Watch the complete final round and playoff broadcast of the 1990 Masters. Nick Faldo wins in a playoff for the second consecutive year after he and Raymond Floyd finish in a tie, five strokes ahead of the field.
I'd like to to truly thank and acknowledge The Masters for having put these incredible final rounds for us to enjoy up on RU-vid for our enjoyment. During these very trying times, I've gotten to feel the tournament progress through the years. Every morning I get up and choose which tournament I'm going to enjoy today. So many of these boring days have been turned into Sunday at The Masters. Is there anything better than that? Well, other than Mom's cooking I mean.
There was a touching interview with Raymond and Pat Summeral a few weeks after this. Raymond said he with the chance of being the old Masters winner, and the first winner of the Par 3 to win the Masters gone astray, left a little bit of his heart out on the course that day.
i was born in 99. living on a golf course in Jacksonville basically turned my love for the game even more special, I wish I was alive during this generation........
1990. Faldo's greatest year. Came within a whisker of making the U.S. Open playoff too (which if he had made - I would have placed my whole life savings on him winning)...
Weiskopf and Venturi both played with Ray Floyd on tour. And Faldo really only came over from England to play in the majors. My guess is that they knew Floyd a lot better and it was more personal rooting than national pride
@@untexan I always figured it was because they were broadcasting to American homes, and not British etc. It was the CBS coverage after all, the BBC coverage would've been all about Faldo, I'd have thought 🙂
1989: he led through most of the second round & the first five holes of the third round. 1990: he briefly joint-led for two holes during Saturday. 1996: he led the last six holes.
Whatever the total is, he definitely made the most of his opportunities. His three wins are the only top 10s he's ever had at the Masters. His next best was a T12 in 1991.
The masters will always be a springtime feast to relish, the birdsong ,those stunning blossoms , such intense competition from first to last, it gets no better than this.
The commentators were saying Floyds chip on 14 hit Hustons coin and went right and missed going in. If you look, it hits the left side of the coin slightly and it actually kicks ever so slightly to the left helping it get closer. Commentators are Fkn blind.
1:06:08 "That's Steve Williams his Australian caddie." Wrong country, Melnyk. 2:35:10 I disagree with Venturi. Floyd's ball hitting Huston's coin on 14 actually helped it go back to the left and almost go in the hole.
Yeah it was special from a plugged lie, hardly any green to work with and lightning fast green. That up and down is what I remember most about the tournament. Time stamps for it, bunker shot- 1:10:04, putt- 1:12:54
Faldo has not looked round at the leaderboard, not has his caddie. Err, what? This is the best final round I have watched for years. All the big names, Floyd was pure class, Nicklaus so determined like a Thor who'd lost his hammer and Faldo kept going like the terminator! Faldo seemed to be the only one still with persimmon and steel shaft.
A gut wrenching loss for Floyd. He would have surpassed Jack as the oldest Masters Champ ever. It slipped away and Faldo put himself in position to win.
Faldo is such a beast. The Masters music playing while he was hunting down Floyd didn’t seem very fitting. They shoulda switched it to the theme from Jaws. Killer!
1:08:27 Faldo's reaction to this shot is one of my favorites. In his voice, you could hear the despair as he knew the ball was long and has an impossible 2nd shot as Floyd pulls away. Kudos to the CBS crew The audio and video were perfect
Most people point to Raymond Floyd's rushed 2nd shot that went into the water. As where he lost the tournament... But to me, it was his 2nd shot on hole 17! To miss it so far left, 135yds out, from the middle of the fairway. Was such a big unforced error. Leaving him with an incredibly difficult chance for a 2 putt. Nick Faldo is such a fierce competitor! Absolutely gives every shot his 100% focus. Doesn't give an inch. The consument grinder! And fairplay to the Golden Bear. What an effort at 50 years old! Really it was his putting & short game that let him down. He drove the ball further than men 20-30 years younger than him. Love watching back these old Masters tournaments!
Faldo's presence was enough to put Norman off in 96. He wanted to be paired in the final round with someone who he could relax and talk to, Faldo doesn't speak.
@@truthlifefishing1730 Faldo excelled when he could get a tournament into a match play scenario. 1 vs 1, where his competitor was effected by his clutch shot making. It certainly played a factor in Floyd's mistakes.
