article_snippet.sent: Needing a birdie to beat Mark Calcavecchia, Sandy Lyle sent The King 1-iron tee shot into the bunker guarding the left side of the fairway.
article_snippet.sent: But the Scotsman’s strike from the sand was so pure that Scotsman was able to send Scotsman ball into the heart of the green, and watched as the Scotsman’s strike from the sand caught that famous downslope and rolled to within eight feet of the pin.
article_snippet.sent: Having pulled this one tee shot on the par-five 13th right and into trees, Phil Mickelson was left with a gap of just a couple of feet through which to thread this one .
article_snippet.sent: But ignoring the pleas of this one caddie Jim ‘Bones’ Mackay to lay up, Phil took Mackay six-iron and blasted his ball from off the straw, through the eye of the pines needle, over Rae’s Creek and to five feet of the pin.
article_snippet.sent: The eagle putt didn’t drop, but the marker was set.
article_snippet.sent: Worse than that, his ball plugged in the sand, leaving Snead probably needing a par to force a play-off or birdie to win the title.
article_snippet.sent: Jack Nicklaus (left) leaps into the air after holing his magnificent putt on the 16th green in 1975 .
article_snippet.sent: Worse, his was over 40 feet from the pin after a poor tee shot.
article_snippet.sent: A two-putt from that position would have been a good result, but Jack Nicklaus had other ideas and stroked his ball round the contours of the green and straight into the cup.
article_snippet.sent: Although the Spaniard dropped out after a bogey on the first play-off hole, Greg Norman was in pole position after finding the fringe at the 11th, while Mize missed the green way to the right.
article_snippet.sent: But there’s just something about this hole, and Mize sent Mize 100-foot chip up onto the green and leapt nearly as high into the air after the green hit the flagstick and dropped into the hole.
article_snippet.sent: Sarazen’s remarkable shot helped Sarazen’s tie Craig Wood and go on to beat Sarazen’s in an 18-hole play-off the next day.
article_snippet.sent: Watch as Nicklaus bends down to pick up his tee with the ball in mid-air.
article_snippet.sent: Tiger was left in a near-hopeless position down in a hollow after missing the 16th green long, but chipped up onto a slope way left of the hole.