1968 Masters Tournament Final Round Broadcast

Watch the complete final round broadcast of the 1968 Masters. Bob Goalby defeats Roberto De Vicenzo by a single stroke after De Vicenzo signs an incorrect scorecard, giving him a 4 rather than a 3 on No. 17. (Though the original broadcast was in color, archival footage is in black and white.)

[@TheBigwillistyle]

Wow! Roberto took it like a man, and with class. How could you not feel bad and yet proud of the way he handled himself at the same time.

[@RK831]

Wonderful! I was born in 1968, so I get to watch every Masters in every year I was alive!

[@anemicroyalty8764]

The camerawork & sound in this is amazing. Well ahead of it’s time.

[@evankolar8957]

13:57-14:25 Bob Goalby’s best shot ever hit in my opinion! What an Eagle! Love watching him play in black and white! Amazing golf from the 1968 masters!

[@simondalzell5635]

Sadly Mr Goalby passed away on 19th January 2022. Wonderful golfer and gentleman by all accounts.

[@martysykes3221]

I was 5 years old when this occurred and have been playing golf for 40 years this year. I’ve always read about this but have never watched it before. I can only feel that what a terrible tragedy this entire occurrence was and Mr. DeVincenzo handled so very well. What a class act he was from one of the all time great players. I had always thought that if I was one of the later presidents of the Augusta National Golf Club that I would get on a plane and fly to Roberto’s home and present him with a green jacket and bestow upon him all of the honors befitting a Masters Champion. Of course, it’s too late now because Mr. DeVincenzo is no longer living. I can’t help but think that the way he handled himself in this most unfortunate of circumstances would be a beacon of light for not only golf, but for any arena of life. Rest In Peace, Mr. DeVincenzo and because of this incident and seeing how you handled it makes me a fan of yours and gives me cause to look closer at your career and your accomplishments in the great game of golf.

[@RetroRogue.]

The 1986 Masters is my favorite one to watch of all time. These old Masters are so awesome to get to watch. Anything is better than today's sports.

[@brandond5209]

Those scale models of each hole are really cool, I wonder if they still exist.

[@ptrekboxbreaks5198]

I agree. Wish we still had those lol

[@DansChessLounge]

There was so much drama in this telecast. Even though it's 2020 I was hooked watching this like it was must see tv :)

[@observer991]

I love virtually every aspect of tournament golf. That said, as difficult as it was to see this gut-wrenching situation, and as badly as I felt for Roberto, one of the great things I love about golf is that the golfer is completely responsible for his scorecard. Nobody else can make him sign it correctly or incorrectly. Golf is a thinking man's game and being responsible for the card is part of that mental aspect. Personally, I would have it no other way, even as gut wrenching as this was. Believe me when I say there have been thousands of cases like this one in tournaments all over the world before and after this occasion. De Vincenzo and Goalby handled this like the two great ambassadors of golf that they were.

[@PaulBlomJr]

One of the sports events I've always watched to watch, and how CBS handled the whole scorecard controversy. Many thanks.

[@indy_go_blue6048]

So interesting. Poor Roberto, he was robbed but he was incredibly gracious about it. "What a stupid I am." After this disaster, they set up a tent that enabled the golfer to go over his scorecard without being bothered by press and gallery. Seeing how the course looked in '68 compared to today; wow is all I can say.

[@TimFlaherty]

Love these old reels-this was when I was 5 years old-so catching up!

[@kevcurry]

Speechless. Can't believe the scorecard drama. What an awful way to lose and win the masters.

[@nataliamackevics8583]

Thank you so much for sharing this and other amazing footages!

[@is1nameleft]

This is amazing to watch thankyou for showing golf history

[@davidr5961]

This was so distressing to watch; felt so bad for him, like everyone else. I think i'm going to move ahead to watch the 1968 highlights of the Open, a few moths later, and Lee Trevino on utube.

[@RaysDad]

One of the things I love about golf is the sportsmanship. Bob was as disappointed as Roberto; they were consoling each other.

[@baseballman4958]

Amazing how well Player has aged. Doesn’t look a whole lot different 52 years later!!

[@baseballman4958]

Aaron got a free pass. Yes, De Vincenzo was ultimately responsible. Still, to hear nothing of Aaron’s responsibility is inexplicable. Considering that Aaron ultimately won a Masters, it would have been perfect if he had ceded his lifetime pass to De Vincenzo. Or at least alternated years.

