1963 Masters Tournament

The 1963 Masters Tournament was the 27th Masters Tournament, held April 4–7 at Augusta National Golf Club in Augusta, Georgia. 84 players entered the tournament and 50 made the cut at eight-over-par (152).

1963 Masters Tournament

Front cover of the 1963 Masters Guide
Tournament information
Dates	April 4–7, 1963
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	6,850 yards (6,264 m)[1]
Field	84 players, 50 after cut
Cut	152 (+8)
Prize fund	$112,500[2]
Winner's share	$20,000
Champion
Jack Nicklaus
286 (−2)
Location map
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Jack Nicklaus, 23, won the first of his record six Green Jackets with a three-foot (0.9 m) par putt on the final hole to finish one stroke ahead of runner-up Tony Lema.^[3][2] Nicklaus shot a 66 (−6) in the second round, which was key in his victory.^[1][4] It was the second of his record 18 major titles; his third came three months later at the PGA Championship in July.

Gene Sarazen, the 1935 champion, made the cut at Augusta for the final time at age 61 and finished 49th.

It was the last Masters for Horton Smith, winner of the inaugural event in 1934 and again in 1936. He was the only competitor to have participated in every edition of the tournament, and had a lung removed in 1957. Battling Hodgkin's Disease, Smith was partly aided by a golf cart and shot 91 and 86; he died six months later in Detroit at age 55, shortly after attending the Ryder Cup matches in Atlanta.^[5][6][7]

George Bayer won the Par 3 contest with a score of 23.

Field

1. Masters champions

Jack Burke Jr. (4), Jimmy Demaret (8), Doug Ford (4,9,10,11), Claude Harmon, Herman Keiser, Cary Middlecoff (2), Byron Nelson, Arnold Palmer (2,3,8,9,11), Henry Picard, Gary Player (3,4,9,10), Gene Sarazen, Horton Smith, Sam Snead (8), Art Wall Jr. (9,11), Craig Wood

• Ralph Guldahl and Ben Hogan (2,3) did not play.

The following categories only apply to Americans

2. U.S. Open champions (last 10 years)

Tommy Bolt, Billy Casper (8,11), Jack Fleck (8,10), Ed Furgol, Gene Littler (8,9,11), Dick Mayer, Jack Nicklaus (8,9,10)

3. The Open champions (last 10 years)

4. PGA champions (last 10 years)

Jerry Barber (8,11), Walter Burkemo, Dow Finsterwald (8,11), Chick Harbert, Jay Hebert (11), Lionel Hebert (8), Bob Rosburg (9)

5. U.S. Amateur and Amateur champions (last 10 years)

Charles Coe (6,8,a), Richard Davies (6,a), Labron Harris Jr. (6,7,a)

• Deane Beman (6,9) and Harvie Ward did not play. Other champions forfeited their exemptions by turning professional.

6. Selections for the 1963 U.S. Walker Cup team

Robert W. Gardner (a), Downing Gray (7,a), Billy Joe Patton (7,a), R. H. Sikes (a), Charlie Smith (a), Ed Updegraff (a)

7. 1962 U.S. Amateur quarter-finalists

Homero Blancas (a), Charles Coody (a), Paul Desjardins (a), Jim Gabrielsen (a), Bill Newcomb (a)

8. Top 24 players and ties from the 1962 Masters Tournament

Julius Boros, Gay Brewer (9), Jacky Cupit, Gardner Dickinson, Paul Harney (10), Don January, Billy Maxwell (9), Johnny Pott, Mike Souchak (9,11), Ken Venturi

9. Top 16 players and ties from the 1962 U.S. Open

Bob Goalby (9), Tommy Jacobs, Bobby Nichols (10), Phil Rodgers, Doug Sanders

10. Top eight players and ties from 1962 PGA Championship

George Bayer, Dave Ragan

11. Members of the U.S. 1961 Ryder Cup team

Bill Collins

12. Two players selected for meritorious records on the fall part of the 1962 PGA Tour

Tony Lema, Jerry Pittman

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

Bo Wininger

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

Wes Ellis

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

Bill Hyndman (a)

