6The Daily Tar HeelMonday, August 26, 1991
Daly next
Fans of professional golf have found
a new hero in John Daly. Two weeks
ago, Daly leveled his PGA Champion
ship opponents wiih 325-yard drives
and radar-like putting. Now Daly must
face a tougher opponent the shadow
; of Jack Nicklaus.
Every sport has a hierarchy of ath
letes, and each has a single athlete who
rules that sport. For men's golf, the king
is Nicklaus.
During his career, Nicklaus has won
70 PGA Tour events, 20 of which were
majors. But the time to find a successor
is long overdue. Nicklaus is more often
selling cars and designing golf courses
than showcasing hisplaying ability. And
at 5 1 , Nicklaus should have passed the
crown long ago. Daly is just the newest
in a long line of heirs.
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in line as golf's long-overdue hero
Amy McCaffrey
Staff Writer
It's not that Nicklaus isn't still wor
thy of being the King of Golf his
battle with Chi Chi Rodriguez in the
1991 Senior U.S. Open playoff cer
tainly proved that but the sport is
ready for a new leader. The sport needs
a regular player on the PGA Tour
(Nicklaus plays part-time on the Senior
Tour and selectively on the junior cir
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nostalgia value, not for its feats of
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lenging courses at a 54-hole pace, and
golfers older than 50 do not and
cannot win regular tour events.
Nicklaus's last PGA victory was over
five years ago, at the 1 986 Masters. The
King of Golf has to be the best at his
sport, and Nicklaus no longer is.
Part of the problem with finding a
successor is that golf is a sport of pre
dictable parity and fleeting streaks. All
golfers, pros and hacks al ike, go through
cycles when everything clicks, which
are followed too quickly by dismal
slumps. Hale Irwin got caught up in a
streak last year, winning the U.S. Open
and the Buick Open in subsequent week
ends. The U.S. Open was Irwin's first
opportunity to hoist a trophy in five
years.
And then there are the impostors.
Perhaps the biggest letdown on the
tour is Greg Norman. Norman has made
a career of shooting well in the opening
rounds and dropping back into the pack
sometime before the 72nd hole. The last
tournament Norman won was the 1990
Memorial, and that was shortened by
rain to 54 holes. Norman only had a
one-stroke lead, and based on his previ
ous record, the tournament was his to
lose.
Curtis Strange is another player who
looked to dethrone Nicklaus. The cham
pion of consecutive U.S. Opens in 1 988
and 1 989, Strange has rarely been heard
from since. Strange has not won an
other Tour event, although he has
cleaned up in the unofficial made-for-TV
skins games.
Of the current tour players, Nick
Faldo is the most natural successor.
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last summer's British Open. Even the
King of Golf can have a slump, but
Faldo's slump has become more of a
habit.
Faldo also has a few strikes against
him that shouldn't count but do. For
one, he appears surly and distant. Image
isn't everything, but Faldo is openly
hostile toward his loyal subjects, the
spectators. For another, Faldo is Brit
ish. Based on this year's Masters, when
Augusta National spectators harassed
Wales native Ian Woosnam, nationality
evidently matters. Americans can't stand
to see foreigners take away their most
precious golf tournament, which Faldo
has had the audacity to io twice.
So for now, Daly is the next prince in
line for Nicklaus' title. There are plenty
of golfers before him who didn't meet
early expectations. It's easy to make
predictions; it's the proving that has
tripped up the Normans and the Stranges.
If Daly proves to only be a one-time
Cinderella story, or even an average
Tour player, there are still plenty of
young hopefuls waiting in the wings.
Phil Mickelson is a senior at Arizona
Slate University with a Tour win and
two Sports III ustrated interviews already
under his belt.
Then there's Tiger Woods for those
with greater foresight he's only 16,
but he has already won most of the
junior national tournaments and last
spring missed qualifying for a PGA
tournament by one stroke.
