The 1991 Masters Tournament was the 55th Masters Tournament held April 11–14 at Augusta National Golf Club in Augusta, Georgia. Ian Woosnam won his only major title, one stroke ahead of runner-up José María Olazábal.
Woosnam, Olazábal, and two-time champion Tom Watson, age 41, were all tied at −11 going into the 72nd hole. Olazábal, a group ahead of the final pairing of Woosnam and Watson, went from fairway bunker to greenside bunker and failed to hole a par putt. Watson, who had eagled both 13 and 15, missed the fairway right with his tee shot and then hit his second shot into a greenside bunker. He chipped out and three-putted for a double bogey. Woosnam then holed an par putt for the green jacket.GOLF; Woosnam Wins On 18th Green
It was the fourth consecutive year that the Masters champion was from the United Kingdom, which had no winners prior to Sandy Lyle's victory in 1988. Through 2026, Woosnam is the only winner at Augusta from Wales. Olazábal later won two Masters, in 1994 and 1999.
Phil Mickelson, a 20-year-old junior at Arizona State, was the low amateur at 290 (+2) and tied for 46th place.
Course In the fall of 1990, during Tropical Storm Marco, Amen Corner was damaged, especially hole11 (White Dogwood), which "floated off the golf course" after Rae's Creek overflowed. Also damaged were the Ben Hogan and Byron Nelson Bridges, a retention dam, the scoreboard on the left side of White Dogwood, and a city sewer line. Augusta National rebuilt the greens based on a 1982 survey and photographs, re-paving an abandoned maintenance road to reach the affected area. The repaired holes re-opened to club members in November 1990; the course was fully restored for the 1991 tournament.
Field 1. Masters champions Tommy Aaron, George Archer, Seve Ballesteros (3,9), Gay Brewer, Billy Casper, Charles Coody, Ben Crenshaw (9,12), Nick Faldo (3,10), Raymond Floyd (2,9), Doug Ford, Bernhard Langer (9), Sandy Lyle, Larry Mize (9,10,13), Jack Nicklaus (9), Arnold Palmer, Gary Player (9), Craig Stadler (9,10), Tom Watson (9,14), Fuzzy Zoeller (9,10)
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) Hale Irwin (12,13), Scott Simpson (9,10), Curtis Strange (9,14)
3. The Open champions (last five years) Mark Calcavecchia (9,13,14), Greg Norman (10,12,13)
4. PGA champions (last five years) Wayne Grady (13), Larry Nelson (10), Jeff Sluman (10), Bob Tway (12,13)
Payne Stewart (11,12,13,14) was injured and did not play
5. U.S. Amateur champion and runner-up Phil Mickelson (a,12), Manny Zerman (a)
6. The Amateur champion Rolf Muntz (a)
7. U.S. Amateur Public Links champion Michael Combs (a)
8. U.S. Mid-Amateur champion Jim Stuart (a)
9. Top 24 players and ties from the 1990 Masters Bill Britton (11), Fred Couples (11,13,14), Donnie Hammond, Scott Hoch (10), John Huston (10,13), Steve Jones (10), Tom Kite (12,13,14), José María Olazábal (10,12), Masashi Ozaki, Ronan Rafferty, Lee Trevino, Lanny Wadkins (12,13,14)
10. Top 16 players and ties from the 1990 U.S. Open Jim Benepe, Mark Brooks, Billy Ray Brown, Mike Donald, John Inman, Tom Sieckmann, Tim Simpson (11,12,13)
11. Top eight players and ties from 1990 PGA Championship Chip Beck (12,13,14), Billy Mayfair (13), Mark McNulty, Gil Morgan (12,13), Don Pooley, Loren Roberts (13)
12. Winners of PGA Tour events since the previous Masters Paul Azinger (13,14), Jay Don Blake, Steve Elkington (13), David Frost, Jim Gallagher Jr. (13), Morris Hatalsky, Nolan Henke, Kenny Knox, Wayne Levi (13), Davis Love III (13), Andrew Magee, Rocco Mediate, Jodie Mudd (13), Mark O'Meara (13,14), Steve Pate, Corey Pavin (13), Ted Schulz, Joey Sindelar, Ian Woosnam
Peter Persons, the winner of the Chattanooga Classic was not invited.
