Masters.com Posts Full Telecasts Of Palmer's Four Wins, Tiger's 1997 Masters Final Round

And just to completely ruin your productivity, Masters.com has embedded all sorts of amazing content available on their site that will also be available on their Apple TV app.

While the 1997 Masters was very special and the online coverage here excellent, including an interview with Tiger hosted by Jimmy Roberts, that tournament is still in our recent memory. So as much as I'd love to advocate watching the final round broadcast posted there...

The King's four wins, with full original telecasts and Jim McKay leading two of them, will give you goosebumps.

The best way to stumble on this is as I did: check out today's leaderboard featuring a classic image and click on Palmer's score in red.

Because for those who weren't alive during Arnold Palmer's seven-year run here at Augusta National, the combination of imagery and words posted at Masters.com will give you a greater appreciation for the partnership.

Here is John Steinbreder's piece on Palmer and Augusta if you want some good reading.

Here is the 1958 final round with Jim McKay opening the proceedings as only he can.

Here is the 1960 final round and do make sure you get to the 31:15 minute mark for the Green Jacket Ceremony to get a BIG Clifford Roberts-inspired chuckle.

Here is the 1962 final round telecast.

And here is the 1964 final round telecast.

Comments

[Brandon]

Golf Club! Not country club! Golf club!

Can you imagine him at the dinner table during Thanksgiving or Christmas? Oh boy.

[Hawkeye]

Jack Whitaker was banned from the Masters telecast after calling the crow.., er, patrons, a "mob" during the playoff in 1966. Cliff Roberts was obviously not listening to the 1960 telecast as closely, since both Jim McKay and John Derr used that very same word to describe the galler.., er, patrons!

[Rae's Creek]

So Roberts wanted things done right. I admire that quality.

[John]

That Apple TV app is phenomenal. And I'm not the least bit surprised.

[Confused]

Dang ... most of the betting sites have changed the way the eachway (already a bad proposition) bets are working. Now its 1/5th posted win odds payoff down to 8th spot (8th barely different from 5th going by distribution) ... but the 1/5th compared to 1/4 is a big money bite. The worst part is the top 10/20 odds have been adjusted to reflect this new wagering scheme.

It's like the bookies don't want to lose money or something ... sheesh.

[BrianS]

A good start, but why in the world are not all the Masters Broadcasts archived and available for viewing or purchase ?

[taffy]

Lots to learn from the 1960 telecast- they sure futzed around before they putted due to crowd movement but in the fairway they pulled a club and swung- after a few puffs in Arnie's case. What I liked the most was the obvious joy Casper felt in Arnie's win. Great stuff. I caught the"mob" references too- 30000 a big crowd in 1960-not that many at the ANA yesterday.

[DrBunsenHoneydew]

Thank you for letting us know about this. Look forward to watching Arnie all day tomorrow now.

[Patches O'Houlihan]

We have it so good today.

I clicked on the 1958 link hoping to get a sense of the Arnold Palmer embedded ball ruling on #12, which because Arnie disagreed (correctly as it turned out) with the official's ruling and played a provisional ball, caused a DJ-like Oakmont situation where no one knew for sure whether Arnie had scored a 3 or a 5 on #12 for a few holes.

But the coverage picked up only later in the round.

[Greg B.]

Anybody who thinks that golf coverage on TV today is terrible should watch these. The 1958 broadcast was downright primitive. Each of the later ones improved with time and by 1964 it started to look and sound like something we would recognize. Jim MacKay is a legend by in 1958 and 1960 he was still learning his craft, distracting Arnie on the 18th green by talking too loud, and having to correct himself on his excited "approximately... 3 feet from the hole!" comment after the approach shot finished 5 or 6 feet away. The later two broadcasts with Chris Schenkel as anchor were better. I enjoyed CBS using Byron Nelson and Doc Middlecoff as analysts in 1964. Nelson in particular was great. But perhaps the best thing about the '64 telecast was seeing Ben Hogan and watching him swing a club in competition. What a treat. I hope someday we get to see some of the Saturday round in 1967 where he shot a 66.

I remember as a kid seeing Clifford Roberts' appearances during the Butler Cabin post-round interviews and thinking he seemed a stern old fellow. But I can now appreciate his frustration with the CBS people using the word "mob" multiple times during one telecast and having the host introduce him using the incorrect name for ANGC. He wanted things done right.

Thanks for tipping us off on these, Geoff.

[Convert]

Great quote by Billy Jo in 1960....

[chicago pt]

wonder what Roberts meant by saying Arnold was the "apparent winner"???

[Harold]

Aside from seeing the old flagstick rule in operation in the 1960 Masters film, watching Palmer takes hours to play a shot must surely have drained any fun out of the round for Casper. Two holes behind after 16! Grow the game Arnie! Pathetic! But hey, they're playing for money, so its okay, right?

[Hawkeye]

The 1964 broadcast is worth it just for seeing Hogan play - man, that 5-iron on 16 was a peach... Quality is timeless. Also fun to see some other fine swings - I really liked Johnny Pott's and Bo Wininger's moves; boy, would they have moved the ball with today's equipment.

[Bob]

I'd rather watch the Norman meltdown in 1996 myself...

[Sari]

Bob:

Why? That was so painful to watch in real time.

[Hawkeye]

@Chicago pt: He said "apparent winner" since there were still players out on the course. They didn't send out the leaders last in those days, and he was just acknowledging the fact that the tournament wasn't officially over.

[chicago pt]

thx Hawkeye....but I wonder if there was anyone still on the course that had an actual mathematical chance of winning...e.g., was there someone 3 back with 3 holes to go???? I cant imagine they would have held a winner's ceremony if so......

[John C]

Hogan got the Tiger treatment in the 1964 video... telecast was well focused on him once the cameras picked him up on 15... though it skipped his play on 17.