1984 Masters Tournament

The 1984 Masters Tournament was the 48th Masters Tournament, held April 12–15 at Augusta National Golf Club in Augusta, Georgia. Ben Crenshaw won the first of his two major titles, both Masters, two strokes ahead of runner-up Tom Watson, the winner in 1977 and 1981.^[2][3]

1984 Masters Tournament

Front cover of the 1984 Masters Guide
Tournament information
Dates	April 12–15, 1984
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]
Field	88 players, 47 after cut
Cut	146 (+2)
Prize fund	$612,900
Winner's share	$108,000
Champion
Ben Crenshaw
277 (−11)
Location map
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The leader after 36 holes was Masters rookie Mark Lye at 135 (−9), three strokes ahead of Tom Kite.^[4] Play was halted near the end of the third round due to thunderstorms and the final groups completed it on Sunday morning.^[5] After 54 holes, Kite led at 207 (−9) and Lye was a stroke back. Crenshaw was two strokes back at 209 and shot a final round 68 (−4) to slip on his first green jacket. He won again eleven years later in 1995.

Defending champion Seve Ballesteros was assessed a two-stroke penalty in the second round for grounding his club within the confines of a water hazard at the 13th hole and missed the cut by a stroke.^[4] He also missed the cut as defending champion in 1981.

Normally scheduled to conclude on the second Sunday of April, this Masters was held a week later, as was 1979.

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:[6]					Total		6,905	72

Field

1. Masters champions

Tommy Aaron, George Archer (8), Seve Ballesteros (3,8,9,11,12), Gay Brewer, Billy Casper, Charles Coody, Raymond Floyd (4,8,9,12,13), Doug Ford, Bob Goalby, Jack Nicklaus (2,4,10,12), Arnold Palmer, Gary Player, Craig Stadler (8,9,12,13), Art Wall Jr., Tom Watson (2,3,8,9,11,12,13), Fuzzy Zoeller (8,10,11,12,13)

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

The following categories only apply to Americans

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

Hale Irwin (8,11,12), Larry Nelson (4,9)

3. The Open champions (last five years)

Bill Rogers

4. PGA champions (last five years)

Hal Sutton (9,10,12)

5. 1983 U.S. Amateur semi-finalists

Clark Burroughs (a), Chris Perry (a), Clifton Pierce (a), Jay Sigel (6,7,a)

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

7. Members of the 1983 U.S. Walker Cup team

Nathaniel Crosby (a), Rick Fehr (a), William Hoffer (a), Jim Holtgrieve (a), Bob Lewis (a), David Tentis (a), Billy Tuten (a)

• Brad Faxon and Willie Wood forfeited their exemptions by turning professional.

8. Top 24 players and ties from the 1983 Masters Tournament

Ben Crenshaw (11,12,13), Keith Fergus, Mark Hayes, Peter Jacobsen (10,12), Tom Kite (11,12,13), Wayne Levi (11,12), Johnny Miller (12), Gil Morgan (9,12,13), Dan Pohl (10), Jack Renner (11), Scott Simpson (9), J. C. Snead, Lee Trevino, Lanny Wadkins (9,11,12,13), Tom Weiskopf

9. Top 16 players and ties from the 1983 U.S. Open

Chip Beck, Lennie Clements, Ralph Landrum, Pat McGowan (10), Mike Nicolette, Andy North, David Ogrin, Calvin Peete (11,12,13), Jim Thorpe

10. Top eight players and ties from 1983 PGA Championship

John Fought, Bruce Lietzke (11)

11. Winners of PGA Tour events since the previous Masters

Andy Bean (12), Ronnie Black, Rex Caldwell (12), Jim Colbert (12), John Cook (12), Fred Couples (12), Bob Eastwood (12), Danny Edwards, David Edwards, Morris Hatalsky, Gary Koch (12), Pat Lindsey, Mark Lye (12), John Mahaffey, Mark McCumber (12), Larry Mize, Tom Purtzer, Payne Stewart (12), Curtis Strange (12,13)

12. Top 30 players from the 1983 PGA Tour money list

Ed Fiori, Jay Haas (13)

