So sandy lyle as many people know is a legend within the game. And he won the masters in 1988 so a couple years before i was born. And he as a win in the masters you get a lifetime invitation to play his recent finishes in the masters and i'll go just years from now kind of backwards cut cut cut cut cut cut cut then.
< p>2014 he was tied 44 2013 tied 54. And then.
A few years before that cut cuts cut cut sorry and then.
Tied 20. so his best finish in recent memory was tied 20th in 2009. And then.
He's basically missed the cut from from the millennium pretty much most years mr cut this is real i don't really have an opinion on that well i kind of i can see both sides. But there will be an argument that people say why are you playing when you've literally got no chance of making the cut um other people would say he's obviously 64 years old he's obviously got an invitation it's probably a great week. For his family i'm sure he'll play with whoever at the par 3 contest it'll be a nice weekend away um a week away he goes for the masters dinner and his green jacket all that stuff should he be in the field still should he still be playing what's your honest opinion the thing is what you've just highlighted there of all the things that he could be doing he could still be doing without playing the actual tournament he can still go there with his family he can still go to the green jacket dinner which obviously from when we spoke to sir nick sounds like an amazing evening um you can still play the part three tournament there's lots of old legends that play the pr three tournament i think is it just has it been jack nicholas this year that's actually pulled out the path three i think he has yeah yeah. So you can still do all that teen it up actually playing i don't know maybe i don't know what the criteria should be i think it still has to be down to player um choice really discretion the discretion of the player i still think this is a difficult thing with golf because again. And this is why i'm talking to hear other people's thoughts i've got kind of two schools i think in my first thought is what other sport is in the world where you can have a young 20 year old lad competing with a guy 64 in the same field it's not gonna happen in football is it obviously not gonna happen any sport really maybe darts potentially i don't know. So the fact that sunderland can go. And compete if you want to you know yeah that's that is really kind of unique. And it's quite inspirational but when you look at golf on a more holistic level we're trying to make the game appeal a bit cooler and appeal to more people so the younger people really does it look great if somebody's playing is not going to make the cut i don't know. And and is it is it right that he does take someone's spot. Or does the field just get well i don't know because they snap invites don't they. So i don't know if then.
I probably should have done a bit more research i don't know if he's i don't think he's actually taking a spot no because the field is. So at what point does it come at what point should an athlete say golfer say right i've had my however. many years i don't know i think the conversation in the open is much more is it only prevalent because with the open they can play it to a certain year because that actually got extended because of tom watson he's playing. So good he obviously nearly won it when stuart stink won it in the playoff um i believe that got extended to a certain year but then.
As you're getting to the latter ages of that year you are literally taking a spot off another player because if you drop out they're just gonna allow another qualifier in yeah where the well i think the masters is different in that capacity sure there will be a reserve list i would imagine. But should he play or not it's a really hard one and i i probably looking in from the outside i would say he probably shouldn't be playing but it's probably very very difficult for him to hang his actual playing ability up his rights to play in the masters do you think it's more it's a probably combination of two things it's probably that it's an amazing week like say with your family playing an amazing golf course who wouldn't want to play that i wonder if it's almost a bit deeper than that as well it's some like you don't want to stop playing because it almost makes you feel like you're getting older in reality i mean if he's won it in 1998. And played every year since then.
And then.
Suddenly you don't play 33 years 34 years later that must feel quite strange but you look at like faldo obviously we spoke to him he plays he played on yesterday he played it with his son that's class you know the sunday yeah san diego could still do all this yeah he could still go. And play on the sunday before the masters he could still go to the par 3 tournament and still be there and be present and walk around with your green jacket and be spotted and and obviously sign some autographs and take well you can't take selfies there because no one else phones. But like you can still feel you're there you're part of it. But does he does he need to be teeing it up not sure yeah i'm not sure i don't think i would massively want to i think once it got past a certain time. And and i just knew yeah i was going to chop it around. For two days i don't think i'd really want to you.
