The 1985 Masters Tournament was the 49th Masters Tournament, held April 11–14 at Augusta National Golf Club in Augusta, Georgia.

Bernhard Langer won the first of his two major championships, both Masters, two strokes ahead of runners-up Seve Ballesteros, Raymond Floyd, and Curtis Strange. A 69 (−3) on Saturday put Floyd in the lead after 54 holes at 212 (−4); Strange was a stroke back, with Langer and Ballesteros two strokes back. Despite an opening round 80, Strange led by three strokes with six holes to play in the final round, but made key bogeys at 13 and 15 when his attempts to reach both greens in two shots found water instead and finished two strokes back. It was Strange's only top-5 finish at Augusta, but he won consecutive U.S. Opens in 1988 and 1989.

Langer, age 27 and dressed in red, birdied four of the last seven holes to win the green jacket. The second champion from Europe, he had consecutive rounds of 68 (−4) on the weekend to become the first winner of a major from Germany (then West Germany). Langer won a second green jacket eight years later in 1993.

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

Jack Burke Jr., Ralph Guldahl, Claude Harmon, Ben Hogan, Herman Keiser, Cary Middlecoff, Byron Nelson, Henry Picard, Gene Sarazen, and Sam Snead did not play.

The following categories only apply to Americans

2. U.S. Open champions (last five years) Larry Nelson (4,8,11)

3. The Open champions (last five years) Bill Rogers

4. PGA champions (last five years) Hal Sutton (9,10,12), Lee Trevino (9,10,12)

5. 1984 U.S. Amateur semi-finalists Jerry Haas (a), Sam Randolph (a), Randy Sonnier (7,a), Scott Verplank (6,7,a)

6. Previous two U.S. Amateur and Amateur champions Jay Sigel (7,a)

7. Members of the 1984 U.S. Eisenhower Trophy team John Inman (a)

8. Top 24 players and ties from the 1984 Masters Tournament Andy Bean (9,12), Ronnie Black (11), Rex Caldwell, Fred Couples (9,12), Danny Edwards, David Edwards (12), Jay Haas (9,13), Hale Irwin (9), Tom Kite (11,12,13), Wayne Levi (11,12), Mark Lye, Larry Mize (10), Gil Morgan (12,13), Calvin Peete (10,11,12,13), Jack Renner (12), Payne Stewart (12)

9. Top 16 players and ties from the 1984 U.S. Open Lennie Clements, Peter Jacobsen (11,12), Mark McCumber (11), Johnny Miller, Mark O'Meara (11,12), Tom Purtzer, Tim Simpson, Curtis Strange (11,12,13), Jim Thorpe, Lanny Wadkins (10,11,12,13)

10. Top eight players and ties from 1984 PGA Championship Gary Hallberg (12), Scott Simpson (11,12)

11. Winners of PGA Tour events since the previous Masters Woody Blackburn, Bob Eastwood (12), Hubert Green, Scott Hoch (12), Billy Kratzert, Corey Pavin (12), Joey Sindelar

12. Top 30 players from the 1984 PGA Tour money list Gary Koch, Bruce Lietzke, John Mahaffey

13. Members of the U.S. 1983 Ryder Cup team Bob Gilder

14. Foreign invitations Isao Aoki (9), Ian Baker-Finch, Nick Faldo (8,11), David Graham (2,8), Bernhard Langer, Sandy Lyle, Tsuneyuki Nakajima, Greg Norman (9,11,12), José María Olazábal (6,a), Sam Torrance, Denis Watson (11,12)

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

Round summaries First round Thursday, April 11, 1985 PlacePlayerScoreTo par1 Gary Hallberg 68 −4T2 Payne Stewart 69 −3 Tom Watson T4 Ben Crenshaw 70 −2 Raymond Floyd John Inman (a) Sam Randolph (a) Lee Trevino T9 Billy Casper 71 −1 Larry Mize Jack Nicklaus Gary Player Scott Simpson Source:

Second round Friday, April 12, 1985 PlacePlayerScoreTo parT1 Craig Stadler 73-67=140 −4 Payne Stewart 69-71=140 Tom Watson 69-71=1404 Gary Hallberg 68-73=141 −35 Gary Koch 72-70=142 −2T6 Seve Ballesteros 72-71=143 −1 Raymond Floyd 70-73=143 Bruce Lietzke 72-71=143 Sandy Lyle 78-65=143 Lee Trevino 70-73=143 Source:

Third round Saturday, April 13, 1985 PlacePlayerScoreTo par1 Raymond Floyd 70-73-69=212 −42 Curtis Strange 80-65-68=213 −3T3 Seve Ballesteros 72-71-71=214 −2 Bernhard Langer 72-74-68=214 T5 Gary Koch 72-70-73=215 −1 Lee Trevino 70-73-72=215 Tom Watson 69-71-75=215T8 David Graham 74-71-71=216 E Gary Hallberg 68-73-75=216 Bruce Lietzke 72-71-73=216 Craig Stadler 73-67-76=216 Payne Stewart 69-71-76=216 Hal Sutton 77-69-70=216 Jim Thorpe 73-71-72=216 Source:

