The 1952 Masters Tournament was the 16thMasters Tournament, held April3–6 at Augusta National Golf Club in Augusta, Georgia.

In strong winds and cool temperatures on the final two days, Sam Snead held on to the lead and won the second of his three Masters titles, four strokes ahead of runner-up Jack Burke Jr. It was the sixth of Snead's seven major titles.

Defending champion Ben Hogan hosted the first Masters Club dinner (popularly known as the Champions dinner). He was the co-leader with Snead after three rounds at 214(−2), but shot a 79(+7) on Sunday and finished seven strokes back.

With a Sunday gallery estimated at 18,000patrons at fivedollars each, the purse was doubled by the tournament committee to $20,000, with a winner's share of $4,000.

Field 1. Masters champions Jimmy Demaret (7,10), Claude Harmon, Ben Hogan (2,6,7,9,10), Byron Nelson (2,6,9), Henry Picard (6,10), Gene Sarazen (2,4,6,9), Horton Smith, Sam Snead (4,6,7,9,10,12), Craig Wood (2) Ralph Guldahl (2) and Herman Keiser did not play.

2. U.S. Open champions Billy Burke, Lawson Little (3,5,9), Lloyd Mangrum (7,9,10), Fred McLeod, Cary Middlecoff (9,10), Lew Worsham (9,10)

3. U.S. Amateur champions Ted Bishop (a), Dick Chapman (5,8,9,a), Charles Coe (8,9,11,a), Billy Maxwell (11,a), Skee Riegel (9,10), Jess Sweetser (5,a), Sam Urzetta (8,a), Bud Ward

4. British Open champions Denny Shute (6)

5. British Amateur champions Frank Stranahan (8,a), Robert Sweeny Jr. (a)

6. PGA champions Jim Ferrier (9), Vic Ghezzi, Bob Hamilton, Chandler Harper, Johnny Revolta (10)

7. Members of the U.S. 1951 Ryder Cup team Skip Alexander, Jack Burke Jr. (9,12), Clayton Heafner (9,10), Ed Oliver (10)

Dutch Harrison (9) and Henry Ransom (10) did not play.

8. Members of the U.S. 1951 Walker Cup team Dow Finsterwald, Bill Goodloe (a), Bobby Knowles (a), Jim McHale Jr. (a), Al Mengert (a), Harvie Ward (a)

William C. Campbell (a), Harold Paddock Jr. (a) and Willie Turnesa (a) did not play. Finsterwald, Goodloe, Mengert and Ward were reserves for the team.

9. Top 24 players and ties from the 1951 Masters Tournament Al Besselink (10), Julius Boros (10), Johnny Bulla (12), Dave Douglas (10), George Fazio, Ed Furgol, Joe Kirkwood Jr. (10), Bob Toski

10. Top 24 players and ties from the 1951 U.S. Open Charlie Bassler (12), Al Brosch (12), Marty Furgol, Ray Gafford, Fred Hawkins, Chuck Kocsis (a), Johnny Palmer, Smiley Quick, Earl Stewart, Buck White

Paul Runyan (6) did not play.

11. 1951 U.S. Amateur quarter-finalists Arnold Blum (a), Jimmy Frisina (a), Tommy Jacobs (a)

Jack Benson (a), Joe Gagliardi (a) and Ed Martin (a) did not play.

12. 1951 PGA Championship quarter-finalists Walter Burkemo, Reggie Myles

Ellsworth Vines did not play.

13. One amateur, not already qualified, selected by a ballot of ex-U.S. Amateur champions Johnny Dawson (a)

14. One professional, not already qualified, selected by a ballot of ex-U.S. Open champions Tommy Bolt

15. Two players, not already qualified, with the best scoring average in the winter part of the 1952 PGA Tour Doug Ford, Ted Kroll

16. Foreign invitations Stan Leonard, Bobby Locke (4,10), Albert Pélissier, Norman Von Nida

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

Round summaries First round Thursday, April 3, 1952 PlacePlayerScoreTo parT1 Ray Gafford 69 −3 Johnny Palmer T3 Al Besselink 70 −2 Ben Hogan Sam Snead T6 Skip Alexander 71 −1 Tommy Bolt Doug Ford Fred Hawkins Joe Kirkwood, Jr. Lloyd Mangrum Johnny Revolta Lew Worsham Source:

Second round Friday, April 4, 1952 PlacePlayerScoreTo par1 Sam Snead 70-67=137 −7 2 Ben Hogan 70-70=140 −4 T3 Tommy Bolt 71-71=142 −2 Jim Ferrier 72-70=142 Johnny Revolta 71-71=142T6 Jack Burke Jr. 76-67=143 −1 George Fazio 72-71=143 Johnny Palmer 69-74=143 Harvie Ward (a) 72-71=143 T10 Skip Alexander 71-73=144 E Dow Finsterwald 72-72=144 Fred Hawkins 71-73=144 Cary Middlecoff 72-72=144 Ed Oliver 72-72=144 Source:

Third round Saturday, April 5, 1952 PlacePlayerScoreTo parT1 Ben Hogan 70-70-74=214 −2 Sam Snead 70-67-77=214 3 Cary Middlecoff 72-72-72=216 E T4 Al Besselink 70-76-71=217 +1 Tommy Bolt 71-71-75=2176 Johnny Palmer 69-74-75=218 +2 T7 Jim Ferrier 72-70-77=219 +3 Johnny Revolta 71-71-77=219 Lew Worsham 71-75-73=21910 Lloyd Mangrum 71-74-75=220 +4 Source:

