1991 Masters Tournament

The 1991 Masters Tournament was the 55th Masters Tournament held April 11–14 at Augusta National Golf Club in Augusta, Georgia. Ian Woosnam won his only major title, one stroke ahead of runner-up José María Olazábal.^[2][3]

1991 Masters Tournament

Front cover of the 1991 Masters Journal
Tournament information
Dates	April 11–14, 1991
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	87 players, 57 after cut
Cut	146 (+2)
Prize fund	US$1.35 million
Winner's share	$243,000
Champion
Ian Woosnam
277 (−11)
Location map
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Woosnam, Olazábal, and two-time champion Tom Watson, age 41, were all tied at −11 going into the 72nd hole. Olazábal, a group ahead of the final pairing of Woosnam and Watson, went from fairway bunker to greenside bunker and failed to hole a 45-foot (14 m) par putt. Watson, who had eagled both 13 and 15,^[4] missed the fairway right with his tee shot and then hit his second shot into a greenside bunker. He chipped out and three-putted for a double bogey.^[5] Woosnam then holed an 8-foot (2.4 m) par putt for the green jacket.^[6][7][8]

It was the fourth consecutive year that the Masters champion was from the United Kingdom, which had no winners prior to Sandy Lyle's victory in 1988. Through 2017, Woosnam is the only winner at Augusta from Wales. Olazábal later won two Masters, in 1994 and 1999.

Phil Mickelson, a 20-year-old junior at Arizona State, was the low amateur at 290 (+2) and tied for 46th place.

Field

1. Masters champions

Tommy Aaron, George Archer, Seve Ballesteros (3,9), Gay Brewer, Billy Casper, Charles Coody, Ben Crenshaw (9,12), Nick Faldo (3,10), Raymond Floyd (2,9), Doug Ford, Bernhard Langer (9), Sandy Lyle, Larry Mize (9,10,13), Jack Nicklaus (9), Arnold Palmer, Gary Player (9), Craig Stadler (9,10), Tom Watson (9,14), Fuzzy Zoeller (9,10)

• Jack Burke Jr., Bob Goalby, Ben Hogan, Herman Keiser, Cary Middlecoff, Byron Nelson, Henry Picard, Gene Sarazen, Sam Snead, and Art Wall Jr. did not play.

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

Hale Irwin (12,13), Scott Simpson (9,10), Curtis Strange (9,14)

3. The Open champions (last five years)

Mark Calcavecchia (9,13,14), Greg Norman (10,12,13)

4. PGA champions (last five years)

Wayne Grady (13), Larry Nelson (10), Jeff Sluman (10), Bob Tway (12,13)

• Payne Stewart (11,12,13,14) was injured and did not play

5. U.S. Amateur champion and runner-up

Phil Mickelson (a,12), Manny Zerman (a)

6. The Amateur champion

Rolf Muntz (a)

7. U.S. Amateur Public Links champion

Michael Combs (a)

8. U.S. Mid-Amateur champion

Jim Stuart (a)

9. Top 24 players and ties from the 1990 Masters

Bill Britton (11), Fred Couples (11,13,14), Donnie Hammond, Scott Hoch (10), John Huston (10,13), Steve Jones (10), Tom Kite (12,13,14), José María Olazábal (10,12), Masashi Ozaki, Ronan Rafferty, Lee Trevino, Lanny Wadkins (12,13,14)

10. Top 16 players and ties from the 1990 U.S. Open

Jim Benepe, Mark Brooks, Billy Ray Brown, Mike Donald, John Inman, Tom Sieckmann, Tim Simpson (11,12,13)

11. Top eight players and ties from 1990 PGA Championship

Chip Beck (12,13,14), Billy Mayfair (13), Mark McNulty, Gil Morgan (12,13), Don Pooley, Loren Roberts (13)

12. Winners of PGA Tour events since the previous Masters

Paul Azinger (13,14), Jay Don Blake, Steve Elkington (13), David Frost, Jim Gallagher Jr. (13), Morris Hatalsky, Nolan Henke, Kenny Knox, Wayne Levi (13), Davis Love III (13), Andrew Magee, Rocco Mediate, Jodie Mudd (13), Mark O'Meara (13,14), Steve Pate, Corey Pavin (13), Ted Schulz, Joey Sindelar, Ian Woosnam

• Peter Persons, the winner of the Chattanooga Classic was not invited.

