European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 12, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Tuesday. April 12. 1988 the stars and stripes Page 25 1988 masters Lyle hangs his shot in masters gallery by Dave Kindred Cox news strict Augusta is. Born for the moment the son of a scottish Golf pro and Grcen Sceper Sandy Lye loot a 7-Iron in hand for a shot hell never forget. A shot to win the masters. Out of a Fairway trap at the 18th Hole 150 Yards from Victory. Out of a trap thai could have been jail. Beautiful a 7-Iron shot flying High dead on line com ing to Earth As if an answer to a prayer 10 feet from vie Lory. An awesome shot the beaten Murk Calcavecchia would Call it stunned by it saying in it almost hit the pin a shot which on any Day is extraordinary but on the sunday of a masters tied Tor the Lead Lyle j shot is the stuff of legend this april s companion to Gene Sarazyn s double Eagle and Larry mile s pitch. Lyle said in 20 years i la remember toe 7-Iron to lie 18th." so Many players have come undone on the sunday of a masters Arnold Palmer a loser when he chopped from trap 10 trap at the i Bill. Craig Stadler in tears on the 13th tee de. Sneed and Hubert Green unable to make Liny palls at 18, Johnny Miller backing away from Victory because on Bobby Jones course where Hogan and Snead did magic i remembered who i was and where i was esp Laining sevc Ball Coleros said. There is Only one Augusta National and Only one  with one Chance maybe to win this one tournament on one sunday of his life Ihu 1985 British open Champion Alexander Walter Barr Lyle jr., 30. Drove a 1-Iron Lee shot from the i shh Lee. Hie shot rolled into a Bunker in a Fairway which turns Uphill to a Green thai on this sunday in april is the game s grandest stage. From that Bunker in can he impossible to reach the 18lh men. So Ull and so steeply pitched is the trap face that the Only escape can be i Short wedge shot the Best that Lyle could Hope for if his Ball rested High in the face would be an escape alter which he would pitch up to Pult for Par. He could Force a playoff with Calcavecchia who waited to see what Lyle could do out of that trap. Under the circumstances in would be pretty easy to make bogey Calcavecchia said Victory his if Lyle made bogey. But something is working for Lyle a mys tical Deal. Raymond Floyd saying Lyle is a great player in a Streak where even bad shots turn out Well what Ever thai thing is Floyd said Sandy s got  of his poor ice shot at the t8th, Lyte said i did t think i had a  Bui the shot Lumc out  Ball rested far enough Back from the face thai Lyle could hit a 7-Iron. Whatever hat thing is. As Floyd said in gave Lyle the Chance he believed he had forfeited. For two Days the Leader in a masters which gained More notoriety from criticism of the course than from masterful play Lyle lost i he Lead sunday when he dumped an 8-Iron shot in the Waitr Ai the 12th, a double bogey. Calcavecchia is a rising Star z7, full of himself so sure of what he can do that after warming up sunday As Augusta sees it players not greens were the problem Byro Sirak Augusta a. A to hear hard Hordin i Ell it the Only problem with the greens of the Augusta National Golf cub this weekend was that the players weren t hitting the Ball close enough to the Hole. Hardin is the tournament chairman for the masters and make no mistake about it this is his show. Reporters trying to reach greens superintendent Paul Latshaw were told All comments on the condition of the course come from or.  and Hardin says the problem is All in the playing of the game. It All comes Down to the Bob Jones concept of Golf Hardin said sunday invoking the name of the Augusta course s designer. In was his idea that the shot to the Green is the important Shol Hardin said after hearing player after player com Plain about the Speed of Augusta s greens. It May be thai the players today arc used to greens where in does t Mailer if your Ball is 20 feel from the Hole. That s not the Case Here. You can have a 20-foot put Al Augusta and nil it 10 feet past the Hole. It s the shot to the Green that is  thai s also a lesson from the Ben Hogan school of putting. Asked once for the secret to Good pulling. Hogan re plied hit the Ball close to the  the problem at Augusta was thai peo ple were hitting the Ball too Many limes on the Green. Or As seve balls Stvros said Friday when asked to describe his four pulls on the i6ih Green i missed the Hole i missed the Hole i missed the Hole and then 1 hit the  fun ii Zool scr did t miss his Opportunity to Lalk about the greens after shoaling the Busl round of the Day on Friday a 66. He accused tournament officials of tricking up the course with fast greens that he Tell were virtually in dutiable. Ben Crenshaw followed suit after he shot 67, the Best round of saturday s play. There is nothing a live out there at All Crenshaw said of the Lith Green. Hardin however said he was Happy with the condition of the course and said Utah if Touma Mcnol officials wanted to Irick it up