13. Members of the U.S. 1983 Ryder Cup team

Bob Gilder

14. Foreign invitations

Isao Aoki (8), Nick Faldo (8), David Graham (2,4,9,11,12), Bernhard Langer, Tsuneyuki Nakajima (8), Greg Norman, Peter Oosterhuis (8), Philip Parkin (6,a), Nick Price (11)

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

Round summaries

First round

Thursday, April 12, 1984

Place	Player	Score	To par
1	Ben Crenshaw	67	−5
2	Lee Trevino	68	−4
T3	Isao Aoki	69	−3
	David Graham
	Mark Lye
	Tom Purtzer
T7	George Archer	70	−2
	Nick Faldo
	Raymond Floyd
	Hale Irwin
	Tom Kite
	Gary Koch

Source:^[7]

Second round

Friday, April 13, 1984

Place	Player	Score	To par
1	Mark Lye	69-66=135	−9
2	Tom Kite	70-68=138	−6
T3	Ben Crenshaw	67-72=139	−5
	Nick Faldo	70-69=139
	David Graham	69-70=139
T6	Isao Aoki	69-72=141	−3
	Andy Bean	71-70=141
	David Edwards	71-70=141
	Hale Irwin	70-71=141
	Larry Mize	71-70=141
	Lee Trevino	68-73=141
	Tom Watson	74-67=141

Source:^[8]

Third round

Saturday, April 14, 1984
Sunday, April 15, 1984

The third round had an hour-long weather delay and another thunderstorm hit shortly after 6 pm EST, which halted play for the day. Nineteen players did not complete the round on Saturday; the final pairing of Mark Lye and Tom Kite had just hit their tee shots at the par-3 12th hole. Play was resumed at 8 am on Sunday morning.^[9]

Place	Player	Score	To par
1	Tom Kite	70-68-69=207	−9
2	Mark Lye	69-66-73=208	−8
T3	Ben Crenshaw	67-72-70=209	−7
	Nick Faldo	70-69-70=209
	David Graham	69-70-70=209
6	Tom Watson	74-67-69=210	−6
T7	Rex Caldwell	71-71-69=211	−5
	Fred Couples	71-73-67=211
	Larry Nelson	76-69-66=211
T10	Wayne Levi	71-72-69=212	−4
	Larry Mize	71-70-71=212

Source:

Final round

Sunday, April 15, 1984

Final leaderboard

Champion

Silver Cup winner (low amateur)

(a) = amateur

(c) = past champion

Top 10

Place	Player	Score	To par	Money (US$)
1	Ben Crenshaw	67-72-70-68=277	−11	108,000
2	Tom Watson (c)	74-67-69-69=279	−9	64,800
T3	David Edwards	71-70-72-67=280	−8	34,800
	Gil Morgan	73-71-69-67=280
5	Larry Nelson	76-69-66-70=281	−7	24,000
T6	Ronnie Black	71-74-69-68=282	−6	19,425
	David Graham	69-70-70-73=282
	Tom Kite	70-68-69-75=282
	Mark Lye	69-66-73-74=282
10	Fred Couples	71-73-67-72=283	−5	16,200

