Cool: Golf Channel Re-airing 1971 U.S. Open Final Round
/And nothing against narrator Dan Hicks, but I do hope we get to hear some Whitaker, McKay and whoever else was part of the broadcast team that year.
And even though Barry White hadn't recorded the Love Unlimited Orchestra's Love's Theme, I guess it would be inappropriate to pipe that in?
TREVINO-NICKLAUS U.S. OPEN SHOWDOWN IN 1971 REBROADCAST FOR FIRST TIME ON GOLF CHANNEL
Dan Hicks Takes Viewers Through Final Round and 18-hole Playoff on GOLF’S GREATEST ROUNDS, Tuesday at 8 p.m. ET
ORLANDO, Fla., May 24, 2013 – The 1971 U.S. Open at famed Merion Golf Club featured one of the more dramatic battles in U.S. Open history when Lee Trevino and Jack Nicklaus went toe-to-toe in an intense 18-hole Monday playoff to crown that year’s national champion. For the first time since the tournament’s original airing in 1971, viewers will have the opportunity watch the drama and excitement unfold on television on GOLF’S GREATEST ROUNDS, Tuesday, May 28 at 8 p.m. ET on Golf Channel.
Golf Channel on NBC’s Dan Hicks will take viewers through the dramatic showdown between Trevino and Nicklaus at Merion Golf Club, featuring action from Sunday’s final round and Monday’s 18-hole playoff. Missing a six-footer on the 72nd hole to win in regulation, Trevino fell into a tie with Nicklaus and forced a Monday playoff. The tension on the first tee was thick but soon lifted as the ever-playful Trevino pulled a rubber snake from his golf bag, held it up for the gathered crowd to see and tossed it at Nicklaus, who broke out laughing.