1981 Masters Tournament | |
Dates: | April 9–12, 1981 |
Location: | Augusta, Georgia |
Course: | Augusta National Golf Club |
Org: | Augusta National Golf Club |
Tour: | PGA Tour |
Par: | 72 |
Yardage: | [1] |
Field: | 82 players, 48 after cut |
Cut: | 148 (+4) |
Purse: | $362,587 |
Winners Share: | $60,000 |
Score: | 280 (−8) |
Previous: | 1980 |
Next: | 1982 |
Map: | USA#USA Georgia |
Map Relief: | yes |
Map Label: | Augusta National |
Coordinates: | 33.503°N -82.02°W |
The 1981 Masters Tournament was the 45th Masters Tournament, held April 9–12 at Augusta National Golf Club in Augusta, Georgia. Tom Watson won his second green jacket and fifth major title by two strokes over Jack Nicklaus and Johnny Miller.
Five-time champion Nicklaus shot a bogey-free 65 on Friday and led by four strokes after 36 holes,[2] but a 75 on Saturday put him a stroke behind Watson entering the final round. It was the fourth runner-up finish for Nicklaus at the Masters and the third for Miller.[3] [4] [5] Nicklaus won his sixth Masters five years later in 1986 at age 46.
Defending champion Seve Ballesteros shot 154 (+10) and missed the cut by six strokes;[2] he also missed the cut as defending champion in 1984. Lee Trevino, needing a green jacket to complete the career grand slam, also shot 154 with an ailing back.[2] His best finishes at Augusta were tenth place ties in 1975 and 1985.
Greg Norman, age 26, appeared in his first Masters and was fourth, the first of his eight top-five finishes at Augusta. He was runner-up three times, in 1986, 1987, and 1996.
This was the first Masters with bentgrass greens, which were formerly Bermuda and ryegrass.[6] [7] [8]
Thursday, April 9, 1981
Place | Player | Score | To par |
---|---|---|---|
T1 | 69 | −3 | |
T5 | 70 | −2 | |
Friday, April 10, 1981
Place | Player | Score | To par | |
---|---|---|---|---|
1 | 70-65=135 | −9 | ||
T2 | 69-70=139 | −5 | ||
72-67=139 | ||||
69-70=139 | ||||
71-68=139 | ||||
T6 | 70-70=140 | −4 | ||
70-70=140 | ||||
T8 | 73-68=141 | −3 | ||
70-71=141 | ||||
71-70=141 | ||||
69-72=141 |
Saturday, April 11, 1981
Place | Player | Score | To par |
---|---|---|---|
1 | 71-68-70=209 | −7 | |
2 | 70-65-75=210 | −6 | |
3 | 69-70-72=211 | −5 | |
T4 | 72-67-73=212 | −4 | |
72-71-69=212 | |||
T6 | 70-71-72=213 | −3 | |
71-72-70=213 | |||
69-70-74=213 | |||
71-70-72=213 | |||
T10 | 75-68-71=214 | −2 | |
70-70-74=214 | |||
70-70-74=214 | |||
69-72-73=214 | |||
71-72-71=214 | |||
72-72-70=214 | |||
72-71-71=214 |
Sunday, April 12, 1981
Champion | |
Silver Cup winner (low amateur) | |
(a) = amateur | |
(c) = past champion |
1 | Tom Watson (c) | 71-68-70-71=280 | −8 | 60,000 |
T2 | 69-72-73-68=282 | −6 | 30,500 | |
Jack Nicklaus (c) | 70-65-75-72=282 | |||
4 | 69-70-72-72=283 | −5 | 16,000 | |
T5 | 74-72-70-68=284 | −4 | 12,667 | |
71-72-71-70=284 | ||||
7 | 70-70-74-71=285 | −3 | 11,167 | |
T8 | 71-72-70-73=286 | −2 | 9,667 | |
Raymond Floyd (c) | 75-71-71-69=286 | |||
72-71-69-74=286 |
