2017 Masters Tournament

StatisticsPar72Length7,435 yards (6,799 m)Field93 players, 53 after cutCut150 (+6)Prize fund$11,000,000Winner's share$1,980,000Champion Sergio García279 (−9), playoffLocation map

The 2017 Masters Tournament was the 81st edition of the Masters Tournament and the first of golf's four major championships in 2017. It was held April 6–9 at Augusta National Golf Club in Augusta, Georgia.

Sergio García defeated Justin Rose in a sudden-death playoff, after they both completed the 72 holes in nine-under-par. This was his first major title, which came in his 74th attempt. Previously, García had 22 top-ten finishes in majors (including three at the Masters, the best a tie for fourth in 2004). He was the first Spaniard to win at Augusta in eighteen years, since José María Olazábal in 1999.^[1]

Course

Hole	Name	Yards	Par		Hole	Name	Yards	Par
1	Tea Olive	445	4		10	Camellia	495	4
2	Pink Dogwood	575	5		11	White Dogwood	505	4
3	Flowering Peach	350	4		12	Golden Bell	155	3
4	Flowering Crab Apple	240	3		13	Azalea	510	5
5	Magnolia	455	4		14	Chinese Fir	440	4
6	Juniper	180	3		15	Firethorn	530	5
7	Pampas	450	4		16	Redbud	170	3
8	Yellow Jasmine	570	5		17	Nandina	440	4
9	Carolina Cherry	460	4		18	Holly	465	4
Out		3,725	36		In		3,710	36
Source:					Total		7,435	72

Field

The Masters has the smallest field of the four major championships. Officially, the Masters remains an invitation event, but there is a set of qualifying criteria that determines who is included in the field. Each player is classified according to the first category by which he qualified, with other categories in which he qualified shown in parentheses.^[2]

Golfers who qualify based solely on their performance in amateur tournaments (categories 7–11) must remain amateurs on the starting day of the tournament to be eligible to play.

1. Past Masters Champions

• Tiger Woods withdrew due to a back injury.^[3]
• The following past champions did not enter: Tommy Aaron, Jack Burke Jr., Charles Coody, Ben Crenshaw, Nick Faldo, Raymond Floyd, Doug Ford, Bob Goalby, Jack Nicklaus, Gary Player, Craig Stadler, Tom Watson, Fuzzy Zoeller.

2. Winners of the last five U.S. Opens

• Dustin Johnson (12,13,16,17,18,19) withdrew after sustaining a back injury the day before the tournament.^[4]

3. Winners of the last five British Opens

4. Winners of the last five PGA Championships

5. Winners of the last three Players Championships

• Rickie Fowler (16,18,19)

6. Winner of the 2016 Olympic Golf Tournament

• Eligible under category 2

7. Top two finishers in the 2016 U.S. Amateur

8. Winner of the 2016 Amateur Championship

• Scott Gregory (a)

9. Winner of the 2016 Asia-Pacific Amateur Championship

• Eligible under category 7

10. Winner of the 2017 Latin America Amateur Championship

• Toto Gana (a)

11. Winner of the 2016 U.S. Mid-Amateur

• Stewart Hagestad (a)

12. The top 12 finishers and ties in the 2016 Masters Tournament

13. Top 4 finishers and ties in the 2016 U.S. Open

14. Top 4 finishers and ties in the 2016 British Open Championship

• Steve Stricker

15. Top 4 finishers and ties in the 2016 PGA Championship

16. Winners of PGA Tour events that award a full-point allocation for the FedEx Cup, between the 2016 Masters Tournament and the 2017 Masters Tournament

17. All players qualifying for the 2016 edition of the Tour Championship

18. Top 50 on the final 2016 Official World Golf Ranking list

19. Top 50 on the Official World Golf Ranking list on March 27

20. International invitees

• None

All five amateurs were appearing in their first Masters, as were fourteen professionals: Tommy Fleetwood, Adam Hadwin, Tyrrell Hatton, Mackenzie Hughes, Billy Hurley III, Kim Si-woo, William McGirt, Alex Norén, Thomas Pieters, Jon Rahm, Brian Stuard, Daniel Summerhays, Hudson Swafford, and Wang Jeung-hun. All the professionals, and Scott Gregory, had previously appeared in a major.

