AUGUSTA, Ga. — There are no bad days at the Masters, but there are uncomfortable ones. Saturday dawned so gray, ugly and rain-spitting that even the hardiest of souls, the street preachers and the ticket scalpers along Washington Road, remained indoors. The skies above Augusta National were grim and gray, and the radar promised much more of the same.
Nearly 40 years ago, on beautiful Sunday afternoons, Larry Mize and Sandy Lyle hit two of the most memorable shots in Masters history to capture back-to-back green jackets. Today, on a nasty Saturday morning, their Masters careers came to an end with tiny, unremarkable putts. It was an anticlimactic pair of endings, yes, but both men have spent the last four decades enjoying the sunshine, and seemed fine with a touch of rain.
“We tried to talk to the official that, you know, ‘Please, let us finish,’ ” Lyle said. “But, no, they stuck to the rules and rules are rules and we had to abide by that.” Back in 1987, Mize authored what might just be the single greatest shot in Masters history: a 140-foot chip-in birdie from a greenside bunker on the second playoff hole, a walkoff stroke that eliminated a stunned Greg Norman. Mize’s story was the kind of legend golf seems to produce every so often — an Augusta kid who grew up working the scoreboard at Augusta National’s 3rd hole playing his way to a miracle Masters win.
Mize was two groupings behind Lyle, which put him right on the 17th tee as the trees fell. “I've never seen anything like that on the golf course,” he said Saturday. “It's just a miracle that nobody got hurt.”
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