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1. Ken Venturi 1956
For three rounds, 24-year-old Ken
Venturi simply outclassed Ben Hogan, Sam Snead
and Arnold
Palmer to
hold a four-shot advantage. Heading into the final 18, the
improbable
seemed inevitable: An amateur was going to win the
Masters.
“All
I had to do was the same thing I had been doing
all week long,” Venturi
explained in his autobiography.
He couldn’t. Although he played
well from
tee to
green, hitting 15 greens on a windy day in which there
were only two
rounds under par and the low score was 71, Venturi
three-putted six times. He
still had a four-shot lead with
nine holes
remaining, but made bogeys on
five of the next six
holes and shot 80.
Jackie Burke, who started the round
eight
shots behind, donned the
green jacket.
“Did I choke?” Venturi
wrote.
“If you go by my
score, you can make that argument. I
choose to look at it
differently.”
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1.
Ken Venturi 1956
2.
Billy Joe Patton 1954
3.
Charles Coe 1961
4.
E. Harvie Ward Jr. 1957
5.
Frank Stranahan 1947
6.
Ryan Moore 2005
7. Jack
Nicklaus 1961
8.
Robert Tyre Jones Jr. 1934
9.
Richard Chapman 1954
10.
Matt Kuchar
1998 
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