1983 Masters Tournament Explained

1983 Masters Tournament
Dates:April 7–11, 1983
Location:Augusta, Georgia
Course:Augusta National Golf Club
Org:Augusta National Golf Club
Tour:PGA Tour
Par:72
Yardage:[1]
Field:82 players, 49 after cut
Cut:147 (+3)
Purse:$500,000
Winners Share:$90,000
Score:280 (−8)
Previous:1982
Next:1984
Map:USA#USA Georgia
Map Relief:yes
Map Label:Augusta National
Coordinates:33.503°N -82.02°W

The 1983 Masters Tournament was the 47th Masters Tournament, held April 7–11 at Augusta National Golf Club in Augusta, Georgia. Seve Ballesteros won his second Masters and third major title, four strokes ahead of runners-up Ben Crenshaw and Tom Kite.[2] Play on Friday was postponed due to heavy rain, and the final round was completed on Monday for the first time since 1973.[3]

Defending champion Craig Stadler was tied for the 54-hole lead with 1976 champion Raymond Floyd, with Ballesteros one stroke back, and two-time champion Tom Watson an additional stroke behind.[4] Ballesteros got off to a fast start in the final round on Monday with a birdie-eagle start. With another birdie at the difficult par-3 fourth, he added four pars and another birdie at the ninth for a five-under 31 on the front nine. Ballesteros cruised to a 69 (−3) and a comfortable win as neither Stadler, Floyd, nor Watson broke par.[2] [5]

During the postponement of Friday's round, the possibility was raised that the tournament would not complete the entire 72 holes,[6] [7] as the southeastern U.S. was experiencing heavy rains and flooding and forecasts were not favorable.[8] [9]

Saturday's second round went off from split tees (1st and 10th)[10] [11] and six players did not complete their rounds until early Sunday morning.[12] With this extension, the tournament committee did not attempt to complete the final two rounds on Sunday, opting for the third round only on Sunday and the fourth on Monday.[10] [12]

Four-time champion Arnold Palmer, 53, opened with a 68 on Thursday and made the cut at the Masters for the final time.[13] In his 29th Masters, he stated that the conditions on Saturday were the worst he had ever seen at Augusta.[14] Five-time winner Jack Nicklaus 43, withdrew before his second round start time due to back spasms experienced while warming up. Nicklaus had shot a first round of 73.[3] [12] It was only his second withdrawal as a pro, the first was three years earlier at the 1980 World Series of Golf.[15] Nicklaus had missed only one cut in the previous 23 Masters and made ten consecutive after this year, including his record sixth green jacket in 1986.

As of 2024, it is still the most recent Masters Tournament to have a Monday finish. Due to time constraints with local news/primetime programming, the green jacket ceremony happened before all the players had finished their final rounds, as Stadler and Floyd, the final two golfers on the course, were deemed mathematically too far behind winner Ballesteros for their results to change the outcome of who would win the tournament.

It was the final major championship for Sam Snead, 70, a three-time Masters champion. He withdrew after a first round 79 as he assessed he could not make the cut.[13]

Caddie policy change

This was the first year that players were allowed to use their own caddies, rather than those of Augusta National.[3] [16] [17] Twelve players continued to use caddies from the club, including Nicklaus.[18] The first female caddie at the Masters appeared this year as George Archer, the 1969 champion, employed his 19-year-old daughter Elizabeth. She had carried the bag for her father for twenty previous events since the summer of 1980.[18] [19] Archer finished tied for twelfth, one of his better finishes at Augusta.

