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The Dullest Masters
This year, that is. 1991 was the game to remember.
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Couples too made the impossible putt. (“Like shelling peas,” Ben Wright chuckled.) McCumber came within an inch of doing it, and the four-putt drama ended with a Falstaffian guffaw. McCumber’s caddy fell over backwards into the right-hand bunker when his man’s putt curled to a stop just past the hole.
This entire episode has been lost to broadcast history. A year or two later, Ben Wright was forced to resign in disgrace from CBS for his oafish comments to a female reporter. He has not been seen around big-time golf since.
IN 2008, Trevor Immelman won. On Sunday, I actually stopped watching the Masters at the sixteenth hole. Immelman is a nice and talented young man, and I’m happy for him.
In 1991, Tom Watson and Ian Woosnam dueled down the stretch, with the tournament remaining undecided until the eighteenth hole. But I have written enough about 1991. I will note only that John Feinstein covered part of that Nicklaus-Watson pairing on Friday, when the two players walked up eighteen to a great ovation. It’s in his book A Good Walk Spoiled.
And he got it all wrong. Ask me about it some time, and I’ll tell you what really happened.
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