1957 Masters Tournament

The 1957 Masters Tournament was the 21st Masters Tournament, held April 4–7 at Augusta National Golf Club in Augusta, Georgia. This was the first Masters played with a 36-hole cut; 101 players started and forty made the cut at 150 (+6).

1957 Masters Tournament

Front cover of the 1957 Masters Guide
Tournament information
Dates	April 4–7, 1957
Location	Augusta, Georgia 33.503°N 82.020°W / 33.503; -82.020
Course(s)	Augusta National Golf Club
Organized by	Augusta National Golf Club
Tour(s)	PGA Tour
Statistics
Par	72
Length	6,980 yards (6,383 m)[1]
Field	101 players, 40 after cut
Cut	150 (+6)
Winner's share	$8,750
Champion
Doug Ford
283 (−5)
Location map
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Doug Ford won his only Masters, three strokes ahead of runner-up Sam Snead, a three-time champion.^[2] Snead was the third round leader, but could only shoot even-par in a round that included six birdies and six bogeys. Ford was three strokes back after 54 holes,^[3] but was bogey-free on Sunday. On the final hole, Ford holed out from the bunker for birdie for his 66 (–6).^[1][4] This was Ford's second and final major title; he also won the 1955 PGA Championship.

This year was the Masters debut of Gary Player, age 21, and he tied for 24th. He won three Masters, in 1961, 1974, and 1978. Five-time British Open winner Peter Thomson was fifth, his best career finish in the Masters. Amateur Harvie Ward was fourth at even-par 288, five strokes behind Ford.

Two-time champion Ben Hogan had finished in the top ten in the last fourteen Masters that he had entered, but had 32 putts on Friday and missed the event's first-ever cut by a stroke.^[5][6] It was the only cut he missed at Augusta; in nine more Masters he had three top ten finishes, including his final appearance at age 54 in 1967.

Field

This was the last year when professionals were invited based solely on qualification in amateur events.

1. Masters champions

Jack Burke Jr. (4,8,10,11), Jimmy Demaret, Claude Harmon (10), Ben Hogan (2,3,4,8,9), Herman Keiser, Cary Middlecoff (2,8,9,11), Byron Nelson (2,4), Henry Picard (4), Gene Sarazen (2,3,4), Horton Smith, Sam Snead (3,4,8,9,10,11), Craig Wood

• Ralph Guldahl (2) did not play.

The following categories only apply to Americans

2. U.S. Open champions

Julius Boros (8,9), Billy Burke, Jack Fleck, Ed Furgol (8,9,10), Lawson Little (5), Tony Manero, Lloyd Mangrum (8), Fred McLeod, Sam Parks Jr., Lew Worsham

3. The Open champions

Jock Hutchison (4), Denny Shute (4)

4. PGA champions

Walter Burkemo (8), Doug Ford (8,9,11), Vic Ghezzi, Bob Hamilton, Chick Harbert (11), Chandler Harper (11), Johnny Revolta, Paul Runyan, Jim Turnesa (8)

5. U.S. Amateur and Amateur champions

Dick Chapman (a), Charles Coe (a), Joe Conrad (6), Gene Littler (8), Billy Maxwell (9), Arnold Palmer (8,9), Skee Riegel, Frank Stranahan (8), Sam Urzetta (8), Bud Ward, Harvie Ward (6,7,a)

6. Members of the 1955 U.S. Walker Cup team

William C. Campbell (a), Don Cherry (a), Bruce Cudd (a), Jimmy Jackson (a), Ed Meister (a), Dale Morey (a), Billy Joe Patton (8,9,a), Hillman Robbins (8,a), Dick Yost (a)

• Robbins and Meister were reserves for the team.

7. 1956 U.S. Amateur quarter-finalists

Rex Baxter (a), Arnold Blum (a), Joe Campbell (a), Sarg Fontanini (a), Ted Gleichmann (a), Chuck Kocsis (a)

8. Top 24 players and ties from the 1956 Masters Tournament

Jerry Barber (9,11), Tommy Bolt (9,11), Pete Cooper (9), Dow Finsterwald, Shelley Mayfield, Al Mengert, Johnny Palmer, Bob Rosburg, Mike Souchak, Ken Venturi (9)

9. Top 24 players and ties from the 1956 U.S. Open

Errie Ball, Johnny Bulla, Billy Casper, Wes Ellis, Fred Haas, Dutch Harrison, Jay Hebert, Bob Kay, Ted Kroll (10,11), Bill Ogden, Bob Toski

10. 1956 PGA Championship quarter-finalists

Fred Hawkins, Bill Johnston, Terl Johnson, Henry Ransom

11. Members of the U.S. 1955 Ryder Cup team

Marty Furgol

12. One player, either amateur or professional, not already qualified, selected by a ballot of ex-Masters champions

Mike Fetchick

13. One professional, not already qualified, selected by a ballot of ex-U.S. Open champions

Dick Mayer

14. One amateur, not already qualified, selected by a ballot of ex-U.S. Amateur champions

Bud Taylor (a)

15. Two players, not already qualified, from a points list based on finishes in the winter part of the 1957 PGA Tour

Gardner Dickinson, Art Wall Jr.

