2012 Masters Tournament
Tournament information | |
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Dates | April 5–8, 2012 |
Location | Augusta, Georgia, U.S. |
Course(s) | Augusta National Golf Club |
Organized by | Augusta National Golf Club |
Tour(s) | |
Statistics | |
Par | 72 |
Length | 7,435 yards (6,799 m)[1] |
Field | 95 players, 63 after cut |
Cut | 149 (+5) |
Prize fund |
$8,000,000 €6,124,726 |
Winner's share |
$1,440,000 €1,086,801 |
Champion | |
Bubba Watson | |
278 (−10), playoff | |
«2011 2013» |
The 2012 Masters Tournament was the 76th Masters Tournament, held April 5–8 at Augusta National Golf Club in Augusta, Georgia.[2] Bubba Watson won the year's first major championship on the second hole of a sudden-death playoff, defeating Louis Oosthuizen.[3] It was Watson's first major title and his fourth victory on the PGA Tour.[3] He was the eighth consecutive first-time major champion, and the 14th different winner in as many majors.[4][5]
Two pre-tournament favorites,[3][6] Tiger Woods and Rory McIlroy, both finished at 293 (+5) in a tie for 40th place. Phil Mickelson was in the final pairing and in contention during the final round, but a triple-bogey six on the fourth hole knocked him back and he finished two strokes behind, in a four-way tie for third.[3] Bo Van Pelt posted the lowest round of the tournament with a 64 (−8) early on Sunday, which propelled him up the leaderboard 35 places to tie for 17th.
It was the first playoff in three years at the Masters; Ángel Cabrera won on the second extra hole in 2009.
Course
Hole | Name | Yards | Par | Hole | Name | Yards | Par | |
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1 | Tea Olive | 445 | 4 | 10 | Camellia | 495 | 4 | |
2 | Pink Dogwood | 575 | 5 | 11 | White Dogwood | 505 | 4 | |
3 | Flowering Peach | 350 | 4 | 12 | Golden Bell | 155 | 3 | |
4 | Flowering Crab Apple | 240 | 3 | 13 | Azalea | 510 | 5 | |
5 | Magnolia | 455 | 4 | 14 | Chinese Fir | 440 | 4 | |
6 | Juniper | 180 | 3 | 15 | Firethorn | 530 | 5 | |
7 | Pampas | 450 | 4 | 16 | Redbud | 170 | 3 | |
8 | Yellow Jasmine | 570 | 5 | 17 | Nandina | 440 | 4 | |
9 | Carolina Cherry | 460 | 4 | 18 | Holly | 465 | 4 | |
Out | 3,725 | 36 | In | 3,710 | 36 | |||
Source:[1] | Total | 7,435 | 72 |
Field
The Masters has the smallest field of the four major championships. Officially, the Masters remains an invitation event, but there is a set of qualifying criteria that determines who is included in the field.[7] Each player is classified according to the first category by which he qualified, but other categories are shown in parentheses.
Golfers who qualify based solely on their performance in amateur tournaments (categories 6–10) must remain amateurs on the starting day of the tournament to be eligible to play.
Three players were appearing in their first major: Kelly Kraft, Corbin Mills and Randal Lewis. Twelve others were appearing in their first Masters: Keegan Bradley, Patrick Cantlay, Bryden Macpherson, Kevin Chappell, Robert Garrigus, Webb Simpson, Harrison Frazar, Kyle Stanley, Scott Stallings, Brendan Steele, Bae Sang-moon and Gonzalo Fernández-Castaño.[8]
Notable absences included Mark O'Meara (injured), Ernie Els and Retief Goosen (not ranked high enough). O'Meara had appeared in the previous 27 Masters, Els in the previous 18, and Goosen in the previous 12. (Els would win the Open Championship in July to ensure an invitation to the next five Masters.)
