Over the years, many men have found great disappointment in near misses at the Masters. Eamon Lynch tracked some of them down in an effort to find out whether the pain ever fades away.
For a lot of players, the pain of losing at Augusta National is never eased by the joy of winning someplace else, even if it is a major championship. From Curtis Strange to Tom Kite to Lanny Wadkins to David Duval, Lynch gives many examples of Masters titles that got away. As to whether that pain fades?
“Turns out it doesn’t,” he found.
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