16. Winner of the 1956 Canadian Open

Doug Sanders

17. Foreign invitations

Al Balding, Henry Cotton (9), Bruce Crampton, Stan Leonard (8), Jerry Magee (7,a), Moe Norman, Gary Player, Peter Thomson (8), Harry Weetman, Trevor Wilkes

• Numbers in brackets indicate categories that the player would have qualified under had they been American.

Round summaries

First round

Thursday, April 4, 1957

Place	Player	Score	To par
1	Jack Burke Jr.	71	−1
T2	Bruce Crampton	72	E
	Jimmy Demaret
	Doug Ford
	Peter Thomson
	Sam Snead
T7	Al Balding	73	+1
	Jerry Barber
	Henry Cotton
	Ed Furgol
	Marty Furgol
	Arnold Palmer
	Skee Riegel
	Bud Ward
	Harvie Ward (a)

Source:^[7]

Second round

Friday, April 5, 1957

Place	Player	Score	To par
1	Sam Snead	72-68=140	−4
2	Jimmy Demaret	72-70=142	−2
3	Jack Burke Jr.	71-72=143	−1
T4	Ed Furgol	73-71=144	E
	Harvie Ward (a)	73-71=144
T6	Doug Ford	72-73=145	+1
	Peter Thomson	72-73=145
T8	Al Balding	73-73=146	+2
	Henry Cotton	73-73=146
	Jay Hebert	74-72=146
	Byron Nelson	74-72=146
	Arnold Palmer	73-73=146

Source:^[8][9]

Third round

Saturday, April 6, 1957

Place	Player	Score	To par
1	Sam Snead	72-68-74=214	−2
T2	Stan Leonard	75-72-68=215	−1
	Arnold Palmer	73-73-69=215
	Harvie Ward (a)	73-71-71=215
5	Ed Furgol	73-71-72=216	E
T6	Jack Burke Jr.	71-72-74=217	+1
	Jimmy Demaret	72-70-75=217
	Doug Ford	72-73-72=217
T9	Henry Cotton	73-73-72=218	+2
	Peter Thomson	72-73-73=218

Source:

Final round

Sunday, April 7, 1957

Final leaderboard

Champion

Silver Cup winner (low amateur)

(a) = amateur

(c) = past champion

Top 10

Place	Player	Score	To par	Money (US$)
1	Doug Ford	72-73-72-66=283	−5	8,750
2	Sam Snead (c)	72-68-74-72=286	−2	4,375
3	Jimmy Demaret (c)	72-70-75-70=287	−1	2,625
4	Harvie Ward (a)	73-71-71-73=288	E	0
5	Peter Thomson	72-73-73-71=289	+1	1,750
6	Ed Furgol	73-71-72-74=290	+2	1,313
T7	Jack Burke Jr. (c)	71-72-74-74=291	+3	1,138
	Dow Finsterwald	74-74-73-70=291
	Arnold Palmer	73-73-69-76=291
10	Jay Hebert	74-72-76-70=292	+4	1,006

