Sandy Lyle Receives PGA Recognition Award

The two-time Major winner was the first Brit to win the Masters in 1988 and also won the Claret Jug in 1985

Sandy Lyle Receives PGA Recognition Award
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The two-time Major winner was the first Brit to win the Masters in 1988 and also won the Claret Jug in 1985. By Tom Ellis

Sandy Lyle Receives PGA Recognition Award

The Scotsman was a guest of honour in this week's annual PGA fundraising lunch in his home nation.

"This award is for my achievements over the years and I'll hopefully be ready to go for more awards in years to come,” said Lyle.

“This is a nice one to start with and it is nice to be recognised when I am still around and kicking".

"I still have my dad's old PGA badge that used to go on the front bumper of the car next to the AA badge," the two-time Major winner said.

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"When my dad was a PGA man, that was the only thing that was around as the PGA Tour hadn't started. Once you joined The PGA, you were in the syndicate of what was going on in golf."

He was one of the catalysts for the European golfing renaissance in the 1980s, capturing his first Major at Royal St George's in 1985.

Lyle played in five Ryder Cups notably in Europe’s first win on American soil at Muirfield Village, Ohio, in 1987.

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