{"id":268223,"date":"2022-12-22T09:07:57","date_gmt":"2022-12-22T09:07:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/golftoday.co.uk\/?p=268223"},"modified":"2023-02-10T13:40:54","modified_gmt":"2023-02-10T13:40:54","slug":"the-press-pass-collection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/golftoday.co.uk\/the-press-pass-collection\/","title":{"rendered":"The press pass collection"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here are 22 media memories to close out 2022 \u2013 on December 22, no less. There is a book called Forgive Us Our Press Passes<\/em> (a history of the Association of Golf Writers) published in 2005, a collection of stories about golf writing by golf writers\u2026 which gave me the idea for this end-of-year blog.<\/p>\n

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It won\u2019t be immediately obvious what\u2019s what here (in part depending on how good your eye-sight is!) so I\u2019ll explain. They are in chronological order from the top. Here goes\u2026<\/p>\n

1976: The first Open I attended as a reporter, the one where Seve Ballesteros became famous and Johnny Miller became the champion at Royal Birkdale<\/p>\n

1979: Seve\u2019s first win in the Open at Royal Lytham, which made him even more famous<\/p>\n

1981: My first Ryder Cup, at which the Seve-less European team was thrashed by the might of America at Walton Heath<\/p>\n

1984: The Monte Carlo Open\u2026 a great week, especially if you were Ian Mosey, who won it<\/p>\n

1984: The only Amateur Championship final I attended. What a one to choose. At Formby that summer, Jos\u00e9 Maria Olaz\u00e1bal beat Colin Montgomerie by 5&4. I stopped off on my way back to London after a week of playing golf in Scotland. Bliss!<\/p>\n

1984: The Million Dollar Challenge at Sun City in the December. Another win for Seve in the year of that one at St Andrews<\/p>\n

1985: Sandy Lyle wins the Open at Royal St George\u2019s<\/p>\n

1986: Jack Nicklaus wins the Masters at the age of 46<\/p>\n

1987: Europe\u2019s first Ryder Cup win in the United States, inspired by Seve (again!) and at the golf course designed by Jack Nicklaus (again!)<\/p>\n

1988: The Australian Bicentennial Golf Classic over the extraordinarily classic composite course at Royal Melbourne, won by Rodger Davis<\/p>\n

1989: The German Open at the Frankfurter Golf Club, won by Craig Parry (and no, that was not my passport pic!)<\/p>\n

1991: Ian Woosnam wins the Masters, the fourth Brit in a row after Lyle and Nick Faldo (twice)<\/p>\n

1993: Bernhard Langer wins his second Masters<\/p>\n

1995: The last US Open I attended, won by Corey Pavin at Shinnecock Hills<\/p>\n

1996: Nick Faldo wins his third green jacket\u2026<\/p>\n

1997: \u2026 whereas one year later Tiger would be claiming his first<\/p>\n

1999: Jos\u00e9 Maria Olaz\u00e1bal wins his second Masters<\/p>\n

2000: The Millennium Open at St Andrews was won by Tiger Woods\u2026<\/p>\n

2001:<\/a> \u2026 who completed the \u2018Tiger Slam\u2019 at Augusta National the following spring<\/p>\n

2012: Europe\u2019s last Ryder Cup victory in the US, inspired by memories of the late Ballesteros and captained to an incredible comeback at Medinah by his old pal, Olaz\u00e1bal<\/p>\n

June 2022: The inaugural LIV Golf tournament at the Centurion Club, St Albans<\/p>\n

July 2022: The 150th Open Championship over the Old Course at St Andrews<\/p>\n

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You can follow Robert Green on Twitter @robrtgreen and enjoy his other blog \u0013 \u0014f-factors.com<\/strong><\/a>\u0015 plus you can read more by him on golf at robertgreengolf.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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