1951 Masters Tournament | |
Dates: | April 5–8, 1951 |
Location: | Augusta, Georgia |
Course: | Augusta National Golf Club |
Org: | Augusta National Golf Club |
Tour: | PGA Tour |
Par: | 72 |
Field: | 64 players |
Cut: | none |
Purse: | $15,000[1] |
Winners Share: | $3,000 |
Score: | 280 (−8) |
Previous: | 1950 |
Next: | 1952 |
Map: | USA#USA Georgia |
Map Relief: | yes |
Map Label: | Augusta National |
Coordinates: | 33.503°N -82.02°W |
The 1951 Masters Tournament was the 15th Masters Tournament, held April 5–8 at Augusta National Golf Club in Augusta, Georgia. Ben Hogan, age 38, won the first of his two Masters titles, two strokes ahead of runner-up Skee Riegel.[2] [3] [4] It was the fifth of his nine major titles.
After three rounds, Hogan was one stroke out of the lead, behind Riegel and Sam Snead, the 1949 champion.[5] [6] Hogan shot a bogey-free final round of 68 (−4), while Riegel carded a 71 and Snead an 80 (+8). Prior to this victory, Hogan had eight top ten finishes at the Masters, twice as runner-up in 1942 and 1946.
The reigning U.S. Open champion, Hogan also won the year's next major, the 1951 U.S. Open.
With high attendance of about 15,000 on Sunday, a fifty percent bonus for the prize money was declared, boosting the purse to $15,000 and the winner's share to $3,000.[1]
Thursday, April 5, 1951
Place | Player | Score | To par |
---|---|---|---|
1 | 68 | −4 | |
T2 | 69 | −3 | |
4 | 70 | −2 | |
T5 | 71 | −1 | |
T9 | 72 | E | |
Juan Segura (a) |
Friday, April 6, 1951
Place | Player | Score | To par |
---|---|---|---|
1 | 73-68=141 | −3 | |
T2 | 68-74=142 | −2 | |
70-72=142 | |||
71-71=142 | |||
T5 | 71-72=143 | −1 | |
74-69=143 | |||
69-74=143 | |||
69-74=143 | |||
T9 | 74-70=144 | E | |
73-71=144 | |||
71-73=144 |
Saturday, April 7, 1951
Place | Player | Score | To par |
---|---|---|---|
T1 | 73-68-70=211 | −5 | |
69-74-68=211 | |||
3 | 70-72-70=212 | −4 | |
4 | 69-74-70=213 | −3 | |
5 | 71-71-72=214 | −2 | |
T6 | 73-73-69=215 | −1 | |
74-69-72=215 | |||
T8 | 71-72-73=216 | E | |
68-74-74=216 | |||
T10 | 74-71-72=217 | +1 | |
72-73-72=217 | |||
71-73-73=217 |
Sunday, April 8, 1951
Champion | |
Silver Cup winner (low amateur) | |
(a) = amateur | |
(c) = past champion |
1 | 70-72-70-68=280 | −8 | 3,000 | |
2 | 73-68-70-71=282 | −6 | 1,875 | |
T3 | 69-74-70-73=286 | −2 | 1,163 | |
71-71-72-72=286 | ||||
5 | 74-69-72-73=288 | E | 750 | |
6 | 72-73-72-72=289 | +1 | 600 | |
7 | 74-70-74-72=290 | +2 | 525 | |
T8 | 71-72-73-75=291 | +3 | 450 | |
Byron Nelson (c) | 71-73-73-74=291 | |||
Sam Snead (c) | 69-74-68-80=291 |
Leaderboard below the top 10 | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Place | Player | Score | To par | Money ($) | |
11 | 73-72-74-73=292 | +4 | 390 | ||
T12 | Charles Coe (a) | 76-71-73-73=293 | +5 | 0 | |
