SI Vault Alfred Wright April 22, 1968 A cruel technicality
destroyed the popular Roberto de Vicenzo and also awarded the
Masters to Bob Goalby, but before that happened a number of
colorful players contributed to the sport's most suspenseful
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replanning his schedule for the playoff on Monday, de Vicenzo
was led off to the television room for the ersatz presentation
ceremony that is broadcast prior to the real thing. It was only
after Roberto had left the scorer's table that Tommy Aaron
looked at de Vicenzo's scorecard and noticed something odd. The
final total read 66 instead of 65, which was the remarkable
score Roberto had shot. Aaron called it to the scorer's
attention, and that green-coated gentleman snatched up the card
and rushed off with it to a nearby cottage where the ailing
Bobby Jones, president of the Augusta National Golf