The 2010 Masters Tournament was the 74th Masters Tournament, played April 8–11 at Augusta National Golf Club. Phil Mickelson won his third Masters and fourth major title, three shots ahead of runner-up Lee Westwood.

Field The Masters has the smallest field of the major championships. Officially the Masters remains an invitation event, but there is now a qualification process. In theory, the club could simply decline to invite a qualified player. This is the list of the 96 players who played in the 2010 Masters Tournament. Each player is classified according to the first category by which he qualified, but other categories are shown in parentheses.

1. Past Masters Champions Ángel Cabrera (2,11,15,17,18,19), Fred Couples, Ben Crenshaw, Trevor Immelman, Zach Johnson (15,16,17,18,19), Bernhard Langer, Sandy Lyle, Phil Mickelson (4,5,11,12,15,16,17,18,19), Larry Mize, Mark O'Meara, Vijay Singh (18,19), Craig Stadler, Tom Watson (13), Mike Weir (15,17,18,19), Tiger Woods (2,3,4,11,12,14,15,16,17,18,19), Ian Woosnam

(Past champions who did not play: Tommy Aaron, Seve Ballesteros, Jack Burke Jr., Billy Casper, Charles Coody, Nick Faldo, Raymond Floyd, Doug Ford, Bob Goalby, Jack Nicklaus, José María Olazábal,Olazabal To Miss Masters Arnold Palmer, Gary Player, and Fuzzy Zoeller). Nicklaus joined Palmer as "honorary starters" and teed off on the first day at the first hole to kick off the tournament.

2. Last five U.S. Open Champions Michael Campbell, Lucas Glover (12,15,17,18,19), Geoff Ogilvy (11,15,16,17,18,19)

3. Last five British Open Champions Stewart Cink (13,15,17,18,19), Pádraig Harrington (4,15,17,18,19)

4. Last five PGA Champions Y. E. Yang (14,15,16,17,18,19)

5. Last three of The Players Champions Sergio García (18,19), Henrik Stenson (18,19)

6. Top two finishers in the 2009 U.S. Amateur An Byeong-hun (a), Ben Martin (a)

7. Winner of the 2009 Amateur Championship Matteo Manassero (a)

8. Winner of the 2009 Asian Amateur Han Chang-won (a)

9. Winner of the 2009 U.S. Amateur Public Links Brad Benjamin (a)

10. Winner of the 2009 U.S. Mid-Amateur Nathan Smith (a)

11. The top 16 finishers and ties in the 2009 Masters Tournament Chad Campbell, Tim Clark (15,18,19), Steve Flesch, Jim Furyk (15,16,17,18,19), Todd Hamilton, Shingo Katayama, Hunter Mahan (12,15,16,17,18,19), John Merrick, Sean O'Hair (15,16,17,18,19), Kenny Perry (15,16,17,18,19), Steve Stricker (15,16,17,18,19), Camilo Villegas (16,18,19)

12. Top 8 finishers and ties in the 2009 U.S. Open Ricky Barnes, David Duval, Ross Fisher (18,19), Søren Hansen (18,19)

13. Top 4 finishers and ties in the 2009 British Open Championship Lee Westwood (14,18,19), Chris Wood

14. Top 4 finishers and ties in the 2009 PGA Championship Rory McIlroy (18,19)

15. Top 30 leaders on the 2009 PGA Tour official money earnings list Paul Casey (18,19), Brian Gay (16,17,18), Retief Goosen (17,18,19), Dustin Johnson (16,17,19), Jerry Kelly (16,17), Matt Kuchar (19), Justin Leonard (18), Kevin Na (17,19), Ian Poulter (16,18,19), John Rollins, Rory Sabbatini (16), John Senden (17), David Toms (17,18), Nick Watney (17,18,19)

16. Winners of PGA Tour events that award a full-point allocation for the season-ending Tour Championship, between the 2009 Masters Tournament and the 2010 Masters Tournament Ben Crane, Ernie Els (17,18,19), Nathan Green, Bill Haas, Anthony Kim (18,19), Ryan Moore, Ryan Palmer, Heath Slocum (17)

17. All players qualifying for the 2009 edition of The Tour Championship Luke Donald (18,19), Jason Dufner, Marc Leishman, Steve Marino, Scott Verplank

18. Top 50 on the final 2009 Official World Golf Rankings list Robert Allenby (19), Ben Curtis, Simon Dyson, Anders Hansen, Yuta Ikeda (19), Ryo Ishikawa (19), Miguel Ángel Jiménez (19), Robert Karlsson (19), Martin Kaymer (19), Søren Kjeldsen, Graeme McDowell (19), Edoardo Molinari (19), Francesco Molinari (19), Adam Scott, Oliver Wilson (19) (Michael Sim (19) withdrew prior to the tournament with a shoulder injury)

19. Top 50 on the Official World Golf Rankings list going into the tournament K. J. Choi, Louis Oosthuizen, Álvaro Quirós, Charl Schwartzel, Thongchai Jaidee

20. International invitees None

Par 3 Contest Louis Oosthuizen won the contest with a 6 under par 21. There were 2 holes in one during the contest, both on the 9th hole, achieved by Graeme McDowell and Jim Furyk. McDowell went on to win the U.S. Open, Oosthuizen went on to win The Open Championship, and Furyk went on to win the 2010 FedEx Cup.

