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Article: Beharrell grasps chance to drive golf into new era; Michael Blair meets the Midlander set to take on one of the game's prized posts.
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- The Birmingham Post (England)
- Article date:
- August 20, 1998
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In the course of a long and distinguished golf career, John Beharrell has hit more than a few important shots; a fusillade of the very best, for instance when, aged 18, he became the youngest winner of the Amateur Championship at Troon in 1956.
But the most important drive of his life, what he describes as the most daunting, has yet to be despatched. That is due at eight o'clock on the morning of September 17, on the first tee at St Andrews.
Then a cannon will fire a single round and as simultaneously as he can manage, Beharrell will unleash his drive ...