The winner of The Open Championship 2010 returns to St Andrews for the Alfred Dunhill Links Championship 2025. 15 years on, hear from his memories and experiences of the Auld Grey Toon and major championship glory.
St Andrews Links, The Home of Golf.
[Music] The old course is it’s golf. If I if I you wake me up in the middle of the night, I think, and you just ask me golf, favorite place, um I would St. Andrews is the only place that pops into my mind. [Music] Hello. Um I’m Louis Westin um from South Africa and nice to be back here at St. Andrews. First experience was um amateur We didn’t get on the old bus that week, but uh that was the first experience of Scottish golf and um you know was so so different. I I used to link golf but not in in in that way and um just fell in love with with Scottish lings golf then. I grew up with windy conditions where where I play golf in Muscle Bay and so any any conditions where I can work the golf ball and and use the ground to run and things like that I really enjoyed. Um and uh I felt it always suited my game. It was the Tony Lynx. It might have been 03. Um it was my first first round on it and practice round and um fell in love with it immediately. um played it probably every year. I I can’t really remember, but I think I played it most of the years going leading up to 2010 and played the Open in 2010. It’s so different the way they set it up. Um pin positions and and things like that where the tunnel is a little bit more lenient and and then you get to the open and you actually shop with a few few pin positions. It’s a hit left friendly golf course. So that sort of um at the the Daniel you would go left cuz it didn’t really matter. The pins were always um you know more towards middle or or even on the right side of the greens. When you play the open you sort of forced to play the the the hole like it should be played forced a little bit to the right of the tea and then to have a better shot into the green but then you bring some bunkers into play. So I think lines of the tea cuz it’s always blind shots. um lines of fat were very important over the years. You sort of learn um certain things about, you know, things in the distance. That’s my line. That’s my line there. And and the more you play it, the definitely the the more you sort of visually know what’s going on. Yeah. I mean, I I was fortunate enough to have a big lead. So, I took in all those things. I looked around. I remember all the people on the balconies and then saw my family at the back here. And so it was it was nice to be able to do that. Um you know in 15 when I was playing to get into the playoff I didn’t take in anything. I was so focused on what I needed to do and um so it was nice on in 2010 to actually when I walked over the bridge to realize that I’m not going to screw it up from here. And um just take everything in. To me it was like Daniel week is very nice. Obviously, you got a little bit more freedom walking around, Daniel. The open is a little hectic doing that, but town’s brilliant. I mean, it’s the one where you like you park your car and you just walk around. You just want to, you know, go and visit places. So, it’s a it’s a great spot. [Music]
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Awesome Louis