2000 Masters Tournament Explained

2000 Masters Tournament
Dates:	April 6–9, 2000
Location:	Augusta, Georgia
Course:	Augusta National Golf Club
Org:	Augusta National Golf Club
Tour:	PGA Tour European Tour Japan Golf Tour
Par:	72
Yardage:	^[1]
Field:	95 players, 57 after cut
Cut:	148 (+4)
Purse:	US$4,600,000
Winners Share:	$828,000
Champion:	Vijay Singh
Score:	278 (−10)
Previous:	1999
Next:	2001
Map:	USA#USA Georgia
Map Relief:	yes
Map Label:	Augusta National
Coordinates:	33.503°N -82.02°W

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.^{[2] [3]} It was the second of Singh's three major titles.^[4]

Course

See main article: Augusta National Golf Club.

Hole	Name	Yards	Par		Hole	Name	Yards	Par
1	Tea Olive	410	4		10	Camellia	485	4
2	Pink Dogwood	575	5	11	White Dogwood	455	4
3	Flowering Peach	350	4	12	Golden Bell	155	3
4	Flowering Crab Apple	205	3	13	Azalea	485	5
5	Magnolia	435	4	14	Chinese Fir	405	4
6	Juniper	180	3	15	Firethorn	500	5
7	Pampas	365	4	16	Redbud	170	3
8	Yellow Jasmine	550	5	17	Nandina	425	4
9	Carolina Cherry	430	4	18	Holly	405	4
Out		3,500	36	In		3,485	36
Source:^[5]	Total		6,985	72

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 championsTommy 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-upDavid Gossett (a), Kim Sung-yoon (a)

7. The Amateur championGraeme Storm (a)

8. U.S. Amateur Public Links championHunter Haas (a)

9. U.S. Mid-Amateur championDanny Green (a)

10. Top 16 players and ties from the 1999 MastersBob 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. OpenTim Herron (14,16,17), Jeff Maggert (14,16,17), Steve Stricker (16,17)

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

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

14. Top 40 players from the 1999 PGA Tour money listStuart 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 5Kirk Triplett (17)

16. Top 50 players from the final 1999 world rankingThomas 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 5Paul Azinger, Shigeki Maruyama

18. Special foreign invitationAaron 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

Place	Player	Score	To par^[6]
1	Dennis Paulson	68	−4
2	Tom Lehman	69	−3
T3	Sergio García	70	−2
	Steve Stricker
T5	Thomas Bjørn	71	−1
	Steve Jones
	Bernhard Langer
	Rocco Mediate
	Phil Mickelson
T10	Tommy Aaron	72	E
	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

Place	Player	Score	To par
1	David Duval	73-65=138	−6
T2	Ernie Els	72-67=139	−5
	Phil Mickelson	71-68=139
	Vijay Singh	72-67=139
T5	Steve Jones	71-70=141	−3
	Tom Lehman	69-72=141
T7	Sergio García	align=center	70-72=142	−2
	Retief Goosen	73-69=142
	Bernhard Langer	71-71=142
	Loren Roberts	73-69=142
	Jeff Sluman	73-69=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.

Place	Player	Score	To par
1	Vijay Singh	72-67-70=209	−7
2	David Duval	73-65-74=212	−4
T3	Ernie Els	72-67-74=213	−3
	Loren Roberts	73-69-71=213
T5	Davis Love III	align=center	75-72-68=215	−1
	Phil Mickelson	71-68-76=215
	Mike Weir	75-70-70=215
	Tiger Woods	75-72-68=215
T9	Tom Lehman	69-72-75=216	E
	Nick Price	74-69-73=216

Final round

Sunday, April 9, 2000

Final leaderboard

Champion
Silver Cup winner (low amateur)
(a) = amateur
(c) = past champion

Top 10!Place!!Player!!Score!!To par!!Money (US$)

1		72-67-70-69=278	−10	828,000
2		72-67-74-68=281	−7	496,800
T3		73-65-74-70=282	−6	266,800
	73-69-71-69=282
5	Tiger Woods (c)	75-72-68-69=284	−4	184,000
6		69-72-75-69=285	−3	165,600
T7		79-68-70-69=286	−2	143,367
	75-72-68-71=286
	71-68-76-71=286
10		72-75-71-69=287	−1	124,200

