1985 Masters Tournament

1985 Masters Tournament
Tournament information
Dates	April 11–14, 1985
Location	Augusta, Georgia; 33°30′11″N 82°01′12″W / 33.503°N 82.020°W
Course(s)	Augusta National Golf Club
Organized by	Augusta National Golf Club
Tour(s)	PGA Tour
Statistics
Par	72
Length	6,905 yards (6,314 m)
Field	77 players, 60 after cut
Cut	150 (+6)
Prize fund	$700,793
Winner's share	$126,000
Champion
	Bernhard Langer
	282 (−6)
Location map
	Augusta National Location in the United States Augusta National Location in Georgia
	← 1984 1986 →

The 1985 Masters Tournament was the 49th Masters Tournament, held April 11–14 at Augusta National Golf Club in Augusta, Georgia.

Bernhard Langer won the first of his two major championships, both Masters, two strokes ahead of runners-up Seve Ballesteros, Raymond Floyd, and Curtis Strange. A 69 (−3) on Saturday put Floyd in the lead after 54 holes at 212 (−4); Strange was a stroke back, with Langer and Ballesteros two strokes back.^[3] Despite an opening round 80, Strange led by three strokes with six holes to play in the final round, but made key bogeys at 13 and 15 when his attempts to reach both greens in two shots found water instead^[4] and finished two strokes back.^[5]^[6] It was Strange's only top-5 finish at Augusta, but he won consecutive U.S. Opens in 1988 and 1989.

Langer, age 27 and dressed in red, birdied four of the last seven holes to win the green jacket.^[2]^[7] The second champion from Europe, he had consecutive rounds of 68 (−4) on the weekend to become the first winner of a major from Germany (then West Germany).^[5]^[6] Langer won a second green jacket eight years later in 1993.

Field

1. Masters champions

Tommy Aaron, George Archer (11,12), Seve Ballesteros (3,10,11), Gay Brewer, Billy Casper, Charles Coody, Ben Crenshaw (8,12,13), Raymond Floyd (4,8,13), Doug Ford, Bob Goalby, Jack Nicklaus (2,4,8,11,12), Arnold Palmer, Gary Player (8,10), Craig Stadler (11,12,13), Art Wall Jr., Tom Watson (2,3,8,9,11,12,13), Fuzzy Zoeller (2,9,11,13)

Jack Burke Jr., Ralph Guldahl, Claude Harmon, Ben Hogan, Herman Keiser, Cary Middlecoff, Byron Nelson, Henry Picard, Gene Sarazen, and Sam Snead did not play.

The following categories only apply to Americans

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

Larry Nelson (4,8,11)

3. The Open champions (last five years)

Bill Rogers

4. PGA champions (last five years)

Hal Sutton (9,10,12), Lee Trevino (9,10,12)

5. 1984 U.S. Amateur semi-finalists

Jerry Haas (a), Sam Randolph (a), Randy Sonnier (7,a), Scott Verplank (6,7,a)

6. Previous two U.S. Amateur and Amateur champions

Jay Sigel (7,a)

7. Members of the 1984 U.S. Eisenhower Trophy team

John Inman (a)

8. Top 24 players and ties from the 1984 Masters Tournament

Andy Bean (9,12), Ronnie Black (11), Rex Caldwell, Fred Couples (9,12), Danny Edwards, David Edwards (12), Jay Haas (9,13), Hale Irwin (9), Tom Kite (11,12,13), Wayne Levi (11,12), Mark Lye, Larry Mize (10), Gil Morgan (12,13), Calvin Peete (10,11,12,13), Jack Renner (12), Payne Stewart (12)

9. Top 16 players and ties from the 1984 U.S. Open

Lennie Clements, Peter Jacobsen (11,12), Mark McCumber (11), Johnny Miller, Mark O'Meara (11,12), Tom Purtzer, Tim Simpson, Curtis Strange (11,12,13), Jim Thorpe, Lanny Wadkins (10,11,12,13)

10. Top eight players and ties from 1984 PGA Championship

Gary Hallberg (12), Scott Simpson (11,12)

11. Winners of PGA Tour events since the previous Masters

Woody Blackburn, Bob Eastwood (12), Hubert Green, Scott Hoch (12), Billy Kratzert, Corey Pavin (12), Joey Sindelar

12. Top 30 players from the 1984 PGA Tour money list

Gary Koch, Bruce Lietzke, John Mahaffey

13. Members of the U.S. 1983 Ryder Cup team

Bob Gilder

14. Foreign invitations

Isao Aoki (9), Ian Baker-Finch, Nick Faldo (8,11), David Graham (2,8), Bernhard Langer, Sandy Lyle, Tsuneyuki Nakajima, Greg Norman (9,11,12), José María Olazábal (6,a), Sam Torrance, Denis Watson (11,12)

Numbers in brackets indicate categories that the player would have qualified under had they been American.

