It was the most topsy-turvy Masters ever: 17 players-a record-held or shared the lead, and it was not decided until Monday, when a 26-year-old Jack Nicklaus won an 18-hole playoff with Tommy Jacobs and Gay Brewer, becoming the first person to win back-to-back titles at Augusta.

Arnold Palmer called it the most unusual Masters he had ever seen. Some of the oddities: At the par-3 12th, Gary Player, with his ball so buried in mud he could not see it, skulled a wedge that hit the flagstick and dropped in for a birdie. Palmer was bunkered behind the 13th green, his ball near a rock. Scared, he swung so gently, he nearly whiffed. On Sunday, Nicklaus did the unthinkable: He missed a three-footer for birdie at 17 that would have locked up the tournament in regulation.

Jack needed an extra day to win two in a row.