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[iBanesto]

20 hours ago, Ferguson said:

 

 

Just some general comments:

 

 

He was world No. 2 for 35 weeks

Lots of guys were #2.

 

Ranked in the world top 10 for 314 weeks.

Lots of guys did this. 

 

Won the NEC World Series of Golf on the PGA Tour by 12 strokes.

The 1988 World Series was more exciting with Mike "radar" Reid beating Tom Watson in a playoff.

   

He lost about 2 years of this prime golf from 1995 to 1997 due to a misdiagnosed back injury. He was still ranked 9 in world about mid-1995 when he stopped playing. He couldn't walk due to the pain and then later goes on to win the 1999 Masters.

It's rumored he took medical advice from a golf web forum.  That's on him. 

 

 

 

 

[mat562]

I have clocked up a lot of hours over a couple of decades watching Sandy Lyle. In all that time, I probably saw the event pictured below happen about six times.

 

[iBanesto]

9 hours ago, mat562 said:

I have clocked up a lot of hours over a couple of decades watching Sandy Lyle. In all that time, I probably saw the event pictured below happen about six times.

 

 

It is very interesting that Sandy Lyle only has 4 top 10 finishes in majors with 2 wins.

 

Seve Ballesteros on Sandy Lyle during his peak - "The greatest God-given talent in history. If everyone in the world was playing their best, Sandy would win and I’d come second.”

 

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

 

 

[mat562]

Chubby Chandler, the former journeyman tour player-turned manager, once said of Lyle 'He could turn up in a rain jacket, chuck a ball down on the ground, have a couple of practice swings, and whack it away with a 1-iron further than I could hit a pegged-up driver. And I wasn't short.'

 

As you say, its always a been a mystery to me why Lyle had such a perplexing record in Majors. That said, some of the most memorable and remarkable golf I've ever been lucky enough to witness first-hand was a mid- and late-80s Lyle in the World Matchplay at Wentworth. Match play suited him, certainly, but on a long, wet course he could go out and shoot 64 like he was shelling peas, stringing birdies and eagles together with ease. An amazing talent; such a shame that his game nosedived in the way it did, particularly on the back of what was a banner season for him.

Edited November 8, 2022 by mat562

[Christosterone]

4 hours ago, iBanesto said:

 

It is very interesting that Sandy Lyle only has 4 top 10 finishes in majors with 2 wins.

 

Seve Ballesteros on Sandy Lyle during his peak - "The greatest God-given talent in history. If everyone in the world was playing their best, Sandy would win and I’d come second.”

 

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

 

 

about 60 pages ago, I did a picture montage of his 85 Open win…

Sandy was an absolute savant…his swing was glorious 

 

 

-chris

[acemandrake]

5 hours ago, Christosterone said:

Sandy was an absolute savant…his swing was glorious

How was his putting?  It's hard to win anything if the putts aren't dropping.

[iBanesto]

12 hours ago, acemandrake said:

How was his putting?  It's hard to win anything if the putts aren't dropping.

 

S. Lyle - hard to win anything?!

• Masters win
• Open win
• Players win

What more do you really want?

 

 

 

 

[m d g]

9 hours ago, iBanesto said:

 

S. Lyle - hard to win anything?!

• Masters win
• Open win
• Players win

What more do you really want?

 

 

 

 

It's all relative. There is such a thing as underperforming.

 

Imagine if Tiger had only 6 or 7 majors right now. Everyone would be (rightfully) saying 'What happened?"

[mat562]

I'm the biggest Lyle, Norman and Woosnam fan you're likely to find, and I'd happily sit down and argue vociferously that all three significantly underachieved given their level of talent.

 

Lyle's achilles heel was his inconsistency, particularly in Majors. Norman had a maddening habit of blowing wins in big events with bursts of needlessly overly-aggressive play down the stretch with some good old-fashioned choking under pressure thown in for good measure, and Woosie had bursts of dodgy form with both the driver and the putter in his heyday which knackered his chances in many a Major.

Edited November 9, 2022 by mat562

[iBanesto]

14 hours ago, m d g said:

It's all relative. There is such a thing as underperforming.

