01골프의 성지에서 펼쳐진 서핑 스타의 석양 서핑
'서핑의 전설' 켈리 슬레이터가 스코틀랜드 세인트 앤드루스에서 열린 DP월드투어 알프레드 던힐 링크스 챔피언십 대회 기간 중 색다른 볼거리를 선사했다.
슬레이터는 일정을 마친 후 붉은 노을이 깔린 세인트 앤드루스 해변을 찾아 석양을 배경으로 일몰 서핑을 즐겼으며, 현장에 있던 대학생들과 팬들은 뜻밖의 명장면을 목격하고 기쁨을 감추지 못했다.
세계적인 서핑 스타의 화려한 파도타기 퍼포먼스는 골프의 성지 세인트 앤드루스를 찾은 현지 학생들과 관중에게 잊지 못할 깜짝 선물이 됐다.
02Original (English) — DP World Tour
On Wednesday evening ahead of his first round, 11 time World Champion Surfer Kelly Slater took to the East Sands in St Andrews for a sunset surf, surprising some shocked students.
The beauty of the Alfred Dunhill Links Championship is that you might just catch a World Champion Surfer making the most of a beautiful evening at the home of golf.
That was the case for some students, who were also surfing, at the East Sands beach, known to surfers for good waves.
Slater had paddled up to a group of students surfing, and caught waves alongside them.
"He came over and whispered in my ear and whispered 'there's a goat in the water', and I didn't quite believe him," said one student.
"Being able to chat to Kelly in the line up, even share some waves," said another, who knew he was in town but was amazed at their interaction. "Unbelievable, I can't believe it."
Afterwards, Slater took pictures with the students, and spoke about how nice it was to be surfing in Scotland as he prepared to play in his eighth Alfred Dunhill Links Championship on Thursday.
"It's nice to get a wave here in Scotland," said Slater. "I was saynig I couldn't feel my feet, not because it was so cold but because I walked golf all day."
Slater, who is playing alongside Rafa Cabrera Bello this week, has a lot of love for this event, which he called the 'best pro-am in the world' earlier in the week.
"I've always said it's the best pro-am in the world," he told the DP World Tour on Wednesday afternooon.
"You feel really a part of the tournament as an amateur. A lot of them are kind of, it feels like a coming together of a lot of friends that have had many years in the golf world and as an amateur it's really fun because you feel so enmeshed in like the whole all the events and stuff and there's a lot of pros and amateurs that have played together for a long time so there's a good camaraderie there."
While Slater has not yet lifted the trophy in the team event, he says some of his most memorable moments came in his first two years of coming to St Andrews, partnering the winner both times.
"Well it was my first two years here I played in 09 and then again I skipped a couple years and then came back a couple years later and my first two years playing my pro won the tournament outright. I was with Simon Dyson, who I didn't even know Simon's name at the time and then he just played out of his mind and on the final day I think he shot maybe 5 under on the front nine and one or two under on the back. We weres ahead of Rory and he got a little upset because Rory hit into us, and he starts yelling. I said, Hey, just calm down. He's doing that to make you mad, man. You're winning, win this tournament, and laugh and yell at him afterwards. I said, But then you'll be laughing at him, so don't worry about it."
"That was cool, and then I played with Thorbjorn Olesen a couple of years later, and he won, and I said, on the final hole, I go on the 18th, when you putt out and win this thing, I'm going to give you a big chest bump. And he's like, what? I'm like, yeah, get ready for it. So that was kind of fun.
"So then I came back the next year and I'm sitting at breakfast and I think Kaymer, one of those guys, came up to me and said, I need to play with you. Your pro always wins. So I kind of had this thing. I should have quit after two. I haven't made the cut since."