Greg Norman earned more than $1 million five times on the U.S. PGA Tour….which included three Arnold Palmer Awards as the Tour’s leading money winner in 1986, 1990 and 1995…..as he was also the first person in Tour history to surpass $10 million in career earnings. He has 30 top-10 finishes in majors or more than 38% of those…
On Sunday, June 1, 1986 during Game 3 of the NBA Finals between the Boston Celtics verses the Houston Rockets….CBS Sports would break into their live game telecast to bring hole by hole updates of the sudden death playoff at the Kemper Open between Larry Mize and Greg Norman…..so this was the 4th interruption update….as…
As the 1986 Kemper Open Golf Tournament moved into the 3rd hole of sudden death playoff between Larry Mize verses Greg Norman….it seems to be obvious that the first player to make a birdie would win…..and both players had makeable birdie putts….when Mize just lipped out on a 15 footer that kissed the lip of…
These hole by hole highlights of the 1986 Kemper Open Golf Tournament sudden death playoff between Greg Norman verses Larry Mize were shown during the 1987 NBA Finals Game 3 between the Los Angeles Lakers verses Boston Celtics live program…..as CBS Brent Musburger would break into his NBA live telecast by switching back and forth…
Larry Mize is an American professional golfer who played on the PGA Tour and currently plays on the Champions Tour…..who is best known for one career-defining shot….which was a chip from off the green at the 11th hole at Augusta to win the playoff for the 1987 Masters Tournament…..as his only major title. Mize turned professional in 1980…..and from thereafter he finished in the top 125…
DOG COMMENTARY: The 1986 PGA Championship was the 68th PGA Championship….which was held August 7 – 11 at Inverness Club in Toledo, Ohio…..when Bob Tway won his only major championship with a two strokes victory over runner-up Greg Norman….who was the 54-hole leader by four strokes going into the final round. Heavy rains on Sunday stopped play for the day in mid-afternoon….whereby In the final group, Norman and Tway…
DOG COMMENTARY: The 1987 U.S. Open was the 87th U.S. Open, held June 18–21 at the Olympic Club in San Francisco, California. Scott Simpsonpassed and held off 1982 champion Tom Watson on the Lake Course to win his only major title by one stroke. Eleven former champions were in the field and only four made the 36-hole cut. This was the third U.S. Open at the Lake Course of the Olympic…