Field

1. Masters championsTommy Aaron, George Archer, Seve Ballesteros (3,8), Gay Brewer, Billy Casper, Charles Coody, Raymond Floyd (4,8,10,11,12,13), Doug Ford, Bob Goalby, Jack Nicklaus (2,3,4,8,9,11,12,13), Arnold Palmer, Gary Player (8), Sam Snead, Craig Stadler (8,11,12), Art Wall Jr., Tom Watson (2,3,8,9,12,13), Fuzzy Zoeller (8,9,12)
The following categories only apply to Americans
2. U.S. Open champions (last five years)Hale Irwin (12,13), Andy North
3. The Open champions (last five years)Bill Rogers (9,11,12,13)
4. PGA champions (last five years)John Mahaffey, Larry Nelson (8,12,13)
5. 1982 U.S. Amateur semi-finalistsRick Fehr (a), Jim Hallet (a), Jay Sigel (6,7,a), David Tolley (a)
6. Previous two U.S. Amateur and Amateur championsNathaniel Crosby (7,a)
7. Members of the 1982 U.S. Eisenhower Trophy teamJim Holtgrieve (a), Bob Lewis (a)
8. Top 24 players and ties from the 1982 Masters TournamentAndy Bean (12), Ben Crenshaw (13), Danny Edwards (9,12), Bob Gilder (10,11,12), Morris Hatalsky, Mark Hayes, Peter Jacobsen (12), Tom Kite (11,12,13), Wayne Levi (11,12), Bruce Lietzke (11,12,13), Jodie Mudd, Dan Pohl (9), Jack Renner, John Schroeder, Jim Simons (10), Curtis Strange (12), Tom Weiskopf (11,12)
9. Top 16 players and ties from the 1982 U.S. OpenChip Beck, Bobby Clampett (11,12), Jay Haas (10,11,12), Gary Koch (11), Lyn Lott, Calvin Peete (10,11,12), Larry Rinker, Scott Simpson (12), J. C. Snead, Lanny Wadkins (10,11,12)
10. Top eight players and ties from 1982 PGA ChampionshipFred Couples
11. Winners of PGA Tour events since the previous MastersKeith Fergus (12), Gary Hallberg, Scott Hoch (12), Johnny Miller (12,13), Gil Morgan (12), Mike Nicolette, Tim Norris, Ed Sneed (12), Payne Stewart, Hal Sutton (12)
12. Top 30 players from the 1982 PGA Tour money listGeorge Burns
13. Members of the U.S. 1981 Ryder Cup teamLee Trevino
14. Foreign invitationsIsao Aoki (11), Bruce Devlin (9), Nick Faldo, David Graham (2,4,8,9), Yutaka Hagawa (8), Hsieh Min-Nan, Sandy Lyle, Tsuneyuki Nakajima, Greg Norman (10), Peter Oosterhuis (8), Philippe Ploujoux (6,a), Bob Shearer (11), Martin Thompson (6,a)

Round summaries

First round

Thursday, April 7, 1983

PlacePlayerScoreTo par
T1 67 −5
Gil Morgan
T4 68 −4
Jim Hallet (a)
Arnold Palmer
T9 69 −3
Source:[1]

Second round

Saturday, April 9, 1983
Sunday, April 10, 1983

Play on Friday was completely washed out due to rain and the second round started on Saturday;[20]
six players did not finish the second round until Sunday morning.

PlacePlayerScoreTo par
1 67-70=137 −7
2 68-70=138 −6
T3 70-69=139 −5
67-72=139
T5 70-70=140 −4
72-68=140
T7 73-68=141 −3
69-72=141
70-71=141
T10 73-69=142 −2
71-71=142
70-72=142
72-70=142
72-70=142
73-69=142
68-74=142
67-75=142
68-74=142
Source:[12] [21]

Third round

Sunday, April 10, 1983

PlacePlayerScoreTo par
T1 67-72-71=210 −6
69-72-69=210
3 68-70-73=211 −5
T4 72-68-72=212 −4
70-71-71=212
T6 70-69-74=213 −3
67-70-76=213
8 72-70-72=214 −2
T9 71-73-71=215 −1
73-69-73=215
70-72-73=215
72-72-71=215
71-74-70=215
70-73-72=215
71-72-72=215
Source:[22]

Final round

Monday, April 11, 1983

Final leaderboard

Champion
Silver Cup winner (low amateur)
(a) = amateur
(c) = past champion
Top 10!Place!!Player!!Score!!To par!!Money (US$)
1 Seve Ballesteros (c) 68-70-73-69=280 −8 90,000
T2 76-70-70-68=284 −4 44,000
70-72-73-69=284
T4 Raymond Floyd (c) 67-72-71-75=285 −3 22,000
Tom Watson (c) 70-71-71-73=285
T6 72-73-72-69=286 −2 17,400
Craig Stadler (c) 69-72-69-76=286
T8 67-70-76-74=287 −1 14,500
74-72-70-71=287
73-70-73-71=287

Sources:[23] [24]

