AUGUSTA, Ga. — There are no bad days at the Masters, but there are uncomfortable ones. Saturday dawned so gray, ugly and rain-spitting that even the hardiest of souls, the street preachers and the ticket scalpers along Washington Road, remained indoors. The skies above Augusta National were grim and gray, and the radar promised much more of the same.
Nearly 40 years ago, on beautiful Sunday afternoons, Larry Mize and Sandy Lyle hit two of the most memorable shots in Masters history to capture back-to-back green jackets. Today, on a nasty Saturday morning, their Masters careers came to an end with tiny, unremarkable putts.