1971 Masters Tournament

The 1971 Masters Tournament was the 35th Masters Tournament, held April 8–11 at Augusta National Golf Club in Augusta, Georgia. Charles Coody won his only major championship, two strokes ahead of runners-up Johnny Miller and Jack Nicklaus.^[1][2]

1971 Masters Tournament

Front cover of the 1971 Masters Guide
Tournament information
Dates	April 8–11, 1971
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	77 players, 48 after cut
Cut	150 (+6)
Winner's share	$25,000
Champion
Charles Coody
279 (−9)
Location map
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Miller was six-under for the Sunday round and, playing two groups ahead of the final two-some, his birdie on 14 would open up a two-shot lead when Coody subsequently bogeyed the hole, but could not hold on to win. Coody, co-leader with Nicklaus entering the round,^[3] rebounded from his bogey at 14 with two consecutive birdies and parred the final two holes while Miller, 23, bogeyed two of the last three holes. It was a bit of redemption for Coody, who bogeyed the final three holes in 1969 to finish two strokes back.^[1] It was Coody's third and final win on the PGA Tour.^[4]

Future 3-time U.S. Open champion Hale Irwin made his Masters debut in 1971 and tied for 13th place. It was the final Masters for two champions: 1948 winner Claude Harmon, withdrew during the first round^[5] and 1955 champion Cary Middlecoff during the second.^[6]

Dave Stockton won the twelfth Par 3 contest on Wednesday with a score of 23.

For the first time in its history, the Masters was not the first major championship of the year. The 1971 PGA Championship was played in Florida in February, and was won by Nicklaus. The co-leader entering Sunday, his attempt to secure the second leg of the grand slam^[3] came up short on the back nine on Sunday, as he shot 37 for an even-par 72.^[2]

Field

1. Masters champions

George Archer, Gay Brewer (9), Billy Casper (2,8,9,11), Doug Ford, Bob Goalby, Ralph Guldahl, Claude Harmon, Herman Keiser, Cary Middlecoff, Jack Nicklaus (2,3,8,10,11), Arnold Palmer (10), Gary Player (3,8), Gene Sarazen, Sam Snead (8), Art Wall Jr.

• Jack Burke Jr., Jimmy Demaret, Ben Hogan, Byron Nelson, and Henry Picard did not play.

The following categories only apply to Americans

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

Orville Moody (8)

• Lee Trevino (9,11) did not play.

3. The Open champions (last five years)

4. PGA champions (last five years)

Julius Boros (8,9), Raymond Floyd (10,11), Al Geiberger, Don January (8), Dave Stockton (8,10)

5. The first eight finishers in the 1970 U.S. Amateur

William C. Campbell (a), Jim Gabrielsen (a), Vinny Giles (7,a), Tom Kite (7,a), Steve Melnyk (6,a), Jim Simons (a), Richard Spears (a), Lanny Wadkins (6,7,a)^[7]

6. Previous two U.S. Amateur and Amateur champions

7. Members of the 1970 U.S. Eisenhower Trophy team

Allen Miller (a)

8. Top 24 players and ties from the 1970 Masters Tournament

Tommy Aaron (11), Miller Barber (9,11), Frank Beard (11), Deane Beman, Charles Coe (a), Charles Coody, Bert Greene, Dave Hill (9,11), Howie Johnson (9), Gene Littler (9,10,11), Dick Lotz (10), Bob Lunn (9), Bob Murphy (10), Chi-Chi Rodríguez, Tom Weiskopf, Terry Wilcox, Bert Yancey

9. Top 16 players and ties from the 1970 U.S. Open

Joel Goldstrand, Bobby Mitchell, Ken Still (11), Larry Ziegler

10. Top eight players and ties from 1970 PGA Championship

Larry Hinson

11. Members of the U.S. 1969 Ryder Cup team

Dale Douglass, Dan Sikes

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

Homero Blancas

13. Leading eight players, not already qualified, from a points list based on finishes in PGA Tour events since the previous Masters

Dave Eichelberger, Gibby Gilbert, Lou Graham, Jerry Heard, Hale Irwin, Johnny Miller, John Schlee, Tom Shaw^[8]

14. Foreign invitations

Bob Charles (8,9), Gary Cowan (5,a), Bruce Crampton (10), Roberto De Vicenzo (3), Bruce Devlin (9), David Graham, Harold Henning, Tommy Horton, Hsieh Yung-yo, Tony Jacklin (2,3,8,9), Takaaki Kono (8), John Lister, Sukree Onsham, Peter Oosterhuis

• Numbers in brackets indicate categories that the player would have qualified under had they been American.^[9]

Round summaries

First round

Thursday, April 8, 1971

Place	Player	Score	To par
1	Charles Coody	66	−6
T2	Raymond Floyd	69	−3
	Hale Irwin
	Don January
	Bob Lunn
	Bob Murphy
T7	Dale Douglass	70	−2
	Jack Nicklaus
T9	Art Wall Jr.	71	−1
	Tom Weiskopf
	Bert Yancey

Source:^[10]

Second round

Friday, April 9, 1971

Place	Player	Score	To par
1	Don January	69-69=138	−6
T2	Charles Coody	66-73=139	−5
	Bob Murphy	69-70=139
4	Tom Weiskopf	71-69=140	−4
T5	Dale Douglass	70-71=141	−3
	Hale Irwin	69-72=141
	Gene Littler	72-69=141
	Jack Nicklaus	70-71=141
T9	Bruce Devlin	72-70=142	−2
	Bobby Mitchell	72-70=142

Source:^[11]

