The 1983 Masters Tournament was the 47th Masters Tournament, held April 7–11 at Augusta National Golf Club in Augusta, Georgia. Seve Ballesteros won his second Masters and third major title, four strokes ahead of runners-up Ben Crenshaw and Tom Kite. Play on Friday was postponed due to heavy rain, and the final round was completed on Monday for the first time since 1973.

Defending champion Craig Stadler was tied for the 54-hole lead with 1976 champion Raymond Floyd, with Ballesteros one stroke back, and two-time champion Tom Watson an additional stroke behind. Ballesteros got off to a fast start in the final round on Monday with a birdie-eagle start. With another birdie at the difficult par-3 fourth, he added four pars and another birdie at the ninth for a five-under 31 on the front nine. Ballesteros cruised to a 69 (−3) and a comfortable win as neither Stadler, Floyd, nor Watson broke par.

During the postponement of Friday's round, the possibility was raised that the tournament would not complete the entire 72 holes, as the southeastern U.S. was experiencing heavy rains and flooding and forecasts were not favorable.

Saturday's second round went off from split tees (1st and 10th) and six players did not complete their rounds until early Sunday morning. With this extension, the tournament committee did not attempt to complete the final two rounds on Sunday, opting for the third round only on Sunday and the fourth on Monday.

Four-time champion Arnold Palmer, 53, opened with a 68 on Thursday and made the cut at the Masters for the final time. In his 29th Masters, he stated that the conditions on Saturday were the worst he had ever seen at Augusta. Five-time winner Jack Nicklaus 43, withdrew before his second round start time due to back spasms experienced while warming up. Nicklaus had shot a first round of 73. It was only his second withdrawal as a pro, the first was three years earlier at the 1980 World Series of Golf. Nicklaus had missed only one cut in the previous 23 Masters and made ten consecutive after this year, including his record sixth green jacket in 1986.

, it is still the most recent Masters Tournament to have a Monday finish. Due to time constraints with local news/primetime programming, the green jacket ceremony happened before all the players had finished their final rounds, as Stadler and Floyd, the final two golfers on the course, were deemed mathematically too far behind winner Ballesteros for their results to change the outcome of who would win the tournament. Since 1982 champion Stadler was still on the course during the ceremony, Augusta National chairman Hord Hardin placed the green jacket on Ballesteros.

It was the final major championship for Sam Snead, 70, a three-time Masters champion. He withdrew after a first round 79 as he assessed he could not make the cut.

Caddie policy change This was the first year that players were allowed to use their own caddies, rather than those of Augusta National. Twelve players continued to use caddies from the club, including Nicklaus. The first female caddie at the Masters appeared this year as George Archer, the 1969 champion, employed his 19-year-old daughter Elizabeth. She had carried the bag for her father for twenty previous events since the summer of 1980. Archer finished tied for twelfth, one of his better finishes at Augusta.

Field 1. Masters champions Tommy Aaron, George Archer, Seve Ballesteros (3,8), Gay Brewer, Billy Casper, Charles Coody, Raymond Floyd (4,8,10,11,12,13), Doug Ford, Bob Goalby, Jack Nicklaus (2,3,4,8,9,11,12,13), Arnold Palmer, Gary Player (8), Sam Snead, Craig Stadler (8,11,12), Art Wall Jr., Tom Watson (2,3,8,9,12,13), Fuzzy Zoeller (8,9,12)

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 (12,13), Andy North

3. The Open champions (last five years) Bill Rogers (9,11,12,13)

4. PGA champions (last five years) John Mahaffey, Larry Nelson (8,12,13)

5. 1982 U.S. Amateur semi-finalists Rick Fehr (a), Jim Hallet (a), Jay Sigel (6,7,a), David Tolley (a)

6. Previous two U.S. Amateur and Amateur champions Nathaniel Crosby (7,a)

7. Members of the 1982 U.S. Eisenhower Trophy team Jim Holtgrieve (a), Bob Lewis (a)

8. Top 24 players and ties from the 1982 Masters Tournament Andy Bean (12), Ben Crenshaw (13), Danny Edwards (9,12), Bob Gilder (10,11,12), Morris Hatalsky, Mark Hayes, Peter Jacobsen (12), Tom Kite (11,12,13), Wayne Levi (11,12), Bruce Lietzke (11,12,13), Jodie Mudd, Dan Pohl (9), Jack Renner, John Schroeder, Jim Simons (10), Curtis Strange (12), Tom Weiskopf (11,12)

