1986 Masters Tournament

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;1. Masters champions

Tommy Aaron, George Archer, Seve Ballesteros (3,8,9), Gay Brewer, Billy Casper, Charles Coody, Ben Crenshaw, Raymond Floyd (4,8,11,12,13), Doug Ford, Bob Goalby, Bernhard Langer (8,11,12), Jack Nicklaus (8), Arnold Palmer, Gary Player, Craig Stadler (8,12,13), Tom Watson (2,3,8,10,12), Fuzzy Zoeller (2,9,11,12,13)

• Jack Burke Jr., Ralph Guldahl, Claude Harmon, Ben Hogan, Herman Keiser, Cary Middlecoff, Byron Nelson, Henry Picard, Gene Sarazen, Sam Snead and Art Wall Jr. did not play.

;The following categories only apply to Americans

;2. U.S. Open champions (last five years)

Larry Nelson (4)

• Andy North (9,12,13) did not play.

;3. The Open champions (last five years)

Bill Rogers

;4. PGA champions (last five years)

Hubert Green (10,12,13), Hal Sutton (11,12,13), Lee Trevino (8,10)

;5. 1985 U.S. Amateur semi-finalists

Chip Drury (a), Peter Persons (a), Sam Randolph (6,7,8,a)

;6. Previous two U.S. Amateur and Amateur champions

Scott Verplank (7,11,a)

;7. Members of the 1985 U.S. Walker Cup team

Bob Lewis (a), Jay Sigel (a), Michael Podolak (a), Randy Sonnier (a)

• Clark Burroughs, Jerry Haas, Davis Love III, and Duffy Waldorf forfeited their exemptions by turning professional.

;8. Top 24 players and ties from the 1985 Masters Tournament

Fred Couples (10), Jay Haas (9), Gary Hallberg, Billy Kratzert, Gary Koch, Wayne Levi (11,12), Bruce Lietzke, John Mahaffey (11,12), Mark McCumber, Mark O'Meara (9,12,13), Tim Simpson (11), Curtis Strange (11,12,13), Jim Thorpe (11,12), Lanny Wadkins (9,11,12,13)

;9. Top 16 players and ties from the 1985 U.S. Open

Andy Bean (10,11), Rick Fehr, Hale Irwin (11), Tom Kite (11,12,13), Johnny Miller, Corey Pavin (11,12), Don Pooley, Jack Renner (12), Tony Sills, Scott Simpson, Joey Sindelar (11,12), Payne Stewart (12)

;10. Top eight players and ties from 1985 PGA Championship

Buddy Gardner

;11. Winners of PGA Tour events since the previous Masters

Phil Blackmar (12), George Burns (12), Bob Eastwood, Danny Edwards (12), Dan Forsman, Bill Glasson (12), Ken Green, Donnie Hammond, Kenny Knox, Roger Maltbie (12), Calvin Peete (12,13), Doug Tewell, Bob Tway, Mark Wiebe

;12. Top 30 players from the 1985 PGA Tour money list

Peter Jacobsen (13), Larry Mize, Mac O'Grady, Dan Pohl, Larry Rinker

;13. Members of the U.S. 1985 Ryder Cup team

;14. Foreign invitations

Isao Aoki (8), Dave Barr (9), Chen Tze-chung (9), Chen Tze-ming (10), David Graham (2,8), Jack Kay Jr. (5,a), Sandy Lyle (3,11), Garth McGimpsey (6,a), Tsuneyuki Nakajima, Greg Norman (9), Nick Price (10), Denis Watson (9)

• Numbers in brackets indicate categories that the player would have qualified under had they been American.

Thursday, April 10, 1986

Friday, April 11, 1986

Saturday, April 12, 1986

Sunday, April 13, 1986

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In one of the most memorable and exciting final rounds in Masters history, five different players held at least a share of the lead in the final round. Seve Ballesteros gained a share of the lead on the front 9 helped by a hole-out eagle at 8. Jack Nicklaus played his first eight holes in even par, but stormed into contention with birdies at 9, 10 and 11. However, Nicklaus bogeyed the 12th to fall three behind the leaders. Greg Norman, tied for the lead at −7 as he made the turn, double-bogeyed the 10th hole to give Ballesteros the outright lead by one shot over Tom Kite. Ballesteros hit his second shot at 13 to within six feet. After Kite lagged up his own eagle putt on 13, Ballesteros holed his putt for his second eagle of the day and a three shot lead over Kite. Kite then holed his birdie putt to cut the lead back to two.

After a par at 14, Nicklaus began his legendary charge at 15. After hitting his {{convert|204|yd|adj=on}} approach to {{convert|12|ft}}, he buried the putt for eagle to pull within two shots of Ballesteros. Nicklaus then hit his tee shot on 16 to within 3 feet and after holing his birdie putt he was within one shot of Ballesteros who was playing the 15th hole. Ballesteros, who was in prime position to go for the green in two, pull hooked his approach into the water. Failing to get up and down, Ballesteros bogeyed the hole, giving Nicklaus a share of the lead. Kite made birdie at 15 to enter into a three-way tie with Ballesteros and Nicklaus. After a wayward drive, Nicklaus hit his approach on 17 to {{convert|18|ft}}. After long deliberation, he holed his putt on 17 for sole possession of the lead for the first time in the tournament. He two-putted for par on 18 to post −9 and a one shot lead.{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/sport/live/2020/apr/12/the-masters-golf-1986-jack-nicklaus-greg-norman-langer-ballesteros |title=The Masters 1986: Nicklaus wins at 46 – as it happened |date=12 April 2020 |newspaper=The Guardian |access-date=7 May 2020}}

