 Iconic status is granted to only a few, for some it can be in recognition of sport and achievement, but for others the title has a wider significance. In 1979 a 22-year-old Spaniard won the open championship at Royal Llywodraetham St Ann's. Sefiad arrived and legendary status was inevitable. Today I walk in the footsteps of my golf hero. First will be a challenge, it's going to be the infamous 16th, where effectively I reckon Sefi won that open championship in 1979. But go and have a look round first and then join me back here for a man vs golf hold challenge. Classic links design at the third at Llywodraetham. Shot I've just played in then there's a hidden bunker to the right which you can see. You don't see that at all from the second shot in and then you go left and these run-offs and swales that it's what is the difficulty of looking at. It looks fairly straight forward from back there but believe me I'm glad to be on that flat stuff. Right hole seven asking a few questions off the tee. Four bunkers down the left I can see, I can see two down the right and it could be a few more in no way. It's not down the middle, in fact it's going down the right and we could be in some heavy stuff there. Right behind me is the fairway I was just looking at from the tee those bunkers to my right now and two to the left. And I wonder what the likes of Sevill or any of the pros that play in the open champions. What do they think when they're looking down on that from the tee position? Because there is literally no room for error and then the wind blows as well. It's not easy. Bunkers that you've got to avoid is incredible. We've worked our way down, I'm playing me fourth shot in on this par five and in a way I had to hack out and I'm glad because again you've got four bunkers there that are incredibly steep. I'm just waiting to catch you out on what some people's second shot, other people's third. Really well designed golf course with plenty of trouble and you can see why it's a tough course round here. I think that's got to go a bit. Go ball, go! Yeah just made the front. Sevill's ability was unquestionable but in many ways it was his waywardness that provided the moments of genius. He was beyond the ordinary and brought so much imagination, charisma, style, inspiration and passion to the game. That's not the best of swings but I've found the middle of the fairway which is the most important bit I suppose. 170 in it's all uphill, there's a mammoth bunker, I think it's the one left of pitch. We'll have a look in there in a minute but I'm hoping I don't go in it but we'll take a stop off to have a look. All uphill so we're clubbing up a bit here expecting it to take a bit of extra to get up that hill. Do you know it's a decent enough shot but I don't know where it's got the legs you know. Go! No I didn't think so. Sit, stay. That's on its way back down the hill. I would have played this one out, I pitched somewhere around here and it was a good club shot but this is where I finished up. Massive dips and swales here and that bunker that I referred to is actually green side to the left. I'm going to have a look at it in a minute or two. But first of all we've got to master this. Not easy. Go on. Do you know what? It's not bad I think it was the right type of shot to play but it was for me. I needed a little bit more to make this one a little bit easier. This is one steep bunker. It's got to be, I don't know, that looks about 6, 7, 8 foot maybe. To the top of it I can see the tip of the flag and we need some Spanish hands. Sefi, come on. Work some magic and stick this one in the hole. It's not a bad effort you know. Oh Sefi! That's got to be a bit of help from above I reckon there. Watching any of the major golf tournaments that they've held here at Royal Llytham I always remember this par 3. It's a great little hole and again danger absolutely everywhere. You're looking at danger mainly being bunkers but again you can see all those big slopes even from here that they're all feeding away from the green and into one of those what look like fairly deep bunkers. So question is can I get a decent tee shot on a hole that I've watched on the telly many times and then you get the opportunity to do it yourself. Again I've just got off the bottom groove. Has it got enough? Has it got enough? Sit. Now is it the flag? It was a bit like I said at the bottom groove but it's not bad. I think I might have got a subtle round of applause from the crowd but only a subtle one. I know a bad role. Might have got a bit of a new from the crowd. Yep, we'll make a 3. The 1979 Open was brutal while wins from the Irish Sea caused havoc. But on that final day Sefi managed to play the notoriously difficult back 9 in genius mode and played the last 7 holes in 100. I don't know what's going through Sefi's mind this time, 22 year old and still all to play for at this stage. It was extremely tight and don't forget the wins were howling. That's right on the line you know. Right on the line. Go. Happy with that. I think Sefi would have been happy with that one. The difference is it was blown a bit of a different breeze on that day. Right the tee shot came up. It was a club short but I wanted to show you this. What I didn't notice from back there again is this massive sort of run off halfway through the green. So literally probably 2 yards to my right off the tee and this happens. You're literally hitting that bank and running straight back off the green. And there the subtleties of the sort of great course design at Royal Litham and all the great links championship venues that you stood on the tee. You don't see these kind of things. It looks a fairly flat