they could just make  Augusta has very forgiving one Inch rough. Look he said "1 have nothing to gain from embarrassing my friends and i consider these Guys my friends. We lose if we do. If anything happens to the course in is not out of  which raises the question did Laii Haw Cut too Fine of a line Between fast greens and Rock hard greens absolutely not Hardin said. Maybe there is just too much at stake out there now. I can t imagine this Type of complaining happening in the Days of Hogan or Snead or Sarazyn. But we weren t paying those Guys a million Dol Lars for a week s work either. Maybe we need another de  top prize this year at the masters was s18 3,800, and the total purse was is Mil lion. I suppose if i was out there and not playing too Welt 1 would complain Loo Hardin said. Bui what about the fact thai some of the complaints Are coming from players shooting Good rounds i m aware of thai. They have their frustrations Loo. Golf is not like football " up photo greens critic Ben Crew hit. Nothing alive on no 11 where you can Knock a Guy on his Fanny. These players have no other Way to gel their frustrations out but talk. "1 think Pride is involved Here. These Guys Don l like to  thirteen of the 46 golfers who made the Cut were foreign players including eventual Winner Sandy Lyle s fact not lost on Hardin. "1 did t hear one of them complaining about the condition of the course he said and i Don l think that they Are just being Pollic  Ray Floyd said on saturday that american players were spoiled Over Here playing on Plush  Floyd said european players enjoyed great Success because they be had a Loi worse conditions to play on than we Well i did t say but Hardin said. But 1 think you might find something  he called his wife Sheryl Over. I just looked her straight in the Eye and said i feel Good today " cil Cavicchia did t come to the sunday of a Mas ten to step Hack from greatness Lyle s Ball Al 11 had barely milled into Rac s Creek before  a 3-Irdn to the Par-5 13th. A Birdie there gave him a one shot Lead and Calcavecchia remembers say ing Pooh. We got a game  Calcavecchia made pars the rest of the Way not that he wanted to. Play smart hell. I m making Birdie Here " he said to his Caddy going to the 17ih, still a shot ahead. But Lyle a group behind Calcavecchia made Birdie at the 15th to null even. Then done with his round seeing Lyle in the Lily Fairway trap Calcavecchia Fig ured on a playoff at worst and Victory at Best saying i did t think he d made  Sandy Lyle picked the trap shot clean off the Sand. The bail landed 25 feel above the Hole. There one of the Augusta slopes which Drew criticism this week caused Lyle s Ball to Roll Back toward the Hole slowly lowly the distance growing Shorter and Shorter unti Calcavecchia knew Sandy s one of the greatest Pul lers in the world and i thought he d make the putt. Sandy Lyle said his Knees were knocking Over the10-Foolcr to win. To win in his words a Man has to dig Down in the Bottom of your  for Himon this one sunday second was t Good  to win he birdied 16 and in difficult anytime. Improbable on this sunday in april. If his Knees knocked Over thai last Pun Only Sandy Lyle knew it. The put rolled Straig Jil and True. . Toasts its first Ever Green jacket London a from Banner headlines to belly laughs Britain on monday cheered the Victory of scotsman Sandy Lyle in America s most prestigious Golf tournament the masters. By becoming the first British golfer to Don the Green Blazer As Champion at the Augusta National Golf course in Georgia Lyle was the Lead sports Story in All of the country s ii National newspapers and made Page one in several including the staid financial times. Yankee Doodle Sandy proclaimed the daily Mirror and today super Sandy s the master said the daily a prick. The evening Standard called him Green  times of London whose front Page usually is dominated by politics War and other a nor serious events ran Large photo of a triumphant Lyle with the caption Lyle the Mailer of  most of the reports from the papers own Golf writers in Georgia concen Ira led on Lyle s comeback from a seemingly disastrous double bogey on the i2ih Hole and his 10-foot Birdie Pult on the 18lh Hole that won the tournament by one stroke Over american Mark Cal  and radio newscasts carried reports of Lyle s Victory As the second or third item following up Dales on the Kuwait airlines  bbl said ratings for its live Sun Day night telecast of the final nine hold Al Augusta were unavailable but was cer Tain millions of britons had stayed up to watch the finish which ended Well put Midnight London  of those who Walch cd May have yawned their Way through the morning while smiling Al the  Wal Chad it and enjoyed it thoroughly As did millions of others said John Glover rules Secretary for the Royal ancient Golf club the storied Home of Golf in so Andice. I. Scotland. Lyle is i native of Shrewsbury eng land who moved to Scotland an Learned the game there As a child. He returned to England several Yean ago but still lists himself As Seal