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Sutton return Veteran’s victory ends TPC drought; Tradition trivia
Posted: Friday March 31, 2000 12:29 PM
Hal Sutton's victory at the Players Championship came 17 years after he won the event in 1983. That's the longest span between victories in one tournament since Johnny Miller won the AT&T Pebble Beach in 1996, 20 years after he won in 1976. Ernie at 11
Ernie Els has dropped to 11th on the Official World Rankings. That's the first time in 299 weeks he's been out of the top ten. A streak which began with his victory in the 1994 U.S. Open. Great TraditionJack Nicklaus will be trying for his fifth victory in The Tradition this weekend. As it stands, he is both the youngest winner of the event -- 50 in 1990, and the oldest, 56 in 1996. Meanwhile, if either Gary Player or Hale Irwin can win the event, they will join Nicklaus as the only winners of the Senior Tour Grand Slam, which includes The Tradition, the PGA Seniors Championship, the U.S. Senior Open, and the Ford Senior Players Championship. Peete nearly perfectCalvin Peete led the PGA Tour in driving accuracy a record 10 consecutive years, and has done it twice on the Senior Tour. In all that time, his highest rate of hitting fairways was a record 84.6 percent in 1982. But this year, Peete is off to phenomenal start, hitting 103 of 112 fairways for an unheard of 92 percent. Another green jacket for O'Meara?Looking for a dark horse at next week's Masters. Consider 1998 champion Mark O'Meara, who at the Players Championship posted his first top 10 finish in exactly a year. O'Meara has told friends he is once again putting superbly, which is the greatest attribute a player can have at the Augusta National. Sports Illustrated senior writer Jaime Diaz covers the golf beat and appears regularly on CNN/Sports Illustrated and CNN's Pro Golf Weekly.
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