This Golfing Life - Matthew Southgate
Six Open Championships. Countless battles. One unforgettable story.
This week's episode of This Golfing Life is one of the most candid, emotional and inspiring conversations we've ever recorded.
In a few days, Matthew Southgate will tee it up in The Open Championship for the seventh time after once again battling his way through Final Qualifying. But this story is about so much more than golf.
It's the story of a little boy who fell in love with The Open because of his father. A father who taught him to shape golf shots in the woods before school, who drove hundreds of miles to Carnoustie because he believed it was the greatest golf course on earth, and who passed on a lifelong obsession with links golf and the Championship itself.
Matthew speaks with extraordinary honesty about surviving cancer, losing that father far too soon, the grief that followed, and the battle with alcohol that almost consumed him.
He relives the unforgettable Open moments that have defined his career, explains why he believes links golf still brings out the very best in him, and reveals why, as he heads to Royal Birkdal, he genuinely believes he can remind the golfing world exactly what he's capable of.
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