1982 Masters Tournament

The 1982 Masters Tournament was the 46th Masters Tournament, held April 8–11 at Augusta National Golf Club in Augusta, Georgia. Craig Stadler won his only major championship by defeating Dan Pohl on the first hole of a sudden-death playoff.^[3]

1982 Masters Tournament

Front cover of the 1982 Masters Guide
Tournament information
Dates	April 8–11, 1982
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	6,905 yards (6,314 m)[1][2]
Field	76 players, 47 after cut
Cut	154 (+10)
Prize fund	$367,152
Winner's share	$64,000
Champion
Craig Stadler
284 (−4), playoff
Location map
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Challenging weather conditions on Thursday and Friday led to the cut at 154 (+10), the highest since the cut was introduced in 1957 and still the highest through 2021, with the co-leaders, Stadler and Curtis Strange, at even par 144.^[4]

In the final round, Stadler shot a 33 on the front had a six-shot lead with seven holes to play. He bogeyed four of those holes, including a three-putt from twenty feet (6.1 m) on the 72nd green to force a playoff with Pohl; the playoff began and ended at the tenth hole. Pohl carded two rounds of 67 on the weekend after two rounds of 75.^[5][6] In the sudden-death playoff, Stadler made a routine par and won the Masters when Pohl missed his six-foot par attempt.

This was the final year that players were required to use Augusta National club caddies.^[7][8] The practice was previously employed at the other majors and some PGA Tour events well into the 1970s;^[9][10][11] the U.S. Open first allowed the players to use their own caddies in 1976.^[12][13] The policy change at Augusta National was announced by chairman Hord Hardin in November 1982.^[14]

It was the final Masters as a competitor for 1946 champion Herman Keiser, age 67, who withdrew in the first round.^[15]

Course

Main article: Augusta National Golf Club

Hole	Name	Yards	Par		Hole	Name	Yards	Par
1	Tea Olive	400	4		10	Camellia	485	4
2	Pink Dogwood	555	5		11	White Dogwood	455	4
3	Flowering Peach	360	4		12	Golden Bell	155	3
4	Flowering Crab Apple	205	3		13	Azalea	465	5
5	Magnolia	435	4		14	Chinese Fir	405	4
6	Juniper	180	3		15	Firethorn	500	5
7	Pampas	360	4		16	Redbud	170	3
8	Yellow Jasmine	535	5		17	Nandina	400	4
9	Carolina Cherry	435	4		18	Holly	405	4
Out		3,465	36		In		3,440	36
Source:[1]					Total		6,905	72

Field

1. Masters champions

Tommy Aaron, George Archer (8), Seve Ballesteros (3), Gay Brewer (8), Billy Casper, Charles Coody, Raymond Floyd (8,11,12), Doug Ford, Bob Goalby, Herman Keiser, Jack Nicklaus (2,3,4,8,9,10,12), Arnold Palmer, Gary Player (8), Sam Snead, Art Wall Jr., Tom Watson (3,8,11,12), Fuzzy Zoeller (10,11)

• Jack Burke Jr., Jimmy Demaret, Ralph Guldahl, Claude Harmon, Ben Hogan, Cary Middlecoff, Byron Nelson, Henry Picard, and Gene Sarazen did not play.

The following categories only apply to Americans

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

Hubert Green (8,11), Hale Irwin (11,12), Andy North

3. The Open champions (last five years)

Bill Rogers (9,11,12)

4. PGA champions (last five years)

John Mahaffey (8,11), Larry Nelson (10,12), Lanny Wadkins (8,9,11)

5. 1981 U.S. Amateur semi-finalists

Nathaniel Crosby (6, a), Bob Lewis (7, a), Brian Lindley (a), Willie Wood (a)

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

• Hal Sutton (7) forfeited his exemption by turning professional.

7. Members of the 1981 U.S. Walker Cup team

Frank Fuhrer III (a), Jim Holtgrieve (a), Jodie Mudd (a), Corey Pavin (a), Jay Sigel (a)

• Ron Commans, Joey Rassett, and Dick von Tacky forfeited their exemptions by turning professional.

