New Asia-Pacific Amateur champion Harrison Crowe joined an illustrious group of just three Australians (Antonio Murdaca in 2014 and Curtis Luck in 2016) to win the prestigious amateur event on Sunday, but the Sydneysider remains in another club all on his own after pulling off this ridiculous trick shot.
After holding his nerve in a nail-biting final round to secure a one-shot victory at Amata Spring Country Club in Thailand and punch his ticket to the 2023 Masters, a viral video resurfaced of the 21-year-old performing magic on another famous course.
Uploaded to YouTube in June last year by “Random Golf Club Films”, host Erik Anders Lang made the pilgrimage to St Andrews in search of the truth regarding an old pub tale doing the rounds.
The video begins with Anders Lang explaining he had heard a legendary story about a golfer hitting the 18th green at The Old Course from the cobblestone street corner up the block outside The Dunvegan, the course’s famous 19th hole. Ridiculous. Fanciful. Not possible … surely?
After surveying a group of liquored-up locals, Anders Lang randomly bumps into Crowe and his Aussie mates, who had clearly been busy building up enough ‘Dutch courage’ to offer to reenact the heroic moment for the cameras.
Anders Lang duly accepts, and what unfolds next is nothing short of pure sorcery. Check it out (LANGUAGE WARNING!) here:
Holy claret jugs! That might be the bravest – or riskiest – trick-shot we’ve ever seen! Either way, it helps explain the composure of the kid who now has Augusta National firmly on his mind.
Something tells us, however, that splitting the middle of Magnolia Lane from a Washington Road footpath won’t be on Crowe’s agenda come April.