Third round

Saturday, April 10, 1971

Place	Player	Score	To par
T1	Charles Coody	66-73-70=209	−7
	Jack Nicklaus	70-71-68=209
3	Don January	69-69-73=211	−5
T4	Hale Irwin	69-72-71=212	−4
	Tom Weiskopf	71-69-72=212
6	Johnny Miller	72-73-68=213	−3
T7	Bruce Devlin	72-70-72=214	−2
	Gene Littler	72-69-73=214
	Dave Stockton	72-73-69=214
T10	Bob Murphy	69-70-76=215	−1
	Gary Player	72-72-71=215
	Ken Still	72-71-72=215

Source:^[12]

Final round

Sunday, April 11, 1971

Final leaderboard

Champion

Silver Cup winner (low amateur)

(a) = amateur

(c) = past champion

Top 10

Place	Player	Score	To par	Money (US$)
1	Charles Coody	66-73-70-70=279	−9	25,000
T2	Johnny Miller	72-73-68-68=281	−7	17,500
	Jack Nicklaus (c)	70-71-68-72=281
T4	Don January	69-69-73-72=283	−5	9,050
	Gene Littler	72-69-73-69=283
T6	Gary Player (c)	72-72-71-69=284	−4	5,600
	Ken Still	72-71-72-69=284
	Tom Weiskopf	71-69-72-72=284
T9	Frank Beard	74-73-69-70=286	−2	3,767
	Roberto De Vicenzo	76-69-72-69=286
	Dave Stockton	72-73-69-72=286

Leaderboard below the top 10
Place	Player	Score	To par	Money ($)
12	Bert Greene	73-73-71-70=287	−1	3,300
T13	Billy Casper (c)	72-73-71-72=288	E	3,000
	Bruce Devlin	72-70-72-74=288
	Raymond Floyd	69-75-73-71=288
	Hale Irwin	69-72-71-76=288
	Bob Murphy	69-70-76-73=288
T18	Bruce Crampton	73-72-74-70=289	+1	2,650
	Arnold Palmer (c)	73-72-71-73=289
T20	Dave Eichelberger	76-71-70-73=290	+2	2,450
	Orville Moody	79-69-70-72=290
T22	Tommy Aaron	76-72-74-69=291	+3	2,250
	Bobby Mitchell	72-70-74-75=291
T24	Al Geiberger	73-75-72-72=292	+4	2,100
	Dick Lotz	77-72-73-70=292
	Steve Melnyk (a)	73-70-75-74=292		0
T27	Dale Douglass	70-71-76-76=293	+5	1,750
	Dave Hill	74-73-70-76=293
	Art Wall Jr. (c)	71-76-72-74=293
T30	Larry Hinson	75-71-76-72=294	+6	1,750
	Hsieh Yung-yo	75-69-77-73=294
	Chi-Chi Rodríguez	73-75-71-75=294
	Larry Ziegler	73-70-77-74=294
34	Bob Lunn	69-76-81-69=295	+7	1,675
35	George Archer (c)	73-74-78-71=296	+8	1,675
T36	Bob Goalby (c)	76-73-74-74=297	+9	1,675
	David Graham	75-72-77-73=297
	Tony Jacklin	73-76-76-72=297
	John Schlee	76-74-73-74=297
	Tom Shaw	77-70-74-76=297
41	Harold Henning	72-75-77-74=298	+10	1,600
T42	Tom Kite (a)	76-74-70-80=300	+12	0
	John Lister	78-72-75-75=300		1,600
	Allen Miller (a)	76-73-81-70=300		0
45	Gibby Gilbert	72-76-75-79=302	+14	1,600
T46	Doug Ford (c)	75-75-77-76=303	+15	1,600
	Howie Johnson	73-74-82-74=303
48	Jerry Heard	76-74-75-79=304	+16	1,600
CUT	Jim Gabrielsen (a)	76-75=151	+7
	Vinny Giles (a)	74-77=151
	Lou Graham	78-73=151
	Takaaki Kono	77-74=151
	Peter Oosterhuis	72-79=151
	Lanny Wadkins (a)	73-78=151
	Miller Barber	75-77=152	+8
	Deane Beman	75-77=152
	Homero Blancas	77-75=152
	Julius Boros	80-72=152
	Charles Coe (a)	74-78=152
	Bert Yancey	71-81=152
	Sam Snead (c)	76-77=153	+9
	Gay Brewer (c)	79-75=154	+10
	Dan Sikes	72-82=154
	Richard Spears (a)	75-79=154
	Sukree Onsham	77-78=155	+11
	William C. Campbell (a)	78-79=157	+13
	Jim Simons (a)	83-74=157
	Bob Charles	77-81=158	+14
	Gary Cowan (a)	83-75=158
	Tommy Horton	82-76=158
	Terry Wilcox	78-80=158
	Joel Goldstrand	82-77=159	+15
	Ralph Guldahl (c)	79-84=163	+19
	Gene Sarazen (c)	83-80=163
WD	Cary Middlecoff (c)	75	+3
	Herman Keiser (c)	81	+9
	Claude Harmon (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
Coody	−7	−8	−7	−7	−7	−7	−7	−8	−8	−8	−8	−8	−8	−7	−8	−9	−9	−9
Miller	−3	−3	−4	−5	−5	−5	−5	−6	−6	−6	−7	−8	−8	−9	−9	−8	−8	−7
Nicklaus	−8	−8	−8	−7	−6	−7	−7	−8	−8	−8	−8	−7	−7	−7	−7	−7	−7	−7

Cumulative tournament scores, relative to par