Just a few years ago, Peter Kostis alerted me to the fact that Ben Wright had used the same expression earlier in the telecast. I then said, ‘Maybe … ’ Then, when the ball dropped: ‘Yes, SIR!’ … I’d never used that expression before. “For the 14 seconds it took Jack to hit the putt and for the ball to roll to the hole, I said nothing. He overruled me.” Jack’s take: “Rae’s Creek will pull it back to the left or straighten it out.” CBS’ Verne Lundquist, speaking to Yocom in 2017, picks it up from there.
I took a look and told Dad I thought the ball would break a little to the right. “The hole was on a crest where the ball could break either way.
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“It’s hard to appreciate on TV how hard that putt was,” Jackie Nicklaus told Golf Digest’s Guy Yocom in a series of interviews on the 20th and 25th anniversaries of golf’s ultimate moment. Jack Nicklaus, at 46 tied for the lead in the final round of the Masters and going for a record sixth green jacket, had hit his approach to 12 feet on the 17th. It was crunch time, and the player and his caddie-father and son-disagreed. “I’d been the first African-American to play there,” Elder said, “but I wanted to see the first African-American win the Masters.” He'll return once more to Augusta National in 2021 when he joins Jack Nicklaus and Gary Player as an honorary starter for this year's tournament. I so wanted to perform well for them, or at least comport myself well.” Elder (shown below with his wife, Rose) missed the cut after rounds of 74-78, and 22 years later, he got a speeding ticket on the way to Augusta to see 21-year-old Tiger Woods before he went out to play the final round of a tournament that transcended sports. How did so many manage to obtain one of the toughest tickets in sports? The effort they undertook to get there, the financial sacrifices many of them surely had to make, must have been tremendous. It dawned on me that many of them probably weren’t affluent. “I couldn’t begin to guess how many there were, but it was far more than I’d seen at a golf tournament before. “What amazed me was the number of black people who showed up to watch me play,” he told Golf Digest’s Guy Yocom in 2019 after receiving the USGA’s Bob Jones Award. Elder received numerous death threats in the months before he competed at Augusta National in 1975, but he was also touched by the support he received that week. “It was a different time.” There’s a lot of weight in those words, uttered by Lee Elder as he recalled the week he became the first African-American to compete in the Masters.
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A cracked voice and the wiping of tears from the new winner, only weeks removed from his own personal bout with the coronavirus, hinted that the man who grew up in nearby South Carolina had more invested in his game than we all understood-or appreciated. Unflappable for four rounds at ANGC, DJ then showed something few had seen from the 36-year-old in his post-round interview: emotion. DJ broke or tied nine Masters records, most notably the 72-hole scoring mark by two with a 20-under 268.
1 Dustin Johnson grabbing what had become an elusive second career major title with a five-stroke win. In the end, they got a memorable winner, World No. Even so, a fall Masters was way better than no Masters at all, golf fans worldwide appreciative of the efforts to move forward with the tournament during harrowing times. There were no Par 3 Contest, no patrons, no azaleas. It was delayed until November, a tournament first. There was nothing “normal” about the 2020 Masters, thanks to the COVID-19 pandemic.
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