• The town of St Andrews gave the five-time Open winner a touching send-off• Watson: ‘I told my son Michael on the 18th tee,no tears’fair until the very end Tom Watson was a gentleman, faced with playing the 18th in the gathering gloom with the time approaching 10pm on Friday and he asked his playing partners whether they fancied playing one or they wanted to come back and finish it in the morning.Ernie Els was on the reduce line of level par, and Brandt Snedeker was at three-over and the five-time champion was 11-over and had long given up on the idea of coming back for the final two rounds. Brandt and Ernie and I,we had a discussion, but I told them, and I said: ‘Gentlemen,you’re both in the tournament fair here. Whatever you want to effect, you effect. I’m not in the tournament.’Continue reading..., and
Source: theguardian.com