How Tony Jacklin’s 1970 Open Win Accidentally Saved Britain (and Invented Modern Golf Nationalism)
The man in the grainy 1970 colour footage looks like he’s just been handed the keys to a fallout shelter seconds before the sirens start wailing. Tony Jacklin, hair still behaving like it has somewhere better to be, lifts the claret jug above his head at Royal Lytham while the BBC commentator tries not to…