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2012 Masters Tournament

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2012 Masters Tournament
Front cover of the 2012 Masters Journal
Tournament information
DatesApril 5–8, 2012
LocationAugusta, Georgia, U.S.
33°30′11″N 82°01′12″W / 33.503°N 82.020°W / 33.503; -82.020
Course(s)Augusta National Golf Club
Organized byAugusta National Golf Club
Tour(s)
Statistics
Par72
Length7,435 yards (6,799 m)[1]
Field95 players, 63 after cut
Cut149 (+5)
Prize fundUS$8,000,000
Winner's share$1,440,000
Champion
United States Bubba Watson
278 (−10), playoff
Location map
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Augusta National is located in Georgia
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The 2012 Masters Tournament was the 76th Masters Tournament, held April 5–8 at Augusta National Golf Club in Augusta, Georgia.[2] Bubba Watson won the year's first major championship on the second hole of a sudden-death playoff, defeating Louis Oosthuizen.[3] It was his first major title and his fourth victory on the PGA Tour.[3] Watson was the eighth consecutive first-time major champion, and the 14th winner in as many majors.[4][5] He won a second Masters two years later in 2014.

Two pre-tournament favorites,[3][6] Tiger Woods and Rory McIlroy, both finished at 293 (+5) in a tie for 40th place. Phil Mickelson was in the final pairing and in contention during the final round, but a triple-bogey six on the fourth hole knocked him back and he finished two strokes behind, in a four-way tie for third.[3] Bo Van Pelt posted the lowest round of the tournament with a 64 (−8) early on Sunday, which propelled him up the leaderboard 35 places to tie for 17th.

It was the first playoff in three years at the Masters; Ángel Cabrera won on the second extra hole in 2009.

Course

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Main article: Augusta National Golf Club
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:[1] Total 7,435 72

Field

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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.[7] Each player is classified according to the first category by which he qualified, but other categories are shown in parentheses.

Golfers who qualify based solely on their performance in amateur tournaments (categories 6–10) must remain amateurs on the starting day of the tournament to be eligible to play.

Three players were appearing in their first major: Kelly Kraft, Corbin Mills and Randal Lewis. Twelve others were appearing in their first Masters: Keegan Bradley, Patrick Cantlay, Bryden Macpherson, Kevin Chappell, Robert Garrigus, Webb Simpson, Harrison Frazar, Kyle Stanley, Scott Stallings, Brendan Steele, Bae Sang-moon and Gonzalo Fernández-Castaño.[8]

Notable absences included Mark O'Meara (injured), Ernie Els and Retief Goosen (not ranked high enough). O'Meara had appeared in the previous 27 Masters, Els in the previous 18, and Goosen in the previous 12. (Els would win the Open Championship in July to ensure an invitation to the next five Masters.)

1. Past Masters Champions

2. Last five U.S. Open Champions

3. Last five British Open Champions

4. Last five PGA Champions

5. Last three winners of The Players Championship

6. Top two finishers in the 2011 U.S. Amateur

7. Winner of the 2011 Amateur Championship

8. Winner of the 2011 Asian Amateur

9. Winner of the 2011 U.S. Amateur Public Links

10. Winner of the 2011 U.S. Mid-Amateur

11. The top 16 finishers and ties in the 2011 Masters Tournament

12. Top 8 finishers and ties in the 2011 U.S. Open

13. Top 4 finishers and ties in the 2011 British Open Championship

14. Top 4 finishers and ties in the 2011 PGA Championship

15. Top 30 leaders on the 2011 PGA Tour official money earnings list

16. Winners of PGA Tour events that award a full-point allocation for the season-ending Tour Championship, between the 2011 Masters Tournament and the 2012 Masters Tournament

17. All players qualifying for the 2011 edition of The Tour Championship

18. Top 50 on the final 2011 Official World Golf Ranking list

19. Top 50 on the Official World Golf Ranking list on March 25, 2012

20. International invitees

Round summaries

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First round

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Thursday, April 5, 2012

Place Player Score To par
1 England Lee Westwood 67 −5
T2 Sweden Peter Hanson 68 −4
South Africa Louis Oosthuizen
T4 United States Ben Crane 69 −3
United States Jason Dufner
Spain Miguel Ángel Jiménez
Scotland Paul Lawrie
Italy Francesco Molinari
United States Bubba Watson
T10 United States Jim Furyk 70 −2
United States Zach Johnson
Fiji Vijay Singh
United States Scott Stallings

Source:[12]

Second round

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Friday, April 6, 2012

Place Player Score To par
T1 United States Fred Couples 72-67=139 −5
United States Jason Dufner 69-70=139
T3 Spain Sergio García 72-68=140 −4
Northern Ireland Rory McIlroy 71-69=140
South Africa Louis Oosthuizen 68-72=140
United States Bubba Watson 69-71=140
England Lee Westwood 67-73=140
T8 Spain Miguel Ángel Jiménez 69-72=141 −3
United States Matt Kuchar 71-70=141
Scotland Paul Lawrie 69-72=141

Source:[13]

Amateurs: Matsuyama (+1), Cantlay (+5), Kraft (+5), Macpherson (+9), Mills (+11), Lewis (+15).