[@dpmaine]

Wouldn’t it have been great if Bob and Roberto tee’d it up early the next morning , just the two of them and caddies and played for the trophy ?!? Epic !

[@tomxconn]

Can’t believe at the time partners kept track of their opponents’ scores. Shouldn’t there have been some neutral official tagging along keeping scores? Might have avoided the whole mess

[@KHayes666]

​@tomxconn That's why they changed the rules and added the scoring tent to avoid this ever happening again

[@historyvids]

Wonderful history here. Do you have any plans to post 1967 and earlier? Perhaps working with CBS you could add more? It would be nice to see the complete final round from 1960 that they colorized several years ago! Great job here, hats off to Augusta and the Masters!

[@RadioFree1993]

How cool is the sand table model they use for the analysis, stick your shot tracer

[@evergroundgolf375]

Wow this is amazing. I'm going to watch all of these from the beginning.

[@jeffbrauner]

Bob goalby showed such class. He didn’t enjoy winning this way at all

[@nicholasschroeder3678]

Totally ageee!!!

[@baseballman4958]

I understand the tradition of golf, rules, etiquette, etc. However, shouldn’t reason take over and everyone agree that it was a mistake and simply correct it to the score everyone knows is right? Tragic.

[@44032]

The forgotten figure is Tommy Aaron, Roberto's playing partner, who recorded the '4' instead of the three. Apparently, the playing partners recorded each other's official score. Imagine how Tommy must have felt. There should be a provision for correcting these things, since everybody saw him make a three on TV.

[@tashawn2222]

Don't just watch the tourney... stick around for the post round press conference. Class all around.

[@71670ace]

tashawn2222 How many of these have you watched?

[@SKANKSINATRA]

I'm just tickled to death... classic

[@tashawn2222]

About a dozen. I remember all since the mid 80s, but these older ones are great.

[@jjshaka]

Goalby in Golf Digest this month talked about how Roberto constantly just signed his scorecard without checking if his playing partner got it right. Pretty shocking stuff. Still wonder how Armour missed his birdie at 17...a big drive and then stuffed it to 4 feet. Bizarre.

[@stevejackson9173]

Aaron

[@martymcfly854]

There is a letter from Roberto to Bobby jones that was just sold at auction (6,000). Roberto explains in his letter that it was customary in Argentina for the committee to check the scores for them while they did tv and they sign it much later. He may have done this, constantly without any understanding of the consequences. I feel most sorry for bob goalby. I only recently realized that they were tied and going to a playoff, I always thought Roberto had it won and was DQ’d. Bob was on fire and had a fair chance at winning the playoff. I bet he would give the jacket back for a chance to win it fair & square....

[@winstonsmith11]

@@martymcfly854 I think absolutely he would. This "win" had to sit just terribly with him. The 2 of them should have said "rules be damned" and played off for it anyway.

[@nicholasschroeder3678]

I agree with Martin. They should have broken the rule in justice to both players. The rules are there to ensure fair play, not for the end of following rules--this an athletic, not an accounting competition. Goalby was clearly more upset about it than De Vincenzo. He won not with his clubs, but with Roberto's pencil. Stupid way to decide a great tournament.

[@BrettSalapa]

Can you imagine if Goalby had missed his par putt on 18? We would've then thought that Roberto had won the tournament, only to find out that he and Bob would be going to an 18 hole playoff the next day. This was just crazy. You had to feel sick for Roberto. You can also definitely tell that Bob did NOT want to win that way. He wanted to go to a playoff to decide it. He didn't want to win by a technicality. That shows what a class act he was.

[@jamesgillespie2372]

14:35 for anyone who watched Fore Play Pod today

[@jimmeasel1985]

How about the great job by CBS with 1968 technology capturing Goalby's eagle on 15 and Roberto's birdie on 17 at the same time. Of course Roberto's three at 17 turned out to be the basis for the bizarre turn of events which were to follow.

[@EphSBGGSO]

If de Vicenzo had won, he would have won two of the last three majors played.....he won the Open Championship in 1967, the last one played at Royal Liverpool (Hoylake) before Tiger won there in 2006. Apparently, de Vicenzo's score must not have been changed on the leaderboard near the 18th green after he signed his card, otherwise the patrons there would have noticed.

