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conference. Graeme McDowell fell asleep and hit his head on the microphone and I remember Lee Westwood crawling behind everyone’s chairs and Jose (Maria Olazabal) telling him to get back to his seat.
“You’re out there all day in the sun, you’ve had very little to eat because as soon as your match finishes, you’re straight back out to support everybody.
“Then when you go back in they ply you with champagne. We were all just blazing.
“The following week was the Dunhill Links and we got home on the Tuesday night late on.
“I played with my son Craig that week and that Thursday is the worst I have ever played at a tournament. I’ve never hit the ball like that.
“Because you’re just knackered. You’ve not been to bed, not hit a ball since the Sunday, and just manage a few balls on the range on Thursday morning.”
Don’t be fooled by all this talk of partying though, Lawrie remains driven to succeed and has already begun his preparations to hit the ground running on the Senior Tour when he turns 50 on New Year’s Day.
But before then he’d love BY EUAN McLEAN MARC WARREN is sick of hearing how he hasn’t fulfilled the full potential of his God-given talent.
But the 37-year-old reckons he can start delivering the titles that his peers have expected of him for a long time – as he now has the maturity to match the swing.
Three European Tour wins, including a victory on home soil at the 2007 Johnnie Walker Championship, is a decent enough haul, but he knows there have been big chances to add to that.
So with the Aberdeen Standard Investments Scottish Open rolling into Gullane this July, Warren feels in good shape to contend for a title he craves more than most.
Warren said: “I want to do better. I’d have liked to have done more by this age and this stage.
“Guys are playing better for longer and it might just be the pieces come together a wee bit later on.
“What I’m doing now and technically where I’m at, there’s not a lot of work to do.
“I still believe my best years are ahead of me.” nothing more than to add one more dream final victory on the main tour when he tees up at Gullane in July for the Aberdeen Standard Investments Scottish Open. Lawrie said: “I love playing in my home Open and it’s one you want to win.” Paul Lawrie has been working with the Master Blender at Loch Lomond Whiskies to create the Paul Lawrie Autograph Edition, which will go on sale before the world’s best golfers return to Carnoustie in July.