The 2000 Masters Tournament was the 64th Masters Tournament, held April 6–9 at Augusta National Golf Club in Augusta, Georgia. Vijay Singh won his only Masters, three strokes ahead of runner-up Ernie Els. It was the second of Singh's three major titles.

Course

HoleNameYardsPar HoleNameYardsPar1Tea Olive4104 10Camellia48542Pink Dogwood575511White Dogwood45543Flowering Peach350412Golden Bell15534Flowering Crab Apple205313Azalea48555Magnolia435414Chinese Fir40546Juniper180315Firethorn50057Pampas365416Redbud17038Yellow Jasmine550517Nandina42549Carolina Cherry430418Holly4054Out3,50036In3,48536Source:Total6,98572

Field Each player is classified according to the first category by which he qualified, with other categories in which he qualified shown in parentheses.

1. Masters champions Tommy Aaron, Seve Ballesteros, Gay Brewer, Billy Casper, Charles Coody, Fred Couples (16,17), Ben Crenshaw, Nick Faldo, Raymond Floyd, Doug Ford, Bernhard Langer (10), Sandy Lyle, Larry Mize, Jack Nicklaus, José María Olazábal (16,17), Mark O'Meara (3,16,17), Arnold Palmer, Gary Player, Craig Stadler, Tom Watson, Tiger Woods (4,11,14,15,16,17), Ian Woosnam (10), Fuzzy Zoeller George Archer, Jack Burke Jr., Bob Goalby, Herman Keiser, Byron Nelson, Sam Snead, and Art Wall Jr. did not play.

2. U.S. Open champions (last five years) Ernie Els (14,16,17), Lee Janzen (10,16,17), Steve Jones, Corey Pavin Payne Stewart, the 1999 U.S. Open champion, died in a plane crash in October 1999.

3. The Open champions (last five years) John Daly, Paul Lawrie (16,17), Tom Lehman (14,16,17), Justin Leonard (5,13,14,16,17)

4. PGA champions (last five years) Mark Brooks, Steve Elkington (10,14,16,17), Davis Love III (10,14,16,17), Vijay Singh (11,14,16,17)

5. The Players Championship winners (last three years) David Duval (10,11,14,16,17), Hal Sutton (11,14,16,17)

6. U.S. Amateur champion and runner-up David Gossett (a), Kim Sung-yoon (a)

7. The Amateur champion Graeme Storm (a)

8. U.S. Amateur Public Links champion Hunter Haas (a)

9. U.S. Mid-Amateur champion Danny Green (a)

10. Top 16 players and ties from the 1999 Masters Bob Estes (14,16,17), Carlos Franco (14,16,17), Jim Furyk (14,16,17), Brandt Jobe, Phil Mickelson (11,14,16,17), Colin Montgomerie (16,17), Greg Norman (16), Steve Pate (14,16,17), Nick Price (14,16,17), Lee Westwood (16,17)

11. Top eight players and ties from the 1999 U.S. Open Tim Herron (14,16,17), Jeff Maggert (14,16,17), Steve Stricker (16,17)

12. Top four players and ties from 1999 PGA Championship Stewart Cink (14,16,17), Sergio García (16,17), Jay Haas

13. Top four players and ties from the 1999 Open Championship Ángel Cabrera, Craig Parry (14,16,17), Jean van de Velde

14. Top 40 players from the 1999 PGA Tour money list Stuart Appleby (16,17), Notah Begay III, Glen Day (16,17), Fred Funk (16), Brent Geiberger (16,17), Scott Gump, Dudley Hart (16,17), Gabriel Hjertstedt, Scott Hoch (16,17), John Huston (16,17), Skip Kendall, Rocco Mediate, Jesper Parnevik (15,16,17), Dennis Paulson, Chris Perry (16,17), Loren Roberts (16), Jeff Sluman (16,17), David Toms (16,17), Ted Tryba, Duffy Waldorf, Mike Weir (17) Since Payne Stewart finished in the top 40 of the money list, an invitation was given to Hjertstedt, the 41st-place finisher.