1. Past Masters Champions
Ángel Cabrera (2,11), Fred Couples (11), Ben Crenshaw, Trevor Immelman (11), Zach Johnson (18,19), Bernhard Langer, Sandy Lyle, Phil Mickelson (13,15,16,17,18,19), Larry Mize, José María Olazábal, Charl Schwartzel (11,15,18,19), Vijay Singh (15,17), Craig Stadler, Tom Watson, Mike Weir, Tiger Woods (2,4,11,16,18,19), Ian Woosnam
- Mark O'Meara withdrew shortly before his tee time due to injury. [9]
(Past champions not playing: Tommy Aaron, Jack Burke, Jr., Billy Casper, Charles Coody, Nick Faldo, Raymond Floyd, Doug Ford, Bob Goalby, Jack Nicklaus, Arnold Palmer, Gary Player and Fuzzy Zoeller. Player joined Nicklaus and Palmer to serve as "honorary starters" and teed off on the first day at the first hole to kick off the tournament.)
2. Last five U.S. Open Champions
Lucas Glover (16), Graeme McDowell (18,19), Rory McIlroy (11,12,16,18,19)
3. Last five British Open Champions
Stewart Cink, Darren Clarke (13,18), Pádraig Harrington (4), Louis Oosthuizen (18,19)
4. Last five PGA Champions
Keegan Bradley (14,15,16,17,18,19), Martin Kaymer (18,19), Y. E. Yang (12,17,18,19)
5. Last three winners of The Players Championship
K. J. Choi (11,15,17,18,19), Tim Clark, Henrik Stenson
6. Top two finishers in the 2011 U.S. Amateur
Patrick Cantlay (a), Kelly Kraft (a)
7. Winner of the 2011 Amateur Championship
Bryden Macpherson (a)
8. Winner of the 2011 Asian Amateur
Hideki Matsuyama (a)
9. Winner of the 2011 U.S. Amateur Public Links
Corbin Mills (a)
10. Winner of the 2011 U.S. Mid-Amateur
Randal Lewis (a)
11. The top 16 finishers and ties in the 2011 Masters Tournament
Jason Day (12,15,17,18,19), Luke Donald (15,16,17,18,19), Ross Fisher, Edoardo Molinari, Geoff Ogilvy (17,18,19), Ryan Palmer, Justin Rose (15,16,17,18,19), Adam Scott (15,16,17,18,19), Brandt Snedeker (15,16,17,18,19), Steve Stricker (15,16,17,18,19), Bo Van Pelt (15,17,18,19), Lee Westwood (12,18,19)
12. Top 8 finishers and ties in the 2011 U.S. Open
Kevin Chappell, Sergio García (18,19), Robert Garrigus, Peter Hanson (18,19)
13. Top 4 finishers and ties in the 2011 British Open Championship
Thomas Bjørn (18,19)
- Dustin Johnson (15,16,17,18,19) withdrew with a back injury prior to the start of the tournament.[10]
14. Top 4 finishers and ties in the 2011 PGA Championship
Jason Dufner (15,17,18,19), Anders Hansen (18,19), Robert Karlsson (18,19), David Toms (15,16,17,18,19), Scott Verplank
15. Top 30 leaders on the 2011 PGA Tour official money earnings list
Aaron Baddeley (17,18,19), Jonathan Byrd (17), Bill Haas (16,17,18,19), Charles Howell III (17), Fredrik Jacobson (16,17,18,19), Matt Kuchar (17,18,19), Martin Laird (18,19), Hunter Mahan (16,17,18,19), Kevin Na, Rory Sabbatini, Webb Simpson (16,17,18,19), Nick Watney (16,17,18,19), Bubba Watson (16,17,18,19), Mark Wilson (16,17,19), Gary Woodland (17)
16. Winners of PGA Tour events that award a full-point allocation for the season-ending Tour Championship, between the 2011 Masters Tournament and the 2012 Masters Tournament
Harrison Frazar, Sean O'Hair, Scott Stallings, Kyle Stanley (19), Brendan Steele, Johnson Wagner
17. All players qualifying for the 2011 edition of The Tour Championship
Chez Reavie, John Senden (18,19)