13. Top 30 players from the 1990 PGA Tour money list

John Cook, Ian Baker-Finch, Robert Gamez, Peter Jacobsen, Nick Price, Brian Tennyson

14. Members of the U.S. 1989 Ryder Cup team

Ken Green, Mark McCumber

15. Special foreign invitation

Frankie Miñoza, Tsuneyuki Nakajima

Round summaries

First round

Thursday, April 11, 1991

Place	Player	Score	To par
T1	Jim Gallagher Jr.	67	−5
	Mark McCumber
	Lanny Wadkins
T4	Fred Couples	68	−4
	Jack Nicklaus
	José María Olazábal
	Masashi Ozaki
	Tom Watson
T9	Mark Brooks	69	−3
	Wayne Levi
	Phil Mickelson (a)
	Scott Simpson

Second round

Friday, April 12, 1991

Place	Player	Score	To par
1	Tom Watson	68-68=136	−8
T2	Mark Calcavecchia	70-68=138	−6
	Mark McCumber	67-71=138
	Lanny Wadkins	67-71=138
	Ian Woosnam	72-66=138
T6	Billy Ray Brown	74-65=139	−5
	Raymond Floyd	71-68=139
	Bernhard Langer	71-68=139
	José María Olazábal	68-71=139
T10	Hale Irwin	70-70=140	−4
	Jodie Mudd	70-70=140
	Jack Nicklaus	68-72=140
	Fuzzy Zoeller	70-70=140

Amateurs: Mickelson (−2), Zerman (−2), Stuart (+9), Combs (+11), Muntz (+11)

Source:^[9]

Third round

Saturday, April 13, 1991

Place	Player	Score	To par
1	Ian Woosnam	72-66-67=205	−11
2	Tom Watson	68-68-70=206	−10
T3	José María Olazábal	68-71-69=208	−8
	Lanny Wadkins	67-71-70=208
5	Larry Mize	72-71-66=209	−7
T6	Ian Baker-Finch	71-70-69=210	−6
	Raymond Floyd	71-68-71=210
	Andrew Magee	70-72-68=210
T9	Ben Crenshaw	70-73-68=211	−5
	Peter Jacobsen	73-70-68=211
	Mark McCumber	67-71-73=211
	Jodie Mudd	70-70-71=211
	Scott Simpson	69-73-69=211

Final round

Sunday, April 14, 1991

Final leaderboard

Champion

Silver Cup winner (low amateur)

(a) = amateur

(c) = past champion

Top 10

Place	Player	Score	To par	Money (US$)
1	Ian Woosnam	72-66-67-72=277	−11	243,000
2	José María Olazábal	68-71-69-70=278	−10	145,800
T3	Ben Crenshaw (c)	70-73-68-68=279	−9	64,800
	Steve Pate	72-73-69-65=279
	Lanny Wadkins	67-71-70-71=279
	Tom Watson (c)	68-68-70-73=279
T7	Ian Baker-Finch	71-70-69-70=280	−8	42,100
	Andrew Magee	70-72-68-70=280
	Jodie Mudd	70-70-71-69=280
T10	Hale Irwin	70-70-75-66=281	−7	35,150
	Tsuneyuki Nakajima	74-71-67-69=281

