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The best shot Azinger saw came during an exhibition at the Old Course in St. Andrews for a Shell’s Wonderful World of Golf match.
“He was in a fairway bunker on No. 4,” Azinger said. “It was only a 9-iron, but he cooked it out of the bunker, straight up in the air and onto the green. I walked over to the bunker, and realized it was absolutely impossible for me to do that.”
Bobby Jones once famously said of Nicklaus, “He plays a game with which I am not familiar.”
Ballesteros played shots that no one knew existed.
“He was special,” said two-time U.S. Open champion Curtis Strange, who lost all five times he faced Ballesteros in the Ryder Cup. “He truly saw shots that nobody else would see. He’d see a hole in a tree, a run-up on a links.”
What was the best shot he saw?
“Put it this way,” Strange said with a laugh. “He chipped in on me more than once. You almost applauded at times, because in a situation like that, you knew it was coming.”
Mark Garrod, the golf correspondent for PA Sports the last three decades, remembers Ballesteros hitting one shot so far right during the ’93 European Masters that he was 3 feet away from a wall with a swimming pool on the other side. The situation looked hopeless until Ballesteros saw enough of a gap in the trees that he hit pitching wedge to the fringe, then chipped in for birdie.
Garrod later asked Ballesteros about the shot, and the response is worth remembering now.
“I just like to keep going forward.”
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