 final three holes to card a final round 76 (+4) and fell into the playoff. It was the debut of the sudden-death format at the Masters, which was adopted in <a href="//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1976_Masters_Tournament" title="1976 Masters Tournament">1976</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-mpfic_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-mpfic-4"><span>[</span>4<span>]</span></a></sup> It started on the tenth hole, a downhill par-4 where all three players missed birdie putts and parred. On the second hole, the par-4 11th, S