Sandy Lyle
Alexander Walter Barr Lyle MBE is a Scottish professional golfer. Lyle has won two major championships during his professional career. He is best known for the bunker shot at the 18th hole in the final round of the Masters in 1988 when he became the first Briton to wear the green jacket.
About Sandy Lyle in brief
Alexander Walter Barr Lyle MBE is a Scottish professional golfer. Lyle has won two major championships during his career. Along with Nick Faldo and Ian Woosnam, he became one of Britain’s top golfers during the 1980s. He spent 167 weeks in the top-10 of the Official World Golf Ranking from its introduction, in 1986, until 1989. He was inducted to the World Golf Hall of Fame in May 2012. He represented Scotland during his professional career. He is best known for the bunker shot at the 18th hole in the final round of the Masters in 1988 when he became the first Briton to wear the green jacket.
In July 2009, Lyle got into a very public row with Colin Montgomerie where he unfavourably compared his actions at the Indonesian Open four years previously with his own actions in not completing a round at the 2008 Open. On turning 50 in 2008, he won his first tournament in 19 years when he captured his first European Senior Tour title at the 2011 Handa Senior World Championship in China. He took up hickory golf, winning the World Hickory Open in his native Scotland in 2014 and 2016.
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