Third round

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Saturday, April 7, 2012

Place Player Score To par
1 Sweden Peter Hanson 68-74-65=207 −9
2 United States Phil Mickelson 74-68-66=208 −8
3 South Africa Louis Oosthuizen 68-72-69=209 −7
4 United States Bubba Watson 69-71-70=210 −6
5 United States Matt Kuchar 71-70-70=211 −5
T6 Republic of Ireland Pádraig Harrington 71-73-68=212 −4
United States Hunter Mahan 72-72-68=212
Sweden Henrik Stenson 71-71-70=212
England Lee Westwood 67-73-72=212
10 Scotland Paul Lawrie 69-72-72=213 −3

Source:[14]

Final round

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Sunday, April 8, 2012

Summary

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External videos
video icon Full final round coverage on CBS on YouTube

For the third time in seven years, the Masters concluded on Easter Sunday. The leaderboard was active, as four players held at least a share of the lead during the final round. Louis Oosthuizen charged into the lead at the second hole with an albatross two on the par-5. It was only the fourth double eagle in Masters history and the first-ever on the second hole. The final pairing faltered: 54-hole leader Peter Hanson never got it going, with three bogeys before he carded his first birdie at the 15th hole. Three holes earlier, Hanson shanked his tee shot on the par-3 12th short of the water, bogeyed, and fell from contention. On the front nine, three-time Masters champion Phil Mickelson pushed his tee shot left at the par-3 fourth and it caromed off a greenside grandstand. He made his second triple bogey of the week and came up two shots short of the playoff.[3]

In the end, it came down to a three player race between Oosthuizen, Bubba Watson, and Matt Kuchar. Kuchar hit his approach at the 15th hole to three feet (0.9 m) and eagled to temporarily tie Oosthuizen at −9, but followed it with a bogey at the par-3 16th hole and finished two strokes back, in the four-way tie for third. After Watson made a two at the 16th for his fourth consecutive birdie, he was tied at the top with Oosthuizen at −10. Playing together in the penultimate pairing, both parred the 17th hole and were on the green in regulation at the uphill 18th. Oosthuizen missed a 35-foot (11 m) birdie putt from the back shelf and Watson had 25 feet (8 m) for his first major, but he missed the putt on the high side. After Watson tapped in, Oosthuizen holed his four-footer (1.2 m) to force a sudden death playoff.[15]

Final leaderboard

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Champion
Silver Cup winner (low amateur)
(a) = amateur
(c) = past champion
Top 10
Place Player Score To par Money (US$)
T1 South Africa Louis Oosthuizen 68-72-69-69=278 −10 Playoff
United States Bubba Watson 69-71-70-68=278
T3 Sweden Peter Hanson 68-74-65-73=280 −8 384,000
United States Matt Kuchar 71-70-70-69=280
United States Phil Mickelson (c) 74-68-66-72=280
England Lee Westwood 67-73-72-68=280
7 England Ian Poulter 72-72-70-69=283 −5 268,000
T8 Republic of Ireland Pádraig Harrington 71-73-68-72=284 −4 232,000
England Justin Rose 72-72-72-68=284
Australia Adam Scott 75-70-73-66=284

Scorecard

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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
United States Watson −5 −6 −6 −6 −7 −7 −7 −7 −7 −7 −7 −6 −7 −8 −9 −10 −10 −10
South Africa Oosthuizen −7 −10 −10 −9 −9 −9 −9 −9 −9 −8 −8 −8 −9 −9 −10 −10 −10 −10
Sweden Hanson −8 −8 −7 −7 −7 −7 −7 −7 −7 −7 −7 −6 −6 −6 −7 −7 −7 −8
United States Kuchar −5 −5 −6 −6 −6 −6 −7 −7 −5 −5 −5 −6 −7 −7 −9 −8 −8 −8
United States Mickelson −8 −8 −8 −5 −5 −5 −5 −6 −6 −6 −6 −6 −7 −7 −8 −8 −8 −8
England Westwood −3 −4 −3 −3 −3 −4 −5 −4 −4 −4 −4 −4 −5 −6 −7 −7 −7 −8

Cumulative tournament scores, relative to par

Double Eagle/Albatross Eagle Birdie Bogey Double bogey Triple bogey +

Source:[16]

Playoff

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The sudden death playoff started at the par-4 18th hole, where both players hit the fairway and green, and similar to the final round, Bubba Watson was closer to the pin than Louis Oosthuizen. Oosthuizen narrowly missed his 18-foot (5.5 m) birdie effort which gave Watson another opportunity to secure the title. Watson's putt from 16 feet (5 m) was low the entire way, and after both players tapped in to tie they headed to the next tee at the downhill par-4 10th hole.

Both players hit poor drives to the right, and Oosthuizen's second shot ended up short of the green. The left-handed Watson, playing from the pine straw deep in the woods, hooked his approach shot nearly 90 degrees to within 10 feet (3 m) of the hole. Oosthuizen chipped to the back of the green and narrowly missed his par putt to give Watson two putts to win. He lagged his first to a foot (0.3 m) and tapped in to become the Masters champion.[17][18]

Place Player Score To par Money ($)
1 United States Bubba Watson 4-4=8 E 1,440,000
2 South Africa Louis Oosthuizen 4-5=9 +1 864,000

Scorecard

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Hole  18   10 
Par 4 4
United States Watson E E
South Africa Oosthuizen E +1

Cumulative playoff scores, relative to par

References

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