This Day in Golf History: February 9

Sandy Lyle, one of the Fab Five along with Ballesteros, Faldo, Langer and Woosnam out of the UK, was born on this date in 1958 in Shrewsbury in western England. He won two majors, the 1985 Open and 1988 Masters, and was the playing partner in 1986 to Jack Nicklaus during Jack’s final-round romp to victory in the Masters. And this is a date usually noted when the St. Andrews Club became the Royal & Ancient Golf Club of St. Andrews, in 1834, with William IV as club patron.