Par 3 contest

Wednesday, April 5, 2017

Heavy rain forced the cancellation of the Par-3 contest for the first time in its history. Mike Weir recorded the only hole-in-one before play was suspended.^[5]

Round summaries

First round

Thursday, April 6, 2017

After being one-over after five holes, Charley Hoffman birdied eight of his next twelve holes for 65 (−7). His four-stroke advantage after the first round was the largest at the Masters since 1955.^[6][7]

Place	Player	Score	To par
1	Charley Hoffman	65	−7
2	William McGirt	69	−3
3	Lee Westwood	70	−2
T4	Kevin Chappell	71	−1
	Jason Dufner
	Matt Fitzpatrick
	Sergio García
	Russell Henley
	Phil Mickelson
	Justin Rose
	Andy Sullivan

Second round

Friday, April 7, 2017

Charley Hoffman fell back to the pack with 75 and into a four-way tie for the lead at 140 (−4). Rickie Fowler had four birdies and an eagle on his way to a round of 67 (−5), the lowest score of the round, and tied for the lead along with Sergio García and Thomas Pieters.^[8] García was originally credited with a triple-bogey seven on the 10th, but his score was later corrected to a five. Fifteen players were within five shots of the lead, including past champions Fred Couples, Phil Mickelson, Adam Scott, and Jordan Spieth.^[9] Amateur Stewart Hagestad became the first U.S. Mid-Amateur champion to make the cut at the Masters since the winner of that tournament was granted entry in 1989.^[10]

Place	Player	Score	To par
T1	Rickie Fowler	73-67=140	−4
	Sergio García	71-69=140
	Charley Hoffman	65-75=140
	Thomas Pieters	72-68=140
5	William McGirt	69-73=142	−2
T6	Fred Couples	73-70=143	−1
	Ryan Moore	74-69=143
	Jon Rahm	73-70=143
	Justin Rose	71-72=143
T10	Phil Mickelson	71-73=144	E
	Adam Scott	75-69=144
	Jordan Spieth	75-69=144

Amateurs: Hagestad (+3), Luck (+6), Dalke (+9), Gregory (+13), Gana (+17)

Third round

Saturday, April 8, 2017

Justin Rose birdied five of his final seven holes for 67 (−5), the lowest of the round, and tied Sergio García for the lead. Charley Hoffman held solo possession of the lead before a bogey at 14 and double-bogey at 16 after hitting his tee shot in the water, finishing two shots behind.^[11] Jordan Spieth was five-under on his round and within a shot of the lead until a bogey at 18 tied him with Hoffman.^[12]

Place	Player	Score	To par
T1	Sergio García	71-69-70=210	−6
	Justin Rose	71-72-67=210
3	Rickie Fowler	73-67-71=211	−5
T4	Charley Hoffman	65-75-72=212	−4
	Ryan Moore	74-69-69=212
	Jordan Spieth	75-69-68=212
7	Adam Scott	75-69-69=213	−3
8	Charl Schwartzel	74-72-68=214	−2
T9	Thomas Pieters	72-68-75=215	−1
	Lee Westwood	70-77-68=215

Amateurs: Hagestad (+5), Luck (+9)

Final round

Sunday, April 9, 2017

Summary

External videos
Full final round coverage on CBS on YouTube

Sergio García birdied two of his first three holes to open up a three-shot lead. Starting at the 6th, Justin Rose recorded three consecutive birdies to tie; with bogeys by García at the 10th and 11th, Rose went ahead by two shots. At the 13th, García was forced to take a drop when his tee shot found the trees, but was able to get up and down to save par while Rose missed his birdie attempt.^[13] García made birdie at the 14th to get within one and hit his approach to the par-5 15th to fourteen feet (4.3 m). After converting the eagle attempt, he once again tied Rose, who made birdie. On the par-3 16th, both hit approaches to within eight feet (2.4 m), and Rose made his birdie from 7 feet, while García missed his gimme three-footer. At the 17th, however, Rose found the greenside bunker and suffered a bogey while Garcia two-putted for par, once again tying for the lead heading to the last hole. Rose missed a seven-footer for birdie, while García missed from three feet (0.91 m) to win the championship, forcing a sudden-death playoff.

