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1996 Masters Tournament

American golf tournament held in 1996

Field	Value
name	1996 Masters Tournament
image	1996_Masters_Tournament_official_program_front_cover.jpg
caption	Front cover of the 1996 Masters Journal
dates	April 11–14, 1996
location	Augusta, Georgia
course	Augusta National Golf Club
org	Augusta National Golf Club
tour	PGA Tour
par	72
yardage	6925 yd
field	92 players, 44 after cut
cut	146 (+2)
purse	US$2.5 million
winners_share	$450,000
champion	ENG Nick Faldo
score	276 (−12)
previous	[1995](1995-masters-tournament)
next	[1997](1997-masters-tournament)
map	USA#USA Georgia
map_relief	yes
map_label	Augusta National
map_caption	Location in the United States##Location in Georgia
coordinates

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

Place	Player	Score	To par
1	AUS Greg Norman	63	−9
2	USA Phil Mickelson	65	−7
T3	USA Scott Hoch	67	−5
USA Bob Tway
5	USA Lee Janzen	68	−4
T6	ENG Nick Faldo	69	−3
USA Brad Faxon
ENG David Gilford
USA Scott Simpson
FJI 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
Par	4	5	4	3	4	3	4	5	4	4	4	3	5	4	5	3	4	4
AUS Norman	E	E	E	E	E	E	−1	−2	−3	−3	−3	−4	−5	−6	−7	−7	−8	−9

Source:

Second round

Friday, April 12, 1996

Place	Player	Score	To par
1	AUS Greg Norman	63-69=132	−12
2	ENG Nick Faldo	69-67=136	−8
T3	ZAF David Frost	70-68=138	−6
USA Phil Mickelson	65-73=138
T5	USA Lee Janzen	68-71=139	−5
USA Bob Tway	67-72=139
T7	USA Scott Hoch	67-73=140	−4
USA Scott McCarron	70-70=140
FJI Vijay Singh	69-71=140
T10	USA Corey Pavin	75-66=141	−3
WAL Ian Woosnam	72-69=141

Source:

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

Third round

Saturday, April 13, 1996

Place	Player	Score	To par
1	AUS Greg Norman	63-69-71=203	−13
2	ENG Nick Faldo	69-67-73=209	−7
3	USA Phil Mickelson	65-73-72=210	−6
T4	ZAF David Frost	70-68-74=212	−4
USA Scott McCarron	70-70-72=212
USA Duffy Waldorf	72-71-69=212
T7	USA Scott Hoch	67-73-73=213	−3
USA John Huston	71-71-71=213
T9	USA David Duval	73-72-69=214	−2
ZAF Ernie Els	71-71-72=214
USA Lee Janzen	68-71-75=214
NZL Frank Nobilo	71-71-72=214
USA Corey Pavin	75-66-73=214
FJI Vijay Singh	69-71-74=214
WAL Ian Woosnam	72-69-73=214

