European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 21, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse Tuesday june 21,1988 the stars and stripes Page 23 strange Faldo in open playoff by Rob Green Brook line mass. Api the fourth round of he . Open was a Story or missed pulls and missed opportunities. Curtis strange missed his share. So did of k Faldo. And when it was Over sunday the to deeply frustrated players fussing and fuming about their pullers ended regulation play in a tic for the Lead and prepared for an in Hole playoff for the 88th . Open Golf championship. The pts Idoft the 28th in the history of the event was scheduled to begin at 2 . Monday at the country climb in suburban Boston. I �01 myself lied up with the Putter said Faldo he phlegmatic englishman who has a history of Mak ing a maximum gain from minimum birdies i could t get a read or the greens. 1 made life hard work for myself said Faldo who won the 1987 British open with a siring of i8 consecutive pars in the final round at Muir Fidd. Scotland. He gained a tic for this one with one Birdie Over thelast is holes. I was admitted strange the most successful american player Over the last 12 months. Maybe that s what was wrong with inc pulling. I hit some decent shots but what Hurt me was the pulls missed. It was just terrible he said. Strange a one shot Leader going into the found round saved Par from a Bunker on the final Hole for a hard won i Over Par 71 and a spot in the playoff. Faldo s Lone Birdie was offset by one bogey and that produced a Par round of 71, Good enough to farce he playoff at 278, sin shots under Par. , Weibring. Mark o Meara and Steve Pate win Ner of two pea tour titles this season lied for third at280, two shots Back. Pate closed with a 67, o Mcara matched Par 71 and Sci bring posted a 71. Both players had ample Opportunity to win the open outright. Faldo missed three putts of about b feet and four others in the 12-15 foot Range. Strange s lapses were even More dramatic. He missed three times from inside four feel. He Jacobsen sets Mark Brookline mass. Not the evidence was right there on Peter Jacobsen s scorecard of thelast Day of the . Open and the popular Origoni an held it in front of the people with cameras. The scorecard showed seven consecutive 3s on the first seven holes two of which were Par-3s. It showed a total of 10 strokes for the front nine 34 for the Back nine and a Tola of 64 a record for the 7,010-Yard course. With the Floc under Par 30 on the from nine. Jacobson tied a . Open record for nine holes. He is the 13th player in the history of the world s most prestigious tournament to card 30 Lor nine holes and second to do in this week after Scott Simpson s 30 on the front nine on Friday. The records except for those of the most recent . Opens Are incomplete but it is believed that the Only other person with seven 3s in a Row was Hubert Green who did in on holes 10 through 16 in 1980at Baltusrol in Springfield . The Only open rounds belter than Jacobsen were inc 63 shot by Johnny Miller in 1973 and the 63 s of Jack Nicklaus and Tom Weiskopf in 1980. Missed a couple of Birdie pulls from about 8 feet. Andon another 8-Foolcr, he three putted for bogey. As if Hal were not enough to tax the patience of the Twu principals they also had to contend with an unruly crowd that boiled out of control on the 17th and 18lh fairways surged around them and forced them to fight heir Way to Trie greens. Two saves of Par were critical for strange a record setting Moncy a incr on the pea tour two of inc Las three season. The first came on a 20-foot putt that found the cup and produced a ten Chad fist Salute on the i6lh.the other was on the final Hole where his great Sand shot came to rest inches from the cup Selling up a tap in for the Par that produced the tic and put a playoff on inc schedule. The thing i have to guard against is the match play syndrome strange said. In in t match play. It stroke i m just pleased to have a shot at in Faldo and strange playing in the final two some each made his share Ormi Sakcs in the stretch. Faldo one shot behind on inc Mph made his Birdie with an 8-foot putt on the 15th, gaining a lie wit strange at seven under Par. But he gave in right Back with that adventure in the Bunker on the i6tn, taking a bogey while strange re gained control with the Long Par pull. Then strange made a mistake. With the the . Open title in his grasp he 3-Putled from about 8 feel on the sloping 17ih Green. The bogey dropped him into a lie again this Lime a six under Par going to the i bin Tec. Faldo drove the Fairway and strange s drive trickled into Light rough. Faldo played his second to the left fringe some 25 feel away. Strange s face look on a grim cast when he put his approach in the right front Bunker. With their wives standing Side by Side in the gallery1 by the 18th Green Faldo surveyed his pull and strange considered his situation. Strange played a magnificent Sand shot to about is inches and stood leaning on his Putter while Faldo tried the putt that would make him the first British subject to hold both major National championship since Tony Jack in in 1970. 11 missed Bolh lapped in for Par and the playoff was on. Defending Champion Scoll Simpson and Weibring each had a share of the Lead at one time or another Over the front Side but by the Lum it was a two Man struggle Between strange and Faldo. Faldo made nine consecutive pars Over the front while strange had some stroke in front he surrendered his Lead with consecutive bogeys on inc second where h
