1975 Masters Tournament
Tournament information | |
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Dates | April 10–13, 1975 |
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 | 7,020 yards (6,419 m)[1][2] |
Field | 76 players, 46 after cut |
Cut | 148 (+4) |
Winner's share | $40,000 |
Champion | |
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276 (−12) | |
Location map | |
Location in Georgia | |
The 1975 Masters Tournament was the 39th Masters Tournament, held April 10–13 at Augusta National Golf Club in Augusta, Georgia.
Jack Nicklaus won his fifth Masters and thirteenth major title, one stroke ahead of runners-up Johnny Miller and Tom Weiskopf.[3][4][5][6][7] At age 40, Lee Elder became the first African-American to compete at the tournament,[8][9] but missed the cut by four strokes.[10][11]
The 1975 Masters is widely considered to be one of the greatest majors ever, with three great players at the peak of their games dueling in a thrilling Sunday finish.[5][12]
Had a playoff been required, it would have been a full 18-hole round on Monday. Prior to the next Masters in 1976, a sudden-death format was introduced and was first used in 1979.[13]
Nicklaus won his sixth green jacket eleven years later in 1986 at age 46.
Course
[edit]Hole | Name | Yards | Par | Hole | Name | Yards | Par | |
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1 | Tea Olive | 400 | 4 | 10 | Camellia | 485 | 4 | |
2 | Pink Dogwood | 555 | 5 | 11 | White Dogwood | 445 | 4 | |
3 | Flowering Peach | 360 | 4 | 12 | Golden Bell | 155 | 3 | |
4 | Flowering Crab Apple | 220 | 3 | 13 | Azalea | 475 | 5 | |
5 | Magnolia | 450 | 4 | 14 | Chinese Fir | 420 | 4 | |
6 | Juniper | 190 | 3 | 15 | Firethorn | 520 | 5 | |
7 | Pampas | 365 | 4 | 16 | Redbud | 190 | 3 | |
8 | Yellow Jasmine | 530 | 5 | 17 | Nandina | 400 | 4 | |
9 | Carolina Cherry | 440 | 4 | 18 | Holly | 420 | 4 | |
Out | 3,510 | 36 | In | 3,510 | 36 | |||
Source:[1] | Total | 7,020 | 72 |
Field
[edit]- 1. Masters champions
Tommy Aaron (12), George Archer, Gay Brewer (12), Billy Casper (12), Charles Coody, Doug Ford, Bob Goalby (8), Jack Nicklaus (2,3,4,8,9,10,11,12), Arnold Palmer (8,9,12), Gary Player (3,4,8,9,10,11), Sam Snead (8,10), Art Wall Jr.
- Jack Burke Jr., Jimmy Demaret, Ralph Guldahl, Claude Harmon, Ben Hogan, Herman Keiser, Cary Middlecoff, Byron Nelson, Henry Picard, and Gene Sarazen did not play.
- The following categories only apply to Americans
- 2. U.S. Open champions (last five years)
Hale Irwin (8,9), Johnny Miller (8,11), Lee Trevino (3,4,10,11,12)
- 3. The Open champions (last five years)
Tom Weiskopf (8,9,11,12)
- 4. PGA champions (last five years)
Dave Stockton (8,11)
- 5. 1974 U.S. Amateur semi-finalists
John Grace (a), Gary Koch (7,a), Jerry Pate (6,7,a), Curtis Strange (7,a)
- 6. Previous two U.S. Amateur and Amateur champions
Dick Siderowf (a), Craig Stadler (a)
- 7. Members of the 1974 U.S. Eisenhower Trophy team
George Burns (a)
- 8. Top 24 players and ties from the 1974 Masters Tournament
Buddy Allin (9,11), Miller Barber (11), Frank Beard (9), Jim Colbert (9,11), Ben Crenshaw, Raymond Floyd (9), Hubert Green (10,11), Jerry Heard, Dave Hill (10,11,12), Ralph Johnston, Bobby Nichols (11), Phil Rodgers, Chi-Chi Rodríguez (12), Dan Sikes
- 9. Top 16 players and ties from the 1974 U.S. Open
Forrest Fezler (11), Lou Graham (12), Tom Kite, John Mahaffey, Mike Reasor, Tom Watson (11), Bert Yancey, Larry Ziegler (11)
- 10. Top eight players and ties from 1974 PGA Championship
Al Geiberger (11)
- 11. Winners of PGA Tour events since the previous Masters
Rod Curl, Terry Diehl, Lee Elder, Pat Fitzsimons, Gary Groh, Richie Karl, Gene Littler, Mac McLendon, Bob Menne, Allen Miller, Bob Murphy, J. C. Snead (12), Ed Sneed
- 12. Members of the U.S. 1973 Ryder Cup team
- 13. Foreign invitations
Isao Aoki, Hugh Baiocchi, Maurice Bembridge (8), Bob Charles, Bobby Cole (10), Bruce Crampton (8), Roberto De Vicenzo, Bruce Devlin, Dale Hayes, Tony Jacklin (2), Lu Liang-Huan, Graham Marsh, Peter Oosterhuis, Masashi Ozaki, Victor Regalado (11)
- Numbers in brackets indicate categories that the player would have qualified under had they been American.
