Because the Courier revealed in January, golf’s most embellished champion Jack Nicklaus can be made an Honorary Citizen of the Royal Burgh of St Andrews.
Nicklaus received three Open Championships amongst his report 18 main titles. Two of the three Open wins have been on the Previous Course at St Andrews, in 1970 and 1978. He bowed out of main championship golf on the Open at St Andrews in 2005.
The College of St Andrews will give honorary levels to {golfing} legends Sir Bob Charles, Sandy Lyle, Catriona Matthew, Jose Maria Olazabal and Lee Trevino as a part of the celebrations for the a hundred and fiftieth Open on the Previous Course in July.
The general public ceremony for all honorees can be held in Youthful Corridor in North Road on the Tuesday of Open week, July 12, at 1pm.
It’s the identical venue because the well-known and evocative ceremony in 1958 for the final {golfing} nice to be made a Freeman of the Burgh, the late Bobby Jones.
The opposite 5 honorees will obtain levels of Physician of Legal guidelines. They comply with within the latest custom of the College marking every go to of the championship to St Andrews.
Sir Bob was Open champion in 1963 at Royal Lytham and St Annes. He was the primary New Zealander and the primary left-hander to win a serious championship. He was knighted in 1999 and elevated to the Order of New Zealand in 2011.
Trevino was twice the Open champion, in 1971 and 1972. Texas-born of Mexican heritage, he rose from his modest background to win six main titles in all. Trevino was and stays certainly one of golf’s finest cherished winners and ebullient characters.
Sandy Lyle was the primary Scottish Open champion since Tommy Armour in 1931 when he received at Sandwich in 1985. Born in Shrewsbury to Scottish dad and mom, he has all the time represented Scotland as a participant in worldwide competitors.
Lyle grew to become the primary Briton to win the Masters in 1988 and performed in 5 Ryder Cups. He was additionally the primary European to win the distinguished Gamers Championship.
Catriona Matthew is Scotland’s most profitable feminine participant. A local of North Berwick – the place she nonetheless lives – she had a glittering novice profession earlier than turning skilled in 1995.
She received the Ladies’s Open at Royal Lytham & St Annes in 2009, simply 11 weeks after the start of her second daughter.
Matthew – recognized affectionately as ‘Beany’ to all in golf – can also be distinctive at having performed on and captained successful groups each dwelling and away within the Solheim Cup for Europe.
She performed for Europe 9 instances in that competitors. She was a last-minute reserve in 2017 for harm when she was as a consequence of be a vice-captain.