73-73-69-78=293 | 356 | ||||
Gene Sarazen (c) | 75-73-74-71=293 | ||||
T15 | 80-71-72-71=294 | +6 | 338 | ||
76-71-76-71=294 | |||||
17 | 76-72-74-73=295 | +7 | 338 | ||
T18 | 68-74-74-80=296 | +8 | 315 | ||
75-73-73-75=296 | |||||
T20 | 76-73-71-77=297 | +9 | 308 | ||
Dick Chapman (a) | 72-76-72-77=297 | 0 | |||
75-74-74-74=297 | 308 | ||||
74-72-73-78=297 | |||||
73-71-78-75=297 | |||||
T25 | 76-75-71-76=298 | +10 | 150 | ||
71-75-79-73=298 | |||||
76-73-73-76=298 | |||||
74-74-74-76=298 | |||||
Sam Urzetta (a) | 73-72-78-75=298 | 0 | |||
T30 | Jimmy Demaret (c) | 76-74-78-71=299 | +11 | ||
73-74-77-75=299 | |||||
T32 | 74-74-75-78=301 | +13 | |||
Horton Smith (c) | 79-77-70-75=301 | ||||
Frank Stranahan (a) | 74-74-74-79=301 | ||||
T35 | 77-76-73-76=302 | +14 | |||
Claude Harmon (c) | 75-77-74-76=302 | ||||
Jim McHale Jr. (a) | 75-76-76-75=302 | ||||
Harvie Ward (a) | 74-77-77-74=302 | ||||
T39 | 79-76-73-75=303 | +15 | |||
78-72-75-78=303 | |||||
Herman Keiser (c) | 77-73-79-74=303 | ||||
T42 | Bill Goodloe (a) | 74-71-72-88=305 | +17 | ||
74-75-75-81=305 | |||||
T44 | 77-73-76-80=306 | +18 | |||
76-73-77-80=306 | |||||
46 | 76-77-76-78=307 | +19 | |||
T47 | 79-76-79-74=308 | +20 | |||
77-76-77-78=308 | |||||
49 | Harold Paddock Jr. (a) | 75-78-80-79=312 | +24 | ||
T50 | Dow Finsterwald (a) | 76-81-75-81=313 | +25 | ||
Bobby Knowles (a) | 78-79-75-81=313 | ||||
Juan Segura (a) | 72-80-79-82=313 | ||||
Bill Shields (a) | 82-76-76-79=313 | ||||
77-76-79-81=313 | |||||
T55 | Bill Mawhinney (a) | 83-75-73-84=315 | +27 | ||
Robert Sweeny Jr. (a) | 80-79-78-78=315 | ||||
T57 | 81-78-83-76=318 | +30 | |||
John Ward (a) | 78-75-81-84=318 | ||||
59 | William C. Campbell (a) | 79-82-74-86=321 | +33 | ||
WD | 77-72-76=225 | +9 | |||
81-76-74=231 | +15 | ||||
Tom Veech (a) | 80-79-77=236 | +20 | |||
80-78-84=242 | +26 | ||||
86-88=174 | +30 |
Hole | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Par | 4 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 4 | |
Hogan | −4 | −5 | −6 | −6 | −6 | −6 | −6 | −7 | −7 | −7 | −7 | −7 | −8 | −8 | −8 | −8 | −8 | −8 | |
Riegel | −5 | −6 | −5 | −5 | −6 | −6 | −5 | −6 | −5 | −5 | −4 | −4 | −5 | −5 | −5 | −5 | −6 | −6 | |
Mangrum | −3 | −4 | −4 | −4 | −3 | −2 | −3 | −3 | −3 | −3 | −3 | −1 | −1 | E | −1 | −2 | −2 | −2 | |
Worsham | −2 | −2 | −2 | −2 | −2 | −2 | −2 | −1 | −1 | −1 | −1 | −2 | −2 | −2 | −2 | −2 | −1 | −2 | |
Douglas | −1 | −3 | −3 | −2 | −1 | −2 | −2 | −2 | −3 | −2 | −2 | E | −1 | E | E | E | E | E | |
Snead | −5 | −5 | −4 | −4 | −4 | −4 | −4 | −4 | −4 | −3 | +1 | +1 | E | E | +1 | +2 | +2 | +2 | |
Middlecoff | −1 | −2 | −1 | −1 | −1 | −1 | −1 | −1 | −1 | E | E | +1 | +3 | +4 | +5 | +5 | +5 | +5 |
Eagle | Birdie | Bogey | Double bogey | Triple bogey + |