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Jack Nicklaus finally back in St Andrews as American golf hero looks forward to 150th Open Championship

Jack Nicklaus finally back in St Andrews as American golf hero looks forward to 150th Open Championship

WILL ye no come back again? Well, after 17 years, he’s finally back. In the Auld Grey Toun, a very special golfing auld yin was holding court. 

Back in 2005, Jack Nicklaus waved goodbye to The Open amid a poignant, sun-soaked swansong over the Old Course which led to such an outpouring of dewy-eyed emotion, the Swilcan Burn just about burst its banks. A curling putt on the final green for a fitting birdie was sooked into the hole by the collective will of the entire population of the Kingdom of Fife.

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