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Andy Gray of Sports Illustrated on Thursday posted this awesome photo of Vin Scully announcing the 1975 Masters.

Wait a second. Vin Scully doing the Masters?!

Sure, the legendary voice of the Dodgers actually broadcast golf's finest event for CBS from 1975-82.

Southland Golf sat down with Scully two years ago to talk about what working the Masters was like.

Augusta is unique because it’s kind of like a bowl. If you’re up at No. 1 or No. 10 or No. 18, you’re on the rim of the bowl. When something happened, you’d start to hear the roars and they’d be like gunfire, like cannons. Then the score would go up and you’d hear the roars again. It was marvelous. 

Scully talked about the most amazing shot that he ever saw.

Tom Kite was in the back of a bunker that was playing downhill with the green sloping toward the water. He pulled out a 4-wood and walked into the sand. I thought, ‘What is he doing?’ There is no way he is going to hold the green. I had no idea what he was going to do, but he took a mighty swing and clobbered the ball. Don’t you know, it hit the lip of the bunker and the ball trickled down to the hole. Later, I asked him about that shot and he said he learned it from Hale Irwin and he practices it all of the time. Amazing.

Scully discussed how satisfying it was to work golf.

When you do football or baseball or tennis, you can leave at the end of the day and say ‘I did good or I had a good day.’ In golf, you’re a member of a verbal track team and you’re constantly handing the baton off to another announcer, another hole. It took a while to get used to listening to the great [CBS Sports] golf director Frank Chirkinian (who died last month) in your ear. I’d be describing a shot and Frank would be saying, ‘Vinny, when you’re done throw it to No. 15 where Nicklaus is lining up a birdie putt.’ Somehow you had to divorce yourself from what you were saying and thinking to make that baton pass. It’s difficult and it took a while to get used to it. 

Finally, Scully shared one of his favorite memories from calling the Masters.

In golf, especially at Augusta, you use your words sparingly. I’ll never forget working with one of the great names in golf broadcasting, the Englishman Henry Longhurst, who was quite a character. But this particular year, he gave a lesson in broadcasting worth learning. Clive Clark, also an Englishman who, by the way, now lives in Palm Springs, got a hole-in-one on Augusta’s 16th hole. All Longhurst said was, ‘Clive Clark has played the 16th hole in one.’

You can catch clips of that 1975 Masters tournament in this video. Jack Nicklaus won by one shot over Johnny Miller and Tom Weiskopf.

Great words from a great announcer on a great event.

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