Round summaries

First round

Thursday, April 11, 1985

Place	Player	Score	To par
1	Gary Hallberg	68	−4
T2	Payne Stewart	69	−3
T2	Tom Watson	69	−3
T4	Ben Crenshaw	70	−2
	Raymond Floyd
	John Inman (a)
	Sam Randolph (a)
	Lee Trevino
T9	Billy Casper	71	−1
	Larry Mize
	Jack Nicklaus
	Gary Player
	Scott Simpson

Source:^[1]

Second round

Friday, April 12, 1985

Place	Player	Score	To par
T1	Craig Stadler	73-67=140	−4
	Payne Stewart	69-71=140
	Tom Watson	69-71=140
4	Gary Hallberg	68-73=141	−3
5	Gary Koch	72-70=142	−2
T6	Seve Ballesteros	72-71=143	−1
	Raymond Floyd	70-73=143
	Bruce Lietzke	72-71=143
	Sandy Lyle	78-65=143
	Lee Trevino	70-73=143

Source:^[8]

Third round

Saturday, April 13, 1985

Place	Player	Score	To par
1	Raymond Floyd	70-73-69=212	−4
2	Curtis Strange	80-65-68=213	−3
T3	Seve Ballesteros	72-71-71=214	−2
T3	Bernhard Langer	72-74-68=214	−2
T5	Gary Koch	72-70-73=215	−1
	Lee Trevino	70-73-72=215
	Tom Watson	69-71-75=215
T8	David Graham	74-71-71=216	E
	Gary Hallberg	68-73-75=216
	Bruce Lietzke	72-71-73=216
	Craig Stadler	73-67-76=216
	Payne Stewart	69-71-76=216
	Hal Sutton	77-69-70=216
	Jim Thorpe	73-71-72=216

Source:^[9]

Final round

Sunday, April 14, 1985

Final leaderboard

Champion
Silver Cup winner (low amateur)
(a) = amateur
(c) = past champion

*Top 10*
Place	Player	Score	To par	Money (US$)
1	Bernhard Langer	72-74-68-68=282	−6	126,000
T2	Seve Ballesteros (c)	72-71-71-70=284	−4	52,267
	Raymond Floyd (c)	70-73-69-72=284
	Curtis Strange	80-65-68-71=284
5	Jay Haas	73-73-72-67=285	−3	28,000
T6	Gary Hallberg	68-73-75-70=286	−2	22,663
	Bruce Lietzke	72-71-73-70=286
	Jack Nicklaus (c)	71-74-72-69=286
	Craig Stadler (c)	73-67-76-70=286
T10	Fred Couples	75-73-69-70=287	−1	16,800
	David Graham	74-71-71-71=287
	Lee Trevino	70-73-72-72=287
	Tom Watson (c)	69-71-75-72=287

Leaderboard below the top 10
Place	Player	Score	To par	Money ($)
T14	Billy Kratzert	73-77-69-69=288	E	12,950
T14	John Mahaffey	72-75-70-71=288	E	12,950
T16	Isao Aoki	72-74-71-72=289	+1	11,550
T16	Gary Koch	72-70-73-74=289	+1	11,550
T18	Wayne Levi	75-72-70-73=290	+2	9,128
	Mark McCumber	73-73-79-65=290		9,128
	Sam Randolph (a)	70-75-72-73=290		0
	Tim Simpson	73-72-75-70=290		9,128
	Jim Thorpe	73-71-72-74=290
	Lanny Wadkins	72-73-72-73=290
24	Mark O'Meara	73-76-72-70=291	+3	7,280
T25	Andy Bean	72-74-73-73=292	+4	5,670
	Nick Faldo	73-73-75-71=292
	Sandy Lyle	78-65-76-73=292
	Johnny Miller	77-68-76-71=292
	Corey Pavin	72-75-75-70=292
	Payne Stewart	69-71-76-76=292
T31	Jerry Haas (a)	76-69-73-75=293	+5	0
	Calvin Peete	75-70-74-74=293		4,445
	Joey Sindelar	73-73-75-72=293
	Hal Sutton	77-69-70-77=293
	Sam Torrance	73-73-75-72=293
T36	Lennie Clements	75-75-73-71=294	+6	3,612
	Hale Irwin	78-71-73-72=294
	Mark Lye	72-73-79-70=294
	Larry Nelson	73-75-74-72=294
	Gary Player (c)	71-75-73-75=294
T41	Ronnie Black	74-71-75-75=295	+7	3,010
	David Edwards	74-72-77-72=295
	Scott Simpson	71-73-77-74=295
T44	Charles Coody (c)	72-77-74-73=296	+8	2,660
	Bob Gilder	72-75-81-68=296		2,660
	Jay Sigel (a)	76-71-77-72=296		0
T47	Woody Blackburn	78-71-72-77=298	+10	2,115
	Danny Edwards	77-72-71-78=298
	Larry Mize	71-75-76-76=298
	Tsuneyuki Nakajima	77-70-78-73=298
	Greg Norman	73-72-75-78=298
	Jack Renner	72-77-70-79=298
T53	George Archer (c)	73-74-79-73=299	+11	1,800
	Scott Hoch	73-76-74-76=299
	Denis Watson	76-72-75-76=299
56	Rex Caldwell	73-74-77-77=301	+13	1,760
T57	Billy Casper (c)	71-78-74-79=302	+14	1,730
T57	Ben Crenshaw (c)	70-76-77-79=302	+14	1,730
59	John Inman (a)	70-76-80-77=303	+15	0
60	Bob Eastwood	77-72-82-77=308	+20	1,700
CUT	Randy Sonnier (a)	75-77=152	+8
	Scott Verplank (a)	78-74=152
	Fuzzy Zoeller (c)	77-75=152
	Bill Rogers	78-75=153	+9
	Peter Jacobsen	78-76=154	+10
	Tom Kite	75-79=154
	Gil Morgan	74-80=154
	Tom Purtzer	76-78=154
	Arnold Palmer (c)	83-72=155	+11
	Ian Baker-Finch	77-79=156	+12
	Hubert Green	74-83=157	+13
	José María Olazábal (a)	81-76=157
	Art Wall Jr. (c)	76-81=157
	Gay Brewer (c)	79-79=158	+14
	Tommy Aaron (c)	79-80=159	+15
	Bob Goalby (c)	79-80=159	+15
WD	Doug Ford (c)	76	+4