13. Top 30 players from the 1990 PGA Tour money list John Cook, Ian Baker-Finch, Robert Gamez, Peter Jacobsen, Nick Price, Brian Tennyson
14. Members of the U.S. 1989 Ryder Cup team Ken Green, Mark McCumber
15. Special foreign invitation Frankie Miñoza, Tsuneyuki Nakajima
Round summaries
First round Thursday, April 11, 1991
PlacePlayerScoreTo parT1 Jim Gallagher Jr.67−5 Mark McCumber Lanny WadkinsT4 Fred Couples68−4 Jack Nicklaus José María Olazábal Masashi Ozaki Tom WatsonT9 Mark Brooks69−3 Wayne Levi Phil Mickelson (a) Scott Simpson
Second round Friday, April 12, 1991
PlacePlayerScoreTo par1 Tom Watson68-68=136−8T2 Mark Calcavecchia70-68=138−6 Mark McCumber67-71=138 Lanny Wadkins67-71=138 Ian Woosnam72-66=138T6 Billy Ray Brown74-65=139−5 Raymond Floyd71-68=139 Bernhard Langer71-68=139 José María Olazábal68-71=139 T10 Hale Irwin70-70=140−4 Jodie Mudd70-70=140 Jack Nicklaus68-72=140 Fuzzy Zoeller70-70=140
Amateurs: Mickelson (−2), Zerman (−2), Stuart (+9), Combs (+11), Muntz (+11)
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Third round Saturday, April 13, 1991
PlacePlayerScoreTo par1 Ian Woosnam72-66-67=205−112 Tom Watson68-68-70=206−10T3 José María Olazábal68-71-69=208−8 Lanny Wadkins67-71-70=2085 Larry Mize72-71-66=209−7T6 Ian Baker-Finch71-70-69=210−6 Raymond Floyd71-68-71=210 Andrew Magee70-72-68=210T9 Ben Crenshaw70-73-68=211−5 Peter Jacobsen73-70-68=211 Mark McCumber67-71-73=211 Jodie Mudd70-70-71=211 Scott Simpson69-73-69=211
Final round Sunday, April 14, 1991
Final leaderboard Champion Silver Cup winner (low amateur)(a) = amateur(c) = past champion Top 10PlacePlayerScoreTo parMoney (US$)1 Ian Woosnam 72-66-67-72=277 −11 243,0002 José María Olazábal 68-71-69-70=278 −10 145,800T3 Ben Crenshaw (c) 70-73-68-68=279 −9 64,800 Steve Pate 72-73-69-65=279 Lanny Wadkins 67-71-70-71=279 Tom Watson (c) 68-68-70-73=279T7 Ian Baker-Finch 71-70-69-70=280 −8 42,100 Andrew Magee 70-72-68-70=280 Jodie Mudd 70-70-71-69=280T10 Hale Irwin 70-70-75-66=281 −7 35,150 Tsuneyuki Nakajima 74-71-67-69=281 Leaderboard below the top 10PlacePlayerScoreTo parMoney ($)T12 Mark Calcavecchia 70-68-77-67=282 −6 26,500 Nick Faldo (c) 72-73-67-70=282 Billy Mayfair 72-72-72-66=282 Craig Stadler (c) 70-72-71-69=282 Fuzzy Zoeller (c) 70-70-75-67=282T17 Raymond Floyd (c) 71-68-71-73=283 −5 18,920 Jim Gallagher Jr. 67-74-71-71=283 Peter Jacobsen 73-70-68-72=283 Mark McCumber 67-71-73-72=283 Larry Mize (c) 72-71-66-74=283T22 Seve Ballesteros (c) 75-70-69-70=284 −4 12,960 Steve Elkington 72-69-74-69=284 Rocco Mediate 