"After two weeks in Cleveland, Nick Faldo, and his wife, Lindsay, are on their way home following a successful, scheduled preventative open-heart surgery to repair his enlarged aorta, performed by world-renowned cardiac surgeon Dr Lars Svensson at The Cleveland Clinic. "Nick is now looking ahead to returning to his golf course design work and to the Masters Week in Augusta, GA, where he will be celebrating 'Six back in '96'. "Home never felt so good."
"'Six back in '96' refers to Faldo's third Masters, and final major championship, when he chased down Greg Norman from six shots behind to win the Green Jacket with a final round 67. The final day produced the famous image of Faldo consoling Norman on the 18th green, where he claims to have told the Australian: "Don't let the b------s get you down." Norman never won the Masters but had several near-misses at Augusta National."
Nick Faldo, 68, underwent scheduled preventative open-heart surgery at The Cleveland Clinic to repair an enlarged aorta and spent two weeks in Cleveland before returning home to rural Montana. The operation was performed by cardiac surgeon Dr Lars Svensson. Faldo plans to resume his golf course design work and attend Masters Week in Augusta, celebrating his 1996 Masters victory. Faldo won six major championships, including three Masters and three Open titles, was inducted into the World Golf Hall of Fame in 1997, spent 97 weeks as world number one, and worked as a CBS commentator for 16 years.
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