2010 SPRING ISSUE 3.75 Incl. VAT - Backspin Golf Magazine
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Nostalgia will be heavy in the air<br />
on the eve of the <strong>2010</strong> Open<br />
Championship at St Andrews<br />
(July 15-18) when The Open’s<br />
past champions will play four holes of<br />
the Old Course – the 1st, 2nd, 17th and<br />
18th – in celebration of the 150th<br />
Anniversary of golf’s oldest Major. All 32<br />
living Open Champions have been<br />
invited to take part in this curtain-raiser<br />
on Wednesday July 14th.<br />
The event will take place between<br />
4pm and 6pm. The winners of the<br />
Challenge, which will be screened live<br />
by the BBC, will receive prize money to<br />
donate to a charity of their choice.<br />
This is the second time that The<br />
Open Champions' Challenge has been<br />
staged. In 2000, 22 former Open<br />
Champions celebrated the Millennium<br />
The invited Open Champions and the years of their victories...<br />
Peter Thomson<br />
1954, 1955, 1956, 1958, 1965<br />
Gary Player<br />
1959, 1968, 1974<br />
Kel Nagle 1960<br />
Arnold Palmer<br />
1961, 1962<br />
Bob Charles 1963<br />
Jack Nicklaus<br />
1966, 1970, 1978<br />
Roberto de Vicenzo 1967<br />
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Tony Jacklin 1969<br />
Lee Trevino<br />
1971, 1972<br />
Tom Weiskopf 1973<br />
Tom Watson<br />
1975, 1977, 1980, 1982, 1983<br />
Johnny Miller 1976<br />
Severiano Ballesteros<br />
1979, 1984, 1988<br />
Bill Rogers 1981<br />
Sandy Lyle 1985<br />
Greg Norman<br />
1986, 1993<br />
Nick Faldo<br />
1987, 1990, 1992<br />
Mark Calcavecchia 1989<br />
Ian Baker-Finch 1991<br />
Nick Price 1994<br />
John Daly 1995<br />
Tom Lehman 1996<br />
Justin Leonard 1997<br />
Mark O’Meara 1998<br />
OLD COURSE, ST. ANDREWS<br />
Anniversary event at St. Andrews a great opportunity for fans to salute<br />
Open in the same format. On that<br />
occasion large galleries, who were<br />
entertained by a tap-dance on the<br />
Swilken Bridge by 88-year-old Sam<br />
Snead, watched the team of Tom<br />
Weiskopf, Tom Lehman and Paul Lawrie<br />
claim victory. The event raised over<br />
£40,000 for charity.<br />
“The Open Champions' Challenge in<br />
2000 was a great success and we expect<br />
it to be so again a decade on in <strong>2010</strong>,”<br />
said David Hill, The R&A’s Director of<br />
Championships. “We hope that the<br />
majority of our former Champions will<br />
accept the invitation and join us in St<br />
Andrews to help commemorate this<br />
very special occasion.”<br />
Visit www.opengolf.com for <strong>2010</strong><br />
Open Championship ticket details<br />
Left: Padraig Harrington (‘07 & ‘08 champion)<br />
Paul Lawrie 1999<br />
Tiger Woods<br />
2000, 2005, 2006<br />
David Duval 2001<br />
Ernie Els 2002<br />
Ben Curtis 2003<br />
Todd Hamilton 2004<br />
Padraig Harrington<br />
2007, 2008<br />
Stewart Cink<br />
2009
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