plateau. And then when you get up here realising this case at least anyway. I stayed on the top side and got a bit lucky. I get into play at open championship venue. You just get to experience things that we've seen on telly and you get these kind of. They're almost nondescript because you see so many of them littered around the place. But again they're like a piece of art stunningly maintained. But all of a sudden they pop apart of nowhere. And again that's you know I mean that's not far off as sort of tall as me and up and down from here. You just got so much admiration for Ada people that maintain these things. But then B when you see the professionals and how they make this kind of thing look so easy. And you get someone average that comes in. And all you're thinking is my god I just hope this pops up. Oh hello. That's above average. Sefi magic hands. Spanish hands. A Cadillern is baking on a shift here at Royal Litham because I've just teed off. And I can tell you now when it happens throughout the course there's a lot of surprises along the way. That little bunker there hidden away from my tee position. Thank god I've come up short but there's lots of them. It's a key feature of the round dotted all over the place. And again we played our hole early. I think it was the third where tee shot into the green and fortunately landed on the green. But what I didn't realise is again obscured from view was a deep bunker just a few yards to the right. And then big run-offs to the left as well taking your ball away from the hole. And sometimes almost a bit better that you don't know that that danger is there. But like I said caddy and yardages. And it's an interesting fact for you. In 1979 when Sefi won that open championship in 72 holes it only found nine fairways. That's incredible. I think I've found six today. Right I'm still on the 15th green and I've got to say at Royal Litham St Anne's it's been absolutely immaculate from start to finish. And I think pretty much as you'd expect we're playing an open championship venue. And I thought earlier on in the drive up if you've got the chance if someone offered me the chance to be Kenny Dagleach for the day and go and play at Anfield I'd just absolutely run up the chance. And that's exactly what we get at these open championship venues. We can play, we can walk in the footsteps of our golfing heroes. Everything we've seen on the TV we can go and have a little crack at it ourselves. And I've got to say it's been a superb venue. Immaculate condition, green superb run-offs. Every piece of cut of rough you can see in terms of definition. It's been fantastic, it really is. But we've got a challenge old coming up and it's the next. And it's the famous old, the car park old of Sevy. Green's it too quick. Yet not too shabby this place is it. And it's been an absolute, so much enjoyment to walk around. But what'll top it is just getting, well a par would be good. Don't forget Sevy birdied this. So the story was he goes so far right on this tee shot. He was in the car park, the overflow car park. Takes a free drop, by the way he was that far wide that Hale Irwin who was playing with in that final round, questioned how could he not be out of bounds. The response was he picks up an iron, he sticks it to 30 foot and rolls in that birdie. And we get that famous Sevy celebration and fist pump. So that's what obviously I need to now do. We're playing a little bit blind, it's the black and white market and we'll see what lies over there. But first of all, let's see what happens with the tee shot. We're a little bit further forward and we haven't got the breeze they were playing with on that day. Well, I've gone on the line it suggested. It's a little bit right, I don't think it's as far right as Sevy went and hopefully I can finish this off like I said. A par is what I'm looking for. Right so I've got 135 in. From what I can make out from the scorecard and speaking to lads earlier, Sevy was somewhere over, way over to where that, it's a lot heavier apparently now than what it was but that was the kind of area he came in from. So I've found again one more fairway than Sevy did. But let's see if I can get that ball in close and roll in that birdie like he did. Into the breeze a bit. We look as though we've got a flag tucked in right behind a bunker so do we go on the ball line or that's the ball line? Come on, be right Sevy. Be right. Well, it could be just a little bit short. It seems to hang for a little while but I reckon we've got a chance for birdie. A good club, almost even two club short into that breeze. Looks like it swings off quite a bit. The flag when Sevy played it was over that other side but the result's the same. Do you know how much I want to give it that Sevy fist pump? But it's a big ask this. Come on Sevy, come on Sevy, come on Sevy. Do you know what, I'm happy with that for a minute. I did think I had a chance and that would have been perhaps a little bit too good to be true but I said I wanted to make par and I did and I'm happy with that to be fair. The years pass and the dreams fade. Hopes of sporting greatness well they've long disappeared. But I'm desperate for a par on the 18th. A huge sigh of relief, my best driver of the day. It was only a nine and an in hand but with the greens starting to shrink I was already aware of the awaiting gallery. Slightly tentative but so far so good. With a wonder in mind and conscious of the stare. The pressure had got to me and yeah, I messed it up. A sinking feeling of failure and then. Well, thank you Sevy. Sevy is a legend. In your pain golf is a Messiah. Worship by fellow professionals and love by the fans. Sevy, we miss you.