2004 Masters Tournament

The 2004 Masters Tournament was the 68th Masters Tournament, held April 8–11 at Augusta National Golf Club in Augusta, Georgia. Phil Mickelson, 33, won his first major championship with a birdie on the final hole to win by one stroke over runner-up Ernie Els.^[1][2] The purse was $6.0 million and the winner's share was $1.17 million.

2004 Masters Tournament

Front cover of the 2004 Masters Journal
Tournament information
Dates	April 8–11, 2004
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	7,290 yards (6,666 m)
Field	93 players, 44 after cut
Cut	148 (+4)
Prize fund	US$6,000,000
Winner's share	$1,170,000
Champion
Phil Mickelson
279 (−9)
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This was the 50th consecutive and final Masters appearance for four-time champion Arnold Palmer.

Playoff alteration

Prior to this Masters, the sudden-death playoff was changed to begin on the 18th hole and alternate with the 10th hole. This new starting point was first used the following year in 2005. When the playoff format was changed to sudden-death for 1976, it began at the 10th hole, then went to the 11th, and was first used in 1979.^[3] Prior to 1976, playoffs at Augusta were full 18-hole rounds on Monday, and the last was won by Billy Casper in 1970. The exception was the first playoff in 1935, which was 36 holes.

Course

Main article: Augusta National Golf Club

Hole	Name	Yards	Par		Hole	Name	Yards	Par
1	Tea Olive	435	4		10	Camellia	495	4
2	Pink Dogwood	575	5		11	White Dogwood	490	4
3	Flowering Peach	350	4		12	Golden Bell	155	3
4	Flowering Crab Apple	205	3		13	Azalea	510	5
5	Magnolia	455	4		14	Chinese Fir	440	4
6	Juniper	180	3		15	Firethorn	500	5
7	Pampas	410	4		16	Redbud	170	3
8	Yellow Jasmine	570	5		17	Nandina	425	4
9	Carolina Cherry	460	4		18	Holly	465	4
Out		3,640	36		In		3,650	36
					Total		7,290	72

Field

1. Masters champions

Tommy Aaron, Charles Coody, Fred Couples (14,16,17), Ben Crenshaw, Nick Faldo, Raymond Floyd, Bernhard Langer, Sandy Lyle, Larry Mize, Jack Nicklaus, José María Olazábal (10), Mark O'Meara (10), Arnold Palmer, Gary Player, Vijay Singh (10,12,14,15,16,17), Craig Stadler, Tom Watson, Mike Weir (10,11,14,15,16,17), Tiger Woods (2,3,4,10,12,14,15,16,17), Ian Woosnam, Fuzzy Zoeller

• George Archer, Seve Ballesteros, Gay Brewer, Jack Burke Jr., Billy Casper, Doug Ford, Bob Goalby, and Byron Nelson did not play.

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

Retief Goosen (10,14,16,17)

• Jim Furyk (10,11,14,16,17) did not play.

3. The Open champions (last five years)

Ben Curtis (12,16,17), Ernie Els (10,11,14,16,17), Paul Lawrie (10)

• David Duval did not play.

4. PGA champions (last five years)

Rich Beem (10,16), Shaun Micheel (13,14,16,17), David Toms (10,11,14,16,17)

5. The Players Championship winners (last three years)

Davis Love III (10,12,14,15,16,17), Craig Perks, Adam Scott (15,16,17)

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

Nick Flanagan (a), Casey Wittenberg (a)

7. The Amateur champion

Gary Wolstenholme (a)

8. U.S. Amateur Public Links champion

Brandt Snedeker (a)

9. U.S. Mid-Amateur champion

Nathan Smith (a)

10. Top 16 players and ties from the 2003 Masters

Jonathan Byrd, Ángel Cabrera, K. J. Choi (14,16,17), Tim Clark (13), Jeff Maggert, Len Mattiace, Phil Mickelson (14,16,17), Scott Verplank (14,16,17)

11. Top eight players and ties from the 2003 U.S. Open

Freddie Jacobson (16,17), Stephen Leaney (16,17), Kenny Perry (14,16,17), Nick Price (14,16,17), Justin Rose

12. Top four players and ties from the 2003 Open Championship

Thomas Bjørn (16,17)

13. Top four players and ties from 2003 PGA Championship

Chad Campbell (14,15,16,17), Alex Čejka (16,17)