8. Top 24 players and ties from the 1981 Masters Tournament

John Cook (9), Ben Crenshaw (9,12), Bob Gilder (10), Peter Jacobsen, Tom Kite (10,11,12), Bruce Lietzke (10,11,12), Johnny Miller (11,12), Gil Morgan, Jerry Pate (11,12), Calvin Peete (9), Don Pooley, Jim Simons (11), Curtis Strange

9. Top 16 players and ties from the 1981 U.S. Open

George Burns, Frank Conner, Mark Hayes, Lon Hinkle, Chi-Chi Rodríguez, John Schroeder, Jim Thorpe

• Sammy Rachels did not play

10. Top eight players and ties from 1981 PGA Championship

Keith Fergus (11), Dan Pohl

11. Winners of PGA Tour events since the previous Masters

Andy Bean, Danny Edwards, Dave Eichelberger, Ed Fiori, Jay Haas, Morris Hatalsky, Wayne Levi, Jack Renner, J. C. Snead, Craig Stadler, Ron Streck, Lee Trevino (12), Tom Weiskopf

12. Members of the U.S. 1981 Ryder Cup team

13. Foreign invitations

Isao Aoki (9,10), Dave Barr (11), David Graham (2,4,8,9), Yutaka Hagawa, Bernhard Langer, Greg Norman (8,10), Peter Oosterhuis (11), Philippe Ploujoux (6, a)

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

Round summaries

First round

Thursday, April 8, 1982

Place	Player	Score	To par
1	Jack Nicklaus	69	−3
T2	Jack Renner	72	E
	Fuzzy Zoeller
T4	Seve Ballesteros	73	+1
	Gay Brewer
	David Graham
	Morris Hatalsky
	Greg Norman
	Peter Oosterhuis
T10	Ben Crenshaw	74	+2
	Raymond Floyd
	Mark Hayes
	Jim Holtgrieve (a)
	Gary Player
	Jerry Pate
	Curtis Strange
	Ron Streck

Source:^[16]

Second round

Friday, April 9, 1982

Place	Player	Score	To par
T1	Craig Stadler	75-69=144	E
	Curtis Strange	74-70=144
3	Tom Kite	76-69=145	+1
T4	Seve Ballesteros	73-73=146	+2
	Raymond Floyd	74-72=146
	Jack Nicklaus	69-77=146
	Tom Watson	77-69=146
T8	Andy Bean	75-72=147	+3
	Mark Hayes	74-73=147
	Peter Oosterhuis	73-74=147
	Gary Player	74-73=147
	Jerry Pate	74-73=147
	Jack Renner	72-75=147
	Tom Weiskopf	75-72=147

Source:^[4][17]

Third round

Saturday, April 10, 1982

Place	Player	Score	To par
1	Craig Stadler	75-69-67=211	−5
T2	Seve Ballesteros	73-73-68=214	−2
	Jerry Pate	74-73-67=214
T4	Raymond Floyd	74-72-69=215	−1
	Tom Weiskopf	75-72-68=215
T6	Bob Gilder	79-71-66=216	E
	Tom Watson	77-69-70=216
T8	Jack Nicklaus	69-77-71=217	+1
	Dan Pohl	75-75-67=217
	Curtis Strange	74-70-73=217

Source:^[18]

Final round

Sunday, April 11, 1982

Final leaderboard

Champion

Silver Cup winner (low amateur)

(a) = amateur

(c) = past champion

Top 10

Place	Player	Score	To par	Money (US$)
T1	Dan Pohl	75-75-67-67=284	−4	Playoff
	Craig Stadler	75-69-67-73=284
T3	Seve Ballesteros (c)	73-73-68-71=285	−3	21,000
	Jerry Pate	74-73-67-71=285
T5	Tom Kite	76-69-73-69=287	−1	13,500
	Tom Watson (c)	77-69-70-71=287
T7	Raymond Floyd (c)	74-72-69-74=289	+1	11,067
	Larry Nelson	79-71-70-69=289
	Curtis Strange	74-70-73-72=289
T10	Andy Bean	75-72-73-70=290	+2	8,550
	Mark Hayes	74-73-73-70=290
	Tom Weiskopf	75-72-68-75=290
	Fuzzy Zoeller (c)	72-76-70-72=290

