SN Archive (1999): Greg Norman describes how his 1996 Masters collapse changed his life
No player in any game has lost more horrifically in more public circumstances than Greg Norman.
SN Archive (1999): Greg Norman describes how his 1996 Masters collapse changed his life originally appeared on The Sporting News . Add The Sporting News as a Preferred Source by clicking here . The 2026 Masters marks the 30th anniversary of Greg Norman's infamous collapse in the final round at Augusta.
This article, ' The Master of Sports' Losers ' by Dave Kindred, features Norman reflecting on his legacy and originally appeared in the April 19, 1999 issue of The Sporting News. For almost two decades, Greg Norman has been sports' most spectacular loser, a train wreck burning in the night. Either heroically or for lack of better sense, he keeps coming back for more.
This after humiliations so prodigious that any one of them would be reason enough to crawl into a cave and pray for the earth to fall about his ears. But came another April, another Masters, and there he was. Golden in the April sunlight.
Walking with that airy swagger. Smiling under that hat. Norman the unconquered.
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