16. Two players, not already qualified, from a points list based on finishes in the winter part of the 1963 PGA Tour

Mason Rudolph, Dan Sikes

17. Foreign invitations

Al Balding (8), David Blair (a), Antonio Cerdá, Bob Charles, Chen Ching-Po, Bruce Crampton, Gerard de Wit, Juan Antonio Estrada (a), Jorge Ledesma (a), Stan Leonard, Ángel Miguel, Kel Nagle, Koichi Ono, Chi-Chi Rodríguez, Miguel Sala, Alvie Thompson

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

Round summaries

First round

Thursday, April 4, 1963

Place	Player	Score	To par
T1	Mike Souchak	69	−3
	Bo Wininger
T3	Ed Furgol	70	−2
	Jay Hebert
	Sam Snead
T6	George Bayer	71	−1
	Gary Player
T8	Charles Coe (a)	72	E
	Billy Maxwell
T10	Downing Gray (a)	73	+1
	Don January
	Dick Mayer
	Doug Sanders

Source:^[8][9]

Second round

Friday, April 5, 1963

Place	Player	Score	To par
1	Mike Souchak	69-70=139	−5
T2	Jay Hebert	70-70=140	−4
	Jack Nicklaus	74-66=140
T4	Ed Furgol	70-71=141	−3
	Bo Wininger	69-72=141
T6	Tony Lema	74-69=143	−1
	Dick Mayer	73-70=143
	Sam Snead	70-73=143
T9	Julius Boros	76-69=145	+1
	Gary Player	71-74=145

Source:^[10][11]

Third round

Saturday, April 6, 1963

Place	Player	Score	To par
1	Jack Nicklaus	74-66-74=214	−2
2	Ed Furgol	70-71-74=215	−1
3	Julius Boros	76-69-71=216	E
T4	Tony Lema	74-69-74=217	+1
	Sam Snead	70-73-74=217
T6	Chen Ching-Po	76-71-71=218	+2
	Mike Souchak	69-70-79=218
	Bo Wininger	69-72-77=218
T9	Stan Leonard	74-72-73=219	+3
	Gary Player	71-74-74=219
	Mason Rudolph	75-72-72=219

Source:^[12]

Final round

Sunday, April 7, 1963

Final leaderboard

Champion

Silver Cup winner (low amateur)

(a) = amateur

(c) = past champion

Top 10

Place	Player	Score	To par	Money (US$)
1	Jack Nicklaus	74-66-74-72=286	−2	20,000
2	Tony Lema	74-69-74-70=287	−1	12,000
T3	Julius Boros	76-69-71-72=288	E	7,000
	Sam Snead (c)	70-73-74-71=288
T5	Dow Finsterwald	74-73-73-69=289	+1	4,000
	Ed Furgol	70-71-74-74=289
	Gary Player (c)	71-74-74-70=289
8	Bo Wininger	69-72-77-72=290	+2	2,400
T9	Don January	73-75-72-71=291	+3	1,800
	Arnold Palmer (c)	74-73-73-71=291

