See this as a beginning of a spirited debate rather than a definitive list. This is based on my own preferences and my own version of history and not the biggest and most unjust moments in the game. In a perfect world you would change thousands of things but here’s 10 to get us going.
1 The clothing conundrum
Ben Hogan and Arnold Palmer
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Most of us would like to the ball rolled back but, first, I’d like golfing fashion and dress codes to be taken back to the 70s. What the hell happened after that?
Up until just a few years ago we seem locked into an all-grey vortex which was made worse by white belts, stretchy trousers and the ever-present baseball cap. Yes, golf is a sport and we need athletic clothing to help us along the way, but you can still look OK.
Pretty much every French golfer or any Scandinavian on their holidays seem to manage it so it is possible. Things are moving forward and the ladies’ game is thankfully light years ahead of where it was, but why this has taken so long to happen is anyone’s guess?
2 More Seve, please
Seve Ballesteros with his second Open
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I’d just like to have enjoyed more. Walking round with Seve in the 80s was a thing of genuine beauty on every level. Forty years later he’s still hit the most memorable shots that I’ve ever witnessed in person; a 4-iron off the cart path at Wentworth’s 15th, an up-and-down at the ’85 Open at Royal St George’s or even a regular tee shot launched down the 18th at Woburn. They are all seared into my brain.
When the victorious 1987 Ryder Cup team returned to Heathrow late on the Monday night the welcome he received was other worldly. And rightly so.
Some think his legacy is slightly overblown, others just acknowledge someone exceptionally special and the kind of talent and charisma that will live on for years to come.
3 just knock it in
Doug Sanders for The Open…
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Yes, that one. I once interviewed Sanders and it remains the best chat I’ve ever had with a golfer. It began and ended, an hour later, with a joke.
‘Have you got time for one more?’ he would ask as I lapped it all up.
If I could give anyone a Mulligan, it would be his par effort at the 1970 Open Championship. To do it at the Old Course and to beat Jack…
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