Before he won in 1967, he had recorded eight top-six finishes from 10 previous appearances, including a runner-up finish in 1950.
“Lee Trevino once said Roberto was one of the best three ball-strikers he had ever seen in his life.”ĭe Vicenzo’s Open record was exceptional. “He was an extraordinary ball-striker, extraordinary,” Morey added. He won 135 tournaments in Argentina, 86 in the USA, Canada and Central & South America, and 10 in Europe. He won 230 times in five different continents, and the national open in 17 different countries. He won his first tournament in 1948 at 19, and his last one in 1991 at a super senior event aged 62. “I said I would be delighted,” Morey said.ĭe Vicenzo’s legendary status in Argentina is hard to overstate. A quick invitation was extended, and over tea that afternoon, De Vicenzo asked his biggest fan to work as his private secretary. In 1970, Morey was at university and passed De Vicenzo at the Ranelagh entrance. I even took some of my golf clubs to school and hit balls from one rugby pitch to another.” That was my first close moment with Roberto.
“I was sent to a boarding school called St George’s on the outskirts of Buenos Aires and my father travelled to London and brought me my first set of clubs thanks to a letter signed by Roberto in about 1962 or 1963. “He used to play for Dunlop in those days and my first set of clubs were a gift from him,” he said. It was there that the two first met, De Vicenzo the world-famous golfer and Morey the Buenos Aires schoolboy who idolised him. Morey is in his third term as president of Ranelagh Golf Club, the club in Buenos Aires where De Vicenzo was a member and a frequent visitor until very late in his life.
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