The Masters Runner-Up Club, 1960 to 1969
It is a small, exclusive club. One whose members have finished second in the Masters and never won a green jacket.
It’s late in the afternoon of Sunday, April 10, 1960, and Ken Venturi had just completed his fourth round in the Masters shooting a 70 for a total of 283. It was believed that this score would win the championship for Venturi and the fact that Arnold Palmer, still out on the course with an outside chance of winning, had failed to birdie the 13th and 15t…
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