14. Top 40 players from the 2003 PGA Tour money list

Robert Allenby (16,17), Stuart Appleby (15,16,17), Briny Baird, Stewart Cink (17), Chris DiMarco (16,17), Bob Estes (16), Brad Faxon (16,17), Steve Flesch (17), Fred Funk (16,17), Jay Haas (16,17), Tim Herron (16), Charles Howell III (16,17), Jonathan Kaye (15,16,17), Jerry Kelly (16,17), Justin Leonard (16,17), J. L. Lewis, Shigeki Maruyama (16,17), Rocco Mediate (16,17), Tim Petrovic, Chris Riley (16,17), John Rollins, Jeff Sluman, Kirk Triplett (17), Bob Tway (16,17)

15. Top 10 players from the 2004 PGA Tour money list on March 28

John Daly

16. Top 50 players from the final 2003 world ranking

Michael Campbell, Paul Casey (17), Darren Clarke (17), Sergio García (17), Pádraig Harrington (17), Toshimitsu Izawa, Peter Lonard (17), Colin Montgomerie (17), Ian Poulter (17), Phillip Price, Eduardo Romero

17. Top 50 players from world ranking published March 28

Brian Davis, Todd Hamilton, Trevor Immelman, Craig Parry

18. Special foreign invitation

Zhang Lianwei

Round-by-round results

First round

Thursday, April 8, 2004
Friday, April 9, 2004

23-year-old Englishman Justin Rose posted a five-under 67 to lead after the first round. Americans Chris DiMarco and Jay Haas shot 69 (−3) and two-time U.S. Open champion Ernie Els was among a group tied for fourth with 70 (−2). Among the seven players tied at 71 (−1) was two-time Masters champion, José María Olazábal. Phil Mickelson shot an even-par 72, and three-time Masters champion Tiger Woods shot a 75 (+3). The winner of the previous major (2003 PGA Championship), Shaun Micheel, was at even-par 72. Play was suspended for roughly two hours due to rain, so 18 players completed their opening round on Friday morning.

Place	Player	Score	To par
1	Justin Rose	67	−5
T2	Chris DiMarco	69	−3
	Jay Haas
T4	Alex Čejka	70	−2
	Darren Clarke
	Ernie Els
	Chris Riley
T8	K. J. Choi	71	−1
	Charles Howell III
	Bernhard Langer
	Colin Montgomerie
	José María Olazábal
	Phillip Price
	Kirk Triplett

Second round

Friday, April 9, 2004

First round leader Rose put together another good round (71) to take the 36-hole lead at 138 (−6). Olazábal shot a 69 to close within two strokes of the lead in a tie for second with Alex Čejka, who shot 70. Mickelson, trying to remove the best player never to win a major championship label, moved into a share of fourth with a 69, alongside K. J. Choi. Davis Love III was one of two to shoot the round of the day with a 67 (−5), which moved him into a tie for sixth with Els, DiMarco, Charles Howell III, and 1992 champion Fred Couples. Most notables made the cut at 148 (+4), but among those failing to advance were defending champion Mike Weir and Ben Curtis, the 2003 Open Champion.

Place	Player	Score	To par
1	Justin Rose	67-71=138	−6
T2	Alex Čejka	70-70=140	−4
	José María Olazábal	71-69=140
T4	K. J. Choi	71-70=141	−3
	Phil Mickelson	72-69=141
T6	Fred Couples	73-69=142	−2
	Chris DiMarco	69-73=142
	Ernie Els	70-72=142
	Charles Howell III	71-71=142
	Davis Love III	75-67=142

Amateurs: Snedeker (+4), Wittenberg (+4), Smith (+6), Flanagan (+8), Wolstenholme (+9).

Third round

Saturday, April 10, 2004

Mickelson moved from fourth to a share of the 54-hole lead with a three-under 69, while the top three golfers after round two collapsed. Rose shot an 81, Olazábal a 79, and Čejka a 78. This collective meltdown by the top three allowed Mickelson and DiMarco to rise to the top. DiMarco finished tied for the 54-hole lead with a four-under 68. Paul Casey put together a 68 as well to move within two strokes of the co-leaders at the end of the day. Els continued his steady play with a one-under 71 to move into a three-way tie for fourth. Kirk Triplett and Freddie Jacobson put themselves in contention at seventh and eighth, respectively.