Round summaries

First round Thursday, April 8, 2010

The day started very sunny, but clouds began accumulating later in the morning and thunderstorms were expected in the afternoon; however, the weather remained fair. The much anticipated return of Tiger Woods came on Thursday, who shot a 4-under 68. This was a good opening for Woods, who had never before shot a first round in the 60s at the Masters. But the story of the day was the two Champions Tour players, 60-year-old Tom Watson and 50-year-old Fred Couples, who shot 67 and 66 respectively. Major champions Phil Mickelson and Y.E. Yang were one stroke back of leader Couples along with Lee Westwood, K. J. Choi, and Watson.

PlacePlayerScoreTo par1 Fred Couples66−6T2 K. J. Choi67−5 Phil Mickelson Tom Watson Lee Westwood Y. E. YangT7 Ricky Barnes68−4 Anthony Kim Ian Poulter Nick Watney Tiger Woods

Second round Friday, April 9, 2010

Phil Mickelson shot a 1-under 71 despite missing a 1-foot putt on Hole 5. Fred Couples and Tom Watson both fell back after solid opening rounds. Englishmen Lee Westwood and Ian Poulter shared the lead heading into the weekend.

PlacePlayerScoreTo parT1 Ian Poulter68-68=136−8 Lee Westwood67-69=136T3 Ricky Barnes68-70=138−6 K. J. Choi67-71=138 Anthony Kim68-70=138 Phil Mickelson67-71=138 Tiger Woods68-70=1388 Y. E. Yang67-72=139−5T9 Fred Couples66-75=141−3 Søren Kjeldsen70-71=141 Tom Watson67-74=141

Amateurs: Manassero (+3), Smith (+5), Benjamin (+6), An (+11), Han (+11), Martin (+11).

Third round Saturday, April 10, 2010

Lee Westwood continued his solid play in the third round to stay in the lead. Phil Mickelson shot a 67, including a dramatic eagle-eagle-birdie on 13, 14 and 15, to move into second place, three strokes clear of the rest of the field.

PlacePlayerScoreTo par1 Lee Westwood67-69-68=204−122 Phil Mickelson67-71-67=205−11T3 K. J. Choi67-71-70=208−8 Tiger Woods68-70-70=2085 Fred Couples66-75-68=209−7T6 Ricky Barnes68-70-72=210−6 Hunter Mahan71-71-68=210 Ian Poulter68-68-74=210T9 Anthony Kim68-70-73=211−5 Y. E. Yang67-72-72=211

Final round Sunday, April 11, 2010

Summary

Fred Couples mounted an early charge up the leaderboard with two birdies in his first three holes, but he quickly cooled off and ended up in sixth place. Overnight leader Lee Westwood started erratically, while Phil Mickelson parred his first seven holes. K. J. Choi was briefly tied for the lead at -12 with a birdie at 10 but he eventually fell back to a tie for fourth with playing partner Tiger Woods (they were paired together for all four rounds of the tournament). Twenty-four-year-old Anthony Kim shot a blistering 65, including a -5 run over four holes; he finished third. But down the stretch, Mickelson pulled away from Westwood with a bogey-free round of 67 to win the tournament.