18. Top 50 on the final 2011 Official World Golf Ranking list
Bae Sang-moon (19), Paul Casey (19), Simon Dyson (19), Gonzalo Fernández-Castaño, Rickie Fowler (19), Jim Furyk (19), Miguel Ángel Jiménez, Kim Kyung-tae (19), Francesco Molinari (19), Ian Poulter (19), Álvaro Quirós (19)
19. Top 50 on the Official World Golf Ranking list on March 25, 2012
Ben Crane, Paul Lawrie
20. International invitees
Ryo Ishikawa[11]
Past champions in the field
Made the cut
Player | Country | Year(s) won | R1 | R2 | R3 | R4 | Total | To par | Finish |
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Phil Mickelson | United States | 2004, 2006, 2010 | 74 | 68 | 66 | 72 | 280 | −8 | T3 |
Fred Couples | United States | 1992 | 72 | 67 | 75 | 72 | 286 | −2 | T12 |
Vijay Singh | Fiji | 2000 | 70 | 72 | 76 | 72 | 290 | +2 | T27 |
Ángel Cabrera | Argentina | 2009 | 71 | 78 | 71 | 71 | 291 | +3 | T32 |
Zach Johnson | United States | 2007 | 70 | 74 | 75 | 72 | 291 | +3 | T32 |
Tiger Woods | United States | 1997, 2001, 2002, 2005 | 72 | 75 | 72 | 74 | 293 | +5 | T40 |
Charl Schwartzel | South Africa | 2011 | 72 | 75 | 75 | 74 | 296 | +8 | T50 |
Trevor Immelman | South Africa | 2008 | 78 | 71 | 76 | 76 | 301 | +13 | 60 |
Missed the cut
Player | Country | Year(s) won | R1 | R2 | Total | To par |
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José María Olazábal | Spain | 1994, 1999 | 75 | 76 | 151 | +7 |
Larry Mize | United States | 1987 | 76 | 75 | 151 | +7 |
Mike Weir | Canada | 2003 | 72 | 79 | 151 | +7 |
Tom Watson | United States | 1977, 1981 | 77 | 74 | 151 | +7 |
Bernhard Langer | Germany | 1985, 1993 | 72 | 80 | 152 | +8 |
Ian Woosnam | Wales | 1991 | 77 | 77 | 154 | +10 |
Ben Crenshaw | United States | 1984, 1995 | 76 | 83 | 159 | +15 |
Craig Stadler | United States | 1982 | 81 | 82 | 163 | +19 |
Sandy Lyle | Scotland | 1988 | 86 | 78 | 164 | +20 |
Mark O'Meara | United States | 1998 | WD |
Round summaries
First round
Thursday, April 5, 2012 [12]
Place | Player | Country | Score | To par |
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1 | Lee Westwood | England | 67 | −5 |
T2 | Peter Hanson | Sweden | 68 | −4 |
Louis Oosthuizen | South Africa | |||
T4 | Ben Crane | United States | 69 | −3 |
Jason Dufner | United States | |||
Miguel Ángel Jiménez | Spain | |||
Paul Lawrie | Scotland | |||
Francesco Molinari | Italy | |||
Bubba Watson | United States | |||
T10 | Jim Furyk | United States | 70 | −2 |
Zach Johnson | United States | |||
Vijay Singh | Fiji | |||
Scott Stallings | United States |
Second round
Friday, April 6, 2012 [13]
Place | Player | Country | Score | To par |
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T1 | Fred Couples | United States | 72-67=139 | −5 |
Jason Dufner | United States | 69-70=139 | ||
T3 | Sergio García | Spain | 72-68=140 | −4 |
Rory McIlroy | Northern Ireland | 71-69=140 | ||
Louis Oosthuizen | South Africa | 68-72=140 | ||
Bubba Watson | United States | 69-71=140 | ||
Lee Westwood | England | 67-73=140 | ||
T8 | Miguel Ángel Jiménez | Spain | 69-72=141 | −3 |
Matt Kuchar | United States | 71-70=141 | ||
Paul Lawrie | Scotland | 69-72=141 |
Amateurs: Matsuyama (+1), Cantlay (+5), Kraft (+5), Macpherson (+9), Mills (+11), Lewis (+15).