Charl Schwartzel, the 2011 champion, had four birdies on the back-nine for 68 (−4) and third place, three shots behind García and Rose.^[14] Thomas Pieters also shot 68 after making four straight birdies on holes 12–15 and tied for fourth place. Matt Kuchar birdied three consecutive holes on his final nine, then made a hole-in-one at 16 to equal the lowest score of the round with 67 and tied Pieters. Rickie Fowler began the round a shot out of the lead, but seven bogeys yielded a 76 (+4) and dropped him to eleventh, while 2015 champion Jordan Spieth, two back at the start of the round, shot 75 and tied Fowler.^[15][16] (He was six-over for the round and then birdied three of the last four.) Charley Hoffman carded 41 on the final nine for 78 and tied for 22nd place.

After García took his drop on 13, some TV viewers reported the possibility that he caused his ball to move while removing some pine straw near his ball. Prior to the conclusion of the round Masters Officials determined there was no penalty.^[17] Per Rule 18-2 (Decision 18/4) even if high definition TV camera evidence shows movement, there is no penalty if it is deemed that the movement was not reasonably discernible to the naked eye at the time.^[18]

Final leaderboard

Champion

Silver Cup winner (low amateur)

(a) = amateur

(c) = past champion

Top 10

Place	Player	Score	To par	Money (US$)
T1	Sergio García	71-69-70-69=279	−9	Playoff
	Justin Rose	71-72-67-69=279
3	Charl Schwartzel (c)	74-72-68-68=282	−6	748,000
T4	Matt Kuchar	72-73-71-67=283	−5	484,000
	Thomas Pieters	72-68-75-68=283
6	Paul Casey	72-75-69-68=284	−4	396,000
T7	Kevin Chappell	71-76-70-68=285	−3	354,750
	Rory McIlroy	72-73-71-69=285
T9	Ryan Moore	74-69-69-74=286	−2	308,000
	Adam Scott (c)	75-69-69-73=286