Final round Sunday, April 14, 1985

Final leaderboard Champion Silver Cup winner (low amateur)(a) = amateur(c) = past champion Top 10PlacePlayerScoreTo parMoney (US$)1 Bernhard Langer 72-74-68-68=282 −6 126,000T2 Seve Ballesteros (c) 72-71-71-70=284 −4 52,267 Raymond Floyd (c) 70-73-69-72=284 Curtis Strange 80-65-68-71=2845 Jay Haas 73-73-72-67=285 −3 28,000T6 Gary Hallberg 68-73-75-70=286 −2 22,663 Bruce Lietzke 72-71-73-70=286 Jack Nicklaus (c) 71-74-72-69=286 Craig Stadler (c) 73-67-76-70=286T10 Fred Couples 75-73-69-70=287 −1 16,800 David Graham 74-71-71-71=287 Lee Trevino 70-73-72-72=287 Tom Watson (c) 69-71-75-72=287 Leaderboard below the top 10PlacePlayerScoreTo parMoney ($)T14 Billy Kratzert 73-77-69-69=288 E 12,950 John Mahaffey 72-75-70-71=288T16 Isao Aoki 72-74-71-72=289 +1 11,550 Gary Koch 72-70-73-74=289T18 Wayne Levi 75-72-70-73=290 +2 9,128 Mark McCumber 73-73-79-65=290 Sam Randolph (a) 70-75-72-73=290 0 Tim Simpson 73-72-75-70=290 9,128 Jim Thorpe 73-71-72-74=290 Lanny Wadkins 72-73-72-73=29024 Mark O'Meara 73-76-72-70=291 +3 7,280T25 Andy Bean 72-74-73-73=292 +4 5,670 Nick Faldo 73-73-75-71=292 Sandy Lyle 78-65-76-73=292 Johnny Miller 77-68-76-71=292 Corey Pavin 72-75-75-70=292 Payne Stewart 69-71-76-76=292T31 Jerry Haas (a) 76-69-73-75=293 +5 0 Calvin Peete 75-70-74-74=293 4,445 Joey Sindelar 73-73-75-72=293 Hal Sutton 77-69-70-77=293 Sam Torrance 73-73-75-72=293T36 Lennie Clements 75-75-73-71=294 +6 3,612 Hale Irwin 78-71-73-72=294 Mark Lye 72-73-79-70=294 Larry Nelson 73-75-74-72=294 Gary Player (c) 71-75-73-75=294T41 Ronnie Black 74-71-75-75=295 +7 3,010 David Edwards 74-72-77-72=295 Scott Simpson 71-73-77-74=295T44 Charles Coody (c) 72-77-74-73=296 +8 2,660 Bob Gilder 72-75-81-68=296 Jay Sigel (a) 76-71-77-72=296 0T47 Woody Blackburn 78-71-72-77=298 +10 2,115 Danny Edwards 77-72-71-78=298 Larry Mize 71-75-76-76=298 Tsuneyuki Nakajima 77-70-78-73=298 Greg Norman 73-72-75-78=298 Jack Renner 72-77-70-79=298T53 George Archer (c) 73-74-79-73=299 +11 1,800 Scott Hoch 73-76-74-76=299 Denis Watson 76-72-75-76=29956 Rex Caldwell 73-74-77-77=301 +13 1,760T57 Billy Casper (c) 71-78-74-79=302 +14 1,730 Ben Crenshaw (c) 70-76-77-79=30259 John Inman (a) 70-76-80-77=303 +15 060 Bob Eastwood 77-72-82-77=308 +20 1,700CUT Randy Sonnier (a) 75-77=152 +8 Scott Verplank (a) 78-74=152 Fuzzy Zoeller (c) 77-75=152 Bill Rogers 78-75=153 +9 Peter Jacobsen 78-76=154 +10 Tom Kite 75-79=154 Gil Morgan 74-80=154 Tom Purtzer 76-78=154 Arnold Palmer (c) 83-72=155 +11 Ian Baker-Finch 77-79=156 +12 Hubert Green 74-83=157 +13 José María Olazábal (a) 81-76=157 Art Wall Jr. (c) 76-81=157 Gay Brewer (c) 79-79=158 +14 Tommy Aaron (c) 79-80=159 +15 Bob Goalby (c) 79-80=159WD Doug Ford (c) 76 +4

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Scorecard Hole 1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9 101112131415161718Par454343454 443545344 Langer −2−1−2−2−3−3−3−3−3−3−3−4−5−5−6−6−7−6 Ballesteros −2−3−3−3−3−3−3−3−3−3−3−3−3−3−4−4−4−4 Floyd −4−4−4−4−4−3−3−3−2−3−3−2−2−2−4−4−4−4 Strange −3−4−4−5−5−5−6−7−7−6−6−7−6−6−5−5−5−4 Cumulative tournament scores, relative to par {|class="wikitable" span = 50 style="font-size:85%; |- |style="background: Red;" width=10| |Eagle |style="background: Pink;" width=10| |Birdie |style="background: PaleGreen;" width=10| |Bogey

References

External links Masters.com – Past winners and results GolfCompendium.com – 1985 Masters Tournament Augusta.com – 1985 Masters leaderboard and scorecards