European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - April 10, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse Tuesday april 10,1990 the stars and stripes a a Page 21sptrts ditto Faldo defending Champ wins 2nd straight masters playoff playoff loser Ray Floyd and Winner Nick Faldo leave the decisive 11th Green sunday. By Mark Hyman the Baltimore Sun Augusta a. A the similarities were eerie. For the second straight year the masters was decided by a sudden death playoff. For a second time the playoff produced a Champion on the second playoff Hole As darkness descended on Augusta National Golf club. And in the ultimate act of Dejavu Nick Faldo the defending Champion made up four strokes on the final six holes to catch Raymond Floyd then beat him on the second Hole of a dramatic playoff. Faldo and Floyd completed 72 holes at 10-under, but it was Faldo who had the hot hand when it counted sunday. He had a final round of 69 and played the final six holes in 3-under. Floyd on the other hand had Only two birdies in an even Par round of 72. Faldo 32, is becoming a leading authority on How to succeed in masters playoffs. Last year the englishman prevailed Over Scott Hoch in a playoff More memorable for a Short putt Hoch missed on the first extra Hole than the longer Birdie putt that lifted Faldo to Victory on the second. Sunday Faldo and Floyd were even until their second shots on the 11th Hole the second playoff Hole. Standing 176 Yards from pin at the treacherous Par-4 Hole Floyd 47, made the mistake that prevented him from realizing his dream of becoming the oldest masters Champ. His 7-Iron approach flew left of the forgiving fans pack Fenway Park As baseball arrives one week late by Ben Walker a baseball writer a capacity crowd at Boston s Fenway Park cheered monday As red sox Pitcher Roger Clemens fired the first pitch of the 1990 baseball season which began a week late because the owners and players were embroiled in a contract dispute. It was a called strike. No bitterness was evident in the stands where fans seemed to take a better late than never attitude. A people forgive them a said one Boston fan William Cullen of Cherry Valley mass. A a we re americans. You love a thing you re going to Toni Giamatti widow of the baseball commissioner Giamatti threw late a. Bartlett out the opening Day 1990 ceremonial first pitch at Fenway where the red sox faced the Detroit tigers. A few minutes later Giamatti a successor As commissioner Fay Vincent threw out the Ball at new Yorkus Shea stadium before the mets took on the Pittsburgh pirates. Mets Pitcher Dwight Gooden followed with the first real pitch of the game a like Clemens he threw a strike. There was no game in Cincinnati marking just the third time since 1876 the reds have opened on the Road. Because of the revised schedules the reds played monday night in Houston where the Astrodome is celebrating its 25th anniversary. A a we re not going to be at Home so its not going to be As big a Deal a Cincinnati a Tom Browning said. A the crowds not going to be part of the hoopla.�?�. In Chicago the cubs and White sox were each Home monday. The White sox starting their last season at com Iskey Park played Milwaukee and the cute faced Philadelphia in the first night opener at Wrigley Field. The Oakland athletics trying to become the first world series Winner to repeat since the new York Yankees in 1977-78, were to open at Home monday night against Minnesota. To make it to the world series the athletics will have to win their third straight american league West title and hold off California and Kansas see fans on Page 27 m be Green and As he looked on in disbelief the Ball trickled into a Small Pond. Faldo calmly hit on and two putted for Par. Floyd needed to Hole a desperation pitch from 45 Yards and did no to. When the Ball checked up perhaps 20 feet shy of the Hole Faldo had achieved the improbable. A this is obviously a very emotional one for me a said Faldo who joins Jack Nicklaus As the Only men to win consecutive masters. A i came Here to defend and in be achieved that. That was on my mind. It almost was the same Deal As last year. Things weren to going great for me. I just kept plugging along. That Sall 1 could Faldo earned $225,000 for winning the 54th masters but he saved the members of Augusta National some Money on a tailoring Bill. The Green jacket that Faldo was awarded As the Champion simply had to be retrieved from a closet in the clubhouse. Floyd also has a masters jacket having won Here by eight shots in 1976. Sunday he led by two shots Over John Huston and by three Over Faldo when the final round began and was Able to maintain the Lead through the front nine. But Faldo was relentless. And Floyd who has seen almost everything that can happen on a Golf course in his 27 years on the pea tour was stunned by the outcome. A you cannot imagine a Floyd said of the feeling not to have won. �?o1 have never Felt like this. Ever. In be never had see masters on Page 23 Adios to Tel Foldoe by Jim Litke Augusta a. Apr one shot. In 1971, images of Jack Nicklaus and the masters flickered on a to screen across the Atlantic and Nick Faldo three months shy of his 14th birthday knew right away what he wanted to do for the rest of his life. His Mother Cut his hair the following Day and sent him off for lessons at a club outside London. But in his minds Eye he was standing in the Shadow of a Georgia Pine club in hand with the shot to win the masters. He quit school not Long after and played every Day wearing out a Glove a week with this ferocious appetite for Golf. On sunday Nick Faldo stood at the most treacherous Bend in the farthest reaches of amen Comer at Augusta National. He had plugged his tee shot in the Back Bunker on no. 12 and the dream was suddenly very fuzzy. He was staring at a ribbon of Green the Bunker in front and Rae a Creek the watery grave just beyond. Ray Floyd was three strokes ahead and one Hole behind carrying a reputation As one of the Best front see Adios on Page 23 d a p
