If you could change the outcome of a past major....

Maninblack4612 said:
As soon as I read the title I thought "Watson 2009" I was absolutely devastated, can't imagine how he felt.
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I agree.
Sure many younger golfers disagree but those of us old to remember the great matches with Jack Nicklaus recall what a great competitor he was.
So near in 2009 but so far, his age I think let him down.Many of us dreaded him missing that putt.
 
I actually wanted to swap Cink for Westwood for the 2009 Open - he went for the birdie on the last and was very unlucky

I'm not a fan of Watson and don't really get the love in for him - remember him being a complete tool as I grew up watching golf in the 80's
 
craigstardis1976 said:
He also won twenty PGA Tour events, forty-five SPGA Tour events, two World Matchplay titles, losing out in a sudden death playoff to David Graham to make it three in a row and won PGA Tour events in three different decades...

My ex had some dealings with him and he was nothing but a gentleman. He also spent time chatting to my buddies about THEIR golf game at an outing he was at and spent time he did not have too answering their questions about playing short game shots. I also have his book, "Smart Golf" that is well worth reading.

Still good to know you have many rational reasons for disliking him.
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Must have been something about the guy's manner or look as I too had a completely unfounded dislike of him, until last night that is when I was watching one of the Ryder Cup highlight videos on the European Tour website, 1991 I think it was.

In the interview after the crucial last match between him and Langer he came across, as you say, as a true gentleman, I'm sure I felt a tear welling up.
 
For me it's the 86 masters Seve especially watching interviews after and what it would have meant to him and his promise to his dying father.

After that I would have liked Sergio to get one over the line maybe the Carnoustie open.
 
Crow said:
Must have been something about the guy's manner or look as I too had a completely unfounded dislike of him, until last night that is when I was watching one of the Ryder Cup highlight videos on the European Tour website, 1991 I think it was.

In the interview after the crucial last match between him and Langer he came across, as you say, as a true gentleman, I'm sure I felt a tear welling up.
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My ex once went to watch him play as part of a corporate outing at a SPGA Tour event, this would have been about 15 years ago. Irwin introduced her to some other players: Ben Crenshaw was a gentleman, She met Gary Player and later that night they checked into the same hotel....Gary remembered her name and spent 5-10 minutes talking with her about horse racing. Trevino was not funny at all but very pleasant to talk with. She remembers Arnold Palmer waiting for quite a time with a young man who perhaps had Downs Syndrome who somehow got separated from his parents and was almost in tears.

Sadly this was all before I was really into golf. And I am sure there are just as many young guys on the PGA Tour who act in similarly good ways today.

Craig.
 
Ethan said:
Well, of the one hit wonders, Todd Hamilton, Ben Curtis, Webb Simpson, Shaun Micheel wouldn't have one, and of multiple winners, Hale Irwin, Lee Janzen and Andy North wouldn't have any.

Sergio and Monty would have one each.

Rory would have a Masters.
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Pretty much as Ethan has said but with one addition to his list of multiple winners.
I wouldn't have Gary Player winning any!
 
All In Open Championships
1970 Doug Sanders
1999 Jean Van de Velde
2009 Tom Watson

Such heartbreak should not be endured by anyone and that's just me. I cannot begin to think how the players themselves felt.
 
freddielong said:
For me it's the 86 masters Seve especially watching interviews after and what it would have meant to him and his promise to his dying father.
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This for me, remember watching the BBC documentary on Seve before he's death, he showed the very wood he used for that shot when he put the ball in the water to lose,it seemed to be his career biggest dissapointment.
 
Liverpoolphil said:
I actually wanted to swap Cink for Westwood for the 2009 Open - he went for the birdie on the last and was very unlucky

I'm not a fan of Watson and don't really get the love in for him - remember him being a complete tool as I grew up watching golf in the 80's
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I can't remember him being a complete tool, just a damned good golfer.
I must have missed something!
 
Liverpoolphil said:
I actually wanted to swap Cink for Westwood for the 2009 Open - he went for the birdie on the last and was very unlucky

I'm not a fan of Watson and don't really get the love in for him - remember him being a complete tool as I grew up watching golf in the 80's
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A "complete tool".....??

Would love to hear your reasons for arriving at this opinion, of a man I've only ever seen come across as a true gent, and top golfer.
 
I think I'd change 3
All from a betting point of view, that cost me

Jean Van de Velde wins "that" open
Thomas Bjorn wins the open instead of messing about in the bunkers, at the expense of Ben Curtis
2010 US Open, Dustin Johnson holds his nerve, doesn't "choke" or go into meltdown and wins
 
I would award the 1972 Open Championship to Jack Nicklaus. He charged through the field with a last round record 66 (albeit playing the last three holes in 1 over), which left him one short of Lee Trevino, who holed from off the green four times in his last two rounds.

Jack had already won the Masters and US Open that year, and would have had the chance of the Grand Slam had he won. It was one of Jack's 19 second place finishes in Majors.
 
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