The Most Controversial Golfers

Greg Norman

He was praised for his gracious handling of his excruciating

loss at the 1996 Masters to Nick Faldo

, but it didn't last. Fellow Aussie Jack Newton was among those who thought success changed Norman. "I think he needs a few mates in his life," Newton said in 2008. "I feel that he's going to end up a lonely man with no friends." That was around the time that Norman married the former tennis star Chris Evert after a messy divorce from his longtime wife, Laura Andrassy. The jilted Andrassy got a reported $105 million settlement and dismissively said of Norman and Evert that she had "no wishes for them except to say they deserve each other." Norman and Evert have since split.