‘Where has that time gone?’: first Women’s Open champion Jenny Lee Smith on 1976 glory, Kevin Keegan and finding her secret twin

As she heads to Royal Lytham as a guest of the R A for Thursday’s start of the Women’s Open, the inaugural winner looks backGolf commitments in the United States meant Jenny Lee Smith was unable to accept the North East Sports Personality of the Year award for 1982 in person. She attended the following year’s event, this time to present the trophy to Kevin Keegan. His death last week shocked Smith, prompting her to reflect back on that time. It delivers a snapshot of Smith’s sporting status at a time when Keegan was wooing Tyneside.“It is very sad,” Smith says of Keegan’s death, aged 75. “We did a lot of work together because I was sponsored at the time by Scottish and Newcastle Breweries, who did the same for the football team. He became a good friend and was such a lovely chap. Continue reading...