The Bear's 1986 Masters Comeback at Augusta
At 46, Jack Nicklaus defied the doubters to win the 1986 Masters in dramatic fashion, rallying from four behind on a frenetic Sunday after a pivotal eagle at the 15th (not shown live on TV), followed by a decisive surge including a birdie at 16 and a late steady finish to claim his sixth green jacket and 18th major. The tale is told through CBS’s evolving coverage, the crowd’s electric roar, and Nicklaus’s personal motivation sparked by a newspaper feature clipped by a family friend and kept on the fridge, as his son Jackie III witnessed history on-site.