Round summaries
[edit]First round
[edit]Thursday, April 10, 1975
Place | Player | Score | To par |
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1 | ![]() |
67 | −5 |
T2 | ![]() |
68 | −4 |
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T4 | ![]() |
69 | −3 |
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T7 | ![]() |
70 | −2 |
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T10 | ![]() |
71 | −1 |
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- (a) = amateur
Source:[14]
Second round
[edit]Friday, April 11, 1975
Snead, age 62, was one-over-par after 27 holes when he withdrew due to a back injury.[10]
Place | Player | Score | To par |
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1 | ![]() |
68-67=135 | −9 |
T2 | ![]() |
70-70=140 | −4 |
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69-71=140 | ||
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70-70=140 | ||
T5 | ![]() |
72-69=141 | −3 |
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73-68=141 | ||
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67-74=141 | ||
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69-72=141 | ||
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71-70=141 | ||
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69-72=141 |
Source:[11]
Third round
[edit]Saturday, April 12, 1975
Nicklaus entered the weekend with a five-shot lead but struggled with a one-over 73 in the final pairing with Arnold Palmer. Weiskopf carded a 66 (−6) to take a one-stroke lead and Miller a 65 to climb into solo third.[15] Nicklaus three-putted four times on Saturday and was three-over-par on the last four holes to lose the lead.[15]
Place | Player | Score | To par |
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1 | ![]() |
69-72-66=207 | −9 |
2 | ![]() |
68-67-73=208 | −8 |
3 | ![]() |
75-71-65=211 | −5 |
4 | ![]() |
70-70-72=212 | −4 |
T5 | ![]() |
70-70-73=213 | −3 |
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67-74-72=213 | ||
T7 | ![]() |
73-69-73=215 | −1 |
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74-71-70=215 | ||
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68-75-72=215 | ||
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69-71-75=215 | ||
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71-70-74=215 |
Final round
[edit]Sunday, April 13, 1975
Summary
[edit]Although Nicklaus was in solo second after 54 holes, he played with Tom Watson in the penultimate pairing, followed by Miller and leader Weiskopf.[9] Nicklaus was three-under for the round and led Weiskopf by a stroke at the 14th tee, but he bogeyed while Weiskopf birdied for a two-shot swing and a lead change. On the par-3 16th hole, Nicklaus listened on the green as both Weiskopf and Miller birdied on the 15th green, as he had done. Nicklaus then sank a 40-foot (12 m) birdie putt, while Weiskopf and Miller watched from the 16th tee. Weiskopf left his tee shot 80 feet (24 m) short and bogeyed, while Miller made par and birdied 17.[3]
Both were a stroke behind with makeable birdie putts on the 72nd green to tie Nicklaus, who had just missed his 12-foot (3.7 m) birdie attempt. Miller missed left and low from 18 feet (5.5 m) while Weiskopf's eight-footer (2.4 m) missed right.[3][9]
Final leaderboard
[edit]Champion |
Silver Cup winner (low amateur) |
(a) = amateur |
(c) = past champion |
Place | Player | Score | To par | Money (US$) |
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1 | ![]() |
68-67-73-68=276 | −12 | 40,000 |
T2 | ![]() |
75-71-65-66=277 | −11 | 21,250 |
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69-72-66-70=277 | |||
T4 | ![]() |
73-74-71-64=282 | −6 | 12,500 |
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67-74-72-69=282 | |||
6 | ![]() |
70-70-73-70=283 | −5 | 7,500 |
7 | ![]() |
75-71-70-68=284 | −4 | 6,000 |
T8 | ![]() |
74-71-70-70=285 | −3 | 4,500 |
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70-70-72-73=285 | |||
T10 | ![]() |
72-74-71-69=286 | −2 | 3,600 |
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69-72-75-70=286 | |||
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71-70-74-71=286 |
Leaderboard below the top 10 | |||||
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Place | Player | Score | To par | Money ($) | |
T13 | ![]() |
69-71-75-72=287 | −1 | 3,250 | |
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71-73-74-69=287 | ||||
T15 | ![]() |
73-71-73-71=288 | E | 2,900 | |
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72-70-76-70=288 | ||||
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72-70-76-70=288 | ||||
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68-75-72-73=288 | ||||
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72-74-72-70=288 | ||||
T20 | ![]() |
73-69-73-74=289 | +1 | 2,550 | |
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74-73-69-73=289 | ||||
T22 | ![]() |
76-72-72-70=290 | +2 | 2,275 | |
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73-68-79-70=290 | ||||
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72-72-72-74=290 | ||||
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75-70-74-71=290 | ||||
T26 | ![]() |
74-72-72-73=291 | +3 | 2,000 | |
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75-72-75-69=291 | ||||
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71-75-72-73=291 | ||||
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72-72-73-74=291 | ||||
