1999 Masters Tournament

The 1999 Masters Tournament was the 63rd Masters Tournament, held from April 8–11 at Augusta National Golf Club in Augusta, Georgia. José María Olazábal won his second Masters championship, two strokes ahead of runner-up Davis Love III and three strokes ahead of Greg Norman, who experienced another disappointing back nine at Augusta.^[1][2]

1999 Masters Tournament

Front cover of the 1999 Masters Journal
Tournament information
Dates	April 8–11, 1999
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 European Tour Japan Golf Tour
Statistics
Par	72
Length	6,985 yards (6,387 m)
Field	96 players, 56 after cut
Cut	148 (+4)
Prize fund	US$4,000,000
Winner's share	$720,000
Champion
José María Olazábal
280 (−8)
Location map
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Course

Main article: Augusta National Golf Club

Hole	Name	Yards	Par		Hole	Name	Yards	Par
1	Tea Olive	410	4		10	Camellia	485	4
2	Pink Dogwood	575	5		11	White Dogwood	455	4
3	Flowering Peach	350	4		12	Golden Bell	155	3
4	Flowering Crab Apple	205	3		13	Azalea	485	5
5	Magnolia	435	4		14	Chinese Fir	405	4
6	Juniper	180	3		15	Firethorn	500	5
7	Pampas	365	4		16	Redbud	170	3
8	Yellow Jasmine	550	5		17	Nandina	425	4
9	Carolina Cherry	430	4		18	Holly	405	4
Out		3,500	36		In		3,485	36
Source:[3]					Total		6,985	72

Field

1. Masters champions

Tommy Aaron, Seve Ballesteros, Gay Brewer, Billy Casper, Charles Coody, Fred Couples (10,13,14,15,16), Ben Crenshaw, Nick Faldo, Raymond Floyd, Doug Ford, Bernhard Langer (15,16), Sandy Lyle, Larry Mize, José María Olazábal (10,15,16), Mark O'Meara (3,12,14,15,16), Arnold Palmer, Gary Player, Craig Stadler, Tom Watson (13,14,15,16), Tiger Woods (10,13,14,15,16), Ian Woosnam (10,15), Fuzzy Zoeller

• George Archer, Jack Burke Jr., Bob Goalby, Herman Keiser, Byron Nelson, Jack Nicklaus (10), Gene Sarazen, Sam Snead, and Art Wall Jr. did not play.

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

Ernie Els (10,13,15,16), Lee Janzen (14,15,16), Steve Jones (13,15), Corey Pavin

3. The Open champions (last five years)

John Daly, Tom Lehman (11,14,15,16), Justin Leonard (5,10,14,15,16), Nick Price (4,11,12,13,14,15,16)

4. PGA champions (last five years)

Mark Brooks, Steve Elkington (5,12,13,15,16), Davis Love III (12,13,14,15,16), Vijay Singh (13,14,15,16)

5. The Players Championship winners (last three years)

David Duval (10,11,13,14,15,16)

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

Hank Kuehne (a), Tom McKnight (a)

7. The Amateur champion

Sergio García (a)

8. U.S. Amateur Public Links champion

Trevor Immelman (a)

9. U.S. Mid-Amateur champion

Spider Miller (a)

10. Top 24 players and ties from the 1998 Masters

Paul Azinger (11), Mark Calcavecchia (14,15,16), Stewart Cink (11,15,16), Darren Clarke (15,16), Jim Furyk (11,13,14,15,16), Jay Haas, Scott Hoch (14,15,16), John Huston (13,14,15,16), Per-Ulrik Johansson, Matt Kuchar (a) (11), Jeff Maggert (11,13,14,15,16), Scott McCarron, Phil Mickelson (11,13,14,15,16), Colin Montgomerie (15,16), David Toms, Willie Wood

11. Top 16 players and ties from the 1998 U.S. Open

Stuart Appleby (13,15,16), Jesper Parnevik (14,15,16), Jeff Sluman (13,14,15,16), Payne Stewart (13,14,15,16), Steve Stricker (12,14,15,16), Bob Tway (14,15,16), Lee Westwood (15,16)

12. Top eight players and ties from 1998 PGA Championship

Frank Lickliter, Billy Mayfair (13,14,15,16)

13. Winners of PGA Tour events since the previous Masters

Billy Andrade, Olin Browne, Brandel Chamblee, John Cook (14,15,16), Trevor Dodds, Joe Durant, Fred Funk (14,16), J. P. Hayes, Tim Herron, Gabriel Hjertstedt, Rocco Mediate, Steve Pate, Chris Perry, Hal Sutton (14,15,16)

14. Top 30 players from the 1998 PGA Tour money list

Glen Day (15,16), Bob Estes (15,16), Andrew Magee (15,16), Scott Verplank (15,16)