Third round
Saturday, April 7, 2012[14]
Place | Player | Country | Score | To par |
---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Peter Hanson | Sweden | 68-74-65=207 | −9 |
2 | Phil Mickelson | United States | 74-68-66=208 | −8 |
3 | Louis Oosthuizen | United States | 68-72-69=209 | −7 |
4 | Bubba Watson | United States | 69-71-70=210 | −6 |
5 | Matt Kuchar | United States | 71-70-70=211 | −5 |
T6 | Pádraig Harrington | Ireland | 71-73-68=212 | −4 |
Hunter Mahan | United States | 72-72-68=212 | ||
Henrik Stenson | Sweden | 71-71-70=212 | ||
Lee Westwood | England | 67-73-72=212 | ||
10 | Paul Lawrie | Scotland | 69-72-72=213 | −3 |
Final round
Sunday, April 8, 2012
For the third time in seven years, the Masters concluded on Easter Sunday. The leaderboard was active, as four different players held at least a share of the lead during the final round. Louis Oosthuizen charged into the lead at the second hole with a double eagle two on the par-5. It was only the fourth double eagle in Masters history and the first-ever on the second hole. The final pairing faltered: 54-hole leader Peter Hanson never got it going, with three bogeys before he carded his first birdie at the 15th hole. Three holes earlier, Hanson shanked his tee shot on the par-3 12th short of the water, bogeyed, and fell from contention. On the front nine, three-time Masters champion Phil Mickelson pushed his tee shot left at the par-3 fourth and it caromed off a greenside grandstand. He made his second triple bogey of the week and came up two shots short of the playoff.[3]
In the end, it came down to a three player race between Oosthuizen, Bubba Watson, and Matt Kuchar. Kuchar hit his approach at the 15th hole to three feet (0.9 m) and eagled to temporarily tie Oosthuizen at −9, but followed it with a bogey at the par-3 16th hole and finished two strokes back, in the four-way tie for third. After Watson made a two at the 16th for his fourth consecutive birdie, he was tied at the top with Oosthuizen at −10. Playing together in the penultimate pairing, both parred the 17th hole and were on the green in regulation at the uphill 18th. Oosthuizen missed a 35-foot (11 m) birdie putt from the back shelf and Watson had 25 feet (8 m) for his first major, but he missed the putt on the high side. After Watson tapped in, Oosthuizen holed his four-footer (1.2 m) to force a sudden death playoff.[15]
Place | Player | Country | Score | To par | Money ($) |
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T1 | Louis Oosthuizen | South Africa | 68-72-69-69=278 | −10 | Playoff |
Bubba Watson | United States | 69-71-70-68=278 | |||
T3 | Peter Hanson | Sweden | 68-74-65-73=280 | −8 | 384,000 |
Matt Kuchar | United States | 71-70-70-69=280 | |||
Phil Mickelson | United States | 74-68-66-72=280 | |||
Lee Westwood | England | 67-73-72-68=280 | |||
7 | Ian Poulter | England | 72-72-70-69=283 | −5 | 268,000 |
T8 | Pádraig Harrington | Ireland | 71-73-68-72=284 | −4 | 232,000 |
Justin Rose | England | 72-72-72-68=284 | |||
Adam Scott | Australia | 75-70-73-66=284 |
Amateurs: Cantlay (+7), Matsuyama (+9), Kraft (+18).
Scorecard
Final round
Cumulative tournament scores, relative to par
Source:[16]
Playoff
The sudden death playoff started at the par-4 18th hole, where both players hit the fairway and green, and similar to the final round, Bubba Watson was closer to the pin than Louis Oosthuizen. Oosthuizen narrowly missed his 18-foot (5.5 m) birdie effort which gave Watson another opportunity to secure the title. Watson's putt from 16 feet (5 m) was low the entire way, and after both players tapped in to tie they headed to the next tee at the downhill par-4 10th hole. Both players hit poor drives to the right, and Oosthuizen's second shot ended up short of the green. The left-handed Watson, playing from the pine straw deep in the woods, hooked his approach shot nearly 90 degrees to within 10 feet (3 m) of the hole. Oosthuizen then chipped to the back of the green and narrowly missed his par putt to give Watson two putts to win. He lagged his first to a foot (0.3 m) and tapped in to become the Masters Champion.[17][18]
Place | Player | Country | Score | To par | Money ($) |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Bubba Watson | United States | 4-4=8 | E | 1,440,000 |
2 | Louis Oosthuizen | South Africa | 4-5=9 | +1 | 864,000 |
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