Sports
On a sunny Sunday in April of 1987, on a golf course in Augusta, Ga., a terrible thing happened to golfer Larry Mize.
Jan. 6, 1994
Can a person be lucky and unlucky at the same time?
April 6, 1988
This is the story of a chip off the old block.
April 13, 1987
John Mahaffey’s first words, after winning the Tournament Players Championship, were for distraught Larry Mize.
March 31, 1986
Greg Norman said losing the Masters in a playoff to Larry Mize was the toughest defeat he has ever suffered.
It took a 140-foot chip shot from the thick rye grass to do it, but the man once ridiculed as “Larry D.
Larry Mize shot a one-under-par 71 for a 274 total to earn the $277,000 first prize in the Dunlop Phoenix golf tournament at Miyazaki, Japan.
Nov. 19, 1990
Larry Mize, spurred by the early play of partner John Huston, shot an eight-under-par 64 Thursday to lead the Buick Open by two strokes.
Aug. 6, 1993
For Larry Mize, a pitch-in birdie that won the Masters in sudden death was “the dream of a lifetime.”
Mize’s miracle shot in 1987 earned him a playoff victory and an indelible Masters memory that’s only gotten better with age
April 3, 2007