Scorecard

Hole  1    2    3    4    5    6    7    8    9   10  11  12  13  14  15  16  17  18 
Par454343454443545344
Ballesteros−6−8−8−9−9−9−9−9−10−9−9−8−8−8−8−8−8−8
CrenshawE−1−2−2−2−1−2−2−2−2−2−2−4−4−4−4−4−4
Kite−1−2−1−1EEEEEEE−1−2−3−3−2−3−4
Floyd−6−6−6−6−5−4−4−4−4−3−3−3−3−3−3−3-3−4−3
Watson−4−5−5−5−6−6−5−7−6−5−4−4−5−3−3−3−3−3
Stadler−5−6−6−6−6−5−6−6−6−6−5−4−4−3−2−2−2−2
Irwin+1E−1−1−1−1−1−1EEEEE−1−1−2−2−2
Cumulative tournament scores, relative to par

External links

Notes and References

  1. News: Masters Thursday's results . Spokesman-Review . Spokane, Washington. Associated Press . April 9, 1983 . 19.
  2. News: Ballesteros takes Masters . Pittsburgh Post-Gazette . Parascenzo . Marino . April 12, 1983 . 9.
  3. Another Green Jacket for Seve . Sports Illustrated . Jenkins . Dan . Dan Jenkins . April 18, 1983 . 30.
  4. News: Stadler bids for second straight . Spokesman-Review . Spokane, Washington . Associated Press . April 11, 1983 . 15.
  5. News: Ballesteros ends Masters race early . Spokesman-Review . Spokane, Washington. Associated Press . April 12, 1983 . 15.
  6. News: Masters may not see champion . Spokesman-Review . Spokane, Washington. Associated Press . April 9, 1983 . 17.
  7. News: Arnie isn't upset by the rain . Spokesman-Review . Spokane, Washington. Anderson . Dave . Dave Anderson (sportswriter) . (New York Times). April 9, 1983 . 17.
  8. News: Record floods plague South . Milwaukee Sentinel . wire services . April 9, 1983 . 1, part 1.
  9. News: Thousands flee floods . Spokesman-Review . Spokane, Washington . Associated Press . April 9, 1983 . 1.
  10. News: Rains dampen Masters . Milwaukee Sentinel . Breitenbucher . Cathy . April 9, 1983 . 1, part 2.
  11. News: Scoreboard: 47th Masters . Spokesman-Review . Spokane, Washington. (tee times) . April 9, 1983 . 19.
  12. News: Morgan goes to the front while Nicklaus backs out . Eugene Register-Guard . Oregon. wire services . April 10, 1983 . 3E .
  13. News: Arnie stirs memories . Spokesman-Review . Spokane, Washington . Associated Press . April 8, 1983 . 25.
  14. News: Morgan leads after 2 incomplete rounds . Rome News-Tribune . Georgia . Associated Press . April 10, 1983 . 1C.
  15. News: Back spasms take Jack Nicklaus out of Masters field . Rome News-Tribune . Georgia . Associated Press . April 10, 1983 . 1C.
  16. News: Augusta loses caddy tradition . Spartanburg Herald . South Carolina . (Dallas Morning News). Wade . Harless . April 7, 1983 . C1.
  17. News: New Masters caddies collide . Sunday Star-News . Wilmington, North Carolina . Anderson . Dave . Dave Anderson (sportswriter) . April 10, 1983 . 6D.
  18. News: Elizabeth Archer enjoying a first in golf at Masters . Boca Raton News . Florida . Knight Ridder Newspapers . Greenday . Joe . April 11, 1983 . 1D.
  19. News: Pro Archer has daughter carry bag . News and Courier . Charleston, South Carolina . Associated Press . August 17, 1980 . 8B.
  20. News: They're still waiting for skies to clear at Augusta . Eugene Register-Guard . (Oregon) . Associated Press . April 9, 1983 . 1B.
  21. News: Morgan goes to the front as Nicklaus backs out . Eugene Register-Guard . (Oregon) . wire services . April 10, 1983 . 3E.
  22. News: A great 'final four' at the Masters . Eugene Register-Guard . (Oregon) . (Washington Post) . April 11, 1983 . 1B.
  23. Web site: Masters – Past Winners & Results . Augusta National Inc. . April 20, 2021.
  24. Web site: Past results – Masters tournament . PGA Tour . April 20, 2021.

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