Sources:^[10]^[11]

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
Langer	−2	−1	−2	−2	−3	−3	−3	−3	−3	−3	−3	−4	−5	−5	−6	−6	−7	−6
Ballesteros	−2	−3	−3	−3	−3	−3	−3	−3	−3	−3	−3	−3	−3	−3	−4	−4	−4	−4
Floyd	−4	−4	−4	−4	−4	−3	−3	−3	−2	−3	−3	−2	−2	−2	−4	−4	−4	−4
Strange	−3	−4	−4	−5	−5	−5	−6	−7	−7	−6	−6	−7	−6	−6	−5	−5	−5	−4

Cumulative tournament scores, relative to par

	Eagle		Birdie		Bogey

References

^ ^a ^b "Masters final scores (first round)". Spokesman-Review. (Spokane, Washington). Associated Press. April 12, 1985. p. 32.
^ ^a ^b Green, Bob (April 15, 1985). "Strange shots gives Langer a Masters title". Spokesman-Review. (Spokane, Washington). Associated Press. p. C1.
^ "Floyd works mysterious 'game plan' for 69". Eugene Register-Guard. (Oregon). Associated Press. April 14, 1985. p. 1C.
^ Parascenzo, Marino (April 15, 1985). "It was a Strange way to lose the Masters". Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. p. 22.
^ ^a ^b "It's Langer - after Strange finish". Eugene Register-Guard. (Oregon). Associated Press. April 15, 1985. p. 1B.
^ ^a ^b Parascenzo, Marino (April 15, 1985). "Langer finds Masters title". Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. p. 19.
^ McDermott, Barry (April 22, 1985). "Der Meisterswinger". Sports Illustrated. p. 26.
^ "Watson falls into the lead". Eugene Register-Guard. (Oregon). Associated Press. April 13, 1985. p. 1C.
^ "Floyd leads by stroke". Sunday Star-News. (Wilmington, North Carolina). Associated Press. April 14, 1985. p. 1E.
^ "Masters – Past Winners & Results". Augusta National Inc. Retrieved April 20, 2021.
^ "Past results – Masters tournament". PGA Tour. Retrieved April 20, 2021.

External links

Masters.com – Past winners and results
GolfCompendium.com – 1985 Masters Tournament
Augusta.com – 1985 Masters leaderboard and scorecards

[mfs-1] "Masters final scores (first round)". Spokesman-Review. (Spokane, Washington). Associated Press. April 12, 1985. p. 32.

[stshglmt-2] Green, Bob (April 15, 1985). "Strange shots gives Langer a Masters title". Spokesman-Review. (Spokane, Washington). Associated Press. p. C1.

[fwmgpfs-3] "Floyd works mysterious 'game plan' for 69". Eugene Register-Guard. (Oregon). Associated Press. April 14, 1985. p. 1C.

[iwasw-4] Parascenzo, Marino (April 15, 1985). "It was a Strange way to lose the Masters". Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. p. 22.

[ilasf-5] "It's Langer - after Strange finish". Eugene Register-Guard. (Oregon). Associated Press. April 15, 1985. p. 1B.

[lfmtl-6] Parascenzo, Marino (April 15, 1985). "Langer finds Masters title". Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. p. 19.

[dms-7] McDermott, Barry (April 22, 1985). "Der Meisterswinger". Sports Illustrated. p. 26.

[wfitld-8] "Watson falls into the lead". Eugene Register-Guard. (Oregon). Associated Press. April 13, 1985. p. 1C.

[ssnfloy-9] "Floyd leads by stroke". Sunday Star-News. (Wilmington, North Carolina). Associated Press. April 14, 1985. p. 1E.

[10] "Masters – Past Winners & Results". Augusta National Inc. Retrieved April 20, 2021.

[11] "Past results – Masters tournament". PGA Tour. Retrieved April 20, 2021.

[1]

[2]

[3]

[4]

[5]

[6]

[7]

[8]

[9]

[10]

[11]