72-69-71-72=284 Corey Pavin 73-70-69-72=284 Scott Simpson 69-73-69-73=284T27 Jay Don Blake 74-72-68-71=285 −3 10,200 Mark O'Meara 74-68-72-71=285T29 Morris Hatalsky 71-72-70-73=286 −2 9,200 John Huston 73-72-71-70=286 Jeff Sluman 71-71-72-72=286T32 David Frost 71-73-71-72=287 −1 8,000 Bernhard Langer (c) 71-68-74-74=287 Wayne Levi 69-73-70-75=287T35 Mark Brooks 69-72-74-73=288 E 6,371 Fred Couples 68-73-72-75=288 Ken Green 70-74-71-73=288 Scott Hoch 72-70-73-73=288 Mark McNulty 72-74-75-67=288 Jack Nicklaus (c) 68-72-72-76=288 Masashi Ozaki 68-77-69-74=288T42 Billy Ray Brown 74-65-77-73=289 +1 4,875 Donnie Hammond 72-73-73-71=289 Davis Love III 72-71-74-72=289 Curtis Strange 72-74-72-71=289T46 Phil Mickelson (a) 69-73-74-74=290 +2 0 Don Pooley 72-71-69-78=290 4,050 Joey Sindelar 72-70-70-78=290T49 Tommy Aaron (c) 70-74-73-74=291 +3 3,533 Nick Price 72-73-72-74=291 Lee Trevino 71-72-77-71=29152 Paul Azinger 72-73-67-80=292 +4 3,300T53 Nolan Henke 73-71-72-77=293 +5 3,200 Brian Tennyson 78-67-75-73=29355 Larry Nelson 74-69-76-75=294 +6 3,10056 Tom Kite 71-75-78-71=295 +7 3,10057 Manny Zerman (a) 71-71-77-80=299 +11 0CUT Bill Britton 72-75=147 +3 John Cook 77-70=147 Greg Norman 78-69=147 Gary Player (c) 72-75=147 Billy Casper (c) 77-71=148 +4 Mike Donald 73-75=148 Steve Jones 73-75=148 Tom Sieckmann 72-76=148 Robert Gamez 72-77=149 +5 Ronan Rafferty 73-76=149 Loren Roberts 72-77=149 Chip Beck 74-76=150 +6 Wayne Grady 74-76=150 Bob Tway 75-75=150 Kenny Knox 72-79=151 +7 Tim Simpson 73-78=151 Jim Benepe 78-74=152 +8 Gay Brewer (c) 78-74=152 Ted Schulz 74-78=152 Sandy Lyle (c) 77-76=153 +9 Frankie Miñoza 78-75=153 Gil Morgan 77-76=153 Jim Stuart (a) 81-72=153 Charles Coody (c) 77-77=154 +10 Michael Combs (a) 81-74=155 +11 John Inman 75-80=155 Rolf Muntz (a) 80-75=155 Arnold Palmer (c) 78-77=155WD George Archer (c) 73 +1 Doug Ford (c)
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Scorecard Hole 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 101112131415161718Par454343454 443545344 Woosnam −11−12−12−11−12−11−11−11−12−11−11−11−10−10−11−11−11−11 Olazábal −9−9−9−9−10−10−11−10−9−88−8−9−10−11−11−11−10 Crenshaw −5 −6 −6 −5 −5 −5 −6 −7 −7 −7 −7 −7 −7 −7 −9 −9 −9 −9 Pate −2 −3 −3 −4 −4 −4 −4 −6 −6 −6 −6 −6 −7 −7 −8 −8 −9 −9 Wadkins −8 −9 −9 −9 −7 −7 −8 −9 −9 −9 −9 −9 −9 −9 −9 −9 −8 −9 Watson −9−10−10−10−9−9−9−9−9−10−9−7−9−9−11−11−11−9 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:
References
External links Masters.com – Past winners and results Augusta.com – 1991 Masters leaderboard and scorecards