1996 Masters Tournament

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

1996 Masters Tournament

Tournament information
Dates	April 11–14, 1996
Location	Augusta, Georgia
Course(s)	Augusta National Golf Club
Organized by	Augusta National Golf Club
Tour(s)	PGA Tour
Statistics
Par	72
Length	6,925 yards (6,332 m)[1]
Field	92 players, 44 after cut
Cut	146 (+2)
Prize fund	$2.5 million
Winner's share	$450,000
Champion
Nick Faldo
276 (−12)

Augusta 

Location in the United States

Augusta 

Location in Georgia

Nick Faldo won his third Masters and his sixth and final major title, five strokes ahead of runner-up Greg Norman.[2][3] 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.[4][5] The win was the seventh by a European in the last 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.[6]

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.[7][8]

None of the five amateurs made the cut, including 20-year-old Tiger Woods, in his second Masters.[9] He returned as a professional the next year and won by twelve 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

Nationalities in the field

North America (68)	South America (0)	Europe (12)	Oceania (6)	Asia (2)	Africa (4)
United States (68)		England (3)	Australia (3)	Japan (2)	South Africa (3)
		Scotland (4)	Fiji (1)		Zimbabwe (1)
		Wales (1)	New Zealand (2)
		Spain (1)
		Germany (2)
		Italy (1)

Past champions in the field

Made the cut

Player	Country	Year(s) won	R1	R2	R3	R4	Total	To par	Finish
Nick Faldo	England	1989, 1990	69	67	73	67	276	−12	1
Fred Couples	United States	1992	78	68	71	71	288	E	T15
Larry Mize	United States	1987	75	71	77	68	291	+3	T23
Raymond Floyd	United States	1976	70	74	77	71	292	+4	T25
Craig Stadler	United States	1982	73	72	71	78	294	+6	T29
Ian Woosnam	Wales	1991	72	69	73	80	294	+6	T29
Bernhard Langer	Germany	1985, 1993	75	70	72	78	295	+7	T36
Jack Nicklaus	United States	1963, 1965, 1966, 1972, 1975, 1986	70	73	76	78	297	+9	T41
Seve Ballesteros	Spain	1980, 1983	73	73	77	76	299	+11	43

Source:[10]

Missed the cut

Player	Country	Year(s) won	R1	R2	Total	To par
Tommy Aaron	United States	1973	71	76	147	+3
Tom Watson	United States	1977, 1981	75	72	147	+3
Fuzzy Zoeller	United States	1979	74	73	147	+3
Sandy Lyle	Scotland	1988	75	74	149	+5
Gary Player	South Africa	1961, 1974, 1978	73	76	149	+5
Arnold Palmer	United States	1958, 1960, 1962, 1964	74	76	150	+6
Ben Crenshaw	United States	1984, 1995	77	74	151	+7
Gay Brewer	United States	1967	75	77	152	+8
Charles Coody	United States	1971	82	78	160	+16
Billy Casper	United States	1970	75	86	161	+17
Doug Ford	United States	1957	81	88	169	+25

Source:[10][11]

Round summaries

First round

Thursday, April 11, 1996

Place	Player	Country	Score	To par
1	Greg Norman	Australia	63	−9
2	Phil Mickelson	United States	65	−7
T3	Scott Hoch	United States	67	−5
	Bob Tway	United States
5	Lee Janzen	United States	68	−4
T6	Nick Faldo	England	69	−3
	Brad Faxon	United States
	David Gilford	England
	Scott Simpson	United States
	Vijay Singh	Fiji

Source:[1]

Scorecard

First round

Hole	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18
Par	4	5	4	3	4	3	4	5	4	4	4	3	5	4	5	3	4	4
Norman	E	E	E	E	E	E	−1	−2	−3	−3	−3	−4	−5	−6	−7	−7	−8	−9

Source:[12]