[@williamdunphy352]

Commentators: 14-Jay Randolph & Byron Nelson 15-Ray Scott 16-Henry Longhurst 17-Frank Glieber 18-Pat Summerall Analyst: Dr. Cary Middlecoff Interviews: Frank Gifford

[@mariepavlov9144]

Hole-by-hole announcers (1968 Masters) CBS: This year marks 50 years since De Vicenzo's incorrect scorecard Jay Randolph 14 John Derr 15 Henry Longhurst 16 Frank Glieber 17 (the first of 18 straight years of Frank Glieber calling the 17th Hole at The Masters) Pat Summerall 18 (the first of 27 Masters called by Summerall)

[@jimmeasel1985]

Watch how he tries to explain what happened to Gary Player. So sad. A truly bizarre way to end the tournament.

[@victorkreitner754]

Bob Goalby still around at age 91.

[@Dentistmentalust]

In colour? Superb though, love all these old broadcasts of when life was worth living and people played golf properly!

[@danielterry382]

The rules of golf where upheld. Goalby said he never played well at Augusta, well in 1968 he got extra help, and won.

[@KHayes666]

Thank Tommy Aaron for that

[@anemicroyalty8764]

Please upload the footage you have of the tournaments before this. I know it exists because I remember seeing the 1960 Final round played on a CBS special before the 2007 Final day.

[@RK831]

31:28 Was this the moment when they were checking each other's scorecard? 43:59 Was this when the tournament official took in Roberto's scorecard? 1:06:45 Here is the beginning of the most saddening interview at Butler Cabin. Initially it felt like a funeral watching it. Bob, along with all of us watching, was dying inside when he was declared the winner. Cliff Roberts' remarks of "two winners," which brought a smile to Roberto, also put a smile on my face and gave me the greatest admiration to Roberto for handling the situation so well. I don't know how I would have acted had I been in Roberto's situation.

[@wodenoftheangles3339]

Incredible finale drama!

[@richd3044]

Only four years removed from a dominant victory in 1964, Arnie didn't even make the cut in this one.

[@chrisbenner92]

oh sweet its in color! oh wait..... never mind.

[@indy_go_blue6048]

It is in color. This is a color movie of a black and white world before color entered into it.

[@Vitte4]

Sad rule: anachronistic, to put it mildly. Sad ending.

[@JosephPratt1986]

This is really neat!

[@crazybunkum]

Anyone missing ‘In the hole’ ?

[@petermcgill1315]

err... no.

[@EphSBGGSO]

CBS producer Frank Chirkinian did not allow his announcers to say "it's in the hole" on air. If they did they would be fired.

[@davidahrens2841]

a scorecard becomes Holy Writ when signed

[@baseballman4958]

How do you think the Augusta elite would take it today if a participant took a last puff of his cigarette and then threw it onto the 18th fairway, ala Ray Floyd? Classic.

[@Dentistmentalust]

At 1hr in, what did those women have on their heads? Anyone?

[@jimmeasel1985]

at 31:29 is Roberto checking the scorecard...

[@nicholasschroeder3678]

It's kind of a crazy rule to apply to a televised tournament with maybe millions watching. The rule makes total sense in club play where there's probably only the foursome themselves witnessing what happened. I love Goalby's reaction. He won 11 tournaments and this was his only major. Not WHF, but a top tier player. The real shame is that he didn't have the opportunity to win the thing outright in a playoff, which I'm sure he would have preferred.

[@nicholasschroeder3678]

@C. Buck Hyres Yeah, it was all above board, but it was a daft way to decide a major tournament. Players in televised events shouldn't be keeping each others scores. Roberto lost and Bob won because Tommy screwed up the accounting and Roberto was a careless auditor. Clubs, not pencils, should have decided the outcome.

[@BirdmanDeuce26]

Definitely a case of the letter of the rule diverging from the spirit. If Jones and Augusta National had opted to "overrule" the signed scorecards based on the clearly obvious video evidence they had and ordered a playoff, no one would've blinked an eye or thought less of the tournament's results. But hindsight is always 20/20.

[@nicholasschroeder3678]

@@BirdmanDeuce26 Right, and had Aaron made in error in De Vicencos favor that he'd signed for, they would have overruled it and disqualified him I'm sure, based on the evidence of what really occurred.

[@FredCDobbs-er4qd]

I sure hope that things have changed so that this never happens again. I know what the rules were but Roberto loses a shot at a playoff and the guy that wrote out that scorecard.....well, you'd think there would be another way to handle that. Dumb rule.