15. Top 50 players from the final 1998 world ranking

Thomas Bjørn (16), Brad Faxon (16), Carlos Franco (16), Bill Glasson (16), Brandt Jobe (16), Shigeki Maruyama (16), Greg Norman (16), Masashi Ozaki (16), Loren Roberts (16), Brian Watts (16)

16. Top 50 players from world ranking published March 7

Craig Parry

17. Special foreign invitation

Miguel Ángel Jiménez, Patrik Sjöland

All the amateurs except Matt Kuchar and John Miller were playing in their first Masters, as were Thomas Bjørn, Brandel Chamblee, Glen Day, Trevor Dodds, Joe Durant, Carlos Franco, J. P. Hayes, Brandt Jobe, Frank Lickliter, Patrik Sjöland and Brian Watts.

Round summaries

First round

Thursday, April 8, 1999 & Friday, April 9, 1999

The first round was suspended by darkness due to earlier rain delays and completed on the following day.

Place	Player	Score	To par[4]
T1	Brandel Chamblee	69	−3
	Davis Love III
	Scott McCarron
	Nick Price
T5	Lee Janzen	70	−2
	Justin Leonard
	Andrew Magee
	Colin Montgomerie
	José María Olazábal
	Mark O'Meara
	Jeff Sluman

Second round

Friday, April 9, 1999

Place	Player	Score	To par[4]
1	José María Olazábal	70-66=136	−8
2	Scott McCarron	69-68=137	−7
T3	Lee Janzen	70-69=139	−5
	Greg Norman	71-68=139
T5	Davis Love III	69-72=141	−3
	Nick Price	69-72=141
T7	Brandel Chamblee	69-73=142	−2
	Steve Elkington	72-70=142
	Bill Glasson	72-70=142
	Justin Leonard	70-72=142
	Bernhard Langer	76-66=142
	Colin Montgomerie	70-72=142

Amateurs: García (+3), McKnight (+3), Immelman (+4), Kuchar (+4), Kuehne (+8), Miller (+18).

Third round

Saturday, April 10, 1999

Place	Player	Score	To par[4]
1	José María Olazábal	70-66-73=209	−7
2	Greg Norman	71-68-71=210	−6
T3	Davis Love III	69-72-70=211	−5
	Steve Pate	71-75-65=211
T5	Ernie Els	71-72-69=212	−4
	Bob Estes	71-72-69=212
	Carlos Franco	72-72-68=212
	Lee Janzen	70-69-73=212
T9	Steve Elkington	72-70-71=213	−3
	Scott McCarron	69-68-76=213
	Colin Montgomerie	70-72-71=213
	Nick Price	69-72-72=213

Final round

José María Olazábal won his second Masters title

External videos
Full final round coverage on CBS on YouTube

Sunday, April 11, 1999

Final leaderboard

Champion

Silver Cup winner (low amateur)

(a) = amateur

(c) = past champion

Top 10

Place	Player	Score	To par	Money (US$)
1	José María Olazábal (c)	70-66-73-71=280	−8	720,000
2	Davis Love III	69-72-70-71=282	−6	432,000
3	Greg Norman	71-68-71-73=283	−5	272,000
T4	Bob Estes	71-72-69-72=284	−4	176,000
	Steve Pate	71-75-65-73=284
T6	David Duval	71-74-70-70=285	−3	125,200
	Carlos Franco	72-72-68-73=285
	Phil Mickelson	74-69-71-71=285
	Nick Price	69-72-72-72=285
	Lee Westwood	75-71-68-71=285