Second round

Friday, April 12, 1996

Place	Player	Country	Score	To par
1	Greg Norman	Australia	63-69=132	−12
2	Nick Faldo	England	69-67=136	−8
T3	David Frost	South Africa	70-68=138	−6
	Phil Mickelson	United States	65-73=138
T5	Lee Janzen	United States	68-71=139	−5
	Bob Tway	United States	67-72=139
T7	Scott Hoch	United States	67-73=140	−4
	Scott McCarron	United States	70-70=140
	Vijay Singh	Fiji	69-71=140
T10	Corey Pavin	United States	75-66=141	−3
	Ian Woosnam	Wales	72-69=141

Source:[11]

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

Third round

Saturday, April 13, 1996

Place	Player	Country	Score	To par
1	Greg Norman	Australia	63-69-71=203	−13
2	Nick Faldo	England	69-67-73=209	−7
3	Phil Mickelson	United States	65-73-72=210	−6
T4	David Frost	South Africa	70-68-74=212	−4
	Scott McCarron	United States	70-70-72=212
	Duffy Waldorf	United States	72-71-69=212
T7	Scott Hoch	United States	67-73-73=213	−3
	John Huston	United States	71-71-71=213
T9	David Duval	United States	73-72-69=214	−2
	Ernie Els	South Africa	71-71-72=214
	Lee Janzen	United States	68-71-75=214
	Frank Nobilo	New Zealand	71-71-72=214
	Corey Pavin	United States	75-66-73=214
	Vijay Singh	Fiji	69-71-74=214
	Ian Woosnam	Wales	72-69-73=214

Final round

Sunday, April 14, 1996

Place	Player	Country	Score	To par	Money ($)
1	Nick Faldo	England	69-67-73-67=276	−12	450,000
2	Greg Norman	Australia	63-69-71-78=281	−7	270,000
3	Phil Mickelson	United States	65-73-72-72=282	−6	170,000
4	Frank Nobilo	New Zealand	71-71-72-69=283	−5	120,000
T5	Scott Hoch	United States	67-73-73-71=284	−4	95,000
	Duffy Waldorf	United States	72-71-69-72=284
T7	Davis Love III	United States	72-71-74-68=285	−3	77,933
	Jeff Maggert	United States	71-73-72-69=285
	Corey Pavin	United States	75-66-73-71=285
T10	David Frost	South Africa	70-68-74-74=286	−2	65,000
	Scott McCarron	United States	70-70-72-74=286

Source:[10]

Scorecard

Final round

Hole	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18
Par	4	5	4	3	4	3	4	5	4	4	4	3	5	4	5	3	4	4
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

Eagle

Birdie

Bogey

Double bogey

References

1. "Masters Scoreboard". Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel. April 12, 1996. p. 8C.
2. Reilly, Rick (April 22, 1996). "Master Strokes". Sports Illustrated. p. 24.
3. Bonk, Thomas (April 15, 1996). "Choke artist". Spokesman-Review. (Spokane, Washington). (Los Angeles Times). p. C1.
4. Parascenzo, Marino (April 15, 1996). "Faldo in as Shark plunges". Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. p. C1.
5. D'Amato, Gary (April 15, 1996). "On final day, Shark goes belly-up". Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel. p. 1C.
6. Bonk, Thomas (April 12, 1996). "Norman's opening 63 'one of great rounds'". Eugene Register-Guard. (Oregon). (Los Angeles Times). p. C1.
7. "Largest 54-hole lead lost in PGA Tour golf history". pga.com. Retrieved 2019-11-19.
8. "The Masters 1996: Faldo triumphs as Norman blows six-shot lead - as it happened". The Guardian. 11 April 2020. Retrieved 7 May 2020.
9. Parascenzo, Marino (April 13, 1996). "Tiger misses cut, but Nicklaus believes young star will purr". Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. p. C2.
10. "1996 Masters". databasegolf.com. Retrieved May 6, 2014.
11. "Masters: Friday's scores". Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. April 13, 1996. p. C-2.
12. "History: hole-by-hole and stats: Greg Norman". Augusta.com. 1996. Retrieved May 18, 2013.

External links

• Masters.com – Past winners and results
• About.com – 1996 Masters
• Augusta.com – 1996 Masters leaderboard

Preceded by 1995 PGA Championship	Major Championships	Succeeded by 1996 U.S. Open