Leaderboard below the top 10
Place	Player	Score	To par	Money ($)
14	Bob Gilder	79-71-66-75=291	+3	6,700
T15	Yutaka Hagawa	75-74-71-72=292	+4	5,850
	Jack Nicklaus (c)	69-77-71-75=292
	Gary Player (c)	74-73-71-74=292
	Jim Simons	77-74-69-72=292
19	David Graham	73-77-70-73=293	+5	5,000
T20	Peter Jacobsen	78-75-70-71=294	+6	4,300
	Bruce Lietzke	76-75-69-74=294
	Jodie Mudd (a)	77-74-67-76=294		0
	Jack Renner	72-75-76-71=294		4,300
T24	Ben Crenshaw	74-80-70-71=295	+7	3,075
	Danny Edwards	75-74-74-72=295
	Morris Hatalsky	73-77-75-70=295
	Wayne Levi	77-76-72-70=295
	Peter Oosterhuis	73-74-75-73=295
	John Schroeder	77-71-70-77=295
T30	George Archer (c)	79-74-72-71=296	+8	2,475
	Calvin Peete	77-72-73-74=296
32	Ron Streck	74-76-75-73=298	+10	2,300
T33	George Burns	75-79-71-74=299	+11	2,100
	Keith Fergus	76-74-72-77=299
	Lanny Wadkins	75-78-72-74=299
T36	Tommy Aaron (c)	78-72-77-73=300	+12	1,875
	Greg Norman	73-75-73-79=300
T38	Chi-Chi Rodríguez	78-75-73-75=301	+13	1,667
	Bill Rogers	77-77-77-70=301
	Lee Trevino	75-78-75-73=301
T41	Jim Holtgrieve (a)	74-76-72-80=302	+14	0
	Willie Wood (a)	78-75-73-76=302
43	Hubert Green	76-72-77-78=303	+15	1,500
44	Jay Haas	76-74-76-78=304	+16	1,500
45	Gay Brewer (c)	73-80-72-80=305	+17	1,500
46	Bob Goalby (c)	81-72-78-77=308	+20	1,500
47	Arnold Palmer (c)	75-76-78-80=309	+21	1,500
CUT	Isao Aoki	75-80=155	+11
	Bernhard Langer	77-78=155
	Jay Sigel (a)	80-75=155
	Charles Coody (c)	75-81=156	+12
	John Cook	82-74=156
	Dave Eichelberger	79-77=156
	Ed Fiori	76-80=156
	Lon Hinkle	81-75=156
	John Mahaffey	76-80=156
	Gil Morgan	78-78=156
	Dave Barr	75-82=157	+13
	Art Wall Jr. (c)	75-82=157
	Hale Irwin	80-78=158	+14
	Brian Lindley (a)	80-78=158
	Andy North	86-72=158
	Corey Pavin (a)	79-79=158
	Billy Casper (c)	85-74=159	+15
	Don Pooley	79-80=159
	Bob Lewis (a)	83-78=161	+17
	Johnny Miller	81-80=161
	Jim Thorpe	88-74=162	+18
	Nathaniel Crosby (a)	85-78=163	+19
	Philippe Ploujoux (a)	81-82=163
	Frank Fuhrer III (a)	86-79=165	+21
	Doug Ford (c)	86-83=169	+25
	Frank Conner	89-82=171	+27
WD	Sam Snead (c)	82	+10
	Herman Keiser (c)
DQ	J. C. Snead	78-75=153	+9

Sources:^[19][20]

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
Stadler	−5	−6	−6	−6	−6	−7	−8	−8	−8	−8	−8	−7	−7	−6	−6	−5	−5	−4
Pohl	E	−1	−1	−1	−1	−1	−1	−1	−2	−2	−2	−3	−4	−3	−3	−4	−4	−4
Ballesteros	−1	−2	−2	−2	−2	−2	−2	−2	−2	−1	−1	E	E	E	−1	−1	−2	−3
Pate	−1	−1	−1	E	E	E	E	E	E	−1	−1	−1	−1	−1	−2	−3	−3	−3

Cumulative tournament scores, relative to par
Source:^[5][6]

Playoff

Place	Player	Score	To par	Money ($)
1	Craig Stadler	4	E	64,000
2	Dan Pohl	x		39,000

• Sudden-death playoff began and ended on hole #10, when Stadler parred to win.^[3]