Word: faldo
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Forget about 1989 Masters champion Nick Faldo and his green jacket. Every golfer in the world should always remember Scott Hoch, the runner...
Searching for context, a golfer and a basketball team found something better than winning last week. Curtis Strange and the Los Angeles Lakers were each playing for history; their opponents, Nick Faldo and the Detroit Pistons, were seeking only national championships. The results were rather wonderful...
Strange's fitful par at the Country Club in Brookline, Mass., forced an 18- hole play-off for the U.S. Open title. Because it involved the British Open champion Faldo, thoughts of Brookline's previous nationals were unavoidable. In 1963 Arnold Palmer held the British title when he lost a play-off to Julius Boros. So did Englishman Ted Ray in 1913, when he bowed to the Boston amateur Francis Ouimet. This was America's historic breakthrough in golf...
...have an identical twin brother, who presumably smiles all the time. At the Masters in 1985, Curtis had a near collision with history, blowing his chance by hitting a creek at 13 and a pond at 15. Nobody cried, not even Strange, though he did last week. He beat Faldo in the play-off by four strokes but really by something extra that the Englishman well understood. Recalling his own day of glory at the British Open in Scotland, Faldo said gracefully, "That was my dream as a kid. This must have been Curtis...
Choked by thoughts of his deceased father, Strange could scarcely say what it meant to win the U.S. Open. Just beating Faldo head to head couldn't be it. He hadn't cried when he won the Houston, the Hartford or the Honda. "It means what every little boy dreams about," he said finally, "when he plays golf all by himself late in the afternoon, and he puts down three or four balls. One is Snead, one is Hogan, one is Nicklaus and maybe one is Strange." And he is entered in the British Open in two weeks...