1996 Masters Tournament

The 1996 Masters Tournament was the 60th Masters Tournament, held April 11–14 at Augusta National Golf Club in Augusta, Georgia.

Nick Faldo won his third Masters and his sixth and final major title, five strokes ahead of runner-up Greg Norman. Faldo overcame a six-stroke deficit going into the final day as Norman, leader after each of the first three rounds, faltered down the stretch once again at Augusta. The win was the seventh by a European in the previous nine Masters. The first win by an Australian at the Masters came seventeen years later when Adam Scott won in 2013.

In the first round, Norman shot the second-ever 63 at the Masters (Nick Price had the first 63, in the third round in 1986). Opening with six pars, Norman birdied nine of the final twelve holes.

Faldo moved into second place with a 67 on Friday and stayed in second, though six shots behind, with a scrambling par on 18 late Saturday afternoon. The par meant that Faldo would be paired with Norman on Sunday which may have proved critical.

In the final round, Norman maintained a four shot lead through 7 holes, and then proceeded to lose five shots to par over the next five holes. Faldo picked up one birdie in that stretch to assume a two shot lead after Norman's tee shot on 12 found the water for a double-bogey. Any thoughts of Norman winning were dashed when his tee shot on the par three 16th also found the water. Faldo's 67 was the best round of the day while Norman's 78 was one of the worst rounds of the day, together yielding the greatest comeback/collapse in Masters history. In addition it tied the largest lead ever blown in a PGA Tour tournament. This record has yet to be broken.

None of the five amateurs made the cut, including 20-year-old Tiger Woods, in his second Masters. He returned as a professional the next year and won by 12 strokes.

Field 1. Masters champions Tommy Aaron, Seve Ballesteros, Gay Brewer, Billy Casper, Charles Coody, Fred Couples (9,12), Ben Crenshaw (9,12,13), Nick Faldo (3,9,13), Raymond Floyd (9), Doug Ford, Bernhard Langer, Sandy Lyle, Larry Mize, Jack Nicklaus, Arnold Palmer, Gary Player, Craig Stadler (11,12), Tom Watson (9), Ian Woosnam (9), Fuzzy Zoeller José María Olazábal (9) withdrew with a foot injury. George Archer, Jack Burke Jr., Bob Goalby, Ben Hogan, Herman Keiser, Cary Middlecoff, Byron Nelson, Henry Picard, Gene Sarazen, Sam Snead, and Art Wall Jr. did not play.

2. U.S. Open champions (last five years) Ernie Els (11,12,13), Lee Janzen (9,10,12,13), Tom Kite, Corey Pavin (9,10,12,13), Payne Stewart (12,13)

3. The Open champions (last five years) Ian Baker-Finch, John Daly (4,12), Tom Lehman (10,12,13), Greg Norman (9,10,12,13), Nick Price (4,10,13)

4. PGA champions (last five years) Paul Azinger (9), Steve Elkington (9,11,12,13)

5. U.S. Amateur champion and runner-up Buddy Marucci (a), Tiger Woods (a)

6. The Amateur champion Gordon Sherry (a)

7. U.S. Amateur Public Links champion Chris Wollmann (a)

8. U.S. Mid-Amateur champion Jerry Courville Jr. (a)

9. Top 24 players and ties from the 1995 Masters David Edwards, Brad Faxon (11), David Frost, David Gilford, Jay Haas (10,11,13), Brian Henninger, Scott Hoch (12,13), John Huston, Hale Irwin, Davis Love III (10,12,13), Phil Mickelson (10,12,13), Colin Montgomerie (11), Kenny Perry (13), Loren Roberts (13), Curtis Strange, Duffy Waldorf (10,12)

10. Top 16 players and ties from the 1995 U.S. Open Brad Bryant (12,13), Bill Glasson, Neal Lancaster, Jeff Maggert (11), Mark McCumber, Frank Nobilo, Mark Roe, Vijay Singh (12,13), Jeff Sluman (11), Steve Stricker, Bob Tway (12,13)

11. Top eight players and ties from 1995 PGA Championship Bob Estes, Justin Leonard (13), Steve Lowery, Mark O'Meara (12,13)