Leaderboard below the top 10
Place	Player	Score	To par	Money ($)
T11	Rex Caldwell	71-71-69-73=284	−4	13,200
	Wayne Levi	71-72-69-72=284
	Larry Mize	71-70-71-72=284
	Jack Renner	71-73-71-69=284
T15	Nick Faldo	70-69-70-76=285	−3	10,200
	Raymond Floyd (c)	70-73-70-72=285
	Calvin Peete	79-66-70-70=285
T18	Andy Bean	71-70-72-73=286	−2	8,400
	Danny Edwards	72-71-70-73=286
	Jack Nicklaus (c)	73-73-70-70=286
T21	Jay Haas	74-71-70-72=287	−1	6,475
	Hale Irwin	70-71-74-72=287
	Gary Player (c)	71-72-73-71=287
	Payne Stewart	76-69-68-74=287
T25	Isao Aoki	69-72-73-74=288	E	4,680
	George Archer (c)	70-74-71-73=288
	Rick Fehr (a)	72-71-70-75=288		0
	Peter Jacobsen	72-70-75-71=288		4,680
	Greg Norman	75-71-73-69=288
	Tom Purtzer	69-74-76-69=288
T31	Bernhard Langer	73-70-74-72=289	+1	4,000
	Fuzzy Zoeller (c)	72-73-70-74=289
T33	Bruce Lietzke	75-70-75-70=290	+2	3,600
	Tsuneyuki Nakajima	75-70-70-75=290
T35	Gary Koch	70-75-70-76=291	+3	3,100
	Mark McCumber	73-71-74-73=291
	Dan Pohl	74-71-72-74=291
	Craig Stadler (c)	74-70-74-73=291
	Tom Weiskopf	74-71-74-72=291
40	Scott Simpson	72-70-76-74=292	+4	2,800
T41	Bob Lewis (a)	73-70-75-75=293	+5	0
	Andy North	76-68-80-69=293		2,600
43	Lee Trevino	68-73-74-79=294	+6	2,500
44	Morris Hatalsky	73-71-75-76=295	+7	2,300
45	David Ogrin	73-73-76-74=296	+8	2,200
T46	Clark Burroughs (a)	72-74-75-76=297	+9	0
	Curtis Strange	71-74-75-77=297		2,100
CUT	Seve Ballesteros (c)	73-74=147	+3
	Charles Coody (c)	75-72=147
	John Cook	73-74=147
	John Fought	73-74=147
	Pat McGowan	72-75=147
	Peter Oosterhuis	74-73=147
	Bill Rogers	76-71=147
	Hal Sutton	74-73=147
	Chip Beck	74-74=148	+4
	Gay Brewer (c)	74-74=148
	Lennie Clements	75-73=148
	Keith Fergus	74-74=148
	John Mahaffey	73-75=148
	Nathaniel Crosby (a)	73-76=149	+5
	Pat Lindsey	75-74=149
	Johnny Miller	74-75=149
	J. C. Snead	75-74=149
	Jim Thorpe	77-72=149
	Jim Colbert	73-77=150	+6
	Bob Eastwood	72-78=150
	Chris Perry (a)	73-77=150
	Clifton Pierce (a)	73-77=150
	Billy Casper (c)	73-78=151	+7
	Ed Fiori	73-78=151
	Jim Holtgrieve (a)	78-73=151
	Philip Parkin (a)	73-78=151
	Lanny Wadkins	74-77=151
	Tommy Aaron (c)	76-76=152	+8
	Bob Gilder	78-74=152
	Bob Goalby (c)	79-73=152
	Mike Nicolette	76-76=152
	David Tentis (a)	74-78=152
	Arnold Palmer (c)	77-76=153	+9
	Nick Price	77-76=153
	Mark Hayes	76-78=154	+10
	Doug Ford (c)	77-78=155	+11
	Jay Sigel (a)	79-76=155
	Billy Tuten (a)	80-75=155
	Art Wall Jr. (c)	75-81=156	+12
	Ralph Landrum	79-78=157	+13
	William Hoffer (a)	83-82=165	+21

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
Crenshaw	−7	−8	−8	−8	−8	−8	−8	−9	−10	−11	−10	−11	−11	−11	−12	−12	−11	−11
Watson	−5	−6	−6	−7	−6	−6	−6	−7	−7	−6	−6	−6	−7	−7	−7	−8	−8	−9
Edwards	−4	−5	−6	−6	−6	−6	−7	−7	−7	−6	−6	−6	−6	−6	−7	−7	−7	−8
Morgan	−4	−5	−5	−5	−5	−6	−5	−6	−6	−6	−6	−6	−6	−6	−7	−8	−8	−8
Nelson	−6	−6	−7	−7	−7	−7	−7	−7	−8	−8	−9	−7	−8	−8	−8	−8	−6	−7
Black	−2	−2	−3	−3	−3	−3	−3	−4	−4	−4	−4	−4	−4	−4	−4	−5	−5	−6
Graham	−5	−6	−6	−6	−5	−5	−5	−6	−6	−6	−6	−6	−7	−6	−7	−7	−7	−6
Kite	−9	−10	−10	−9	−9	−9	−9	−9	−9	−8	−8	−5	−5	−5	−6	−6	−6	−6
Lye	−9	−9	−8	−8	−6	−6	−6	−7	−8	−7	−6	−6	−6	−6	−6	−6	−6	−6
Couples	−5	−5	−4	−2	−2	−2	−2	−3	−3	−3	−3	−3	−4	−4	−5	−5	−5	−5

Cumulative tournament scores, relative to par