Things fall apart: Top 10 Masters collapses
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Sunday, April 02, 2006
Top 10 Masters collapses:
1.
1996: Greg Norman blew the largest 54-hole lead in Masters history, six shots, as Nick Faldo fired a final-round 67 to win his third green jacket.
2.
1956: Ken Venturi couldn't hold on to a four-shot lead in the final round as he slid to an 80 in windy conditions, and suffered defeat by Jack Burke Jr.
3.
1979: Ed Sneed started the final round five shots ahead of the field. With three holes to play, he was still up three, but he made bogeys on Nos. 16-18 to set up Fuzzy Zoeller's victory in a sudden-death playoff.
4.
1986: Rattled by Jack Nicklaus' charge, Seve Ballesteros splashed his approach to No. 15 to make bogey. The Golden Bear claimed his sixth title.
5.
1961: Needing only par on the final hole to win back-to-back Masters, Arnold Palmer hit it in the right bunker and made double bogey to allow Gary Player to become the first international champion.
6.
1937: Ralph Guldahl struggled to a 76 on the final day, paving the way for Byron Nelson to win his first Masters. At Nos. 12-13, Guldahl played the holes in 5-6 while Nelson went 2-3 (birdie-eagle) for a six-shot swing.
7.
1951: Sam Snead soared to an 80 in the final round after sharing a 54-hole lead, and Ben Hogan won his first Masters.
8.
1985: Curtis Strange was poised to make history after opening with 80. But with a three-shot lead and six holes to play, he found the water and made bogeys on Nos. 13 and 15 to finish two shots behind Bernhard Langer.
9.
1954: Amateur Billy Joe Patton made double bogey at No. 13 and bogey at No. 15 in the final round, finishing one shot out of the Snead-Hogan playoff.
10.
1989: Scott Hoch missed a short par putt on No. 17, then on the first hole of the sudden-death playoff he missed a 2-foot putt that would have given him his first major victory. Faldo trailed by three with three holes to play, but he caught up with a pair of birdies for his first green jacket.
- John Boyette
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