May30 Carnoustie Lawrie
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Paul Lawrie has admitted he still looks at his Claret Jug every day as he prepares to return to the scene of his Open triumph.
The Scot stunned the world when he won the 1999 Championship at Carnoustie, beating Justin Leonard and Jean van de Velde in a playoff.
Lawrie talks exclusively in this month’s Today’s Golfer, saying: “The glow of victory has never gone away,” he says. “I look at the Claret Jug every day when I am home.”
Lawrie also opens his heart about the way he was treated after his win, when some people suggested he was the lucky beneficiary of van de Velde’s spectacular collapse on the 18th hole.
And he talks of what he’s looking forward to next month, how he dealt with the overnight success of winning a Major and his career since that gloomy afternoon in July 1999.
It’s all in the new issue of Today’s Golfer magazine – out now.