Final leaderboard Champion Silver Cup winner (low amateur)(a) = amateur(c) = past champion Top 10PlacePlayerScoreTo parMoney (US$)1 Phil Mickelson (c) 67-71-67-67=272 −16 1,350,0002 Lee Westwood 67-69-68-71=275 −13 810,0003 Anthony Kim 68-70-73-65=276 −12 510,000T4 K. J. Choi 67-71-70-69=277 −11 330,000 Tiger Woods (c) 68-70-70-69=2776 Fred Couples (c) 66-75-68-70=279 −9 270,0007 Nick Watney 68-76-71-65=280 −8 251,250T8 Hunter Mahan 71-71-68-71=281 −7 225,000 Yang Yong-eun 67-72-72-70=281T10 Ricky Barnes 68-70-72-73=283 −5 195,000 Ian Poulter 68-68-74-73=283 Leaderboard below the top 10PlacePlayerScoreTo parMoney ($)T12 Miguel Ángel Jiménez 72-75-72-66=285 −3 165,000 Jerry Kelly 72-74-67-72=285T14 Trevor Immelman (c) 69-73-72-72=286 −2 131,250 Steve Marino 71-73-69-73=286 Ryan Moore 72-73-73-68=286 David Toms 69-75-71-71=286T18 Ángel Cabrera (c) 73-74-69-71=287 −1 94,500 Ernie Els 71-73-75-68=287 Adam Scott 69-75-72-71=287 Heath Slocum 72-73-70-72=287 Scott Verplank 73-73-73-68=287 Tom Watson (c) 67-74-73-73=287T24 Ben Crane 71-75-74-68=288 E 69,000 Matt Kuchar 70-73-74-71=288T26 Bill Haas 72-70-71-76=289 +1 57,750 Geoff Ogilvy 74-72-69-74=289 Kenny Perry 72-71-72-74=28929 Yuta Ikeda 70-77-72-71=290 +2 53,250T30 Jason Dufner 75-72-75-69=291 +3 45,563 Søren Kjeldsen 70-71-75-75=291 Francesco Molinari 70-74-75-72=291 Sean O'Hair 72-71-72-76=291 Charl Schwartzel 69-76-72-74=291 Steve Stricker 73-73-74-71=291T36 Lucas Glover 76-71-71-74=292 +4 38,625 Matteo Manassero (a) 71-76-73-72=292 0T38 Steve Flesch 75-71-70-78=294 +6 34,500 Retief Goosen 74-71-76-73=294 Dustin Johnson 71-72-76-75=294 Camilo Villegas 74-72-71-77=29442 Zach Johnson (c) 70-74-76-75=295 +7 30,750T43 Robert Karlsson 71-72-77-76=296 +8 28,500 Mike Weir (c) 71-72-76-77=296T45 Robert Allenby 72-75-78-73=298 +10 24,750 Chad Campbell 79-68-80-71=298 Sergio García 74-70-76-78=29848 Nathan Green 72-75-80-75=302 +14 21,750CUT Tim Clark 75-73=148 +4 Ben Curtis 73-75=148 Ryo Ishikawa 72-76=148 Larry Mize (c) 76-72=148 John Senden 71-77=148 Luke Donald 74-75=149 +5 Søren Hansen 74-75=149 Pádraig Harrington 74-75=149 Martin Kaymer 76-73=149 Bernhard Langer (c) 71-78=149 Graeme McDowell 75-74=149 John Merrick 72-77=149 Mark O'Meara (c) 75-74=149 Ryan Palmer 72-77=149 Nathan Smith (a) 74-75=149 Brad Benjamin (a) 73-77=150 +6 Simon Dyson 77-73=150 Justin Leonard 75-75=150 Kevin Na 74-76=150 Álvaro Quirós 75-75=150 David Duval 76-75=151 +7 Brian Gay 74-77=151 Todd Hamilton 74-77=151 Marc Leishman 72-79=151 Rory McIlroy 74-77=151 Edoardo Molinari 76-75=151 John Rollins 75-76=151 Oliver Wilson 78-73=151 Stewart Cink 76-76=152 +8 Shingo Katayama 75-77=152 Louis Oosthuizen 75-77=152 Paul Casey 75-78=153 +9 Ross Fisher 77-76=153 Rory Sabbatini 75-78=153 Vijay Singh (c) 76-78=154 +10 Chris Wood 78-76=154 An Byeong-hun (a) 78-77=155 +11 Ben Crenshaw (c) 77-78=155 Han Chang-won (a) 79-76=155 Sandy Lyle (c) 69-86=155 Ben Martin (a) 75-80=155 Henrik Stenson 80-75=155 Jim Furyk 80-76=156 +12 Anders Hansen 80-77=157 +13 Craig Stadler (c) 79-78=157 Michael Campbell 83-81=164 +20 Ian Woosnam (c) 81-83=164WD Thongchai Jaidee 74 +2

Final bulletin - 2010 prize money

Scorecard Hole 1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9 101112131415161718Par454343454 443545344 Mickelson−11−11−11−11−11−11−11−12−12−12−12−13−14−14−15−15−15−16 Westwood−11−12−12−11−12−12−12−12−11−11−11−11−12−12−12−12−13−13 Kim−5−6−6−6−6−5−6−7−7−7−7−7−8−9−11−12−12−12 Choi −8 −9 −9 −9 −9 −10 −10 −11 −11 −12 −12 −12 −11 −10 −11 −11 −11 −11 Woods−7−7−7−6−5−5−7−8−9−9−8−8−9−8−10−10−10−11 Couples −7 −8 −9 −9 −9 −9 −9 −9 −10 −10 −9 −7 −8 −9 −9 −8 −9 −9 Watney −1 −2 −3 −3 −2 −3 −4 −5 −5 −5 −5 −5 −6 −6 −7 −7 −8 −8 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

Coverage from the PGA of America Coverage on the European Tour's official site