Ian Baker-Finch
speaker
431 appearances
2 recordings
1 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 6 Jul
Ian Baker-Finch’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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I remember all of the headlines, like Ian Baker, who's this farm boy from Australia leading the Open.
No one had ever heard of me, 23-year-old leading the Open.
Back then, 23 was young.
Nowadays, you've got 17-year-olds winning tournaments.
It is, as I say, was really the start of my life as I have played it through those years, four decades.
Just incredible.
Unfortunately, at the end of the day, I was behind all of those names you just mentioned because I didn't play well the last day.
But what more would you expect?
It's a youngster in his first open at St.
Andrews and a shock that spun back into the burn on the first hole, which was really, that's never happened in the history of the game.
Um, sort of just threw me to start with and, uh, scrambled the front nine terribly and, and actually finished birdie birdie par birdie, I believe the last three holes to, uh, to finish ninth.
Um, but overall that made my, my life and, and to play so well at St.
Andrews was something extra special to in front of the, the world media.
It, uh, it kicked me off.
Yeah, Tom Watson and I were on the 18th tee watching that.
Yeah, yeah, and he had that navy blue Schlesinger sweater on that he wore every Sunday for the next 10 years.
Amazing, isn't it?
Yeah, that it went in.
Well, back in those days, the greens weren't as pure as we're used to putting on now either.
Yeah.
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