Leaderboard below the top 10
Place	Player	Score	To par	Money ($)
T11	Rickie Fowler	73-67-71-76=287	−1	233,200
	Russell Henley	71-76-71-69=287
	Brooks Koepka	74-73-71-69=287
	Hideki Matsuyama	76-70-74-67=287
	Jordan Spieth (c)	75-69-68-75=287
T16	Martin Kaymer	78-68-74-68=288	E	181,500
	Steve Stricker	75-73-72-68=288
T18	Fred Couples (c)	73-70-74-72=289	+1	148,500
	Pat Perez	74-74-70-71=289
	Jimmy Walker	76-71-70-72=289
	Lee Westwood	70-77-68-74=289
T22	Jason Day	74-76-69-71=290	+2	105,600
	Charley Hoffman	65-75-72-78=290
	William McGirt	69-73-74-74=290
	Phil Mickelson (c)	71-73-74-72=290
	Justin Thomas	73-76-71-70=290
T27	Daniel Berger	77-73-72-69=291	+3	78,100
	Branden Grace	76-74-71-70=291
	Jon Rahm	73-70-73-75=291
	Brandt Snedeker	75-74-69-73=291
	Brendan Steele	74-73-75-69=291
32	Matt Fitzpatrick	71-78-73-70=292	+4	68,200
T33	An Byeong-hun	76-73-74-70=293	+5	62,150
	Jason Dufner	71-76-70-76=293
	Francesco Molinari	78-72-71-72=293
T36	Bill Haas	75-72-71-76=294	+6	52,938
	Adam Hadwin	75-74-75-70=294
	Stewart Hagestad (a)	74-73-74-73=294		0
	Søren Kjeldsen	72-73-71-78=294		52,938
	Brian Stuard	77-70-74-73=294
T41	Ross Fisher	76-74-74-71=295	+7	46,200
	Louis Oosthuizen	77-71-76-71=295
T43	Kevin Kisner	74-75-74-73=296	+8	40,700
	Marc Leishman	73-74-78-71=296
	Bernd Wiesberger	77-72-76-71=296
T46	Curtis Luck (a)	78-72-75-72=297	+9	0
	Daniel Summerhays	74-75-75-73=297		36,300
T48	James Hahn	75-75-75-73=298	+10	33,000
	Andy Sullivan	71-78-76-73=298
50	J. B. Holmes	78-72-73-76=299	+11	30,140
51	Emiliano Grillo	79-70-73-78=300	+12	28,600
52	Larry Mize (c)	74-76-79-76=305	+17	27,720
53	Ernie Els	72-75-83-78=308	+20	27,060
CUT	Jim Furyk	78-73=151	+7
	Billy Hurley III	75-76=151
	Yuta Ikeda	74-77=151
	Zach Johnson (c)	77-74=151
	Shane Lowry	72-79=151
	Kevin Na	76-75=151
	Danny Willett (c)	73-78=151
	Chris Wood	74-77=151
	Rafa Cabrera-Bello	75-77=152	+8
	Tommy Fleetwood	78-74=152
	Russell Knox	76-76=152
	Alex Norén	74-78=152
	Rod Pampling	74-78=152
	Scott Piercy	73-79=152
	Webb Simpson	75-77=152
	Henrik Stenson	77-75=152
	Bubba Watson (c)	74-78=152
	Brad Dalke (a)	78-75=153	+9
	Bernhard Langer (c)	75-78=153
	Sean O'Hair	76-77=153
	José María Olazábal (c)	77-76=153
	Patrick Reed	76-77=153
	Vijay Singh (c)	78-75=153
	Hudson Swafford	77-76=153
	Ángel Cabrera (c)	79-75=154	+10
	Jhonattan Vegas	78-76=154
	Ian Woosnam (c)	76-78=154
	Trevor Immelman (c)	79-76=155	+11
	Mike Weir (c)	76-79=155
	Gary Woodland	75-80=155
	Kim Si-woo	75-81=156	+12
	Mark O'Meara (c)	78-78=156
	Hideto Tanihara	76-80=156
	Wang Jeung-hun	78-78=156
	Roberto Castro	79-78=157	+13
	Scott Gregory (a)	82-75=157
	Tyrrell Hatton	80-78=158	+14
	Mackenzie Hughes	79-80=159	+15
	Sandy Lyle (c)	77-83=160	+16
	Toto Gana (a)	81-80=161	+17

Source:^[19][20]

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
García	−7	−7	−8	−8	−8	−8	−8	−8	−8	−7	−6	−6	−6	−7	−9	−9	−9	−9
Rose	−6	−6	−6	−6	−5	−6	−7	−8	−8	−8	−8	−8	−8	−8	−9	−10	−9	−9
Schwartzel	−2	−3	−2	−2	−2	−2	−2	−2	−3	−3	−4	−4	−5	−4	−5	−5	−5	−6
Kuchar	+1	E	+1	+1	+1	E	−1	−1	E	E	E	−1	−2	−3	−3	−5	−5	−5
Pieters	−1	−2	−2	−1	−1	−1	−1	−2	−2	−2	−2	−3	−4	−5	−6	−5	−5	−5
Fowler	−5	−5	−6	−5	−4	−4	−4	−5	−5	−5	−4	−3	−4	−4	−4	−3	−2	−1
Spieth	−3	−4	−3	−3	−3	−2	−2	−2	−2	−1	−1	+1	+1	+2	+1	E	E	−1

Cumulative tournament scores, relative to par

Eagle

Birdie

Bogey

Double bogey

Source:^[19][20]

Playoff

The sudden-death playoff began at the par four 18th; Rose's drive found the trees and he was forced to chip out. García's drive was in the fairway and he hit his approach to twelve feet (3.7 m), while Rose was fourteen feet (4.3 m) away for par.^[21] Rose missed the putt, giving García two putts to win the championship, but he converted the birdie to win his first major championship. The win came in García's 19th Masters appearance and 74th major, the most by any player before their first title.^[22]

Place	Player	Score	To par	Money ($)
1	Sergio García	3	−1	1,980,000
2	Justin Rose	5	+1	1,188,000

Source:^[19][20]

References

External links

• Official website
• Coverage on the PGA Tour's official site
• Coverage on the European Tour's official site
• Coverage from the PGA of America