1:14.6 | Van Develd was ranked just 150 second in the world. |
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