This week’s roundup also features more NCAA drama, the evergreen Ichiro Suzuki and Football Italia nostalgia
1) The Masters starts on Thursday, so let’s dip into the archive. Bob Goalby seizes the moment after a scorecard error by Roberto De Vicenzo’s partner meant the Argentinian signed for a 67 rather than the 66 he had gone round in. Tiger Woods’s return to form and prominence gives us an excuse, if one was needed, to relive that famous 16th-hole chip in 2005. And has a pressure moment ever been dealt with better than Sandy Lyle’s bunker shot at the last in 1988, which set him up for a remarkable victory? Two years earlier, Jack Nicklaus was on the charge, sealing victory with a back nine of 30. Masters lore has its share of meltdowns too, such as Jordan Spieth’s two years ago and Rory McIlroy’s in 2011.
2) Ray Wilkins, who died this week aged 61, had a rich and varied career with some of Britain and Europe’s top clubs: here’s a delightful chip on a Stamford Bridge mudpatch against Hereford in 1977; a beauty for England in the 1980 European Championship; a cracking strike for Manchester United in the 1983 FA Cup final; here he is talking about his time in Milan; and even late in his career he was capable of scoring goals like this for QPR in 1993 against Liverpool.
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