Ballesteros three-putted the 17th to fall out of contention, but Kite had 12 feet for birdie on 18 to tie Nicklaus. Kite barely missed his putt on the high side to miss a playoff by one shot. Norman, left for dead after his double-bogey on 10, birdied 14, 15 and 16 to pull within one shot of the lead. After hooking his drive way left on 17, Norman made an incredible shot between two pines to within eight feet. Norman buried the birdie putt, his fourth straight, to tie for the lead. Norman then hit a perfect drive on 18, needing birdie for his first major championship. However, Norman pushed his approach shot into the gallery and subsequently missed his {{convert|15|ft|adj=on}} par putt to finish one stroke behind. Nicklaus had stormed back, shooting 30 on the back nine, to win his sixth Masters title and became the oldest Masters champion at age 46.{{cite news |url=http://espn.go.com/golf/blog/_/name/masters_moments/id/6286027 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110416044848/http://espn.go.com/golf/blog/_/name/masters_moments/id/6286027 |url-status=dead |archive-date=April 16, 2011 |title=Rekindling Jack Nicklaus' glory |work=ESPN |first=Bob |last=Harig |date=April 3, 2011 |access-date=February 9, 2012}}{{cite magazine |url=http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/article/magazine/MAG1064735/index.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091116141754/http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/article/magazine/MAG1064735/index.htm |url-status=dead |archive-date=November 16, 2009 |title=Day Of Glory For A Golden Oldie |magazine=Sports Illustrated |first=Rick |last=Reilly |author-link=Rick Reilly |date=April 21, 1986 |access-date=February 9, 2012}}

Both Ballesteros and Norman stated the most regretful shots of their careers were during the final round of the 1986 Masters. For Ballesteros it was his approach shot to the 15th hole and for Norman his approach shot to the 18th.{{Cite magazine |url=https://www.golfdigest.com/story/seve-ballesteros |title=Seve's Story |last=Diaz |first=Jaime |magazine=Golf Digest |date=June 23, 2010 |access-date=2020-01-07}}{{Cite magazine |url=https://www.golf-monthly.co.uk/tour/us-masters/masters-history-records/greg-normans-career-mulligan-1986-masters-89426 |title=Greg Norman's career Mulligan: the 1986 Masters |date=2016-04-05 |magazine=Golf Monthly |first=Jeremy |last=Ellwood |access-date=2020-01-07}}

Sources:{{cite web |title=Masters – Past Winners & Results |url=https://www.masters.com/en_US/tournament/past_winners.html |publisher=Augusta National Inc. |access-date=April 20, 2021}}{{cite web |title=Past results – Masters tournament |url=https://www.pgatour.com/tournaments/masters-tournament/past-results.html |publisher=PGA Tour |access-date=April 20, 2021}}

Cumulative tournament scores, relative to par

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• Jack Nicklaus increased his record for most Masters wins to six, and most major championship wins to 18.
• Nicklaus became (and remains) the oldest winner of a Masters at {{age in years and days|1940|1|21|1986|4|13}}; the previous oldest was Gary Player at 42 in 1978.
• Nicklaus tied the course record with a 30 on the second nine in the final round, while Nick Price shot a 30 on the second nine a day earlier (tied with four others). Nicklaus' 30 included a bogey, at the par-3 12th. The record for the back nine is now 29, set in the fourth round in 1992 by Mark Calcavecchia, and tied by David Toms in the fourth round in 1998.
• Gary Koch won the Par 3 contest with a score of 23 (−4); he tied for 16th at 286 (−2)
• Nick Price set a course record with his third-round 63 (−9), later tied by Greg Norman in the first round in 1996.
• The previous course record of 64 was set by Lloyd Mangrum in 1940.
• Price set a single-round record at Augusta with ten birdies in round 3; the record is now eleven birdies (Anthony Kim, second round, 2009).
• Sam Randolph was low amateur for the second consecutive year.

• "Yes sir! The battle is joined. My goodness. There is life in the old Bear yet." – Ben Wright's (CBS Sports) call as Nicklaus sank his eagle putt on the 15th hole to pull within two shots of the lead.
• "And there's no doubt about it, the Bear has come out of hibernation." – Jim Nantz's (CBS Sports) call as Nicklaus sank his 3-foot birdie putt on the 16th hole to pull within one shot of the lead.
• "Oh he's pulled it! Oh he has pull hooked that! That's destined for the water! And the foreign invasion is reeling under the Bear's attack!" – Ben Wright's call as Ballesteros pulled his second shot into the water at 15.
• "Maybe... Yes sir!" – Verne Lundquist's (CBS Sports) call as Nicklaus made his {{convert|18|ft|0|adj=on}} birdie putt on the 17th hole to take sole possession of the lead for the first time in the tournament.

{{Reflist}}

• [https://web.archive.org/web/20131012024707/http://www.masters.com/en_US/discover/past_winners.html Masters.com] – Past winners and results
• [http://www.augusta.com/masters/historic/leaderboards/1986leaderboard.shtml Augusta.com] – 1986 Masters leaderboard and scorecards
• [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tHkQ8jfSt5g You Tube.com] – video – 1986 Masters: highlights of final holes from CBS Sports broadcast

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