12. Winners of PGA Tour events since the previous Masters Woody Austin (13), Mark Brooks, Mark Calcavecchia (13), Ed Dougherty, Fred Funk (13), Jim Furyk, Jim Gallagher Jr. (13), Paul Goydos, Tim Herron, Billy Mayfair (13), Scott McCarron, Paul Stankowski, Hal Sutton, Ted Tryba, D. A. Weibring

13. Top 30 players from the 1995 PGA Tour money list David Duval, Scott Simpson, Kirk Triplett

14. Special foreign invitation Michael Campbell, Alex Čejka, Satoshi Higashi, Masashi Ozaki, Costantino Rocca, Sam Torrance

Round summaries First round Thursday, April 11, 1996 PlacePlayerScoreTo par1 Greg Norman63−92 Phil Mickelson65−7T3 Scott Hoch67−5 Bob Tway5 Lee Janzen68−4T6 Nick Faldo69−3 Brad Faxon David Gilford Scott Simpson Vijay Singh Source:

Scorecard First round Hole  1    2    3    4    5    6    7    8    9   10  11  12  13  14  15  16  17  18 Par454343454443545344 NormanEEEEEE−1−2−3−3−3−4−5−6−7−7−8−9 Source:

Second round Friday, April 12, 1996 PlacePlayerScoreTo par1 Greg Norman63-69=132−122 Nick Faldo69-67=136−8T3 David Frost70-68=138−6 Phil Mickelson65-73=138T5 Lee Janzen68-71=139−5 Bob Tway67-72=139T7 Scott Hoch67-73=140−4 Scott McCarron70-70=140 Vijay Singh 69-71=140T10 Corey Pavin75-66=141−3 Ian Woosnam72-69=141 Source:

Amateurs: Woods (+6), Sherry (+11), Wollmann (+14), Courville Jr. (+16), Marucci (+16)

Third round Saturday, April 13, 1996 PlacePlayerScoreTo par1 Greg Norman63-69-71=203−132 Nick Faldo69-67-73=209−73 Phil Mickelson65-73-72=210−6T4 David Frost70-68-74=212−4 Scott McCarron70-70-72=212 Duffy Waldorf72-71-69=212T7 Scott Hoch67-73-73=213−3 John Huston 71-71-71=213T9 David Duval73-72-69=214−2 Ernie Els 71-71-72=214 Lee Janzen68-71-75=214 Frank Nobilo71-71-72=214 Corey Pavin75-66-73=214 Vijay Singh69-71-74=214 Ian Woosnam72-69-73=214

