1990 Masters Tournament

The 1990 Masters Tournament was the 54th Masters Tournament, held April 5–8 at Augusta National Golf Club in Augusta, Georgia.

Nick Faldo won his second consecutive Masters and the third of his six major titles on the second sudden-death playoff hole over Raymond Floyd, the 1976 champion.^[1][2] The playoff began on the tenth hole where both made par. At the next hole, #11, Floyd put his 7-iron approach shot into the pond left of the green,^[3] while Faldo hit to within 18 feet (5.5 m) of the cup; he lagged his birdie putt to within a few inches and tapped in for the win. It foiled Floyd's attempt to win a major in four different decades. Afterward, he said, "This is the most devastating thing that's ever happened to me in my career. I've had a lot of losses, but nothing like this."^[3][4]

Floyd led after each of the second and third rounds and had earned the reputation of being a good front-runner in his career. A birdie on 12 gave Floyd a four-shot lead with six holes to play. Faldo birdied 13, 15, and 16, and Floyd's bogey on 17 left them tied at 10-under par at the end of 72 holes.

It was the third consecutive year that the Masters champion was from the United Kingdom, which had no winners prior to Sandy Lyle's victory in 1988.

Faldo was just the second to win consecutive titles at Augusta, following Jack Nicklaus (1965 and 1966). Both of Faldo's wins came at the second hole of a sudden-death playoff, at the eleventh green. Tiger Woods later won back-to-back Masters in 2001 and 2002. Faldo won his third Masters six years later in 1996, for his sixth and final major title.

Chris Patton was the only amateur to make the cut and tied for 39th place at 296 (+8).

Field

1. Masters champions

Tommy Aaron, George Archer, Seve Ballesteros (3,9), Gay Brewer, Billy Casper, Charles Coody, Ben Crenshaw (9,13), Nick Faldo (3), Raymond Floyd (2), Doug Ford, Bernhard Langer, Sandy Lyle (3), Larry Mize, Jack Nicklaus (9), Arnold Palmer, Gary Player, Craig Stadler (11,13), Tom Watson (9,14), Fuzzy Zoeller

• 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)

Andy North, Scott Simpson (10,12), Curtis Strange (9,11,13,14)

3. The Open champions (last five years)

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

4. PGA champions (last five years)

Hubert Green (10), Larry Nelson (10), Jeff Sluman (9), Payne Stewart (9,10,12,13,14), Bob Tway (12,13)

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

Danny Green (a), Chris Patton (a)

6. The Amateur champion

Stephen Dodd (a)

7. U.S. Amateur Public Links champion

Tim Hobby (a)

8. U.S. Mid-Amateur champion

James Taylor (a)

9. Top 24 players and ties from the 1989 Masters Tournament

Paul Azinger (10,12,13,14), Chip Beck (10,13,14), Fred Couples (12,13,14), David Frost (12,13), Ken Green (12,14), Scott Hoch (10,11,12,13), Tom Kite (10,12,13,14), Jodie Mudd (12,13), José María Olazábal (10), Mark O'Meara (12,13,14), Masashi Ozaki (10), Don Pooley, Tom Purtzer, Mike Reid (11,13), Lee Trevino, Ian Woosnam (10,11)

10. Top 16 players and ties from the 1989 U.S. Open

Brian Claar, Peter Jacobsen (12), Mark Lye, Mark McCumber (12,13,14), Tom Pernice Jr.

11. Top eight players and ties from 1989 PGA Championship

Andy Bean, Dave Rummells (13)

12. Winners of PGA Tour events since the previous Masters

Tommy Armour III, Ian Baker-Finch, Bill Britton, Curt Byrum, Tom Byrum, Mike Donald (13), Dan Forsman, Robert Gamez, Wayne Grady (13), Donnie Hammond (13), Mike Hulbert (13), John Huston, David Ishii, Steve Jones (13), John Mahaffey (13), Blaine McCallister (13), Ted Schulz (13), Tony Sills, Tim Simpson (13), Leonard Thompson

• Stan Utley, the winner of the Chattanooga Classic was not invited.