 

Imagine if Tiger had only 6 or 7 majors right now. Everyone would be (rightfully) saying 'What happened?"

 

I understand what you said but the premise was "It's hard to win anything if the putts aren't dropping."

 

It wasn't stating that Lyle underperformed given his talent. 

 

Lyle won plenty.

[jjr]

[m d g]

9 hours ago, iBanesto said:

 

I understand what you said but the premise was "It's hard to win anything if the putts aren't dropping."

 

It wasn't stating that Lyle underperformed given his talent. 

 

Lyle won plenty.

My comment was a reaction to 'What do you really want?' and nothing to do with putts not dropping.

 

If he was as supremely talented as Seve and others said, then 2.5 majors is underperforming...

[Hankshank]

Lyle… thats a while back but he was on the radar when I first got into following tour golf, he not being too many years my senior. My feeling is that he faded away quite early, that his latter career on the tours didnt fulfil what the earlier years promised. Might be totally wrong. But it was cool to serve haggis on the champions dinner.

[jmck]

37 minutes ago, Hankshank said:

Lyle… thats a while back but he was on the radar when I first got into following tour golf, he not being too many years my senior. My feeling is that he faded away quite early, that his latter career on the tours didnt fulfil what the earlier years promised. Might be totally wrong. But it was cool to serve haggis on the champions dinner.

That's how my memory has it as well.  I had to sneak a peak in wikipedia to get the numbers, but he was 30 when he won the Masters in 1988, won once more on the PGAT in '89, and only four more times on the Euro tour, the last being in '92.  So basically 95% of his wins were from age 21 to 30.  And he didn't just stop winning at a young age, he stopped contending, never having another top 10 in a major after '88.  Heck of a swing though, no doubt about that--powerful, compact, efficient, all those good things.

[iBanesto]

Ben Hogan - 🇺🇸

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edited November 12, 2022 by iBanesto

[iBanesto]

Ben Hogan - 🇺🇸

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Christosterone]

8 minutes ago, iBanesto said:

Ben Hogan - 🇺🇸

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I want to thank you for always posting excellent contributions.…in this thread and many others

 

consider me a fan

 

-chris

[iBanesto]

Thanks.

 

I enjoy your work too!

 

[Steele47]

 

LOL.  Too funny.

[NoTalentLefty]

[Boney]

On 10/1/2022 at 10:04 AM, scotee said:

 

I had a VCR recording with Payne, Ben Crenshaw and Tom Purtzer paired at the 1989 Bryon Nelson hitting 6 irons on a par 3. I wore that tape out watching those smooth swings.

When people say "swing through the ball, not at it" -- that's what they're talking about.

[Boney]

Here's a cool photo, Mac McLendon, from the late '60s or early '70s. The article it's from is linked below.



https://b-metro.com/2020/02/16/changing-courses/

[iBanesto]

Nicklaus - the epitome of sportsmanship.

 

 

Interesting chipping technique - wide stance for a short chip shot with a putting grip.

 

[Strömsborg]

5 hours ago, iBanesto said:

Nicklaus - the epitome of sportsmanship.

 

 

Interesting chipping technique - wide stance for a short chip shot with a putting grip.

 

 

Wy can't we have colours like this in digital photography?

[Valtiel]

[Christosterone]

 

Awesome

Edited November 16, 2022 by Christosterone

[Rapidcat]

On 11/12/2022 at 4:04 PM, iBanesto said:

Thanks.

 

I enjoy your work too!

 

 

Ooh, sophisticated.

 

Love the jacket upper-sleeve pocket - useful to carry golf tees....or toothpicks

[jmck]

11 hours ago, Rapidcat said:

 

Ooh, sophisticated.

 

Love the jacket upper-sleeve pocket - useful to carry golf tees....or toothpicks

Well, see, the right breast pocket is for your lighter, the left breast pocket is for your cigs, and the sleeve pocket is for the backup pack of matches in case your lighter goes out.  The 70s, man.  Heck of a decade.

[mat562]

Watching Seve hitting bunker shots, Olazabal chipping, and this guy rolling putts...

 

[Ferguson]