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

Front cover of the 1996 Masters Journal
Tournament information
Dates	April 11–14, 1996
Location	Augusta, Georgia 33.503°N 82.020°W / 33.503; -82.020
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	US$2.5 million
Winner's share	$450,000
Champion
Nick Faldo
276 (−12)
Location map
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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 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.^[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 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

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

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:^[10]

Second round

Friday, April 12, 1996

Place	Player	Score	To par
1	Greg Norman	63-69=132	−12
2	Nick Faldo	69-67=136	−8
T3	David Frost	70-68=138	−6
	Phil Mickelson	65-73=138
T5	Lee Janzen	68-71=139	−5
	Bob Tway	67-72=139
T7	Scott Hoch	67-73=140	−4
	Scott McCarron	70-70=140
	Vijay Singh	69-71=140
T10	Corey Pavin	75-66=141	−3
	Ian Woosnam	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	Score	To par
1	Greg Norman	63-69-71=203	−13
2	Nick Faldo	69-67-73=209	−7
3	Phil Mickelson	65-73-72=210	−6
T4	David Frost	70-68-74=212	−4
	Scott McCarron	70-70-72=212
	Duffy Waldorf	72-71-69=212
T7	Scott Hoch	67-73-73=213	−3
	John Huston	71-71-71=213
T9	David Duval	73-72-69=214	−2
	Ernie Els	71-71-72=214
	Lee Janzen	68-71-75=214
	Frank Nobilo	71-71-72=214
	Corey Pavin	75-66-73=214
	Vijay Singh	69-71-74=214
	Ian Woosnam	72-69-73=214

Final round

Sunday, April 14, 1996

Final leaderboard

Champion

(a) = amateur

(c) = past champion

Top 10

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

Leaderboard below the top 10
Place	Player	Score	To par	Money ($)
T12	Ernie Els	71-71-72-73=287	−1	52,500
	Lee Janzen	68-71-75-73=287
	Bob Tway	67-72-76-72=287
T15	Mark Calcavecchia	71-73-71-73=288	E	43,750
	Fred Couples (c)	78-68-71-71=288
17	John Huston	71-71-71-76=289	+1	40,000
T18	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=290
T23	Larry Mize (c)	75-71-77-68=291	+3	25,000
	Loren Roberts	71-73-72-75=291
T25	Brad Faxon	69-77-72-74=292	+4	21,000
	Raymond Floyd (c)	70-74-77-71=292
T27	Bob Estes	71-71-79-72=293	+5	18,900
	Justin Leonard	72-74-75-72=293
T29	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=294
T36	Fred Funk	71-72-76-76=295	+7	12,333
	Jay Haas	70-73-75-77=295
	Bernhard Langer (c)	75-70-72-78=295
T39	Colin Montgomerie	72-74-75-75=296	+8	11,050
	Vijay Singh	69-71-74-82=296
T41	Steve Lowery	71-74-75-77=297	+9	10,050
	Jack Nicklaus (c)	70-73-76-78=297
43	Seve Ballesteros (c)	73-73-77-76=299	+11	9,300
44	Alex Čejka	73-71-78-80=302	+14	8,800
CUT	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:^[12][13]

Scorecard

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