In 1978, you finished T7 at your first St Andrews Open. How was that experience?
It was just amazing. I loved it from the word go. Some people say, “What the heck is this place?”, but I kind of got it and enjoyed it straight away. I only finished four shots back of Jack in 1978.
That was when I told myself I can win The Open one day; that gave me the belief. When you give yourself the belief that yes, this is doable, it becomes a genuine goal. I knew I could handle that. Obviously it took nine more years until it happened.
Everything gets so accentuated at St Andrews. If you miss a shot on a normal golf course, it finishes 30 feet from the hole; there, it finds a way to finish 30 yards from the hole, it really does.
So you have to accept that you have to be really good at putting from 20 and 30 yards
