The 1990 Masters Tournament was the 54th Masters Tournament, held April 5–8 at Augusta National Golf Club in Augusta, Georgia.

Nick Faldo won his second consecutive Masters and the third of his six major titles on the second sudden-death playoff hole over Raymond Floyd, the 1976 champion. The playoff began on the tenth hole where both made par. At the next hole, #11, Floyd put his 7-iron approach shot into the pond left of the green, while Faldo hit to within of the cup; he lagged his birdie putt to within a few inches and tapped in for the win. It foiled Floyd's attempt to win a major in four different decades. Afterward, he said, "This is the most devastating thing that's ever happened to me in my career. I've had a lot of losses, but nothing like this."

Floyd led after each of the second and third rounds and had earned the reputation of being a good front-runner in his career. A birdie on 12 gave Floyd a four-shot lead with six holes to play. Faldo birdied 13, 15, and 16, and Floyd's bogey on 17 left them tied at 10-under par at the end of 72 holes.

It was the third consecutive year that the Masters champion was from the United Kingdom, which had no winners prior to Sandy Lyle's victory in 1988.

Faldo was the second to win consecutive titles at Augusta, following Jack Nicklaus (1965 and 1966). Faldo's wins came at the second hole of a sudden-death playoff, at the eleventh green. Tiger Woods and Rory Mcilroy later won back-to-back Masters in 2001 and 2002, and 2025 and 2026 respectively. Faldo won his third Masters six years later in 1996, for his sixth and final major title.

Chris Patton was the only amateur to make the cut and tied for 39th place at 296 (+8).

Field 1. Masters champions Tommy Aaron, George Archer, Seve Ballesteros (3,9), Gay Brewer, Billy Casper, Charles Coody, Ben Crenshaw (9,13), Nick Faldo (3), Raymond Floyd (2), Doug Ford, Bernhard Langer, Sandy Lyle (3), Larry Mize, Jack Nicklaus (9), Arnold Palmer, Gary Player, Craig Stadler (11,13), Tom Watson (9,14), Fuzzy Zoeller

Jack Burke Jr., Bob Goalby, Ben Hogan, Herman Keiser, Cary Middlecoff, Byron Nelson, Henry Picard, Gene Sarazen, Sam Snead, and Art Wall Jr. did not play.

2. U.S. Open champions (last five years) Andy North, Scott Simpson (10,12), Curtis Strange (9,11,13,14)

3. The Open champions (last five years) Mark Calcavecchia (13,14), Greg Norman (9,12,13)

4. PGA champions (last five years) Hubert Green (10), Larry Nelson (10), Jeff Sluman (9), Payne Stewart (9,10,12,13,14), Bob Tway (12,13)

5. U.S. Amateur champion and runner-up Danny Green (a), Chris Patton (a)

6. The Amateur champion Stephen Dodd (a)

7. U.S. Amateur Public Links champion Tim Hobby (a)

8. U.S. Mid-Amateur champion James Taylor (a)

9. Top 24 players and ties from the 1989 Masters Tournament Paul Azinger (10,12,13,14), Chip Beck (10,13,14), Fred Couples (12,13,14), David Frost (12,13), Ken Green (12,14), Scott Hoch (10,11,12,13), Tom Kite (10,12,13,14), Jodie Mudd (12,13), José María Olazábal (10), Mark O'Meara (12,13,14), Masashi Ozaki (10), Don Pooley, Tom Purtzer, Mike Reid (11,13), Lee Trevino, Ian Woosnam (10,11)

10. Top 16 players and ties from the 1989 U.S. Open Brian Claar, Peter Jacobsen (12), Mark Lye, Mark McCumber (12,13,14), Tom Pernice Jr.

11. Top eight players and ties from 1989 PGA Championship Andy Bean, Dave Rummells (13)

12. Winners of PGA Tour events since the previous Masters Tommy Armour III, Ian Baker-Finch, Bill Britton, Curt Byrum, Tom Byrum, Mike Donald (13), Dan Forsman, Robert Gamez, Wayne Grady (13), Donnie Hammond (13), Mike Hulbert (13), John Huston, David Ishii, Steve Jones (13), John Mahaffey (13), Blaine McCallister (13), Ted Schulz (13), Tony Sills, Tim Simpson (13), Leonard Thompson

Stan Utley, the winner of the Chattanooga Classic was not invited.