Final round Sunday, April 6, 1952

Final leaderboard Champion Silver Cup winner (low amateur)(a) = amateur(c) = past champion Top 10PlacePlayerScoreTo parMoney (US$)1 Sam Snead (c) 70-67-77-72=286 −2 4,0002 Jack Burke Jr. 76-67-78-69=290 +2 2,500T3 Al Besselink 70-76-71-74=291 +3 1,367 Tommy Bolt 71-71-75-74=291 Jim Ferrier 72-70-77-72=2916 Lloyd Mangrum 71-74-75-72=292 +4 800T7 Julius Boros 73-73-76-71=293 +5 625 Fred Hawkins 71-73-78-71=293 Ben Hogan (c) 70-70-74-79=293 Lew Worsham 71-75-73-74=293 Leaderboard below the top 10PlacePlayerScoreTo parMoney ($)11 Cary Middlecoff 72-72-72-78=294 +6 52012 Johnny Palmer 69-74-75-77=295 +7 50013 Johnny Revolta 71-71-77-77=296 +8 450T14 George Fazio 72-71-78-76=297 +9 443 Claude Harmon (c) 73-74-77-73=297 Chuck Kocsis (a) 75-78-71-73=297 0 Ted Kroll 74-74-76-73=297 443 Skee Riegel 75-71-78-73=297T19 Joe Kirkwood Jr. 71-77-74-76=298 +10 420 Frank Stranahan (a) 72-74-76-76=298 0T21 Doug Ford 71-74-79-75=299 +11 420 Bobby Locke 74-71-79-75=299 Harvie Ward (a) 72-71-78-78=299 0T24 Arnold Blum (a) 74-77-77-74=302 +14 Clayton Heafner 76-74-74-78=302 400 Byron Nelson (c) 72-75-78-77=302T27 Skip Alexander 71-73-77-82=303 +15 267 Smiley Quick 73-76-79-75=303 Norman Von Nida 77-77-73-76=303T30 Dave Douglas 76-69-81-78=304 +16 200 Vic Ghezzi 77-77-76-74=304 Ed Oliver 72-72-77-83=304 Horton Smith (c) 74-73-77-80=304T34 Charlie Bassler 74-75-79-77=305 +17 200 Stan Leonard 75-76-75-79=305 Al Mengert (a) 74-77-78-76=305 0 Earl Stewart 75-80-75-75=305 200T38 Ed Furgol 74-77-78-77=306 +18 200 Chandler Harper 76-74-79-77=306T40 Bob Hamilton 80-71-81-75=307 +19 200 Bob Toski 80-72-78-77=307T42 Walter Burkemo 80-74-76-78=308 +20 200 Johnny Dawson (a) 74-78-78-78=308 0 Marty Furgol 73-76-79-80=308 200 Bobby Knowles (a) 78-77-79-74=308 0T46 Charles Coe (a) 80-76-81-72=309 +21 Dow Finsterwald 72-72-83-82=309 200 Sam Urzetta (a) 78-73-76-82=309 0T49 Ray Gafford 69-80-81-80=310 +22 200 Billy Maxwell (a) 77-77-77-79=310 0 Denny Shute 74-77-78-81=310 200T52 Bill Goodloe (a) 77-71-77-86=311 +23 0 Henry Picard (c) 76-77-78-80=311 20054 Reggie Myles 77-75-80-80=312 +24 200T55 Ted Bishop (a) 82-75-81-75=313 +25 0 Al Brosch 76-74-85-78=313 200 Dick Chapman (a) 72-79-80-82=313 0 Robert Sweeny Jr. (a) 74-77-79-83=31359 Craig Wood (c) 73-81-80-80=314 +26 20060 Tommy Jacobs (a) 79-81-77-79=316 +28 061 Jimmy Frisina (a) 74-79-88-81=322 +34WD Jim McHale Jr. (a) 72-77-81=230 +14 Jimmy Demaret (c) 77-76=153 +9 Albert Pélissier 78-80=158 +14 Bud Ward 74 +2 Jess Sweetser (a) 84 +12 Billy Burke Lawson Little Fred McLeod Gene Sarazen (c) Buck WhiteDQ Johnny Bulla 77 +5

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Scorecard Final round Hole123456789101112131415161718Par454343454 443545344 Snead −2−2−2−3−3−3−3−2−1−2−1E−1−1−1−1−1−2 Burke+6+5+4+4+4+4+4+4+3+3+3+3+2+2+2+2+2+2 Besselink +1 +2 +1 +2 +3 +2 +2 +2 +1 +2 +2 +2 +3 +3 +2 +3 +3 +3 Bolt +1 −1 −1 −1 E E E E +1 +1 +1 +1 −1 −1 E +1 +3 +3 Ferrier +3 +3 +2 +2 +3 +2 +2 +2 +2 +3 +3 +4 +4 +4 +3 +3 +3 +3 Hogan −1−1−1E+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+2+3+4+4+5 Middlecoff +1+1+2+2+3+3+3+4+5+5+5+5+4+4+6+6+6+6 Source:

References

External links Masters.com – past winners and results Augusta.com – 1952 Masters leaderboard and scorecards