T30 | ![]() |
72-72-76-72=292 | +4 | 0 | |
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72-71-75-74=292 | 1,950 | |||
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76-71-71-74=292 | ||||
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72-73-79-68=292 | ||||
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72-74-73-73=292 | ||||
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76-72-72-72=292 | ||||
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74-71-74-73=292 | ||||
37 | ![]() |
71-75-78-69=293 | +5 | 0 | |
T38 | ![]() |
71-75-76-72=294 | +6 | 1,850 | |
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72-76-71-75=294 | ||||
T40 | ![]() |
72-75-75-73=295 | +7 | 1,850 | |
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72-72-77-74=295 | ||||
42 | ![]() |
70-72-80-74=296 | +8 | 1,750 | |
T43 | ![]() |
72-69-79-77=297 | +9 | 1,700 | |
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73-74-78-72=297 | ||||
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73-73-83-68=297 | ||||
46 | ![]() |
72-75-79-76=302 | +14 | 1,650 | |
CUT | ![]() |
77-72=149 | +5 | ||
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74-75=149 | ||||
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71-78=149 | ||||
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74-75=149 | ||||
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77-72=149 | ||||
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74-75=149 | ||||
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76-74=150 | +6 | |||
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76-74=150 | ||||
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75-75=150 | ||||
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72-78=150 | ||||
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79-71=150 | ||||
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74-76=150 | ||||
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75-76=151 | +7 | |||
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77-74=151 | ||||
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77-74=151 | ||||
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77-74=151 | ||||
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79-72=151 | ||||
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80-72=152 | +8 | |||
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74-78=152 | ||||
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78-74=152 | ||||
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77-75=152 | ||||
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75-77=152 | ||||
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81-72=153 | +9 | |||
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75-78=153 | ||||
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79-75=154 | +10 | |||
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76-79=155 | +11 | |||
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80-76=156 | +12 | |||
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76-82=158 | +14 | |||
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76-82=158 | ||||
WD | ![]() |
71 | −1 |
Scorecard
[edit]Cumulative tournament scores, relative to par
Eagle Birdie Bogey Double bogey Triple bogey+
References
[edit]- ^ a b "Masters par and yardage". Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Associated Press. April 9, 1975. p. 19.
- ^ a b "Weiskopf 66 passes Jack". Spokesman-Review. (Spokane, Washington). Associated Press. April 13, 1975. p. D1.
- ^ a b c "Jack reigns again, a 40-footer the clincher". Eugene Register-Guard. (Oregon). Associated Press. April 14, 1975. p. 1B.
- ^ Christine, Bill (April 14, 1975). "Nicklaus wins record 5th Masters". Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. p. 14.
- ^ a b Mizell, Hubert (April 14, 1975). "Nicklaus pens epic Masters finish". St. Petersburg Times. (Florida). p. 1C.
- ^ "Nicklaus wins Masters with long birdie putt". Toledo Blade. (Ohio). April 14, 1975. p. 25.
- ^ Denlinger, Kenneth (April 14, 1975). "Nicklaus wins record 5th as others' putts slither by". Milwaukee Journal. (Washington Post). p. 7, part 2.
- ^ a b Jenkins, Dan (April 21, 1975). "You're all right, Jack". Sports Illustrated. p. 18.
- ^ a b c "Nicklaus survives shootout". Spokesman-Review. (Spokane, Washington). Associated Press. April 14, 1975. p. 12.
- ^ a b "Nicklaus way ahead, Elder goes home". Milwaukee Journal. press dispatches. April 12, 1975. p. 10.
- ^ a b Christine, Bill (April 12, 1975). "Palmer hot, but Jack scorches Masters". Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. p. 8.
- ^ "Our Top 10 All-Time Favorite Masters Tournaments". www.golf.com. Retrieved April 25, 2016.
- ^ "Masters playoff format is changed". CNN.com. April 7, 2004. Retrieved April 5, 2013.
- ^ "Nichols (me?) leads Masters". Pittsburgh-Post Gazette. Associated Press. April 11, 1975. p. 11.
- ^ a b c "Tall Tom: a tall order for Nicklaus". Eugene Register-Guard. (Oregon). Associated Press. April 13, 1975. p. 1C.
- ^ "Masters – Past Winners & Results". Augusta National Inc. Retrieved April 20, 2021.
- ^ "Past results – Masters tournament". PGA Tour. Retrieved April 20, 2021.
- ^ "Nicklaus wins Masters with long birdie putt". Toledo Blade. (Ohio). Associated Press. April 14, 1975. p. 25.
External links
[edit]- Masters.com – past winners and results
- Augusta.com – 1975 Masters leaderboard and scorecards