Final round

Sunday, April 14, 1996

Final leaderboard

(c) = past champion

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

Leaderboard below the top 10	Place	Player	Score	To par
T12	ZAF Ernie Els	71-71-72-73=287	−1	52,500
USA Lee Janzen	68-71-75-73=287
USA Bob Tway	67-72-76-72=287
T15	USA Mark Calcavecchia	71-73-71-73=288	E	43,750
USA Fred Couples (c)	78-68-71-71=288
17	USA John Huston	71-71-71-76=289	+1	40,000
T18	USA Paul Azinger	70-74-76-70=290	+2	32,600
USA David Duval	73-72-69-76=290
USA Tom Lehman	75-70-72-73=290
USA Mark O'Meara	72-71-75-72=290
ZWE Nick Price	71-75-70-74=290
T23	USA Larry Mize (c)	75-71-77-68=291	+3	25,000
USA Loren Roberts	71-73-72-75=291
T25	USA Brad Faxon	69-77-72-74=292	+4	21,000
USA Raymond Floyd (c)	70-74-77-71=292
T27	USA Bob Estes	71-71-79-72=293	+5	18,900
USA Justin Leonard	72-74-75-72=293
T29	USA John Daly	71-74-71-78=294	+6	15,571
USA Jim Furyk	75-70-78-71=294
USA Jim Gallagher Jr.	70-76-77-71=294
USA Hale Irwin	74-71-77-72=294
USA Scott Simpson	69-76-76-73=294
USA Craig Stadler (c)	73-72-71-78=294
WAL Ian Woosnam (c)	72-69-73-80=294
T36	USA Fred Funk	71-72-76-76=295	+7	12,333
USA Jay Haas	70-73-75-77=295
DEU Bernhard Langer (c)	75-70-72-78=295
T39	SCO Colin Montgomerie	72-74-75-75=296	+8	11,050
FJI Vijay Singh	69-71-74-82=296
T41	USA Steve Lowery	71-74-75-77=297	+9	10,050
USA Jack Nicklaus (c)	70-73-76-78=297
43	ESP Seve Ballesteros (c)	73-73-77-76=299	+11	9,300
44	DEU Alex Čejka	73-71-78-80=302	+14	8,800
CUT	USA Tommy Aaron (c)	71-76=147	+3
ENG David Gilford	69-78=147
USA Jeff Sluman	74-73=147
USA Ted Tryba	72-75=147
USA Tom Watson (c)	75-72=147
USA Fuzzy Zoeller (c)	74-73=147
USA Mark Brooks	72-76=148	+4
USA Bill Glasson	71-77=148
JPN Masashi Ozaki	71-77=148
USA Curtis Strange	71-77=148
USA Hal Sutton	72-76=148
NZL Michael Campbell	73-76=149	+5
SCO Sandy Lyle (c)	75-74=149
ZAF Gary Player (c)	73-76=149
USA Steve Stricker	80-69=149
USA Neal Lancaster	76-74=150	+6
USA Arnold Palmer (c)	74-76=150
USA Payne Stewart	74-76=150
USA Tiger Woods (a)	75-75=150
USA Ben Crenshaw (c)	77-74=151	+7
USA Ed Dougherty	76-75=151
JPN Satoshi Higashi	76-75=151
SCO Sam Torrance	80-71=151
USA Kirk Triplett	76-75=151
USA Gay Brewer (c)	75-77=152	+8
USA Tim Herron	76-76=152
USA Tom Kite	75-77=152
USA Kenny Perry	75-77=152
USA Paul Stankowski	74-78=152
USA Woody Austin	79-74=153	+9
USA Brad Bryant	78-75=153
USA David Edwards	79-74=153
ITA Costantino Rocca	78-75=153
ENG Mark Roe	74-79=153
USA Billy Mayfair	77-77=154	+10
AUS Steve Elkington	76-79=155	+11
USA Brian Henninger	76-79=155
SCO Gordon Sherry (a)	78-77=155
USA D. A. Weibring	74-81=155
AUS Ian Baker-Finch	78-79=157	+13
USA Paul Goydos	74-83=157
USA Chris Wollmann (a)	79-79=158	+14
USA Charles Coody (c)	82-78=160	+16
USA Jerry Courville Jr. (a)	78-82=160
USA Buddy Marucci (a)	79-81=160
USA Mark McCumber	78-82=160
USA Billy Casper (c)	75-86=161	+17
USA Doug Ford (c)	81-88=169	+25

Sources:

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
ENG Faldo	−7	−8	−8	−8	−7	−8	−8	−9	−9	−9	−9	−9	−10	−10	−11	−11	−11	−12
AUS Norman	−12	−13	−13	−12	−12	−12	−12	−12	−11	−10	−9	−7	−8	−8	−9	−7	−7	−7
USA Mickelson	−6	−7	−7	−6	−6	−7	−6	−5	−5	−5	−5	−4	−5	−4	−6	−6	−6	−6
NZL Nobilo	−2	−2	−2	−2	−1	−1	−1	−2	−3	−4	−5	−4	−5	−5	−5	−6	−6	−5
USA Hoch	−2	−3	−3	−2	−2	−2	−2	−3	−3	−3	−3	−4	−5	−4	−4	−4	−4	−4
USA Waldorf	−4	−6	−6	−5	−5	−4	−5	−5	−5	−5	−5	−5	−4	−5	−5	−5	−5	−4
ZAF Frost	−4	−4	−4	−4	−3	−3	−1	−2	−2	−2	−2	−2	−3	−3	−3	−4	−3	−2
USA 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

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