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Article: Golf's Master of Heartbreak; Historic Collapse Costs Greg Norman Victory at Augusta
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- The Washington Post
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- April 15, 1996
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COMMENTARY
They say bullfighting is cruel and prizefighting inhumane. But what
possi ble justification can there be for what happened to Greg
Norman yesterday? How can we call this sport?
Actually, we call it exactly that, don't we?
When the top-ranked golfer in the world takes a six-shot lead
into the final round of the Masters then gets dusted head-to-head by
11 shots, 67-78, by Britain's Nick Faldo, that is sport at its most
remorselessly intense. No one has ever squandered so large a
third-round lead in a major championship, not since they started
counting in 1910. Five players had thrown away five-shot margins.
But six? For this to befall a man who was already the ...