Floyd thinks that being relax and smiling could get him the green jacket. At the end he found out being fully focus and serious is a much better weapon. The smile finally cracked and I knew it was all a fake smiles during the play off.
Also, the 1st ever African-American member of Augusta National, Ron Townsend, joined the club. 4 months later, Hall Thompson, a member of Augusta, who was the founder of Shoal Creek Golf Club of Birmingham, didn't want blacks at his golf club. It would also be the end of ABC's coverage of the PGA Championship, which was held at Shoal Creek. CBS would take over in '91. Tiger? He was just 14 years old in '90. Philip Alfred Mickelson? Lefty was 20 years old, maybe he was at the '90 Masters, as an amateur!
If Ray didn’t pull that iron on 11 in the playoff he wins the tournament it had the distance he just pulled it. But also all the credit in the world to Faldo to come from behind yet again to win.
2:57:24 BS that Huston's coin caused Floyd's putt to miss. The coin made the ball deflect _toward_ the hole, and it still missed on the high side. If anything, it nearly caused the off line putt to go in.
The way that Faldo won THREE Masters tournaments is incredible: 1989 Hoch choked on the 10th (play-off) 1990 Floyd choked on the 11th (play-off) 1996 Norman choked on the first 12 holes of the final round, losing a six shot lead.
One of the few that had that effect on people...seemed like a machine in those clutch moments. When I took up golf I was Faldo every time I stood over the ball (until I swung anyway)
Hardin was such a dummy - as the second twice consecutive champion he should either have put the jacket on himself, like Nicklaus did in 1966, or, as a very classy touch, Jack himself, who of course Nick had played with in the final round, could have been invited to put it on him. I'm certain that the great Jack would have been delighted to do so.
Faldo is like the terminator, hes cold so very cold under the most extreme pressure. He looks totally cool whilst in a play off for a major. He must hane been a nightmare to be playing against in these situations.
Ray Floyd was walking around with a 4 shot lead, he was hitting it great and and it looked like he thought it was enough. And you do not win the Masters with a 72 on Sunday in those conditions.
They were wrong about the coin on 14 it actually kicked his ball closer to the hole not further away... Okay at least they debated it a bit in the end.
Did Steve Williams cost Floyd a Major? Goofing around before his second into 11. Did Raymond lose his concentration? Or was it all part of Raymond's "Having fun" strategy? I remember Dan Jenkins being scathing of Raymond for losing this in his 1990 Masters review in Golf Digest....
what a feeling that must've been for Nick in joining (at the time) Jack as the only repeat winners. Not sure what Floyd was trying on 11. looked to be a hanging lie and he wanted to cut it over the pond.
@22:40 Vern missed that one. Nicklaus played with Sandy Lyle in the final round of the 86 masters, not Price. Price was paired with Norman in the final group that day.
2:56:35: I love how some desperate Floyd fan yells “Knocked it wide!” the minute Faldo’s ball leaves the clubface. I mean, how annoyed and wound-up do you have to be to shout out something like that?!
2:59:51 his set up shows the ball has no where to go but left in the water. Up hill stance but he chose to line up left with water to the left? Why? Was he playing a cut into an uphill stance? Anybody see something else? Now look where Faldo's feet are lined up. 3:00:22. Far right away from water and trouble.
@@hughmasson2200 it's almost impossible to cut it from that stance. I guess he just lined up wrong, although that seems improbable too. I guess only Raymond knows.
Yes...one of Nicklaus wins, in 66 if I'm not mistaken, was in an 18 hole playoff. It made him the first, an only repeat winner, until Sir Nick's win in the 90 Master's.
Just a comment in passing, I froze the video at 2.59.51 ,, Mr. Floyd at address on his second shot. It certainly looks like to me that he is completely lined up to the exact spot where the ball went into the pond. Was he trying to hit a fade ? ,,,, as far as Faldo is concerned without question one of the best golf swings in the history of the game. Faldo was a grinder and well deserved of all his victories.
You're absolutely right, his feet are left, at the pond. But his takeaway line is going to make a fade so difficult, it just ends up being a pull, kind of a double cross. Was a very bad shot, sadly
Played with Chris at a tournament on the Nike Tour. Amazing talent and had an incredible shirt game. He was an artist around the green. Really fun to watch.