Leaderboard below the top 10
Place	Player	Score	To par	Money ($)
T11	Marty Furgol	73-74-73-73=293	+5	941
	Stan Leonard	75-72-68-78=293
T13	Henry Cotton	73-73-72-76=294	+6	853
	Bud Taylor (a)	74-74-77-69=294		0
	Ken Venturi	74-76-74-70=294		853
T16	Al Balding	73-73-73-76=295	+7	779
	Billy Casper	75-75-75-70=295
	Mike Fetchick	74-73-72-76=295
	Fred Hawkins	75-74-72-74=295
	Byron Nelson (c)	74-72-73-76=295
T21	Bruce Crampton	72-75-78-71=296	+8	729
	Al Mengert	75-75-71-75=296
	Henry Ransom	75-73-72-76=296
T24	Johnny Palmer	77-73-73-74=297	+9	700
	Gary Player	77-72-75-73=297
T26	Jerry Barber	73-77-78-70=298	+10	500
	Jack Fleck	76-74-75-73=298
T28	Bill Johnston	77-70-78-74=299	+11	300
	Lawson Little	76-72-77-74=299
	Lloyd Mangrum	77-71-74-77=299
T31	Skee Riegel	73-74-78-75=300	+12	300
	Doug Sanders	76-72-75-77=300
	Bud Ward	73-75-76-76=300
34	Rex Baxter (a)	79-71-73-78=301	+13	0
T35	Dick Mayer	80-70-75-77=302	+14	300
	Henry Picard (c)	79-71-78-74=302
	Sam Urzetta	74-73-78-77=302
T38	Don Cherry (a)	78-72-76-77=303	+15	0
	Claude Harmon (c)	78-72-77-76=303		300
40	Hillman Robbins (a)	77-73-74-80=304	+16	0
CUT	Tommy Bolt	74-77=151	+7
	Bruce Cudd (a)	74-77=151
	Ben Hogan (c)	76-75=151
	Gene Littler	76-75=151
	Moe Norman	77-74=151
	Bill Ogden	74-77=151
	Bob Toski	78-73=151
	Art Wall Jr.	79-72=151
	Trevor Wilkes	75-76=151
	Ted Gleichmann (a)	76-76=152	+8
	Cary Middlecoff (c)	79-73=152
	Bob Rosburg	76-76=152
	Mike Souchak	78-74=152
	Jim Turnesa	76-76=152
	Errie Ball	75-78=153	+9
	Arnold Blum (a)	79-74=153
	Gardner Dickinson	77-76=153
	Paul Runyan	74-79=153
	Lew Worsham	77-76=153
	Dick Yost (a)	74-79=153
	Walter Burkemo	79-75=154	+10
	Joe Conrad	78-76=154
	Chick Harbert	79-75=154
	Chuck Kocsis (a)	77-77=154
	Denny Shute	75-79=154
	Frank Stranahan	79-75=154
	Pete Cooper	80-75=155	+11
	Vic Ghezzi	79-76=155
	Fred Haas	74-81=155
	Shelley Mayfield	78-77=155
	Ed Meister (a)	80-75=155
	Gene Sarazen (c)	80-75=155
	Dick Chapman (a)	79-77=156	+12
	Dutch Harrison	75-81=156
	Ted Kroll	79-77=156
	Jerry Magee (a)	77-79=156
	Harry Weetman	79-77=156
	Joe Campbell (a)	78-79=157	+13
	Wes Ellis	80-77=157
	Terl Johnson	77-80=157
	Sam Parks Jr.	81-76=157
	Julius Boros	79-79=158	+14
	William C. Campbell (a)	82-76=158
	Chandler Harper	80-78=158
	Herman Keiser (c)	80-78=158
	Dale Morey (a)	80-78=158
	Jimmy Jackson (a)	83-76=159	+15
	Horton Smith (c)	77-82=159
	Craig Wood (c)	82-77=159
	Billy Joe Patton (a)	77-83=160	+16
	Johnny Revolta	81-79=160
	Johnny Bulla	80-82=162	+18
	Tony Manero	78-84=162
	Bob Kay	88-78=166	+22
	Sarg Fontanini (a)	85-83=168	+24
WD	Bob Hamilton	78	+6
	Billy Maxwell	81	+9
	Jock Hutchison	83	+11
	Billy Burke	85	+13
	Fred McLeod	88	+16
DQ	Charles Coe (a)	86	+14

Sources:^[10][11]

Scorecard

Hole	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18
Par	4	5	4	3	4	3	4	5	4	4	4	3	5	4	5	3	4	4
Ford	E	E	E	E	E	E	E	−1	−1	−1	−1	−2	−2	−3	−4	−4	−4	−5
Snead	−1	−2	−2	−3	−3	−3	−4	−4	−3	−2	−1	−1	E	+1	E	−1	−1	−2
Demaret	+1	+1	+1	+1	+1	E	E	E	E	+1	+1	+1	E	E	−1	−1	−1	−1
Ward	−1	−1	E	E	E	−1	−1	−1	E	E	+1	+2	+1	+1	+1	+1	+1	E
Thomson	+2	+2	+1	+2	+2	+2	+2	+1	+1	+1	+1	+1	E	E	E	E	+1	+1
Furgol	−1	E	E	−1	+1	+2	+2	+1	+1	+1	+2	+3	+3	+3	+2	+2	+2	+2
Palmer	−1	−2	−2	−2	−1	E	E	−1	E	E	E	E	E	E	E	+3	+4	+3
Leonard	−1	−1	−1	−1	−1	−1	−1	E	E	+2	+3	+3	+5	+5	+5	+5	+5	+5

Cumulative tournament scores, relative to par

Birdie

Bogey

Double bogey

Triple bogey+

Source:^[12]