The 113th Championship from The Old Course, St Andrews
Five-times winner
PETER THOMSON said,
'St Andrews , it is the course, the original course. I'm a lover of classic things - music, paintings - and that's the classic golf course. All other courses are copies of The Old Course. It's the original.'
Today this famous Fife links course will claim as victims many great names, as they try to make the half-way cut of 80 players. Will the 13 former champions get through? TOM WATSON the defending champion, KEL NAGLE , ARNOLD PALMER , BOB CHARLES , PETER THOMSON , JOHNNY MILLER , TONY JACKLIN , TOM WEISKOPF , JACK NICK LAUS, BILL ROGERS , SEVERIANO BAL LESTEROS, LEE TREVINO and GARY
PLAYER.
HARRY CARPENTER introduces live coverage of the early finishers in this second round. Commentators
PETER ALLISS , CLIVE CLARK BRUCE CRITCHLEY , ALEX HAY
MARK MCCORMACK and JACK NEWTON
Producers RICHARD TILLING , ALASTAIR SCOTT Executive producer HAROLD ANDERSON