1974 Masters Tournament

The 1974 Masters Tournament was the 38th Masters Tournament, held on April 11–14 at the Augusta National Golf Club in Augusta, Georgia.

Gary Player won the second of his three Masters titles at 278 (−10), two strokes ahead of runners-up Dave Stockton and Tom Weiskopf. It was the seventh of his nine major championships. Player did not enter the previous year's tournament due to leg and abdominal surgery; it was the only Masters that he missed in 53 years.

Defending champion Tommy Aaron missed the cut by two strokes. Jack Burke Jr., the 1956 champion, competed at the Masters for the final time.

Field 1. Masters champions Tommy Aaron (8,12), George Archer, Gay Brewer (8,12), Jack Burke Jr., Billy Casper (8,11,12,13), Charles Coody, Doug Ford, Bob Goalby (8), Herman Keiser, Jack Nicklaus (2,3,4,8,9,10,11,12), Arnold Palmer (8,9,12), Gary Player (4,9,11), Sam Snead, Art Wall Jr. Jimmy Demaret, Ralph Guldahl, Claude Harmon, Ben Hogan, 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) Johnny Miller (8,9,11), Orville Moody

Lee Trevino (3,9,11,12) did not play

3. The Open champions (last five years) Tom Weiskopf (9,10.11,12)

4. PGA champions (last five years) Raymond Floyd (9), Dave Stockton (8,11)

5. 1973 U.S. Amateur quarter-finalists William C. Campbell (a), Henri DeLozier (a), Vinny Giles (6,7,a), Downing Gray (a), Billy Kratzert (a), Dick Siderowf (6,7,a), Craig Stadler (6,a), David Strawn (a)

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

7. Members of the 1973 U.S. Walker Cup team Gary Koch (a), Mark Pfeil (a), Marty West (a)

Doug Ballenger, Danny Edwards, Jimmy Ellis, Mike Killian, and Bill Rogers forfeited their exemptions by turning professional.

8. Top 24 players and ties from the 1973 Masters Tournament Frank Beard, Ben Crenshaw (11), Gardner Dickinson, Bob Dickson, Lou Graham (11), Hubert Green (11), Paul Harney, Babe Hiskey, Jim Jamieson, Gene Littler (11), Bobby Nichols (11), Phil Rodgers, Chi-Chi Rodríguez (12), Mason Rudolph (10), J. C. Snead (10,12), Kermit Zarley

Don January did not play

9. Top 16 players and ties from the 1973 U.S. Open Julius Boros, Jim Colbert, Al Geiberger, Jerry Heard (11), Ralph Johnston, John Schlee, Lanny Wadkins (10,11), Larry Ziegler

10. Top eight players and ties from 1973 PGA Championship Don Iverson, Dan Sikes

11. Winners of PGA Tour events since the previous Masters Sam Adams, Buddy Allin, Miller Barber, Homero Blancas (12), Bert Greene, Dave Hill, Hale Irwin (12), John Mahaffey, John Schroeder, Ed Sneed, Leonard Thompson

Deane Beman did not play, as he was now serving as commissioner of the PGA Tour

12. Members of the U.S. 1973 Ryder Cup team

13. Foreign invitations Isao Aoki, Hugh Baiocchi, Maurice Bembridge, Bob Charles (9,11), Bruce Crampton (10,11), Bruce Devlin (8), Trevor Homer (6,a), Tony Jacklin (2,3), Graham Marsh, Peter Oosterhuis, Masashi Ozaki (8)

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

Round summaries First round Thursday, April 11, 1974 PlacePlayerScoreTo par1 Jim Colbert 67 −5 T2 Hubert Green 68 −4 Hale Irwin Don Iverson T5 Frank Beard 69 −3 Raymond Floyd Gene Littler Jack Nicklaus Dan SikesT10 Billy Casper 70 −2 Bruce Devlin Jerry Heard Babe Hiskey Chi-Chi Rodríguez Art Wall Jr. Source

Second round Friday, April 12, 1974 PlacePlayerScoreTo par1 Dave Stockton 71-66=137 −7 T2 Hubert Green 68-70=138 −6 Hale Irwin 68-70=138T4 Frank Beard 69-70=139 −5 Jim Colbert 67-72=139T6 Jerry Heard 70-70=140 −4 Gene Littler 69-71=140 Jack Nicklaus 69-71=140 Dan Sikes 69-71=140 Tom Weiskopf 71-69=140 Source

Third round Saturday, April 13, 1974 PlacePlayerScoreTo par1 Dave Stockton 71-66-70=207 −9 T2 Jim Colbert 67-72-69=208 −8 Gary Player 71-71-66=208 T4 Bobby Nichols 73-68-68=209 −7 Phil Rodgers 72-69-68=209T6 Hale Irwin 68-70-72=210 −6 Tom Weiskopf 71-69-70=2108 Frank Beard 68-70-72=211 −5T9 Hubert Green 68-70-74=212 −4 Jack Nicklaus 69-71-72=212 Source

