The new Open golf champion was barely four months old when his father’s bombardment in Brisbane condemned Wales to defeat on a scale they had not known in more than a century.

Almost 40 years on, the result still bears supreme testimony to the most one-sided of all World Cup semi-finals: New Zealand 49, Wales 6, the margin widened to an all-time high by a fusillade of eight goals from Ryan Fox’s dad, Grant.
As manager, Clive Rowlands found a familiar silver lining to the dirtiest of black clouds.
Asked where Wales went from here, Rowlands, alias ‘TC’ as in Top Cat, lightened the mood with his...