Lyle’s Wife Totes Good Luck

It got so bad for Sandy Lyle last week that his own caddie “sacked him” after missing yet another cut.

On this side of the Atlantic, that means the caddie quit on the former Masters and British Open champion, who hasn’t won on the PGA Tour since Augusta 1988.

So the struggling golfer from Scotland, the former No. 1 player in the world who won two majors by the time he was 30, turned to his wife, Jolande. She carted his bag around Forest Oaks Country Club during the first round of the Greater Greensboro Chrysler Classic.

She hadn’t caddied for her husband in about four years, but it turned out to be a perfect match as Lyle shot a 6-under-par 66.

Lyle’s round, which started in the morning on the back nine with three straight birdies, was good enough to share the opening-day lead with Mike Hulbert, who birdied his first five holes, and 24-year-old tour rookie Robert Damron.