Leaderboard below the top 10
Place	Player	Score	To par	Money ($)
T11	Fred Couples (c)	76-72-70-70=288	E	105,800
	80-68-70-70=288
	74-69-73-72=288
T14		73-74-71-71=289	+1	80,500
	77-69-72-71=289
	68-76-73-72=289
	73-75-72-69=289
18		73-69-77-71=290	+2	69,000
T19		79-67-74-71=291	+3	53,820
	72-71-77-71=291
	76-69-75-71=291
	76-69-77-69=291
	70-73-75-73=291
	76-70-75-70=291
T25		71-70-76-75=292	+4	37,567
Larry Mize (c)	78-67-73-74=292
	75-71-72-74=292
T28		72-72-77-72=293	+5	28,673
	71-77-73-72=293
	75-72-72-74=293
Nick Faldo (c)	72-72-74-75=293
	75-71-72-75=293
Bernhard Langer (c)	71-71-75-76=293
	72-71-77-73=293
	72-72-74-75=293
	75-70-70-78=293
T37		74-74-73-73=294	+6	21,620
	75-68-78-73=294
	75-71-75-73=294
T40		72-76-73-74=295	+7	17,480
	72-71-78-74=295
	70-72-75-78=295
	73-69-79-74=295
	77-71-70-77=295
Ian Woosnam (c)	74-70-76-75=295
T46		75-70-78-73=296	+8	13,800
	76-71-74-75=296
48		73-74-76-74=297	+9	12,604
T49		76-71-79-72=298	+10	11,623
	78-69-77-74=298
	74-72-73-79=298
T52		74-74-78-73=299	+11	10,948
	71-74-75-79=299
T54	David Gossett (a)	75-71-79-78=303	+15	0
Jack Nicklaus (c)	74-70-81-78=303	10,672
56		76-72-77-83=308	+20	10,580
57	Tommy Aaron (c)	72-74-86-81=313	+25	10,488
CUT	Aaron Baddeley (a)	77-72=149	+5
Danny Green (a)	73-76=149
	78-71=149
	77-72=149
José María Olazábal (c)	72-77=149
	77-72=149
	78-71=149
	73-77=150	+6
	74-76=150
	76-74=150
Kim Sung-yoon (a)	75-75=150
Mark O'Meara (c)	75-75=150
	80-70=150
Gary Player (c)	76-74=150
Craig Stadler (c)	73-77=150
	78-73=151	+7
Sandy Lyle (c)	79-72=151
Tom Watson (c)	75-76=151
	76-76=152	+8
	75-77=152
	77-75=152
	80-73=153	+9
Hunter Haas (a)	80-73=153
	79-74=153
Charles Coody (c)	81-74=155	+11
Ben Crenshaw (c)	79-76=155
	76-79=155
	75-81=156	+12
Fuzzy Zoeller (c)	82-74=156
	78-79=157	+13
Raymond Floyd (c)	80-78=158	+14
	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=162
WD	Billy Casper (c)	84	+12
Doug Ford (c)	94	+22

Sources:^{[7] [8]}

Scorecard

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
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

Eagle -->

Birdie

Bogey

Double bogey

Triple bogey+ -->

Source:^[9]

External links

• Masters.com  - past winners
• Coverage on the European Tour's official site
• Augusta.com  - 2000 Masters leaderboard and scorecards

Notes and References

1. News: Hole-by-hole . . Associated Press . April 6, 2000 . C7 . January 7, 2013.
2. News: Steady as he goes . Spokesman-Review. (Detroit Free Press) . Saylor . Jack . April 10, 2000 . C1 . January 7, 2013.
3. Vijay Day . . Shipnuck . Alan . April 17, 2000 . January 7, 2013.
4. Web site: Singh claims US Masters. 10 April 2000. BBC Sport. 7 April 2023.
5. News: The Masters' course . Gainesville Sun . Augusta National Golf Club . April 2, 2000 . 5C .
6. Web site: PGA European Tour - Tournaments . January 7, 2013.
7. Web site: Masters – Past Winners & Results . Augusta National Inc. . April 20, 2021.
8. Web site: Past results – Masters tournament . PGA Tour . April 20, 2021.
9. Web site: Historic leaderboards: 2000 Masters . Augusta.com . August 13, 2013.