The Majors

Masters
Winner: Sandy Lyle
Site: Augusta (Ga.) National Golf Club
Score: 281 (-7)
Tied with Mark Calcavecchia on the final hole, it appeared the best Lyle could hope for was a sudden-death playoff after his drive found a fairway bunker. But with a 7-iron, Lyle nipped the ball perfectly off the sand. The shot cleared the high lip before settling 10 feet behind the ball. Lyle then finished off his remarkable hole by making the putt for birdie to win the green jacket.

U.S. Open
Winner: Curtis Strange
Site: The Country Club, Brookline, Mass.
Score: 278 (-6); defeated Nick Faldo 71-75 in an 18-hole playoff
On the 75th anniversary of Francis Ouiment's historic playoff victory over Harry Vardon and Ted Ray, Strange also held off an Englishman, Faldo, in a playoff at The Country Club. While the playoff lacked much drama, Strange had to get up and down from a difficult greenside bunker on the 72nd hole to extend the tournament.

British Open
Winner: Seve Ballesteros
Site: Royal Lytham & St. Annes Golf Club, England
Score: 273 (-11)
Ballesteros captured his final major with a final-round 65 that epitomized his brilliantly unpredictable play. Although he didn't make birdie from a car park they way he did during his 1979 Open win at Lytham, Ballesteros made an eagle, six birdies, two pars and two bogeys over an 11-hole stretch.

PGA Championship
Winner: Jeff Sluman
Site: Oak Tree Golf Club, Edmond, Okla.
Score: 272 (-12)
Starting the final round three strokes behind 54-hole leader Paul Azinger, Sluman shot 65 with a performance that was nearly as hot as the 100-degree temperatures. The key exchange took place on the par-5 5th, where Azinger made bogey and Sluman holed a 115-yard wedge for eagle to erase his deficit.

Arnie's Last Charge
At age 59, Arnold Palmer won the Senior PGA Tour's Crestar Classic at Hermitage Country Club in Manakin-Sabot, Va. It would be Palmer's last victory.

Cub Tracks
Tiger Woods won the boys' 11-12 age division at the Optimist Junior World Championship at Torrey Pines.

Women's Rights
The Ladies European Tour broke away from the PGA to form its own entity, then known as the Women Professional Golfers' European Tour Limited. In addition, Liselotte Neumann became the first Swede to win the LPGA Tour with her victory in the 1988 U.S. Women's Open.

In 2007 He Would Have Been 85th
Curtis Strange became the first PGA Tour player to win more than $1 million in a season. Winning four tournaments (U.S. Open, Independence Insurance Agent Open, Memorial Tournament, Nabisco Championship), Strange topped the monely list by earning  $1,147,644.

Precious Metals
For the first time, more players used steel-head drivers than persimmon on the PGA Tour.

Notable Course Openings

Old Marsh
Palm Beach Gardens, Fla.
The Pete Dye design at this upscale private community was the site of the 1992 U.S. Women's Mid-Amateur just years after opening.