Tournament information | |
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Dates | April 5–8, 1951 |
Location | Augusta, Georgia 33°30′11″N 82°01′12″W / 33.503°N 82.020°W / 33.503; -82.020 |
Course(s) | Augusta National Golf Club |
Organized by | Augusta National Golf Club |
Tour(s) | PGA Tour |
Statistics | |
Par | 72 |
Field | 64 players |
Cut | none |
Prize fund | $15,000[1] |
Winner's share | $3,000 |
Champion | |
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280 (−8) | |
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The 1951 Masters Tournament was the 15th Masters Tournament, held April 5–8 at Augusta National Golf ClubinAugusta, 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]
Jimmy Demaret (9,10,12), Claude Harmon, Herman Keiser (9), Byron Nelson (2,6,9), Gene Sarazen (2,4,6,9), Horton Smith (9), Sam Snead (4,6,9,10)
Johnny Farrell, Ben Hogan (6,9,10), Lawson Little (3,5,9), Lloyd Mangrum (9,10,12), Fred McLeod, Cary Middlecoff (9,10), Lew Worsham
Dick Chapman (8,a), Charles Coe (8,a), Skee Riegel (9,10), Sam Urzetta (8,11,a), George Von Elm
Denny Shute (6)
Frank Stranahan (8,9,11,a), Robert Sweeny Jr. (a)
Jim Ferrier (9,10), Vic Ghezzi (9), Chandler Harper (12), Johnny Revolta
William C. Campbell (a), Dow Finsterwald, Bill Goodloe (a), Bobby Knowles (11,a), Jim McHale Jr. (a), Harold Paddock Jr. (a), Harvie Ward (a)
George Fazio (10), Leland Gibson, Fred Haas (10), Chick Harbert, Clayton Heafner, Joe Kirkwood Jr. (10), Johnny Palmer (10,12), Toney Penna
Al Besselink, Julius Boros, Johnny Bulla, Marty Furgol, Dutch Harrison, Dick Mayer, Bill Nary, Henry Ransom, Bob Toski, Harold Williams
Bill Shields (a), Tom Veech (a), John Ward (a)
Dave Douglas, Ray Gafford, Henry Williams Jr.
Roberto De Vicenzo (9), Tony Holguin, Bill Mawhinney, Juan Segura (a)
Thursday, April 5, 1951
Place | Player | Score | To par |
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1 | ![]() |
68 | −4 |
T2 | ![]() |
69 | −3 |
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4 | ![]() |
70 | −2 |
T5 | ![]() |
71 | −1 |
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T9 | ![]() |
72 | E |
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Friday, April 6, 1951
Place | Player | Score | To par |
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1 | ![]() |
73-68=141 | −3 |
T2 | ![]() |
68-74=142 | −2 |
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70-72=142 | ||
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71-71=142 | ||
T5 | ![]() |
71-72=143 | −1 |
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74-69=143 | ||
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69-74=143 | ||
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69-74=143 | ||
T9 | ![]() |
74-70=144 | E |
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73-71=144 | ||
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71-73=144 |
Saturday, April 7, 1951
Place | Player | Score | To par |
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T1 | ![]() |
73-68-70=211 | −5 |
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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 |
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74-69-72=215 | ||
T8 | ![]() |
71-72-73=216 | E |
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68-74-74=216 | ||
T10 | ![]() |
74-71-72=217 | +1 |
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72-73-72=217 | ||
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71-73-73=217 |
Sunday, April 8, 1951
Champion |
Silver Cup winner (low amateur) |
(a) = amateur |
(c) = past champion |
Place | Player | Score | To par | Money (US$) |
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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 |
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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 |
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71-73-73-74=291 | |||
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69-74-68-80=291 |
Leaderboard below the top 10 | |||||
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Place | Player | Score | To par | Money ($) | |
11 | ![]() |
73-72-74-73=292 | +4 | 390 | |
T12 | ![]() |
76-71-73-73=293 | +5 | 0 | |
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73-73-69-78=293 | 356 | |||
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75-73-74-71=293 | ||||
T15 | ![]() |
80-71-72-71=294 | +6 | 338 | |
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76-71-76-71=294 | ||||
17 | ![]() |
76-72-74-73=295 | +7 | 338 | |
T18 | ![]() |
68-74-74-80=296 | +8 | 315 | |
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75-73-73-75=296 | ||||
T20 | ![]() |
76-73-71-77=297 | +9 | 308 | |
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72-76-72-77=297 | 0 | |||
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75-74-74-74=297 | 308 | |||
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74-72-73-78=297 | ||||
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73-71-78-75=297 | ||||
T25 | ![]() |
76-75-71-76=298 | +10 | 150 | |
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71-75-79-73=298 | ||||
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76-73-73-76=298 | ||||
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74-74-74-76=298 | ||||
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73-72-78-75=298 | 0 | |||
T30 | ![]() |
76-74-78-71=299 | +11 | ||
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73-74-77-75=299 | ||||
T32 | ![]() |
74-74-75-78=301 | +13 | ||
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79-77-70-75=301 | ||||
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74-74-74-79=301 | ||||
T35 | ![]() |
77-76-73-76=302 | +14 | ||
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75-77-74-76=302 | ||||
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75-76-76-75=302 | ||||
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74-77-77-74=302 | ||||
T39 | ![]() |
79-76-73-75=303 | +15 | ||
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78-72-75-78=303 | ||||
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77-73-79-74=303 | ||||
T42 | ![]() |
74-71-72-88=305 | +17 | ||
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74-75-75-81=305 | ||||
T44 | ![]() |
77-73-76-80=306 | +18 | ||
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76-73-77-80=306 | ||||
46 | ![]() |
76-77-76-78=307 | +19 | ||
T47 | ![]() |
79-76-79-74=308 | +20 | ||
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77-76-77-78=308 | ||||
49 | ![]() |
75-78-80-79=312 | +24 | ||
T50 | ![]() |
76-81-75-81=313 | +25 | ||
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78-79-75-81=313 | ||||
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72-80-79-82=313 | ||||
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82-76-76-79=313 | ||||
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77-76-79-81=313 | ||||
T55 | ![]() |
83-75-73-84=315 | +27 | ||
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80-79-78-78=315 | ||||
T57 | ![]() |
81-78-83-76=318 | +30 | ||
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78-75-81-84=318 | ||||
59 | ![]() |
79-82-74-86=321 | +33 | ||
WD | ![]() |
77-72-76=225 | +9 | ||
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81-76-74=231 | +15 | |||
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80-79-77=236 | +20 | |||
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80-78-84=242 | +26 | |||
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86-88=174 | +30 |
Cumulative tournament scores, relative to par
Eagle | Birdie | Bogey | Double bogey | Triple bogey + |
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