1999 Masters Tournament

1999 Masters Tournament
Tournament information
Dates	April 8–11, 1999
Location	Augusta, Georgia
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	$4,000,000
Winner's share	$720,000
Champion
	José María Olazábal
	280 (−8)
	← 1998 2000 →

Augusta

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Location in the United States

Augusta

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Location in Georgia

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]

Course

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

John "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.

Nationalities in the field

North America (67)	South America (1)	Europe (16)	Oceania (5)	Asia (2)	Africa (5)
United States (67)	Paraguay (1)	England (2)	Australia (4)	Japan (2)	Namibia (1)
		Northern Ireland (1)	Fiji (1)		South Africa (3)
		Scotland (2)			Zimbabwe (1)
		Wales (1)
		Denmark (1)
		Spain (4)
		Germany (1)
		Sweden (4)

Past champions in the field

Made the cut

Player	Country	Year(s) won	R1	R2	R3	R4	Total	To par	Finish
José María Olazábal	Spain	1994	70	66	73	71	280	−8	1
Bernhard Langer	Germany	1985, 1993	76	66	72	73	287	−1	T11
Ian Woosnam	Wales	1991	71	74	71	72	288	E	T14
Tiger Woods	United States	1997	72	72	70	75	289	+1	T18
Larry Mize	United States	1987	76	70	72	72	290	+2	23
Fred Couples	United States	1992	74	71	76	71	292	+4	T27
Mark O'Meara	United States	1998	70	76	69	78	293	+5	T31
Raymond Floyd	United States	1976	74	73	72	76	295	+7	T38
Craig Stadler	United States	1982	72	76	70	77	295	+7	T38
Sandy Lyle	Scotland	1988	71	77	70	80	298	+10	T48

Missed the cut

Player	Country	Year(s) won	R1	R2	Total	To par
Fuzzy Zoeller	United States	1979	72	77	149	+5
Charles Coody	United States	1971	77	74	151	+7
Tom Watson	United States	1977, 1981	74	77	151	+7
Ben Crenshaw	United States	1984, 1995	74	79	153	+9
Nick Faldo	England	1989, 1990, 1996	80	73	153	+9
Seve Ballesteros	Spain	1980, 1983	78	78	156	+12
Gary Player	South Africa	1961, 1974, 1978	79	79	158	+14
Tommy Aaron	United States	1973	77	82	159	+15
Arnold Palmer	United States	1958, 1960, 1962, 1964	83	78	161	+17
Gay Brewer	United States	1967	80		WD
Billy Casper	United States	1970	86		WD
Doug Ford	United States	1957	88		WD

Round summaries

First round

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

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

First round suspended by darkness due to earlier rain delays.

Second round

Friday, April 9, 1999

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

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

Third round

Saturday, April 10, 1999

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

Final round

Sunday, April 11, 1999

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

Amateurs: García (+7), McKnight (+9), Kuchar (+11), Immelman (+17).

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:^[5]

References

^ Parascenzo, Marino (April 12, 1999). "Ole! Olazabal". Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. p. B-1.
^ McCallum, Jack (April 19, 1999). "Basque in Glory". Sports Illustrated. p. 34.
^ "Hole-by-hole". Spokesman-Review. Associated Press. April 6, 2000. p. C7. Retrieved January 7, 2013.
^ ^a ^b ^c 1999 Results for Masters
^ "Historic Leaderboards: 1999 Masters". Augusta Chronicle. Retrieved September 14, 2015.

External links

Masters.com – Past winners and results
About.com – 1999 Masters Tournament
Augusta.com – 1999 Masters leaderboard and scorecards
Full results^{[permanent dead link]}

Preceded by 1998 PGA Championship	Major Championships	Succeeded by 1999 U.S. Open

33°30′11″N 82°01′12″W / 33.503°N 82.020°W / 33.503; -82.020

[oleolaz-1] Parascenzo, Marino (April 12, 1999). "Ole! Olazabal". Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. p. B-1.

[basqig-2] McCallum, Jack (April 19, 1999). "Basque in Glory". Sports Illustrated. p. 34.

[hbh00-3] "Hole-by-hole". Spokesman-Review. Associated Press. April 6, 2000. p. C7. Retrieved January 7, 2013.

[databasegolf.com-4] 1999 Results for Masters

[ldr-5] "Historic Leaderboards: 1999 Masters". Augusta Chronicle. Retrieved September 14, 2015.

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