Sandy Lyle broke his first club at his final appearance at the Masters and joked: "And it wasn't even over my knee."
The 1988 champion suffered a shocking start to his penultimate round here when he blocked his opening drive into trees – and then snapped his 8-iron on a root hitting a left-handed shot which struck another branch and a cameraman. Lyle, 65, still scrambled a bogey on his way to nine-over par 81 in his 42nd appearance here.
The Scot said: "It's the first one I've broken here. Taken 40 years to do it, but it's happened. First hole, and it wasn't even over my knee! I nearly always pulled it off the 1st hole, and this time I actually hit the other shape.