Leaderboard below the top 10
Place	Player	Score	To par	Money ($)
T11	Billy Casper	79-72-71-70=292	+4	1,350
	Bruce Crampton	74-74-72-72=292
	Doug Ford (c)	75-73-75-69=292
	Mike Souchak	69-70-79-74=292
T15	Bob Charles	74-72-76-71=293	+5	1,100
	Chen Ching-Po	76-71-71-75=293
	Billy Maxwell	72-75-76-70=293
	Dick Mayer	73-70-80-70=293
	Mason Rudolph	75-72-72-74=293
	Dan Sikes	74-76-72-71=293
T21	Stan Leonard	74-72-73-75=294	+6	1,000
	Johnny Pott	75-76-74-69=294
	Art Wall Jr. (c)	75-74-73-72=294
T24	Wes Ellis	74-72-79-70=295	+7	1,000
	Gene Littler	77-72-78-68=295
	Bobby Nichols	76-74-73-72=295
27	Jay Hebert	70-70-81-75=296	+8	750
T28	George Bayer	71-75-84-67=297	+9	750
	Tommy Jacobs	78-74-73-72=297
	Doug Sanders	73-74-77-73=297
	Alvie Thompson	79-72-75-71=297
T32	Labron Harris Jr. (a)	79-71-73-75=298	+10	0
	Dave Ragan	74-75-76-73=298		750
34	Ken Venturi	77-74-77-71=299	+11	750
T35	Bill Hyndman (a)	74-72-80-74=300	+12	0
	Kel Nagle	75-74-76-75=300		750
T37	Tommy Bolt	75-76-76-74=301	+13	750
	Charles Coe (a)	72-75-79-75=301		0
T39	Homero Blancas (a)	75-77-76-74=302	+14
	Antonio Cerdá	75-71-78-78=302		750
	Lionel Hebert	75-74-77-76=302
42	Jack Fleck	74-77-77-75=303	+15	750
T43	Walter Burkemo	75-77-78-74=304	+16	750
	Jimmy Demaret (c)	75-75-81-73=304
45	Herman Keiser (c)	75-77-79-74=305	+17	750
T46	Downing Gray (a)	73-76-81-76=306	+18	0
	R. H. Sikes (a)	76-76-77-77=306
48	Billy Joe Patton (a)	80-72-74-81=307	+19
49	Gene Sarazen (c)	74-73-81-80=308	+20	750
CUT	Jerry Barber	80-73=153	+9
	Koichi Ono	82-71=153
	Phil Rodgers	77-76=153
	Bob Rosburg	77-76=153
	Miguel Sala	75-78=153
	Al Balding	82-72=154	+10
	Gay Brewer	82-72=154
	Jack Burke Jr. (c)	78-76=154
	Gardner Dickinson	78-76=154
	Chick Harbert	75-79=154
	Jim Gabrielsen (a)	80-75=155	+11
	Jorge Ledesma (a)	76-79=155
	Chi-Chi Rodríguez	80-75=155
	Bob Goalby	80-76=156	+12
	Byron Nelson (c)	79-77=156
	Charlie Smith (a)	80-76=156
	Ángel Miguel	78-79=157	+13
	Jerry Pittman	78-79=157
	Ed Updegraff (a)	82-75=157
	Paul Desjardins (a)	77-81=158	+14
	Juan Antonio Estrada (a)	81-77=158
	Bill Newcomb (a)	81-77=158
	Bill Collins	82-77=159	+15
	Robert W. Gardner (a)	78-82=160	+16
	David Blair (a)	83-79=162	+18
	Richard Davies (a)	79-84=163	+19
	Gerard de Wit	87-76=163
	Charles Coody (a)	80-84=164	+20
	Cary Middlecoff (c)	87-81=168	+24
	Horton Smith (c)	91-86=177	+33
WD	Paul Harney	75-77-78=230	+14
	Jacky Cupit	82	+10
	Claude Harmon (c)	82
	Henry Picard (c)
	Craig Wood (c)

Sources:^[13][14]

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
Nicklaus	−2	−2	−2	−2	−2	−2	−2	−1	−1	−1	−1	E	−1	−1	−1	−2	−2	−2
Lema	+2	+1	+1	E	E	E	E	E	E	E	+1	+1	E	E	E	E	E	−1
Boros	+1	E	E	+1	+1	+2	+1	+1	+1	+1	+1	E	E	E	E	E	E	E
Snead	+1	E	E	E	E	E	−1	−1	E	E	E	E	E	−1	−2	−1	−1	E
Finsterwald	+3	+2	+3	+3	+2	+3	+3	+2	+2	+2	+2	+3	+3	+2	+1	+1	+1	+1
Furgol	−1	−1	−1	E	+1	+1	+1	+1	+1	+2	+3	+3	+3	+3	+2	+2	+1	+1
Player	+2	+2	+2	+2	+1	+1	+1	+1	+1	+1	+1	+1	E	E	−1	−1	E	+1

Cumulative tournament scores, relative to par

Birdie

Bogey