Final round Sunday, April 14, 1974

Final leaderboard Champion(a) = amateur(c) = past champion Top 10PlacePlayerScoreTo parMoney (US$)1 Gary Player (c) 71-71-66-70=278 −10 35,000T2 Dave Stockton 71-66-70-73=280 −8 21,250 Tom Weiskopf 71-69-70-70=280T4 Jim Colbert 67-72-69-73=281 −7 10,833 Hale Irwin 68-70-72-71=281 Jack Nicklaus (c) 69-71-72-69=281T7 Bobby Nichols 73-68-68-73=282 −6 4,750 Phil Rodgers 72-69-68-73=282T9 Maurice Bembridge 73-74-72-64=283 −5 3,900 Hubert Green 68-70-74-71=283 Leaderboard below the top 10PlacePlayerScoreTo parMoney ($)T11 Bruce Crampton 73-72-69-70=284 −4 3,375 Jerry Heard 70-70-73-71=284 Dave Hill 71-72-70-71=284 Arnold Palmer (c) 76-71-70-67=284T15 Buddy Allin 73-73-70-69=285 −3 2,900 Miller Barber 75-67-72-71=285 Ralph Johnston 72-71-70-72=285 Johnny Miller 72-74-69-70=285 Dan Sikes 69-71-74-71=285T20 Chi-Chi Rodríguez 70-74-71-71=286 −2 2,550 Sam Snead (c) 72-72-71-71=286T22 Frank Beard 69-70-72-76=287 −1 2,275 Ben Crenshaw 75-70-70-72=287 Raymond Floyd 69-72-76-70=287 Bob Goalby (c) 76-71-72-68=287T26 Julius Boros 75-70-69-74=288 E 1,850 John Schlee 75-71-71-71=288 J. C. Snead 73-68-74-73=288T29 Charles Coody (c) 74-72-76-67=289 +1 1,850 Don Iverson 68-74-73-74=289T31 Hugh Baiocchi 75-71-74-70=290 +2 1,775 Bruce Devlin 70-72-76-72=290 Al Geiberger 76-68-70-76=290 Graham Marsh 76-69-72-73=290 Peter Oosterhuis 79-68-68-75=290 Kermit Zarley 73-71-77-69=290T37 Billy Casper (c) 70-71-76-74=291 +3 1,775 Art Wall Jr. (c) 70-77-72-72=291T39 Gene Littler 69-71-78-74=292 +4 1,700 Larry Ziegler 72-73-73-74=292T41 Babe Hiskey 70-78-75-72=295 +7 1,700 Leonard Thompson 73-72-77-73=29543 Ed Sneed 74-74-77-72=297 +9 1,70044 Orville Moody 74-73-78-77=302 +14 1,700CUT Homero Blancas 73-76=149 +5 Trevor Homer (a) 77-72=149 John Mahaffey 71-78=149 Masashi Ozaki 79-70=149 Mason Rudolph 78-71=149 Tommy Aaron (c) 77-73=150 +6 Gay Brewer (c) 75-75=150 Henri DeLozier (a) 74-76=150 Vinny Giles (a) 74-76=150 Lou Graham 76-74=150 Gary Koch (a) 76-74=150 Jack Burke Jr. (c) 72-79=151 +7 Gardner Dickinson 71-80=151 Doug Ford (c) 76-75=151 Downing Gray (a) 75-76=151 John Schroeder 76-75=151 Dick Siderowf (a) 74-77=151 William C. Campbell (a) 74-78=152 +8 Bob Charles 73-79=152 Tony Jacklin 81-71=152 Billy Kratzert (a) 79-73=152 Mark Pfeil (a) 75-77=152 David Strawn (a) 77-75=152 Paul Harney 77-76=153 +9 Craig Stadler (a) 79-74=153 Marty West (a) 73-80=153 Isao Aoki 74-80=154 +10 Lanny Wadkins 74-80=154 Bob Dickson 76-79=155 +11 Jim Jamieson 80-75=155 Herman Keiser (c) 76-79=155 Sam Adams 80-79=159 +15 Bert Greene 81-81=162 +18WD George Archer (c) 75 +3

Sources:

Scorecard Hole  1    2    3   4  5  6  7  8  9 101112131415161718Par454343454 443545344 Player −8−8−8−8−8−9−9−9−10−9−9−8−9−9−9−9−10−10 Stockton −9−9−9−9−9−9−9−9−8−8−7−7−8−8−8−8−8−8 Weiskopf −6−6−6−7−7−7−8−9−9−8−7−7−8−8−9−8−8−8 Colbert −8−9−8−8−7−7−6−7−7−7−6−6−6−6−5−5−5−7 Irwin −6−6−6−6−5−5−4−5−5−5−5−6−7−7−7−8−8−7 Nicklaus −4−4−4−5−5−5−5−6−6−6−6−6−8−7−8−7−7−7 Cumulative tournament scores, relative to par EagleBirdieBogeyDouble bogeyTriple bogey+ Source

References

External links Masters.com – past winners and results Augusta.com – 1974 Masters leaderboard and scorecards