Leaderboard below the top 10 | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Place | Player | Score | To par | Money ($) | |
T11 | George Archer (c) | 74-70-72-71=287 | −1 | 7,333 | |
70-70-74-73=287 | |||||
71-70-72-74=287 | |||||
72-67-73-75=287 | |||||
T15 | Gay Brewer (c) | 75-68-71-74=288 | E | 5,500 | |
72-75-69-72=288 | |||||
Gary Player (c) | 73-73-71-71=288 | ||||
70-75-71-72=288 | |||||
T19 | 71-75-72-71=289 | +1 | 4,500 | ||
69-79-70-71=289 | |||||
T21 | 70-71-72-77=290 | +2 | 3,600 | ||
74-73-70-73=290 | |||||
75-70-71-74=290 | |||||
72-71-71-76=290 | |||||
T25 | 73-68-74-76=291 | +3 | 2,700 | ||
73-74-70-74=291 | |||||
72-71-73-75=291 | |||||
T28 | 71-71-76-74=292 | +4 | 2,350 | ||
69-70-74-79=292 | |||||
73-70-76-73=292 | |||||
T31 | 74-72-72-75=293 | +5 | 2,013 | ||
75-71-72-75=293 | |||||
73-72-73-75=293 | |||||
72-72-70-79=293 | |||||
T35 | Jay Sigel (a) | 72-75-75-72=294 | +6 | 0 | |
72-74-74-74=294 | 1,800 | ||||
T37 | 76-72-75-72=295 | +7 | 1,617 | ||
73-70-75-77=295 | |||||
76-72-75-72=295 | |||||
T40 | Charles Coody (c) | 74-71-75-76=296 | +8 | 1,500 | |
Bob Lewis (a) | 77-70-73-76=296 | 0 | |||
75-72-74-75=296 | 1,500 | ||||
T43 | 76-71-73-77=297 | +9 | 1,500 | ||
Fuzzy Zoeller (c) | 77-70-78-72=297 | ||||
T45 | 70-76-77-77=300 | +12 | 1,500 | ||
74-74-75-77=300 | |||||
47 | Jim Holtgrieve (a) | 70-77-79-75=301 | +13 | 0 | |
48 | Tommy Aaron (c) | 77-71-76-79=303 | +15 | 1,500 | |
CUT | 75-74=149 | +5 | |||
72-77=149 | |||||
76-73=149 | |||||
74-75=149 | |||||
77-72=149 | |||||
73-76=149 | |||||
77-73=150 | +6 | ||||
72-78=150 | |||||
76-75=151 | +7 | ||||
73-78=151 | |||||
78-73=151 | |||||
76-75=151 | |||||
Bob Tway (a) | 75-76=151 | ||||
79-73=152 | +8 | ||||
74-79=153 | +9 | ||||
76-77=153 | |||||
Arnold Palmer (c) | 75-78=153 | ||||
81-72=153 | |||||
79-74=153 | |||||
75-78=153 | |||||
Seve Ballesteros (c) | 78-76=154 | +10 | |||
Billy Casper (c) | 76-78=154 | ||||
81-73=154 | |||||
77-77=154 | |||||
Doug Ford (c) | 79-76=155 | +11 | |||
Bob Goalby (c) | 80-75=155 | ||||
82-73=155 | |||||
Sam Snead (c) | 77-78=155 | ||||
Hal Sutton (a) | 80-75=155 | ||||
Art Wall Jr. (c) | 76-79=155 | ||||
83-75=158 | +14 | ||||
82-77=159 | +15 | ||||
Duncan Evans (a) | 81-79=160 | +16 | |||
Dick von Tacky (a) | 76-85=161 | +17 |
Hole | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | |
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Par | 4 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 4 | |
Watson | −7 | −8 | −8 | −8 | −8 | −7 | −7 | −8 | −7 | −7 | −7 | −7 | −7 | −7 | −8 | −8 | −8 | −8 | |
Miller | −3 | −4 | −4 | −3 | −3 | −2 | −2 | −3 | −4 | −3 | −3 | −3 | −4 | −5 | −5 | −5 | −6 | −6 | |
Nicklaus | −6 | −6 | −6 | −6 | −6 | −6 | −5 | −5 | −4 | −4 | −4 | −4 | −5 | −4 | −5 | −6 | −6 | −6 | |
Norman | −5 | −5 | −4 | −4 | −4 | −4 | −5 | −5 | −5 | −3 | −3 | −3 | −4 | −4 | −5 | −5 | −5 | −5 | |
Kite | E | E | −1 | −1 | E | E | E | E | E | E | E | −1 | −2 | −2 | −3 | −3 | −4 | −4 | |
Pate | −2 | −3 | −4 | −3 | −3 | −2 | −2 | −2 | −2 | −3 | −3 | −1 | −2 | −2 | −3 | −3 | −4 | −4 |