15. Top 3 players from the 2000 PGA Tour money list on March 5 Kirk Triplett (17)

16. Top 50 players from the final 1999 world ranking Thomas Bjørn (17), Darren Clarke (17), Retief Goosen (17), Pádraig Harrington, Miguel Ángel Jiménez (17), Masashi Ozaki (17), Naomichi Ozaki (17), Bob Tway (17), Brian Watts (17)

17. Top 50 players from world ranking published March 5 Paul Azinger, Shigeki Maruyama

18. Special foreign invitation Aaron Baddeley (a)

All the amateurs except Danny Green were playing in their first Masters, as were Notah Begay III, Ángel Cabrera, Brent Geiberger, Pádraig Harrington, Skip Kendall, Paul Lawrie, Dennis Paulson, Jean van de Velde, and Mike Weir. Sergio García made his first appearance as a professional.

Round summaries First round Thursday, April 6, 2000

PlacePlayerScoreTo par1 Dennis Paulson68−42 Tom Lehman69−3T3 Sergio García70−2 Steve StrickerT5 Thomas Bjørn71−1 Steve Jones Bernhard Langer Rocco Mediate Phil MickelsonT10 Tommy Aaron72E Paul Azinger Mark Brooks Darren Clarke Ernie Els Bob Estes Nick Faldo Justin Leonard José María Olazábal Masashi Ozaki Vijay Singh Hal Sutton

Second round Friday, April 7, 2000

PlacePlayerScoreTo par1 David Duval73-65=138−6T2 Ernie Els72-67=139−5 Phil Mickelson71-68=139 Vijay Singh72-67=139 T5 Steve Jones71-70=141−3 Tom Lehman69-72=141T7 Sergio García70-72=142−2 Retief Goosen73-69=142 Bernhard Langer71-71=142 Loren Roberts73-69=142 Jeff Sluman73-69=142

Amateurs: Gossett (+2), Baddeley (+5), Green (+5), Kim (+6), Haas (+9), Storm (+15).

Third round Saturday, April 8, 2000 & Sunday, April 9, 2000

The third round was suspended by darkness due to two-hour rain delay and completed on Sunday morning.

PlacePlayerScoreTo par1 Vijay Singh72-67-70=209−72 David Duval73-65-74=212−4T3 Ernie Els72-67-74=213−3 Loren Roberts73-69-71=213T5 Davis Love III75-72-68=215−1 Phil Mickelson71-68-76=215 Mike Weir75-70-70=215 Tiger Woods75-72-68=215 T9 Tom Lehman69-72-75=216E Nick Price74-69-73=216

