Tom Doak on the Fried Egg Podcast with Andy Johnson

[Jon Wiggett]

Mike,


I thought it was a 3 wood and had he not just topped the previous shot from the fairway about 30 yards to end up in that bunker or was that another time?


Jon

[Mike_Clayton]

Jon


He hooked the drive into the left rough and gouged it out of a poor lie into the bunker - but right up close to the lip. Pretty much everyone who saw it calls it the best shot they have ever seen.
Not Seve though. In asked him once what he considered the best shot he ever hit. Without hesitation he said the chip from left of the 72nd green at Lytham in the 1988 Open.
'What about that 3 wood out of the bunker in the Ryder Cup?'
'That was for the team - but the chip was for me'

[Thomas Dai]

Recalling Seve's shot over the wall and trees in Switzerland, I reckon some of it might have been live on TV. Not shot by the usual cameraman behind him or in the trees with him and Billy Foster though.
I reckon I can recall watching it live on TV and a ball suddenly came over the trees landing short of the pond from where he then chipped-in. I reckon it was shown on Eurosport, in the early days of Eurosport broadcasting golf (ie just after the Screensport period), way before the Sky period.
Do I have any proof. No, just a hazy recollection....and it was Seve on the 72nd hole on a Sunday afternoon.....cameras would have been rolling, they always were when Seve was about let alone playing the 72nd hole and in contention. Barry Lane won the tournament however, by a shot from....Seve?
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=fCIBxS8wAbs
Atb

[Ally Mcintosh]

Recalling Seve's shot over the wall and trees in Switzerland, I reckon some of it might have been live on TV. Not shot by the usual cameraman behind him or in the trees with him and Billy Foster though.
I reckon I can recall watching it live on TV and a ball suddenly came over the trees landing short of the pond from where he then chipped-in. I reckon it was shown on Eurosport, in the early days of Eurosport broadcasting golf (ie just after the Screensport period), way before the Sky period.
Do I have any proof. No, just a hazy recollection....and it was Seve on the 72nd hole on a Sunday afternoon.....cameras would have been rolling, they always were when Seve was about let alone playing the 72nd hole and in contention. Barry Lane won the tournament however, by a shot from....Seve?
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=fCIBxS8wAbs
Atb

He chipped in for a birdie after that shot too, didn't he? I think it was on TV as well - I'm convinced I saw it but perhaps it was just the ball arriving at the green after having the whole scenario described.


What about that 3-wood that Seve hit under the trees off his knees?

[Mike_Young]

[Even so, I have not learned to put out the cough-inducing p.r. quotes I read from other architects nowadays.  Many of them sound like they've invented a new software app.

BAM....love it....

[Thomas Dai]

He chipped in for a birdie after that shot too, didn't he? I think it was on TV as well - I'm convinced I saw it but perhaps it was just the ball arriving at the green after having the whole scenario described.
What about that 3-wood that Seve hit under the trees off his knees?

Ah yes, I remember that shot as well - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g5JfA1D1pkc - bit special
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[Mike_Clayton]

I was there - stupidly sitting in a players tent 100 yards away and not watching. I'm sure if the shot over the wall had been on TV it would have turned up somewhere.

[David Davis]

Tom,


Nice interview. You were talking about 9 hole courses and didn't mention the 9 holer at Morfontaine, The Vallière as one of the best. Curious your thoughts on this course and especially if you don't see it as one of the world's best 9 holers.


Thanks


Jon,


Thanks for posting.

[Tom_Doak]

Tom,


Nice interview. You were talking about 9 hole courses and didn't mention the 9 holer at Morfontaine, The Vallière as one of the best. Curious your thoughts on this course and especially if you don't see it as one of the world's best 9 holers.


Thanks

David:


I played the Valliere a couple of years ago, and thought it was sensational.  I have never seen anything like it.


I guess I didn't think of it because I put it in a slightly different class than the standard 9-hole course ... it's a bit shorter and a lot wilder than the others I mentioned!  Which is in no way meant to demean it.  When I get to Volume 4 of The Confidential Guide, it will be difficult to decide whether to write about Morfontaine, or its little sister.