Bruce Lietzke, the 2003 U.S. Senior Open win-
ner, said the last seven or eight holes at the
TOLEDO, OHIO |
It was the shot heard
“round the world” of golf in 1986.
Bob
Tway
stunned
Greg Norman
and
everybody else who was watching that
day at Inverness when he holed out of
a greenside bunker on the 72nd hole to
win the PGA Championship.
“I think all of the people out there
today were there in ‘86, because every-
body remembers the
Bob Tway
bunker shot,” Tway said upon his re-
turn for the U.S. Senior Open. “That, by
far, is the highlight of my golf career,
no doubt about it.
“Winning the PGA Championship
in the fashion that I won it and mak-
ing that shot, that’s what everybody
remembers. People ask me, ‘Why do
you think they remember that shot
so much?’ I think it’s because bunker
shots to a lot of people are difficult.”
A month after his triumph, now 25
years ago, Tway returned to the site at
the request of a national magazine.
“They told me it was kind of an
instructional thing, but then, over to the
side, there was a guy keeping track of
where I hit all the shots,” Tway said. “I
I didn’t is because I can’t do any bet-
ter, so I just leave it alone. I don’t feel a
need to get in there and try to hit it. I just
remember what happened that day.”
It’s not unusual for golf courses
to be altered to accommodate ma-
jor championships but the level of
modifications at Inverness Club took
the concept to new levels. The dra-
matic change for the U.S. Senior Open
involved a re-routing and numbering
revision for 10 holes – five on each side.
D.A. Weibring
aced the 168-yard third
hole at Inverness in the second round. He
used a 6-iron to record the 18th docu-
mented hole-in-one in U.S. Senior Open
history, and the first since
Bob Ford
’s ace
at Whistling Straits in 2007.
Weibring made six on the same hole
in Thursday’s opening round.
“You really can’t see (the green)
because of the flashed-up bunkers,”
Weibring said. “We saw all the hands in
the crowd go in the air, so they told us
we made a one because we didn’t see
it go in.”
Weibring has made so many aces
he has lost count. “I’m embarrassed,”
he said. “I’ve lost track a little bit. It’s in
the 20 range though.” l
Vartan Kupelian
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