Final round

Sunday, April 9, 2000

Final leaderboard Champion Silver Cup winner (low amateur)(a) = amateur(c) = past champion Top 10PlacePlayerScoreTo parMoney (US$)1 Vijay Singh 72-67-70-69=278 −10 828,0002 Ernie Els 72-67-74-68=281 −7 496,800T3 David Duval 73-65-74-70=282 −6 266,800 Loren Roberts 73-69-71-69=2825 Tiger Woods (c) 75-72-68-69=284 −4 184,0006 Tom Lehman 69-72-75-69=285 −3 165,600T7 Carlos Franco 79-68-70-69=286 −2 143,367 Davis Love III 75-72-68-71=286 Phil Mickelson 71-68-76-71=28610 Hal Sutton 72-75-71-69=287 −1 124,200 Leaderboard below the top 10PlacePlayerScoreTo parMoney ($)T11 Fred Couples (c) 76-72-70-70=288 E 105,800 Greg Norman 80-68-70-70=288 Nick Price 74-69-73-72=288T14 Jim Furyk 73-74-71-71=289 +1 80,500 John Huston 77-69-72-71=289 Dennis Paulson 68-76-73-72=289 Chris Perry 73-75-72-69=28918 Jeff Sluman 73-69-77-71=290 +2 69,000T19 Glen Day 79-67-74-71=291 +3 53,820 Bob Estes 72-71-77-71=291 Pádraig Harrington 76-69-75-71=291 Colin Montgomerie 76-69-77-69=291 Steve Stricker 70-73-75-73=291 Jean van de Velde 76-70-75-70=291T25 Steve Jones 71-70-76-75=292 +4 37,567 Larry Mize (c) 78-67-73-74=292 Craig Parry 75-71-72-74=292T28 Paul Azinger 72-72-77-72=293 +5 28,673 Thomas Bjørn 71-77-73-72=293 Stewart Cink 75-72-72-74=293 Nick Faldo (c) 72-72-74-75=293 Dudley Hart 75-71-72-75=293 Bernhard Langer (c) 71-71-75-76=293 Justin Leonard 72-71-77-73=293 Masashi Ozaki 72-72-74-75=293 Mike Weir 75-70-70-78=293T37 Notah Begay III 74-74-73-73=294 +6 21,620 Fred Funk 75-68-78-73=294 Jay Haas 75-71-75-73=294T40 Mark Brooks 72-76-73-74=295 +7 17,480 Darren Clarke 72-71-78-74=295 Sergio García 70-72-75-78=295 Retief Goosen 73-69-79-74=295 Jesper Parnevik 77-71-70-77=295 Ian Woosnam (c) 74-70-76-75=295T46 Scott Gump 75-70-78-73=296 +8 13,800 Shigeki Maruyama 76-71-74-75=29648 Brandt Jobe 73-74-76-74=297 +9 12,604T49 Miguel Ángel Jiménez 76-71-79-72=298 +10 11,623 Steve Pate 78-69-77-74=298 David Toms 74-72-73-79=298T52 Steve Elkington 74-74-78-73=299 +11 10,948 Rocco Mediate 71-74-75-79=299T54 David Gossett (a) 75-71-79-78=303 +15 0 Jack Nicklaus (c) 74-70-81-78=303 10,67256 Skip Kendall 76-72-77-83=308 +20 10,58057 Tommy Aaron (c) 72-74-86-81=313 +25 10,488CUT Aaron Baddeley (a) 77-72=149 +5 Danny Green (a) 73-76=149 Scott Hoch 78-71=149 Jeff Maggert 77-72=149 José María Olazábal (c) 72-77=149 Bob Tway 77-72=149 Duffy Waldorf 78-71=149 Stuart Appleby 73-77=150 +6 Ángel Cabrera 74-76=150 Brent Geiberger 76-74=150 Kim Sung-yoon (a) 75-75=150 Mark O'Meara (c) 75-75=150 Corey Pavin 80-70=150 Gary Player (c) 76-74=150 Craig Stadler (c) 73-77=150 Gabriel Hjertstedt 78-73=151 +7 Sandy Lyle (c) 79-72=151 Tom Watson (c) 75-76=151 Lee Janzen 76-76=152 +8 Naomichi Ozaki 75-77=152 Lee Westwood 77-75=152 John Daly 80-73=153 +9 Hunter Haas (a) 80-73=153 Paul Lawrie 79-74=153 Charles Coody (c) 81-74=155 +11 Ben Crenshaw (c) 79-76=155 Kirk Triplett 76-79=155 Ted Tryba 75-81=156 +12 Fuzzy Zoeller (c) 82-74=156 Brian Watts 78-79=157 +13 Raymond Floyd (c) 80-78=158 +14 Tim Herron 84-74=158 Graeme Storm (a) 83-76=159 +15 Arnold Palmer (c) 78-82=160 +16 Seve Ballesteros (c) 81-81=162 +18 Gay Brewer (c) 84-78=162WD Billy Casper (c) 84 +12 Doug Ford (c) 94 +22

Sources:

Scorecard Hole  1    2    3    4    5    6    7    8    9   10  11  12  13  14  15  16  17  18 Par454343454 443545344 Singh−7−7−6−6−6−7−7−8−9−9−8−8−9−9−10−9−9−10 Els−3−3−3−3−3−3−3−4−4−4−5−5−6−6−7−7−7−7 Duval−4−5−5−5−5−6−6−7−8−7−7−7−6−6−7−7−7−6 Roberts−4−4−4−4−4−4−4−5−6−5−4−4−5−6−6−6−6−6 Woods−1−2−2−3−3−2−3−4−4−4−4−4−4−4−5−4−4−4 Lehman +1 E E E −1 −1 E E E E E −1 −2 −1 −1 −2 −2 −3 Franco E E E E E E E E −1 −1 −1 −1 −2 −1 −2 −2 −2 −2 Love E E E E E E E −1 −1 −1 −1 −1 −2 −2 −2 −2 −2 −2 Mickelson −1 −2 −2 −2 −2 −2 −2 −2 −2 −1 −1 −2 −3 −2 −1 −1 −2 −2 Cumulative tournament scores, relative to par {|class="wikitable" span = 50 style="font-size:85%; |- |style="background: Pink;" width=10| |Birdie |style="background: PaleGreen;" width=10| |Bogey |} Source:

References

External links Masters.com – past winners Coverage on the European Tour's official site Augusta.com – 2000 Masters leaderboard and scorecards