[@konora50]

Am I the only one that noticed everyone's caddy was black? 🤔🤔

[@Kaddywompous]

Nope. It silently speaks volumes.

[@rebeccasmith8110]

@@Kaddywompous They we’re hired by the Augusta National. Living in Augusta, I know if quite a few of them.

[@Kaddywompous]

@@rebeccasmith8110 I recently read a long, very interesting article about them.

[@grayssportsalmanac85]

That was still going on into the eighties. Just watched the 1981 final round and they're all black too. 😳

[@BigMoneyMike1]

@@grayssportsalmanac85 I was just looking at that too it seems like the last years they did it was 1982 or 1983

[@marvinjohnson7523]

Who were the commentators

[@craigcox7562]

I would presume that the original CBS broadcast no longer exists? Wiped/recorded over, destroyed, thrown away, etc.? Too bad, would love to see the original videotape.

[@AndresSotoMarin]

The scorecard drama starts at 1:04:22

[@RK831]

What is surprising is that at 31:28 you can see Roberto and Tommy together, in what appears to be the customary scorecard check. If this was the case, Roberto evidently overlooked Tommy's scoring error on 17.

[@cndvd]

That’s got to be the most stupid rule, to let your playing opponent to keep your score.

[@kevinallan9258]

Interesting to watch Ray Floyd before he changed his swing.

[@David_USF]

RIP Bob Goalby (March 14, 1929 - January 19, 2022)

[@planetx1595]

January 19*

[@David_USF]

@@planetx1595 Thanks for the correction. I have fixed the error.

[@KHayes666]

​@@David_USFIf only De Vincenzo did the same thing

[@williamshultz4620]

Notice how much smaller the Eisenhower pine was 12:18

[@crazybunkum]

Andrew Mendoza Sadly it’s not there anymore. Storm damage. I think they should replace it. It gave the hole character as well as an extra degree of difficulty.

[@jimmeasel1712]

At 1:04:39, Roberto looks like he's explaining what happened to a stunned Gary Player.

[@CorekBleedingHollow]

Wow those two guys look the same

[@kidpagronprimsank05]

19:27 non existent 🐦 for De Vincenzo

[@jefferymueller2849]

Live and “in color”??

[@LCM2248]

This is a "Kinoscope" off air copy, all off-air copies during this time were black and white. The original "colour" broadcast must no longer exist.

[@WisconsinJimmyN]

The color videotape was erased and reused.

[@trivet1970]

@@WisconsinJimmyN must have been expensive back then and was looked at as a cost savings to reuse them

[@pantomine.]

TV: in color This: no color

[@jjshaka]

Meant Aaron, not Armour,

[@nbdyprfct9941]

Amazing

[@jamesmurray3128]

Live and in COLOR?

[@shane-irish]

When i was young i taught everything was in black and white

[@ptrekboxbreaks5198]

I am so frustrated at how I play golf. I can either par or bogey. Just dont know why I cant get any better. I play a local 9 hole course several times a week and I have never got a birdie there. I can get on green in 2 on a par 4 yet I'll bogey it. I'm honestly about to quit

[@trivet1970]

looks like a kinescope recording from 1947

[@A-FrameWedge]

Bruce Devin might have been in the last group,, but you should never clean the grass on the bottom of you shoes on the green like he did on the 13th, the golf gods made him 3 putt that green. It was not bad luck for Di Vicenzo to lose this Masters as anyone that has played in a golf tournament you keep your playing partners score and your own, so checking your scores on individual holes should be easy, it is not like you have to remember what you had on each hole, but if needed you should be able to remember.

[@swinger2]

so bizarre to watch how people acted back then

[@DNSKansas]

I feel like Roberto a lot. I feel like a stupid.

[@stephenramazzini6028]

One of the worst examples of commonsense diverging from the rules of golf...

[@nicholasschroeder3678]

The rule makes perfect sense in the context of normal competitions with few if any observers. It doesn't with televison and thousands watching. In a context like there should be official scorekeepers, not another competitor

[@A-FrameWedge]

The player keeps his playing partner's score and on the bottom of the scorecard he keeps his own score, so should be elemental to check your score on each hole, and if you won a tournament this big you should check your scores at least 20 times.

[@KHayes666]

​@@A-FrameWedgeI agree, I do that in mini-golf. He should have done that here

[@josevela9684]

Roberto got screwed. Bobby Jones kkk