Golf / US Masters: No more fine messes for Master Olly: Seve told him he was the best and Jose-Maria Olazabal finally proved it. Tim Glover salutes an overdue triumph

From: The Independent - London | Date: April 12, 1994| Author: TIM GLOVER | Copyright information

THEY struggled manfully to get the name of Jose-Maria Olazabal on to the manual scoreboard in a rehearsal before the 58th Masters. With a bit of twisting and turning they finally succeeded and it was just as well. The name, after day one, was never off the leaderboard.

'You will never know how happy I am,' Olazabal said after giving one of the most determined performances in Masters history. This was make or break for the 28-year- old Spaniard and he finally kept an armada of American...

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