13. Top 30 players from the 1989 PGA Tour money list

Bill Glasson, Wayne Levi, Hal Sutton

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

Lanny Wadkins

15. Special foreign invitation

Naomichi Ozaki, Craig Parry, Ronan Rafferty, Peter Senior

Round summaries

First round

Thursday, April 5, 1990

Place	Player	Score	To par
1	Mike Donald	64	−8
2	John Huston	66	−6
3	Peter Jacobsen	67	−5
4	Bill Britton	68	−4
T5	George Archer	70	−2
	Raymond Floyd
	Bill Glasson
	Bernhard Langer
	Larry Mize
	Jumbo Ozaki
	Curtis Strange

Source:^[5]

Second round

Friday, April 6, 1990

Place	Player	Score	To par
1	Raymond Floyd	70-68=138	−6
2	Scott Hoch	71-68=139	−5
3	John Huston	66-74=140	−4
4	Jumbo Ozaki	70-71=141	−3
T5	Bill Britton	68-74=142	−2
	Mike Hulbert	71-71=142
	Peter Jacobsen	67-75=142
	Jack Nicklaus	72-70=142
	Craig Stadler	72-70=142
T10	Fred Couples	74-69=143	−1
	Nick Faldo	71-72=143
	Bernhard Langer	70-73=143
	Curtis Strange	70-73=143

Source:^[6]

Amateurs: Patton (E), Dodd (+11), Hobby (+14), Green (+15), Taylor (+17)

Third round

Saturday, April 7, 1990

Place	Player	Score	To par
1	Raymond Floyd	70-68-68=206	−10
2	John Huston	66-74-68=208	−8
3	Nick Faldo	71-72-66=209	−7
4	Jack Nicklaus	72-70-69=211	−5
T5	Scott Hoch	71-68-73=212	−4
	Bernhard Langer	70-73-69=212
T7	Bill Britton	68-74-71=213	−3
	José María Olazábal	72-73-68=213
	Scott Simpson	74-71-68=213
T10	Tom Kite	75-73-66=214	−2
	Curtis Strange	70-73-71=214

Source:^[7]

Final round

Sunday, April 8, 1990

Final leaderboard

Champion

Silver Cup winner (low amateur)

(a) = amateur

(c) = past champion

Top 10

Place	Player	Score	To par	Money (US$)
T1	Nick Faldo (c)	71-72-66-69=278	−10	Playoff
	Raymond Floyd (c)	70-68-68-72=278
T3	John Huston	66-74-68-75=283	−5	72,500
	Lanny Wadkins	72-73-70-68=283
5	Fred Couples	74-69-72-69=284	−4	50,000
6	Jack Nicklaus (c)	72-70-69-74=285	−3	45,000
T7	Seve Ballesteros (c)	74-73-68-71=286	−2	35,150
	Bill Britton	68-74-71-73=286
	Bernhard Langer (c)	70-73-69-74=286
	Scott Simpson	74-71-68-73=286
	Curtis Strange	70-73-71-72=286
	Tom Watson (c)	77-71-67-71=286