Place	Player	Score	To par
T1	Chris DiMarco	69-73-68=210	−6
	Phil Mickelson	72-69-69=210
3	Paul Casey	75-69-68=212	−4
T4	K. J. Choi	71-70-72=213	−3
	Ernie Els	70-72-71=213
	Bernhard Langer	71-73-69=213
7	Kirk Triplett	71-74-69=214	−2
8	Freddie Jacobson	74-74-67=215	−1
T9	Stewart Cink	74-73-69=216	E
	Fred Couples	73-69-74=216
	Jay Haas	69-75-72=216
	Pádraig Harrington	74-74-68=216
	Davis Love III	75-67-74=216
	Nick Price	72-73-71=216

Final round

Sunday, April 11, 2004

Summary

Phil Mickelson won his first Masters title

External videos
Full final round coverage on CBS on YouTube

In one of the most exciting back nines in Masters history, Mickelson dueled Els to claim his first major championship. Mickelson shot a final round 69, sealed with an 18-foot (5 m) birdie on the 18th green to win by a stroke. Playing two groups ahead of Mickelson, Els started the day at −3 and posted a 67 (−5). As Mickelson approached the final hole, Els' total of 280 (−8) appeared enough to at least get him into a playoff. Els stumbled out of the gate with two bogeys in his first five holes, but quickly regained his form. He collected two eagles on his round, at the par-5 8th and 13th holes. Els also connected on a birdie at the 15th to get him to −8. Seeing his first major possibly slip away with a 38 (+2) on his front nine, Mickelson had to match Els' fire on the back nine, and shot a bogey-free 31, with birdies on five of the final seven holes. Mickelson birdied the par-3 12th and par-5 13th. He briefly tied Els with his third consecutive birdie at the par-4 14th, then had a disappointing par on the par-5 15th. At the par-3 16th, Mickelson put his tee shot 20 feet (6 m) above the pin and holed the dramatic putt to tie for the lead. He remained tied heading to the final tee, and when his approach shot landed on the green, a winning putt was before him. As Mickelson sunk the putt, he jumped for joy as he won his first major title.^[1][2]

K. J. Choi finished third, which was his best major finish, with a final round 69 to total 282 (−6). Sergio García shot the round of the tournament with a 66 (−6) to tie for fourth with two-time Masters champion Bernhard Langer. Four major champions, including two former Masters champions (Vijay Singh, Couples, Love, and Nick Price) were in the group who finished tied for sixth at 286 (−2). Woods' streak of not winning a major extended to seven with a disappointing 290 (+2), the same score tallied by first and second round leader Rose.

Final leaderboard

Champion

Silver Cup winner (low amateur)

(a) = amateur

(c) = past champion

Top 10

Place	Player	Score	To par	Money (US$)
1	Phil Mickelson	72-69-69-69=279	−9	1,170,000
2	Ernie Els	70-72-71-67=280	−8	702,000
3	K. J. Choi	71-70-72-69=282	−6	442,000
T4	Sergio García	72-72-75-66=285	−3	286,000
	Bernhard Langer (c)	71-73-69-72=285
T6	Paul Casey	75-69-68-74=286	−2	189,893
	Fred Couples (c)	73-69-74-70=286
	Chris DiMarco	69-73-68-76=286
	Davis Love III	75-67-74-70=286
	Nick Price	72-73-71-70=286
	Vijay Singh (c)	75-73-69-69=286
	Kirk Triplett	71-74-69-72=286

