Ian Baker-Finch

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431 appearances 2 recordings 1 series first heard Jun 2026 last heard 6 Jul

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Sky Sports Golf Podcast · Gotterup wins another, Harrington rolls on, plus interviews with Ian Baker-Finch and Georgia Hall · 6 Jul 2026 podcast

And that was a four iron from, you know, 195 yards that almost went in and pitched in, stopped quickly, 12 foot behind the hole.

I mean, when I think about that now, being able to hit a four iron in the wind, back in those days, four iron was a 200-yard club, not a 250-yard club.

Exactly.

It was a butter knife with 26 degrees of loft, not, not 20 degrees of loft like these days.

Uh, yeah, it was, I was in control and, and that was, that was a special moment.

Yeah, he was.

He was genuinely...

right there, like you would be playing with a mate any time, not in the cauldron of the final round of the Open in that final group.

It was so pleasant to be in that pairing.

And if you look back at the Open movie or if you had reruns of the show,

On the sixth tee, we waited for about 20 to 25 minutes because the sixth hole was so difficult that day.

Everyone was making double bogeys and it was just, it was a hard hole.

It's really a par five that was being played as a par four to an elevated green in strong wind and I had a seven, I had a six foot and hold the putt for birdie and really sort of picked up two shots on the field, I believe, with that hole.

But we sat there and we talked and we sat on our bags and we chatted and had a sandwich or a power bar or something and

Being with Mark as a friend was certainly very helpful for me.

And when he won in 98, I was doing the television for the first time.

I had not played in the open to do the TV.

And I went up and congratulated him when he was doing all of his interviews.

And it was quite a tearful moment for both of us congratulating him.

you walk up, there's a pathway up from 17 green and the, the crowds really should go around the tee and, and, you know, 50 yards or so to the left of the tee, but so many people try to come up onto the tee and we were up there ready to go and,

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