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Major League
(as of Aug. 24)
American League
East W L Pd. CB L10 Str. Home Away
Toronto 67 57 .540 5-5 L-1 37-29 30-28
Detroit 67 57 .540 7-3 W-5 41-22 26-35
Boston 62 61 .504 5 L-2 33-30 29-31
Milwaukee 59 64 .480 712 8-2 W-4 31-30 27-34
New York 56 65 .463 9 12 6-4 W-1 30-31 25-34
Baltimore 51 72.414 15 12 6-4 L-1 23-38 28-34
Cleveland 40 82 .328 26 3-7 W-2 21-39 19-43
West W L Pet. CB L10 Str. Home Away
Minnesota 75 50 .597 6-4 W-1 39-23 36-27
Chicago 67 56 .545 7 2-8 L-5 34-27 33-29
Oakland 68 57 .544 7 4-6 L-2 37-24 31-33
Texas 63 59.516 10 12 6-4 L-1 34-24 29-35
Seattle 64 60.516 10 12 3-7 L-5 35-25 29-35
Kansas City 63 59.516 10 12 3-7 W-1 30-34 33-25
California 60 63 .487 14 5-5 W-2 27-34 33-29
National League
East W L Pet. GB L10 Str. Home Away
Pittsburgh 71 50 .587 5l L-1 38-23 33-27
St. Louis 66 55 .545 5 12 7-3 W-2 38-24 28-31
Chicago 62 60 .508 10 6-4 L-1 37-25 25-35
New York 59 63 .484 13 2-8 L-2 31-30 28-33
Philadelphia 59 63 .484 13 6-4 W-1 35-25 24-38
Montreal 49 72 .404 22 12 4-6 W-1 25-34 24-38
West W L Pet. GB L10 Str. Home Away
Los Angeles 68 54 .557 M L-2 39-21 29-33
Atlanta 67 55 .549 1 6-4 L-1 35-28 32-27
Cincinnati 59 62 .492 8 6-4 W-2 30-31 30-31
San Francisco 60 62 .492 8 5-5 W-1 33-27 27-35
San Diego 58 64 .480 9 12 4-6 W-1 28-32 31-32
Houston 51 71 .418 17 5-5 L-1 31-31 20-40
saves you
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1991 Southern Bell
Standings
Lewis shatters
100-meter mark
The Associated Press
TOKYO Carl Lewis, who calls
himself the old man of track, ran faster
than he ever did in his youth as he pulled
away from the field in the swiftest 100
meters in history.
The 30-year-old Lewis not only sped
past countrymen Leroy Burrell and
Dennis Mitchell in the final SO meters,
he shattered Burrell's world record with
a 9.86-second clocking in winning
Sunday's final at the World Track and
Field Championships.
"It was the most incredible race of all
time," Lewis said, "and the great thing
was the old man was able to pull it out."
The time clipped four-hundredths of
a second off the previous mark of 9.90
set by Burrell at the U.S. Champion
ships two months ago in New York.
Burrell also went under his own
record, finishing second in 9.88, and the
next four finishers broke 1 0 seconds
the first time six sprinters broke the 10
second barrier in the same race.
In 14 events in three World Champi
onships and two Olympics, Lewis has
13 gold medals and a silver.
AP Football Top 25
Rank
1. Florida St. (49)
2. Michigan (5)
3. Miami (2)
4. Washington (1)
5. Florida (1)
6. Notre Dame
7. Penn St.
8. Georgia Tech
9. Clemson (1)
10. Oklahoma
11. Tennessee
12. Houston (1)
13. Colorado
14. Texas
15. Nebraska
16. USC
17. Auburn
18. Iowa
19. BYU
20. Michigan St.
21. Texas ASM
22. Alabama
23. Ohio St.
24. UCLA
25. Syracuse
Record Pts Pvs
10-2 1,483 4
9- 3 1,384 7
10- 2 1,276 3
10-2 1,252 5
9-2 1,150 13
9-3 1,148 6
9- 3 1,064 11
11-0-1 1,054 2
10- 2 1,043 9
8- 3 921 17
9- 2-2 846 8
10- 1 810 10
11-1-1 788 1
10-2 769 12
9- 3 599 24
8-4-1 503 20
8-3-1 500 19
8-4 475 18
10- 3 363 22
8- 3-1 351 16
9- 3-1 321 15
7-5 298
7-4-1 277
5-6 168
7-4-2 121
Others receiving votes: Louisville 1 20, Baylor
115, UNC 83, Oregon 28, Virginia Tech 27,
N.C. State 24,California 23, Illinois 22, Vir
ginia 16, LSU 15, Pittsburgh 12, Air Force
10, Georgia 9, Mississippi 8, Stanford 5,
Arizona4, West Virginia4, Southern Miss. 3,
Colorado St. 2, San Diego St. 2, South Caro
lina 2, Indiana 1, Kansas 1.
Sports on TV
Monday, August 26
11 a.m. Tennis: U.S. Open (Opening Day);
USA
7:30 p.m. Tennis: U.S. Open; USA
7:35p.m. Major League Baseball: Montreal
at Atlanta; TBS
8 p.m. Major League Baseball: Los Ange
les at Chicago Cubs; WGN
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