Leaderboard below the top 10
Place	Player	Score	To par	Money ($)
T13	Retief Goosen	75-73-70-70=288	E	125,667
	Pádraig Harrington	74-74-68-72=288
	Charles Howell III	71-71-76-70=288
	Casey Wittenberg (a)	76-72-71-69=288		0
T17	Stewart Cink	74-73-69-73=289	+1	97,500
	Steve Flesch	76-67-77-69=289
	Jay Haas	69-75-72-73=289
	Freddie Jacobson	74-74-67-74=289
	Stephen Leaney	76-71-73-69=289
T22	Stuart Appleby	73-74-73-70=290	+2	70,200
	Shaun Micheel	72-76-72-70=290
	Justin Rose	67-71-81-71=290
	Tiger Woods (c)	75-69-75-71=290
26	Alex Čejka	70-70-78-73=291	+3	57,200
T27	Mark O'Meara (c)	73-70-75-74=292	+4	51,025
	Bob Tway	75-71-74-72=292
29	Scott Verplank	74-71-76-72=293	+5	48,100
30	José María Olazábal (c)	71-69-79-75=294	+6	46,150
T31	Bob Estes	76-72-73-74=295	+7	41,275
	Brad Faxon	72-76-76-71=295
	Jerry Kelly	74-72-73-76=295
	Ian Poulter	75-73-74-73=295
T35	Justin Leonard	76-72-72-76=296	+8	35,913
	Phillip Price	71-76-73-76=296
T37	Paul Lawrie	77-70-73-77=297	+9	32,663
	Sandy Lyle (c)	72-74-75-76=297
39	Eduardo Romero	74-73-74-77=298	+10	30,550
40	Todd Hamilton	77-71-76-75=299	+11	29,250
T41	Tim Petrovic	72-75-75-78=300	+12	27,950
	Brandt Snedeker (a)	73-75-75-77=300		0
43	Jeff Sluman	73-70-82-77=302	+14	26,650
44	Chris Riley	70-78-78-78=304	+16	25,350
CUT	Robert Allenby	73-76=149	+5
	Michael Campbell	76-73=149
	Darren Clarke	70-79=149
	Ben Crenshaw (c)	74-75=149
	John Daly	78-71=149
	Raymond Floyd (c)	73-76=149
	J. L. Lewis	77-72=149
	Peter Lonard	74-75=149
	Craig Perks	76-73=149
	John Rollins	74-75=149
	Craig Stadler (c)	74-75=149
	Mike Weir (c)	79-70=149
	Zhang Lianwei	77-72=149
	Briny Baird	77-73=150	+6
	Rich Beem	77-73=150
	Ben Curtis	73-77=150
	Fred Funk	80-70=150
	Jeff Maggert	78-72=150
	Larry Mize (c)	76-74=150
	Jack Nicklaus (c)	75-75=150
	Craig Parry	74-76=150
	Nathan Smith (a)	78-72=150
	Ángel Cabrera	74-77=151	+7
	Nick Faldo (c)	76-75=151
	Jonathan Kaye	79-72=151
	Len Mattiace	76-75=151
	Rocco Mediate	75-76=151
	Colin Montgomerie	71-80=151
	David Toms	78-73=151
	Ian Woosnam (c)	76-75=151
	Nick Flanagan (a)	78-74=152	+8
	Toshimitsu Izawa	76-76=152
	Kenny Perry	74-78=152
	Tom Watson (c)	76-76=152
	Jonathan Byrd	79-74=153	+9
	Chad Campbell	76-77=153
	Trevor Immelman	77-76=153
	Shigeki Maruyama	82-71=153
	Adam Scott	80-73=153
	Gary Wolstenholme (a)	77-76=153
	Tim Clark	73-81=154	+10
	Tim Herron	80-74=154
	Brian Davis	82-73=155	+11
	Thomas Bjørn	80-77=157	+13
	Fuzzy Zoeller (c)	79-81=160	+16
	Gary Player (c)	82-80=162	+18
	Charles Coody (c)	88-79=167	+23
	Arnold Palmer (c)	84-84=168	+24
	Tommy Aaron (c)	87-83=170	+26

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
Mickelson	−6	−7	−6	−6	−5	−4	−4	−4	−4	−4	−4	−5	−6	−7	−7	−8	−8	−9
Els	−3	−4	−3	−3	−2	−2	−3	−5	−5	−5	−5	−5	−7	−7	−8	−8	−8	−8
Choi	−3	−3	−3	−3	−3	−3	−2	−2	−1	−1	−3	−3	−4	−5	−5	−6	−6	−6
García	+3	+3	+3	+3	+3	+5	+4	+3	+2	+2	+2	+1	E	+1	−1	−2	−3	−3
Langer	−4	−5	−5	−4	−4	−4	−3	−4	−4	−4	−4	−4	−4	−5	−3	−4	−3	−3
Casey	−4	−4	−4	−4	−4	−3	−3	−4	−3	−3	−3	−2	−2	−3	−3	−3	−2	−2
DiMarco	−6	−7	−6	−5	−5	−3	−2	−3	−3	−3	−3	−3	−4	−4	−4	−4	−4	−2
Triplett	−2	−2	−1	E	E	+1	E	−1	−1	−1	E	E	−1	−1	E	−2	−2	−2

Cumulative tournament scores, relative to par

Eagle

Birdie

Bogey

Double bogey

Source:^[1][4]

Quotes

• "Is it his time? YES! At long last!" – Jim Nantz's (CBS Sports) call as Mickelson sunk his birdie putt on the 18th hole to defeat Ernie Els and win the tournament.