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Castaway
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A golfer, ranked world number three, one of the game's biggest earners, Ryder Cup player who has never won a major but been runner-up in the US Open and US PGA.
On the island
Eight records
I'm away from home an awful lot, and too much. I spend roughly about a hundred days at home, and the rest of the time I'm away in hotel rooms and airports and golf courses and what have you, and there's not a lot of time for sightseeing. And I chose this record not because I happen to like it as a record, but I'm always trying to get the first flight home, and this song's very appropriate.
I'll never forget to 1974, as we all won't, I suppose, this famous Eurovision song contest I was watching when I was eleven years old. Little did we know what was gonna happen. And uh the family, my wife and children have always loved ABBA, we listen to it sometimes in the car and I think everyone's a a sort of ABBA closet fan without without really admitting it.
Nathan Lane, Ernie Sabella, Jason Weaver and Joseph Williams
It's used a number of ways in my life, not that just that the children enjoyed the film and also they went to the West End theatre production, but at the same time it's generally the last song that I play in the car or if I'm driving to a course I sometimes ask the Kuru Sa car driver to play this song and it's the last song that I hear before I step out of the car.
brings back two emotional times in my life. One in 1995, when Scotland won the Alfred Dunhill Cup for the first time up at St Andrews... And the second occasion was the Brazil-Scotland football match, the Soccer World Cup finals in 1998
I spend a lot of time in hotel rooms. As we've said, a lot of them around Europe, French hotel rooms and Belgium and German and Spanish ones. And the TV TV doesn't interest me as much as films or music do. And I now bring my own little DVD player with me. It makes me sleep at night after I've watched a good film. And this is definitely one of them.
IMG's T V company TWI produce a video for me every year and uh when I've won the Order of Merit and it brings back great memories of uh wins and certain shots and certain incidents that's happened and in nineteen ninety eight they focussed a lot on my wife who's been a great support and this was the music that was that was uh played over that video and this record always reminds me of her.
never forget in the nineteen ninety seven Ryder Cup down at Valderama we were led into a thousand strong dinner and uh the lights had dimmed and uh it sent a chill up my spine listening to this song as we walked in.
SailingFavourite
it was always my mother, Elizabeth's favourite music and and uh she passed away in ninety one of lung cancer and and I always think about her when this music is played.
In conversation
Presenter asks
0:36Is that [competitive spirit] what drives you?
It is indeed. I love to win. In fact, I hate to lose more than I love to win, so that's what keeps me going.
Presenter asks
1:49How does it manifest itself, that competitive spirit? Does it mean that you have to get a bit nasty?
I do sometimes... I'm very ambitious, and it shows on the golf course I want to win. And as you said in your introduction, that there's not possibly not enough of it in British sport nowadays. We need more Ian Bothams in our cricket team. We need more people like myself, I suppose.
Presenter asks
3:20What was going on out there [at the Ryder Cup in Brookline]?
with myself it was more trying to put me off my game before before the shot was hit, by shouting out on one's backswing... Say say we hit the ball two hundred yards off the tee. There was two hundred yards of heckling before I got to the ball. It was very off-putting.
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The keepsakes
The book
Michael Crichton
I don't know which one because they're very difficult to pick I've enjoyed reading all of them and so one of Michael Crichton's novels would be the book I'd take with me.
The luxury
Not recorded.
How did it affect you?
The first round it affected me because I went there with no expectation... And what I did was I got more determined. The more they heckled, the more determined I became to shout, to sort of shut that noise off, if you like, and actually concentrate on what I was doing. And it worked well. The putts went in and it was amazing. And it actually helped me in the long term.
Presenter asks
18:08Is it true you cried [after the 1997 US Open]?
I did after ninety-seven. Yeah, yeah, because I thought I had a great opportunity... And you don't get that many opportunities. That's why I said if and when it happens again, because it it is an if, you never know, the standards improving all the time.
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30:53Didn't did it throw you for a while when [your mother] died?
Oh, it did, it did. Uh especially in my job in the public eye. That was nineteen ninety one and and I and I didn't win a tournament for for two years. I wasn't concentrating... It's a very it's a very great loss.
“I love to win. In fact, I hate to lose more than I love to win, so that's what keeps me going.”
“I think someone with someone with my ambition can't be taught, I believe. You you either have it or you don't.”
“I know when I do well in golf tournaments that I haven't actually tried at all. It's just happened. It's flowed.”