European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 27, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Thursday december 27, 1990 the stars and stripes a a a Page 21 Faldo 7 by Bob Green a Golf writer of All the hundreds of thousands of shots played in professional Golf tournaments in 1990, one stands out dearly As the most significant. It Wasny to a very Good shot. In fact it was a very bad shot. It was Ray Floyd a approach Oft the Sec Ond extra Hole no. 11 at Augusta nation a in his masters playoff against Nick Faldo. Floyd pulled it into a Pond handed Faldo his second consecutive masters title and set it up for the tall englishman to establish himself As the Premier player in the game. Faldo took that Triumph and his elegant stroke to the 01dcourse at St. Andrews Scotland destroyed Greg Norman 67-76 in a third round head to head confrontation and added another British open Crown to the title he first won in 1987. It made him the first Man in eight years to collect two of golfs big four titles in the same season and enabled Faldo to become the first foreign player to gain the pea of americans player of the year award Quot a a a a a those two victories confirmed Faldo As the outstanding player in world Golf. And it All started on Floyd s Pivotal pop into the Pond not the Best shot of the year but certainly the most important. A at least 266 others clamor for attention As possibly the Best shot of the season. Three of them involve Norman. One was the Chip in Eagle he used to score a playoff Victory in the doral open. The second was Rookie Robert Gamez a 7-Iron pitch in Eagle-2 on the 72nd Hole that beat Norman in Orlando the third David frosts Long Sand shot that found the cup for a last Hole Birdie and a Victory Over Norman in new Orleans. _ and there was that 45-50-foot Birdie putt on the 72nd Hole of the . Open at Medinah that sent staid sedate 45-year-old Hale Irwin on a joyous Romp around the gallery ropes slapping High gives with spectators. A a a a a  a Irwin went on to beat Mike Donald in a19-Hole playoff and became the oldest Man to win the american National Ciampi on ship. It was his third . Open Triumph the other 262 Best shots of the year All of those taken by Jose Maria Olazabal of Spain in his incredible performance at the world series of Golf at Firestone. On one of the most difficult respected feared courses the touring pros encounter Olazabal had rounds of 61, 67, 67, 67 and won by a margin of 12 shots a three a Day better than the runner up and easily the Best performance of the season. But his 61 was not the Best score of the year. Frost achieved that with a 60 in Tucson the lowest score in tour Competition in 13 years and Only one stroke off the record. Wayne Levi who _ Hadnot won since 1985, collected four victories and led the american tour in that respect. Norman despite his dramatic losses to Gamez and Frost won two and also acquired his second consecutive Vardon Tro Phy for the Low adjusted scoring average 69.10 and the Arnold Palmer trophy As Golf a leading Money Winner $1,165,477. Gamez Payne Stewart Irwin and Mark of Meara joined Norman As two time winners. So did Jodie Mudd who duplicated Tom kites 1.989 feat of sweeping the players championship and the Nabisco championship. Wayne Grady won the pea. Curtis strange won nothing. It marked the first time since 1982 head gone through a season without a Victory. Lee Trevino made the Best television dejected Ray Floyd and jubilant Nick Faldo walk Oft masters course after playoff. Call of the year. Trevino had finished the . Senior open with a 267 total and was in a television Tower watching As Jack Nicklaus hunkered Over a 3-foot Birdie putt he had to make to have a Chance of catching Lee and forcing a playoff. A a Jack has a habit of peeking on these. And when he does it goes right a Trevino said. Nicklaus looked up and missed the putt to the right. It was the sixth of seven senior tour victories in Trevino a year of domination in the final tournament Trevino tied for second and won $95,000, that boosted his 1990 earnings to $1,190,518 and made him the first senior tour player to exceed the Money winning total of the Leader on the More lucrative regular tour Nicklaus won two of four senior tour starts including a spectacular 27-Underi Par performance in the senior pc. Mike Hill won five senior titles. George Archer won four. Betsy King won two of the women a major events the Dinah Shore and . Open. But Beth Daniel and Patty Sheehan dominated the rest of the Lyga tour Daniel who counted the Lyga title among her seven victories won player of the year honors topped the Money winners with $863,578 and won the Vare trophy for scoring average at 70.54. Shuc ban who won five tournaments was Seo Ond in Money scoring and the player of the year standings. By John Nelson a sports writer. There is an axiom in the business of Selling exclusive rights to television networks that goes something like this get As much milk out of the cow As you can without killing it. In 1990, some of the cows got sic most of the Tig to rights deals already were made by the years outset a except for the $3.62 billion nil contract with five different networks a but it was in 1991 that their effects began to be Felt Abc started its Aba coverage and lbs got on the baseball beat a without to sports biggest broadcast name Brent Musburger. Last March during the final l our Musburger got fired after 22 years at lbs and two months later lie went Over to Abc triggering a Hole series of moves by the two networks. / in one year lbs had spent More than $3.5 billion to acquire rights to two Winter olympics baseball football and the Mcaa basketball tournament. Lbs sports president Neal Pilson and his Crew were considered m deep trouble As the network projected Steep losses in the final Darter of the year. Some estimated lbs of uld lose a a Judhon alone on the baseball contract of $1.06 billion for tour years because of poor world series ratings.1990 to review at the same time advertising rates for nil games took a dip Early in the season reflecting a general downturn in the Economy and that meant less income for lbs Abc Abc esp and Turner broadcasting the five nil partners. A nah the partners in the nil Are hurting pretty bad a one network insider said. Lbs Laid out the biggest sum $1-06 billion for four years of pfc games and the 1992 super bowl in a blockbuster Deal that was announced in March. Abc paid $925 million for its monday night games two wildcard playoffs and the �?T91 super bowl. Abc shelled out $752 million for its acc games and the �?T93 super bowl. Esp and Tbs paid $450 million apiece for sunday night games. A advertising fees were set on the basis of the rights fees a one advertising expert said. A now the Economy has softened and prices come Down while the networks try to Cut their losses a when Musburger moved Over to Abc a reportedly for $11 million Over six years it sparked immediate speculation that a Michaels was on his Way out. Not so. Michaels remained on monday night football and Musburger took Oyer College football and basketball according to lbs executive producer Ted Shaker the decision to release Musburger reflected a change in philosophy by the network Musburger had been doing everything now lbs wanted to spread the glory Greg Guniel took Over Musburger a spot on the a a nil Tod , Jack Buck the radi5 voice of the St. Louis cardinals baseball team started doing baseball a Job that Musburger had looked Forward to. Jim Nantt look Over cd so College basketball play by play Abc meanwhile Cut Down on its College basketball schedule after getting the Aba contract Abc exec utites realized they would be competing with them selves for advertising dollars by trying to fill spots on both Aba and College basketball games and it did no to make sense to do a lot of both. At the same time Abc moved Bob Costas into the studio and gave Dick Enberg the Aba play by play Job. Abc made Marv Albert its other Aba play by play  february notre Dame Shook up the College football world by signing its own five year $30 million contract with Abc which will begin televising six fighting Irish Home games a year in 1991. That forced the College football association to renegotiate its deals with Abc and esp costing the Cha about $50 million