Leaderboard below the top 10
Place	Player	Score	To par	Money ($)
13	José María Olazábal	72-73-68-74=287	−1	26,300
T14	Ben Crenshaw (c)	72-74-73-69=288	E	20,650
	Scott Hoch	71-68-73-76=288
	Tom Kite	75-73-66-74=288
	Larry Mize (c)	70-76-71-71=288
	Ronan Rafferty	72-74-69-73=288
	Craig Stadler (c)	72-70-74-72=288
T20	Mark Calcavecchia	74-73-73-69=289	+1	15,100
	Steve Jones	77-69-72-71=289
	Fuzzy Zoeller (c)	72-74-73-70=289
23	Masashi Ozaki	70-71-77-72=290	+2	13,000
T24	Donnie Hammond	71-74-75-71=291	+3	11,000
	Gary Player (c)	73-74-68-76=291
	Lee Trevino	78-69-72-72=291
T27	Wayne Grady	72-75-72-73=292	+4	9,267
	Andy North	71-73-77-71=292
	Jeff Sluman	78-68-75-71=292
T30	Peter Jacobsen	67-75-76-75=293	+5	8,133
	Jodie Mudd	74-70-73-76=293
	Ian Woosnam	72-75-70-76=293
T33	Andy Bean	76-72-74-72=294	+6	7,100
	Bill Glasson	70-75-76-73=294
	Naomichi Ozaki	75-73-74-72=294
T36	Mark McCumber	74-74-76-71=295	+7	6,133
	Payne Stewart	71-73-77-74=295
	Bob Tway	72-76-73-74=295
T39	Chip Beck	72-74-75-75=296	+8	5,500
	Mark Lye	75-73-73-75=296
	Chris Patton (a)	71-73-74-78=296		0
T42	John Mahaffey	72-74-75-76=297	+9	4,867
	Don Pooley	73-73-72-79=297
	Peter Senior	72-75-73-77=297
T45	Mike Hulbert	71-71-77-79=298	+10	4,250
	Tom Purtzer	71-77-76-74=298
47	Mike Donald	64-82-77-76=299	+11	3,900
48	Larry Nelson	74-73-79-74=300	+12	3,600
49	George Archer (c)	70-74-82-75=301	+13	3,400
CUT	Billy Casper (c)	74-75=149	+5
	David Frost	74-75=149
	Robert Gamez	73-76=149
	Mark O'Meara	75-74=149
	Mike Reid	76-73=149
	Hubert Green	73-77=150	+6
	Blaine McCallister	73-77=150
	Greg Norman	78-72=150
	Tom Pernice Jr.	74-76=150
	Tommy Aaron (c)	77-74=151	+7
	Ian Baker-Finch	77-74=151
	Dan Forsman	79-72=151
	Sandy Lyle (c)	77-74=151
	Dave Rummells	77-74=151
	Ted Schulz	75-76=151
	Tony Sills	77-74=151
	Charles Coody (c)	75-77=152	+8
	Tim Simpson	77-75=152
	Hal Sutton	81-71=152
	Tommy Armour III	75-78=153	+9
	Gay Brewer (c)	76-77=153
	Curt Byrum	76-77=153
	Brian Claar	74-79=153
	David Ishii	74-79=153
	Tom Byrum	77-78=155	+11
	Stephen Dodd (a)	77-78=155
	Leonard Thompson	80-75=155
	Paul Azinger	80-76=156	+12
	Arnold Palmer (c)	76-80=156
	Craig Parry	80-76=156
	Ken Green	78-80=158	+14
	Tim Hobby (a)	76-82=158
	Wayne Levi	77-81=158
	Danny Green (a)	79-80=159	+15
	James Taylor (a)	83-78=161	+17
	Doug Ford (c)	78-85=163	+19

Sources:^[8][9]

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
Faldo	−5	−6	−6	−6	−6	−6	−7	−7	−8	−7	−7	−7	−8	−8	−9	−10	−10	−10
Floyd	−10	−10	−10	−10	−9	−9	−9	−10	−10	−10	−10	−11	−11	−11	−11	−11	−10	−10
Huston	−7	−6	−6	−6	−5	−5	−4	−4	−4	−2	−2	−2	−2	−2	−3	−4	−5	−5
Wadkins	−1	−2	−2	−2	−1	−1	−1	−2	−3	−3	−3	−3	−4	−4	−4	−5	−5	−5
Couples	−1	−2	−2	−2	−2	−2	−2	−3	−3	−3	−4	−4	−4	−4	−6	−5	−4	−4
Nicklaus	−5	−6	−6	−6	−5	−4	−5	−5	−5	−4	−4	−5	−6	−5	−5	−4	−3	−3

Cumulative tournament scores, relative to par

Eagle

Birdie

Bogey

Double bogey

Source:^[2]

Playoff

Place	Player	Score	To par	Money ($)
1	Nick Faldo	4-4	E	225,000
2	Raymond Floyd	4-x		135,000

• Sudden-death playoff began on hole #10 and ended at hole #11, when Faldo parred.^[2]

References

External links

• Masters.com – Past winners and results
• Augusta.com – 1990 Masters leaderboard and scorecards