Final round Sunday, April 14, 1996

Final leaderboard Champion(a) = amateur(c) = past champion Top 10PlacePlayerScoreTo parMoney (US$)1 Nick Faldo (c) 69-67-73-67=276 −12 450,0002 Greg Norman 63-69-71-78=281 −7 270,0003 Phil Mickelson 65-73-72-72=282 −6 170,0004 Frank Nobilo 71-71-72-69=283 −5 120,000T5 Scott Hoch 67-73-73-71=284 −4 95,000 Duffy Waldorf 72-71-69-72=284T7 Davis Love III 72-71-74-68=285 −3 77,933 Jeff Maggert 71-73-72-69=285 Corey Pavin 75-66-73-71=285T10 David Frost 70-68-74-74=286 −2 65,000 Scott McCarron 70-70-72-74=286 Leaderboard below the top 10PlacePlayerScoreTo parMoney ($)T12 Ernie Els 71-71-72-73=287 −1 52,500 Lee Janzen 68-71-75-73=287 Bob Tway 67-72-76-72=287T15 Mark Calcavecchia 71-73-71-73=288 E 43,750 Fred Couples (c) 78-68-71-71=28817 John Huston 71-71-71-76=289 +1 40,000T18 Paul Azinger 70-74-76-70=290 +2 32,600 David Duval 73-72-69-76=290 Tom Lehman 75-70-72-73=290 Mark O'Meara 72-71-75-72=290 Nick Price 71-75-70-74=290T23 Larry Mize (c) 75-71-77-68=291 +3 25,000 Loren Roberts 71-73-72-75=291T25 Brad Faxon 69-77-72-74=292 +4 21,000 Raymond Floyd (c) 70-74-77-71=292T27 Bob Estes 71-71-79-72=293 +5 18,900 Justin Leonard 72-74-75-72=293T29 John Daly 71-74-71-78=294 +6 15,571 Jim Furyk 75-70-78-71=294 Jim Gallagher Jr. 70-76-77-71=294 Hale Irwin 74-71-77-72=294 Scott Simpson 69-76-76-73=294 Craig Stadler (c) 73-72-71-78=294 Ian Woosnam (c) 72-69-73-80=294T36 Fred Funk 71-72-76-76=295 +7 12,333 Jay Haas 70-73-75-77=295 Bernhard Langer (c) 75-70-72-78=295T39 Colin Montgomerie 72-74-75-75=296 +8 11,050 Vijay Singh 69-71-74-82=296T41 Steve Lowery 71-74-75-77=297 +9 10,050 Jack Nicklaus (c) 70-73-76-78=29743 Seve Ballesteros (c) 73-73-77-76=299 +11 9,30044 Alex Čejka 73-71-78-80=302 +14 8,800CUT Tommy Aaron (c) 71-76=147 +3 David Gilford 69-78=147 Jeff Sluman 74-73=147 Ted Tryba 72-75=147 Tom Watson (c) 75-72=147 Fuzzy Zoeller (c) 74-73=147 Mark Brooks 72-76=148 +4 Bill Glasson 71-77=148 Masashi Ozaki 71-77=148 Curtis Strange 71-77=148 Hal Sutton 72-76=148 Michael Campbell 73-76=149 +5 Sandy Lyle (c) 75-74=149 Gary Player (c) 73-76=149 Steve Stricker 80-69=149 Neal Lancaster 76-74=150 +6 Arnold Palmer (c) 74-76=150 Payne Stewart 74-76=150 Tiger Woods (a) 75-75=150 Ben Crenshaw (c) 77-74=151 +7 Ed Dougherty 76-75=151 Satoshi Higashi 76-75=151 Sam Torrance 80-71=151 Kirk Triplett 76-75=151 Gay Brewer (c) 75-77=152 +8 Tim Herron 76-76=152 Tom Kite 75-77=152 Kenny Perry 75-77=152 Paul Stankowski 74-78=152 Woody Austin 79-74=153 +9 Brad Bryant 78-75=153 David Edwards 79-74=153 Costantino Rocca 78-75=153 Mark Roe 74-79=153 Billy Mayfair 77-77=154 +10 Steve Elkington 76-79=155 +11 Brian Henninger 76-79=155 Gordon Sherry (a) 78-77=155 D. A. Weibring 74-81=155 Ian Baker-Finch 78-79=157 +13 Paul Goydos 74-83=157 Chris Wollmann (a) 79-79=158 +14 Charles Coody (c) 82-78=160 +16 Jerry Courville Jr. (a) 78-82=160 Buddy Marucci (a) 79-81=160 Mark McCumber 78-82=160 Billy Casper (c) 75-86=161 +17 Doug Ford (c) 81-88=169 +25

Sources:

Scorecard Hole  1    2    3    4    5    6    7    8    9   10  11  12  13  14 15161718Par454343454 443545344 Faldo −7−8−8−8−7−8−8−9−9−9−9−9−10−10−11−11−11−12 Norman −12−13−13−12−12−12−12−12−11−10−9−7−8−8−9−7−7−7 Mickelson −6−7−7−6−6−7−6−5−5−5−5−4−5−4−6−6−6−6 Nobilo −2−2−2−2−1−1−1−2−3−4−5−4−5−5−5−6−6−5 Hoch −2−3−3−2−2−2−2−3−3−3−3−4−5−4−4−4−4−4 Waldorf −4−6−6−5−5−4−5−5−5−5−5−5−4−5−5−5−5−4 Frost −4−4−4−4−3−3−1−2−2−2−2−2−3−3−3−4−3−2 McCarron −4−4−3−3−2−2−2−2−2−1−1−1−1−1−2−2−2−2 Cumulative tournament scores, relative to par EagleBirdieBogeyDouble bogey

References

External links Masters.com – Past winners and results Augusta.com – 1996 Masters leaderboard