Watson in his Element
Potentially the greatest sports story ever came within an eight-foot putt of being told after the 2009 British Open. Just six weeks shy of his 60th birthday, one of the game’s true champions was poised to eclipse his finest hour 32 years earlier on the same stretch of Scotland’s west coast. Alas it was not to be, but what a show he put on! Paul Trow interviews the serial winner who will now also be remembered for coming second