Leaderboard below the top 10
Place	Player	Score	To par	Money ($)
T11	Steve Elkington	72-70-71-74=287	−1	92,000
	Bernhard Langer (c)	76-66-72-73=287
	Colin Montgomerie	70-72-71-74=287
T14	Jim Furyk	72-73-70-73=288	E	70,000
	Lee Janzen	70-69-73-76=288
	Brandt Jobe	72-71-74-71=288
	Ian Woosnam (c)	71-74-71-72=288
T18	Brandel Chamblee	69-73-75-72=289	+1	52,160
	Bill Glasson	72-70-73-74=289
	Justin Leonard	70-72-73-74=289
	Scott McCarron	69-68-76-76=289
	Tiger Woods (c)	72-72-70-75=289
23	Larry Mize (c)	76-70-72-72=290	+2	41,600
T24	Brad Faxon	74-73-68-76=291	+3	35,200
	Per-Ulrik Johansson	75-72-71-73=291
	Vijay Singh	72-76-71-72=291
T27	Stewart Cink	74-70-71-77=292	+4	29,000
	Fred Couples (c)	74-71-76-71=292
	Ernie Els	71-72-69-80=292
	Rocco Mediate	73-74-69-76=292
T31	Tom Lehman	73-72-73-75=293	+5	23,720
	Shigeki Maruyama	78-70-71-74=293
	Mark O'Meara (c)	70-76-69-78=293
	Jeff Sluman	70-75-70-78=293
	Brian Watts	73-73-70-77=293
T36	John Huston	74-72-71-77=294	+6	20,100
	Andrew Magee	70-77-72-75=294
T38	Billy Andrade	76-72-72-75=295	+7	17,200
	Mark Brooks	76-72-75-72=295
	Raymond Floyd (c)	74-73-72-76=295
	Sergio García (a)	72-75-75-73=295		0
	Craig Stadler (c)	72-76-70-77=295		17,200
	Steve Stricker	75-72-69-79=295
T44	Jay Haas	74-69-79-75=297	+9	14,000
	Tim Herron	75-69-74-79=297
	Scott Hoch	75-73-70-79=297
	Tom McKnight (a)	73-74-73-77=297		0
T48	Sandy Lyle (c)	71-77-70-80=298	+10	12,000
	Craig Parry	75-73-73-77=298
T50	Matt Kuchar (a)	77-71-73-78=299	+11	0
	Chris Perry	73-72-74-80=299		10,960
T52	Olin Browne	74-74-72-80=300	+12	9,980
	John Daly	72-76-71-81=300
	Payne Stewart	73-75-77-75=300
	Bob Tway	75-73-78-74=300
56	Trevor Immelman (a)	72-76-78-79=305	+17	0
CUT	Thomas Bjørn	76-73=149	+5
	Fred Funk	76-73=149
	Miguel Ángel Jiménez	72-77=149
	Frank Lickliter	72-77=149
	Fuzzy Zoeller (c)	72-77=149
	Stuart Appleby	73-77=150	+6
	John Cook	76-74=150
	J. P. Hayes	76-74=150
	Masashi Ozaki	71-79=150
	Charles Coody (c)	77-74=151	+7
	Jesper Parnevik	74-77=151
	Patrik Sjöland	76-75=151
	Tom Watson (c)	74-77=151
	Willie Wood	79-72=151
	Paul Azinger	74-78=152	+8
	Mark Calcavecchia	75-77=152
	Gabriel Hjertstedt	74-78=152
	Hank Kuehne (a)	74-78=152
	Loren Roberts	76-76=152
	Darren Clarke	75-78=153	+9
	Ben Crenshaw (c)	74-79=153
	Nick Faldo (c)	80-73=153
	Billy Mayfair	78-75=153
	Corey Pavin	75-78=153
	Jeff Maggert	78-76=154	+10
	David Toms	78-76=154
	Scott Verplank	78-76=154
	Glen Day	78-77=155	+11
	Trevor Dodds	78-77=155
	Hal Sutton	79-76=155
	Seve Ballesteros (c)	78-78=156	+12
	Steve Jones	77-79=156
	Gary Player (c)	79-79=158	+14
	Tommy Aaron (c)	77-82=159	+15
	Arnold Palmer (c)	83-78=161	+17
	Spider Miller (a)	81-81=162	+18
	Joe Durant	87-79=166	+22
WD	Gay Brewer (c)	80	+8
	Billy Casper (c)	86	+14
	Doug Ford (c)	88	+16

Sources:^[5][6]

Scorecard

Final round

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
Olazábal	−7	−7	−6	−5	−4	−5	−5	−5	−5	−6	−6	−6	−7	−7	−7	−8	−8	−8
Love III	−5	−5	−4	−3	−3	−3	−4	−4	−5	−5	−5	−5	−5	−5	−5	−6	−6	−6
Norman	−6	−6	−5	−5	−4	−4	−4	−5	−5	−5	−6	−5	−7	−6	−5	−5	−5	−5
Estes	−4	−4	−3	−3	−3	−3	−3	−4	−5	−5	−4	−4	−4	−4	−4	−4	−4	−4
Pate	−5	−5	−5	−5	−5	−5	−5	−5	−5	−5	−4	−4	−5	−5	−6	−5	−4	−4
Duval	−1	−3	−2	−2	−2	−2	−3	−4	−4	−5	−3	−3	−4	−3	−4	−3	−2	−3
Franco	−3	−4	−4	−4	−3	−3	−3	−3	−3	−3	−3	−2	−3	−2	−3	−3	−3	−3
Mickelson	−2	−1	E	E	+2	+2	+1	E	−1	−1	E	+1	−1	−1	−2	−2	−2	−3
Price	−4	−4	−3	−3	−3	−2	−3	−3	−2	−2	−2	−2	−2	−3	−3	−3	−3	−3
Westwood	−2	−3	−2	−3	−4	−4	−5	−5	−5	−4	−2	−1	−2	−2	−3	−3	−3	−3

Cumulative tournament scores, relative to par

Eagle

Birdie

Bogey

Double bogey

Source:^[7]