During this 1987 CBS Sports Saturday update of the 3rd round of the PGA Los Angeles Open Tournament ….Pat Summerall provides an overview of the leaderboard with T C Chen leading Rick Fehr by three strokes….while leading Ben Crenshaw by four…..and Seve Ballesteros by five. The overview of the leaderboard is followed by highlights of…
J. C.Snead won eight tournaments on the PGA Tour and four on the Champions Tour (Seniors Tour)….with one international championship…..who was also a member of the 1971, 1973 and 1975 Ryder Cup teams. Snead’s biggest career disappointment is that he never won a major championship on the PGA Tour…. however, Snead made his career mark as one of the tour’s most consistent players…
The 1986 Masters Golf Tournament provided one of the most famous victories ever on the PGA Tour…..as 46 year old Jack Nicklaus won his 6th Masters Tournament….with four final holes that rival the best ever finishes in golf….and especially the Masters…..when The Golden Bear carded a birdie on the 15th…..followed by an eagle on the 16th….then…
The last four holes that Jack Nicklaus played at Augusta in the 1986 Masters Tournament was so special that CBS Sports produced this video piece on their 1986 sports special A Journey Through Time ….which was hosted by sportscaster Tim Ryan…..as he pulled out a film from the vault….in which Pat Summerall narrates the what he called “the…
CBS Sports provides a mighty impressive line-up of golf sportscasters at the 1986 Masters Tournament…..as Bob Murphy covers Hole # 10….while Steve Melnyk is at Hole # 11 and Hole # 12….while Ken Venturi is at Hole # 13…..with Gary McCord taking care of Hole # 14…..then comes Ben Wright at Hole # 14…..followed by…
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…
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…