13. Top 30 players from the 1989 PGA Tour money list Bill Glasson, Wayne Levi, Hal Sutton

14. Members of the U.S. 1989 Ryder Cup team Lanny Wadkins

15. Special foreign invitation Naomichi Ozaki, Craig Parry, Ronan Rafferty, Peter Senior

Round summaries First round Thursday, April 5, 1990 PlacePlayerScoreTo par1 Mike Donald 64 −82 John Huston 66 −63 Peter Jacobsen 67 −54 Bill Britton 68 −4 T5 George Archer 70 −2 Raymond Floyd Bill Glasson Bernhard Langer Larry Mize Jumbo Ozaki Curtis Strange Source:

Second round Friday, April 6, 1990 PlacePlayerScoreTo par1 Raymond Floyd 70-68=138 −62 Scott Hoch 71-68=139 −5 3 John Huston 66-74=140 −4 4 Jumbo Ozaki 70-71=141 −3 T5 Bill Britton 68-74=142 −2 Mike Hulbert 71-71=142 Peter Jacobsen 67-75=142 Jack Nicklaus 72-70=142 Craig Stadler 72-70=142T10 Fred Couples 74-69=143 −1 Nick Faldo 71-72=143 Bernhard Langer 70-73=143 Curtis Strange 70-73=143 Source:

Amateurs: Patton (E), Dodd (+11), Hobby (+14), Green (+15), Taylor (+17)

Third round Saturday, April 7, 1990 PlacePlayerScoreTo par1 Raymond Floyd 70-68-68=206 −102 John Huston 66-74-68=208 −8 3 Nick Faldo 71-72-66=209 −7 4 Jack Nicklaus 72-70-69=211 −5 T5 Scott Hoch 71-68-73=212 −4 Bernhard Langer 70-73-69=212T7 Bill Britton 68-74-71=213 −3 José María Olazábal 72-73-68=213 Scott Simpson 74-71-68=213T10 Tom Kite 75-73-66=214 −2 Curtis Strange 70-73-71=214 Source:

Final round Sunday, April 8, 1990

Final leaderboard Champion Silver Cup winner (low amateur)(a) = amateur(c) = past champion Top 10PlacePlayerScoreTo parMoney (US$)T1 Nick Faldo (c) 71-72-66-69=278 −10 Playoff Raymond Floyd (c) 70-68-68-72=278T3 John Huston 66-74-68-75=283 −5 72,500 Lanny Wadkins 72-73-70-68=2835 Fred Couples 74-69-72-69=284 −4 50,0006 Jack Nicklaus (c) 72-70-69-74=285 −3 45,000T7 Seve Ballesteros (c) 74-73-68-71=286 −2 35,150 Bill Britton 68-74-71-73=286 Bernhard Langer (c) 70-73-69-74=286 Scott Simpson 74-71-68-73=286 Curtis Strange 70-73-71-72=286 Tom Watson (c) 77-71-67-71=286 Leaderboard below the top 10PlacePlayerScoreTo parMoney ($)13 José María Olazábal 72-73-68-74=287 −1 26,300T14 Ben Crenshaw (c) 72-74-73-69=288 E 20,650 Scott Hoch 71-68-73-76=288 Tom Kite 75-73-66-74=288 Larry Mize (c) 70-76-71-71=288 Ronan Rafferty 72-74-69-73=288 Craig Stadler (c) 72-70-74-72=288T20 Mark Calcavecchia 74-73-73-69=289 +1 15,100 Steve Jones 77-69-72-71=289 Fuzzy Zoeller (c) 72-74-73-70=28923 Masashi Ozaki 70-71-77-72=290 +2 13,000T24 Donnie Hammond 71-74-75-71=291 +3 11,000 Gary Player (c) 73-74-68-76=291 Lee Trevino 78-69-72-72=291T27 Wayne Grady 72-75-72-73=292 +4 9,267 Andy North 71-73-77-71=292 Jeff Sluman 78-68-75-71=292T30 Peter Jacobsen 67-75-76-75=293 +5 8,133 Jodie Mudd 74-70-73-76=293 Ian Woosnam 72-75-70-76=293T33 Andy Bean 76-72-74-72=294 +6 7,100 Bill Glasson 70-75-76-73=294 Naomichi Ozaki 75-73-74-72=294T36 Mark McCumber 74-74-76-71=295 +7 6,133 Payne Stewart 71-73-77-74=295 Bob Tway 72-76-73-74=295T39 Chip Beck 72-74-75-75=296 +8 5,500 Mark Lye 75-73-73-75=296 Chris Patton (a) 71-73-74-78=296 0T42 John Mahaffey 72-74-75-76=297 +9 4,867 Don Pooley 73-73-72-79=297 Peter Senior 72-75-73-77=297T45 Mike Hulbert 71-71-77-79=298 +10 4,250 Tom Purtzer 71-77-76-74=29847 Mike Donald 64-82-77-76=299 +11 3,90048 Larry Nelson 74-73-79-74=300 +12 3,60049 George Archer (c) 70-74-82-75=301 +13 3,400CUT Billy Casper (c) 74-75=149 +5 David Frost 74-75=149 Robert Gamez 73-76=149 Mark O'Meara 75-74=149 Mike Reid 76-73=149 Hubert Green 73-77=150 +6 Blaine McCallister 73-77=150 Greg Norman 78-72=150 Tom Pernice Jr. 74-76=150 Tommy Aaron (c) 77-74=151 +7 Ian Baker-Finch 77-74=151 Dan Forsman 79-72=151 Sandy Lyle (c) 77-74=151 Dave Rummells 77-74=151 Ted Schulz 75-76=151 Tony Sills 77-74=151 Charles Coody (c) 75-77=152 +8 Tim Simpson 77-75=152 Hal Sutton 81-71=152 Tommy Armour III 75-78=153 +9 Gay Brewer (c) 76-77=153 Curt Byrum 76-77=153 Brian Claar 74-79=153 David Ishii 74-79=153 Tom Byrum 77-78=155 +11 Stephen Dodd (a) 77-78=155 Leonard Thompson 80-75=155 Paul Azinger 80-76=156 +12 Arnold Palmer (c) 76-80=156 Craig Parry 80-76=156 Ken Green 78-80=158 +14 Tim Hobby (a) 76-82=158 Wayne Levi 77-81=158 Danny Green (a) 79-80=159 +15 James Taylor (a) 83-78=161 +17 Doug Ford (c) 78-85=163 +19

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Scorecard Hole  1    2    3    4    5    6    7    8    9  101112131415161718Par454343454 443545344 Faldo −5−6−6−6−6−6−7−7−8−7−7−7−8−8−9−10−10−10 Floyd −10−10−10−10−9−9−9−10−10−10−10−11−11−11−11−11−10−10 Huston −7−6−6−6−5−5−4−4−4−2−2−2−2−2−3−4−5−5 Wadkins −1 −2 −2 −2 −1 −1 −1 −2 −3 −3 −3 −3 −4 −4 −4 −5 −5 −5 Couples −1 −2 −2 −2 −2 −2 −2 −3 −3 −3 −4 −4 −4 −4 −6 −5 −4 −4 Nicklaus −5 −6 −6 −6 −5 −4 −5 −5 −5 −4 −4 −5 −6 −5 −5 −4 −3 −3 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 |style="background: Green;" width=10| |Double bogey |} Source:

Playoff PlacePlayerScoreTo parMoney ($)1 Nick Faldo4-4E 225,0002 Raymond Floyd4-x 135,000 Sudden-death playoff began on hole #10 and ended at hole #11, when Faldo parred.

References

External links Masters.com – Past winners and results Augusta.com – 1990 Masters leaderboard and scorecards