Leaderboard below the top 10
Place	Player	Score	To par	Money ($)
T12	Mark Calcavecchia	70-68-77-67=282	−6	26,500
	Nick Faldo (c)	72-73-67-70=282
	Billy Mayfair	72-72-72-66=282
	Craig Stadler (c)	70-72-71-69=282
	Fuzzy Zoeller (c)	70-70-75-67=282
T17	Raymond Floyd (c)	71-68-71-73=283	−5	18,920
	Jim Gallagher Jr.	67-74-71-71=283
	Peter Jacobsen	73-70-68-72=283
	Mark McCumber	67-71-73-72=283
	Larry Mize (c)	72-71-66-74=283
T22	Seve Ballesteros (c)	75-70-69-70=284	−4	12,960
	Steve Elkington	72-69-74-69=284
	Rocco Mediate	72-69-71-72=284
	Corey Pavin	73-70-69-72=284
	Scott Simpson	69-73-69-73=284
T27	Jay Don Blake	74-72-68-71=285	−3	10,200
	Mark O'Meara	74-68-72-71=285
T29	Morris Hatalsky	71-72-70-73=286	−2	9,200
	John Huston	73-72-71-70=286
	Jeff Sluman	71-71-72-72=286
T32	David Frost	71-73-71-72=287	−1	8,000
	Bernhard Langer (c)	71-68-74-74=287
	Wayne Levi	69-73-70-75=287
T35	Mark Brooks	69-72-74-73=288	E	6,371
	Fred Couples	68-73-72-75=288
	Ken Green	70-74-71-73=288
	Scott Hoch	72-70-73-73=288
	Mark McNulty	72-74-75-67=288
	Jack Nicklaus (c)	68-72-72-76=288
	Masashi Ozaki	68-77-69-74=288
T42	Billy Ray Brown	74-65-77-73=289	+1	4,875
	Donnie Hammond	72-73-73-71=289
	Davis Love III	72-71-74-72=289
	Curtis Strange	72-74-72-71=289
T46	Phil Mickelson (a)	69-73-74-74=290	+2	0
	Don Pooley	72-71-69-78=290		4,050
	Joey Sindelar	72-70-70-78=290
T49	Tommy Aaron (c)	70-74-73-74=291	+3	3,533
	Nick Price	72-73-72-74=291
	Lee Trevino	71-72-77-71=291
52	Paul Azinger	72-73-67-80=292	+4	3,300
T53	Nolan Henke	73-71-72-77=293	+5	3,200
	Brian Tennyson	78-67-75-73=293
55	Larry Nelson	74-69-76-75=294	+6	3,100
56	Tom Kite	71-75-78-71=295	+7	3,100
57	Manny Zerman (a)	71-71-77-80=299	+11	0
CUT	Bill Britton	72-75=147	+3
	John Cook	77-70=147
	Greg Norman	78-69=147
	Gary Player (c)	72-75=147
	Billy Casper (c)	77-71=148	+4
	Mike Donald	73-75=148
	Steve Jones	73-75=148
	Tom Sieckmann	72-76=148
	Robert Gamez	72-77=149	+5
	Ronan Rafferty	73-76=149
	Loren Roberts	72-77=149
	Chip Beck	74-76=150	+6
	Wayne Grady	74-76=150
	Bob Tway	75-75=150
	Kenny Knox	72-79=151	+7
	Tim Simpson	73-78=151
	Jim Benepe	78-74=152	+8
	Gay Brewer (c)	78-74=152
	Ted Schulz	74-78=152
	Sandy Lyle (c)	77-76=153	+9
	Frankie Miñoza	78-75=153
	Gil Morgan	77-76=153
	Jim Stuart (a)	81-72=153
	Charles Coody (c)	77-77=154	+10
	Michael Combs (a)	81-74=155	+11
	John Inman	75-80=155
	Rolf Muntz (a)	80-75=155
	Arnold Palmer (c)	78-77=155
WD	George Archer (c)	73	+1
	Doug Ford (c)

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
Woosnam	−11	−12	−12	−11	−12	−11	−11	−11	−12	−11	−11	−11	−10	−10	−11	−11	−11	−11
Olazábal	−9	−9	−9	−9	−10	−10	−11	−10	−9	−8	8	−8	−9	−10	−11	−11	−11	−10
Crenshaw	−5	−6	−6	−5	−5	−5	−6	−7	−7	−7	−7	−7	−7	−7	−9	−9	−9	−9
Pate	−2	−3	−3	−4	−4	−4	−4	−6	−6	−6	−6	−6	−7	−7	−8	−8	−9	−9
Wadkins	−8	−9	−9	−9	−7	−7	−8	−9	−9	−9	−9	−9	−9	−9	−9	−9	−8	−9
Watson	−9	−10	−10	−10	−9	−9	−9	−9	−9	−10	−9	−7	−9	−9	−11	−11	−11	−9

Cumulative tournament scores, relative to par

Eagle

Birdie

Bogey

Double bogey

Source:^{[2] [dead link]}