Jerry Pate (12,13) did not play

9. Top 16 players and ties from the 1982 U.S. Open Chip Beck, Bobby Clampett (11,12), Jay Haas (10,11,12), Gary Koch (11), Lyn Lott, Calvin Peete (10,11,12), Larry Rinker, Scott Simpson (12), J. C. Snead, Lanny Wadkins (10,11,12)

10. Top eight players and ties from 1982 PGA Championship Fred Couples

11. Winners of PGA Tour events since the previous Masters Keith Fergus (12), Gary Hallberg, Scott Hoch (12), Johnny Miller (12,13), Gil Morgan (12), Mike Nicolette, Tim Norris, Ed Sneed (12), Payne Stewart, Hal Sutton (12)

12. Top 30 players from the 1982 PGA Tour money list George Burns

13. Members of the U.S. 1981 Ryder Cup team Lee Trevino

14. Foreign invitations Isao Aoki (11), Bruce Devlin (9), Nick Faldo, David Graham (2,4,8,9), Yutaka Hagawa (8), Hsieh Min-Nan, Sandy Lyle, Tsuneyuki Nakajima, Greg Norman (10), Peter Oosterhuis (8), Philippe Ploujoux (6,a), Bob Shearer (11), Martin Thompson (6,a)

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

Round summaries First round Thursday, April 7, 1983 PlacePlayerScoreTo parT1 Raymond Floyd 67 −5 Gil Morgan Jack Renner T4 Seve Ballesteros 68 −4 Charles Coody Jim Hallet (a) Arnold Palmer J. C. Snead T9 Bruce Lietzke 69 −3 Craig Stadler Source:

Second round Saturday, April 9, 1983 Sunday, April 10, 1983

Play on Friday was completely washed out due to rain and the second round started on Saturday;six players did not finish the second round until Sunday morning. PlacePlayerScoreTo par1 Gil Morgan 67-70=137 −7 2 Seve Ballesteros 68-70=138 −6 T3 Keith Fergus 70-69=139 −5 Raymond Floyd 67-72=139 T5 Nick Faldo 70-70=140 −4 Jodie Mudd 72-68=140 T7 Fred Couples 73-68=141 −3 Craig Stadler 69-72=141 Tom Watson 70-71=141T10 Jay Haas 73-69=142 −2 Gary Hallberg 71-71=142 Tom Kite 70-72=142 Wayne Levi 72-70=142 Tsuneyuki Nakajima 72-70=142 Peter Oosterhuis 73-69=142 Arnold Palmer 68-74=142 Jack Renner 67-75=142 J. C. Snead 68-74=142 Source:

Third round Sunday, April 10, 1983 PlacePlayerScoreTo parT1 Raymond Floyd 67-72-71=210 −6 Craig Stadler 69-72-69=2103 Seve Ballesteros 68-70-73=211 −5 T4 Jodie Mudd 72-68-72=212 −4 Tom Watson 70-71-71=212T6 Keith Fergus 70-69-74=213 −3 Gil Morgan 67-70-76=2138 Tsuneyuki Nakajima 72-70-72=214 −2T9 George Archer 71-73-71=215 −1 Jay Haas 73-69-73=215 Tom Kite 70-72-73=215 Johnny Miller 72-72-71=215 Greg Norman 71-74-70=215 Scott Simpson 70-73-72=215 Lee Trevino 71-72-72=215 Source:

Final round Monday, April 11, 1983

Final leaderboard Champion Silver Cup winner (low amateur)(a) = amateur(c) = past champion Top 10PlacePlayerScoreTo parMoney (US$)1 Seve Ballesteros (c) 68-70-73-69=280 −8 90,000T2 Ben Crenshaw 76-70-70-68=284 −4 44,000 Tom Kite 70-72-73-69=284T4 Raymond Floyd (c) 67-72-71-75=285 −3 22,000 Tom Watson (c) 70-71-71-73=285T6 Hale Irwin 72-73-72-69=286 −2 17,400 Craig Stadler (c) 69-72-69-76=286T8 Gil Morgan 67-70-76-74=287 −1 14,500 Dan Pohl 74-72-70-71=287 Lanny Wadkins 73-70-73-71=287 Leaderboard below the top 10PlacePlayerScoreTo parMoney ($)11 Scott Simpson 70-73-72-73=288 E 12,500T12 George Archer (c) 71-73-71-74=289 +1 10,125 Wayne Levi 72-70-74-73=289 Johnny Miller 72-72-71-74=289 J. C. Snead 68-74-74-73=289T16 Keith Fergus 70-69-74-77=290 +2 8,000 Tsuneyuki Nakajima 72-70-72-76=290 Jack Renner 67-75-78-70=29019 Isao Aoki 70-76-74-71=291 +3 7,000T20 Nick Faldo 70-70-76-76=292 +4 5,214 Mark Hayes 71-73-76-72=292 Peter Jacobsen 73-71-76-72=292 Peter Oosterhuis 73-69-78-72=292 Lee Trevino 71-72-72-77=292 Tom Weiskopf 75-72-71-74=292 Fuzzy Zoeller (c) 70-74-76-72=292T27 Jay Haas 73-69-73-78=293 +5 3,667 Scott Hoch 74-69-74-76=293 Hal Sutton 73-73-70-77=293T30 Greg Norman 71-74-70-79=294 +6 3,350 Andy North 72-75-72-75=294T32 Chip Beck 71-76-76-72=295 +7 2,900 Fred Couples 73-68-81-73=295 Gary Hallberg 71-71-75-78=295 Payne Stewart 70-76-78-71=295T36 Charles Coody (c) 68-75-79-74=296 +8 2,450 Danny Edwards 70-76-79-71=296 Yutaka Hagawa 72-75-75-74=296 Arnold Palmer (c) 68-74-76-78=296T40 Jim Hallet (a) 68-73-78-78=297 +9 0 John Mahaffey 72-75-74-76=297 2,200T42 Bruce Lietzke 69-75-82-72=298 +10 2,050 Jodie Mudd 72-68-72-86=298T44 Bob Gilder 72-74-76-77=299 +11 1,970 Mike Nicolette 73-74-78-74=29946 David Graham 71-74-80-75=300 +12 1,94047 Gay Brewer (c) 72-73-80-76=301 +13 1,92048 Bob Shearer 70-77-82-76=305 +17 1,90049 Calvin Peete 70-72-87-80=309 +21 1,880CUT Billy Casper (c) 72-76=148 +4 Rick Fehr (a) 74-74=148 Lyn Lott 77-71=148 Sandy Lyle 74-74=148 Larry Nelson 73-75=148 Ed Sneed 74-74=148 Bobby Clampett 74-75=149 +5 Curtis Strange 77-72=149 George Burns 77-73=150 +6 Bruce Devlin 73-77=150 Tim Norris 75-75=150 Bill Rogers 72-78=150 Tommy Aaron (c) 76-75=151 +7 Morris Hatalsky 77-74=151 Gary Player (c) 73-78=151 Jim Simons 74-77=151 David Tolley (a) 77-74=151 Andy Bean 76-76=152 +8 Hsieh Min-Nan 74-78=152 Martin Thompson (a) 76-76=152 Gary Koch 76-77=153 +9 Bob Lewis (a) 74-79=153 Jay Sigel (a) 72-81=153 Bob Goalby (c) 76-79=155 +11 Larry Rinker 75-81=156 +12 Jim Holtgrieve (a) 78-80=158 +14 John Schroeder 79-79=158 Art Wall Jr. (c) 74-84=158 Nathaniel Crosby (a) 79-81=160 +16 Philippe Ploujoux (a) 81-84=165 +21WD Jack Nicklaus (c) 73 +1 Sam Snead (c) 79 +7 Doug Ford (c) 85 +13

Sources:

Scorecard Hole  1    2    3    4    5    6    7    8    9   10  11  12  13  14  15  16  17  18 Par454343454 443545344 Ballesteros−6−8−8−9−9−9−9−9−10−9−9−8−8−8−8−8−8−8 CrenshawE−1−2−2−2−1−2−2−2−2−2−2−4−4−4−4−4−4 Kite−1−2−1−1EEEEEEE−1−2−3−3−2−3−4 Floyd−6−6−6−6−5−4−4−4−4−3−3−3−3−3−3-3−4−3 Watson−4−5−5−5−6−6−5−7−6−5−4−4−5−3−3−3−3−3 Stadler−5−6−6−6−6−5−6−6−6−6−5−4−4−3−2−2−2−2 Irwin+1E−1−1−1−1−1−1EEEEE−1−1−2−2−2 Cumulative tournament scores, relative to par

References

External links – Past winners and results Augusta.com – 1983 Masters leaderboard and scorecards