Nick Taylor\u0027s 72\u002Dfoot\u002Dputt represents one of the great moments in Canadian sports history. But does it top Paul Henderson or Sidney Crosby?
Our hearts are still beating rapidly. Our need to watch the replays of all of it — the eagle putt from 72 feet, the elation of the crowd, the overzealous security guard tackling Canadian golfer, Adam Hadwin — is so very 2023.Sign up to receive daily headline news from the Calgary Herald, a division of Postmedia Network Inc.By clicking on the sign up button you consent to receive the above newsletter from Postmedia Network Inc.
It was the Canada-Russia question. It was the Paul Henderson goal that will never die. It was sport and politics and intensity and emotion all wrapped up in a hockey series. But that was 51 years ago now and, if you’re not 60 years old, you probably have little personal connection to the Henderson goal.
So this week, you can ask a new question to a younger sports fan: Where were you when Nick Taylor hit the putt from 72?A Canadian piece of sporting symmetry. The accomplishments may not be similar in any way, but the emotion of the moment, the delaying of dinner on Sunday night, the people who don’t care about golf huddled around their big screen television sets, is always when sport is at its best — when it reaches out and grabs the disinterested and pulls them in.
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