Golf Digest flew me back about a month later when I was playing at Akron at the World Series. 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.... I didn't make any.
Indeed, two of us flew Bob in a helicopter to Inverness for an instruction story on both the bunker shot and the great chip Tway made on 17 to get up and down for par. Tway was a great sport to go back and try the shot again. In the February 1987 story that his trip produced, Tway said:
People have debated about how far my bunker shot would have run if it had not hit the hole....I tried 20 shots, and, although a few were very close, none went in. One, though, felt very much like the shot on the 72nd hole [in 1986] and that one rolled about six feet past. I'm lucky--and thankful--I didn't have to face that putt for the 1986 PGA Championship.
Had Tway tried the shot in any of his practice rounds leading up to this year's Senior Open?
Since then I don't really remember getting in there and doing it, and the reason I did is because I can't do any better, so I just leave it alone.
That's the thing about great golf shots...their greatness is wedded to the circumstance in which they were struck, and in Tway's case, that circumstance was major.
Bob Carney
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