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Further down the line, his aim is to make the Britain and Ireland Walker Cup team for the match against the United States at St Andrews. “It was a good sort of good stepping stone today I think for the rest of the year,” said McClean who, although qualified as an optometrist, is effectively a full-time amateur golfer at present.

Among those to pay tribute to the now 76-year-old was Ben Crenshaw, who had Jackson on his bag for wins in 1984 and 1995: “We’ve experienced it all. We had great triumphs and our share of disasters but we walked every step together,” said Gentle Ben.

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