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2000 Masters Tournament

2000 Masters Tournament

Tournament information
Dates	April 6–9, 2000
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 European Tour Japan Golf Tour
Statistics
Par	72
Length	6,985 yards (6,387 m)[1]
Field	95 players, 57 after cut
Cut	148 (+4)
Prize fund	US$4,600,000
Winner's share	$828,000
Champion
Vijay Singh
278 (−10)
Location map
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The 2000 Masters Tournament was the 64th Masters Tournament, held April 6–9 at Augusta National Golf ClubinAugusta, 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]

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 champions

Tommy 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-up

David Gossett (a), Kim Sung-yoon (a)

7. The Amateur champion

Graeme Storm (a)

8. U.S. Amateur Public Links champion

Hunter Haas (a)

9. U.S. Mid-Amateur champion

Danny Green (a)

10. Top 16 players and ties from the 1999 Masters

Bob 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. Open

Tim Herron (14,16,17), Jeff Maggert (14,16,17), Steve Stricker (16,17)

12. Top four players and ties from 1999 PGA Championship

Stewart Cink (14,16,17), Sergio García (16,17), Jay Haas

13. Top four players and ties from the 1999 Open Championship

Ángel Cabrera, Craig Parry (14,16,17), Jean van de Velde

14. Top 40 players from the 1999 PGA Tour money list

Stuart 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 5

Kirk Triplett (17)

16. Top 50 players from the final 1999 world ranking

Thomas 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 5

Paul Azinger, Shigeki Maruyama

18. Special foreign invitation

Aaron 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.

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

Friday, April 7, 2000

Place	Player	Score	To par[6]
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	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).

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[6]
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	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

External videos
Full final round coverage on CBSonYouTube

Sunday, April 9, 2000

Top 10

Place	Player	Score	To par	Money (US$)
1	Vijay Singh	72-67-70-69=278	−10	828,000
2	Ernie Els	72-67-74-68=281	−7	496,800
T3	David Duval	73-65-74-70=282	−6	266,800
	Loren Roberts	73-69-71-69=282
5	Tiger Woods (c)	75-72-68-69=284	−4	184,000
6	Tom Lehman	69-72-75-69=285	−3	165,600
T7	Carlos Franco	79-68-70-69=286	−2	143,367
	Davis Love III	75-72-68-71=286
	Phil Mickelson	71-68-76-71=286
10	Hal Sutton	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
	Greg Norman	80-68-70-70=288
	Nick Price	74-69-73-72=288
T14	Jim Furyk	73-74-71-71=289	+1	80,500
	John Huston	77-69-72-71=289
	Dennis Paulson	68-76-73-72=289
	Chris Perry	73-75-72-69=289
18	Jeff Sluman	73-69-77-71=290	+2	69,000
T19	Glen Day	79-67-74-71=291	+3	53,820
	Bob Estes	72-71-77-71=291
	Pádraig Harrington	76-69-75-71=291
	Colin Montgomerie	76-69-77-69=291
	Steve Stricker	70-73-75-73=291
	Jean van de Velde	76-70-75-70=291
T25	Steve Jones	71-70-76-75=292	+4	37,567
	Larry Mize (c)	78-67-73-74=292
	Craig Parry	75-71-72-74=292
T28	Paul Azinger	72-72-77-72=293	+5	28,673
	Thomas Bjørn	71-77-73-72=293
	Stewart Cink	75-72-72-74=293
	Nick Faldo (c)	72-72-74-75=293
	Dudley Hart	75-71-72-75=293
	Bernhard Langer (c)	71-71-75-76=293
	Justin Leonard	72-71-77-73=293
	Masashi Ozaki	72-72-74-75=293
	Mike Weir	75-70-70-78=293
T37	Notah Begay III	74-74-73-73=294	+6	21,620
	Fred Funk	75-68-78-73=294
	Jay Haas	75-71-75-73=294
T40	Mark Brooks	72-76-73-74=295	+7	17,480
	Darren Clarke	72-71-78-74=295
	Sergio García	70-72-75-78=295
	Retief Goosen	73-69-79-74=295
	Jesper Parnevik	77-71-70-77=295
	Ian Woosnam (c)	74-70-76-75=295
T46	Scott Gump	75-70-78-73=296	+8	13,800
	Shigeki Maruyama	76-71-74-75=296
48	Brandt Jobe	73-74-76-74=297	+9	12,604
T49	Miguel Ángel Jiménez	76-71-79-72=298	+10	11,623
	Steve Pate	78-69-77-74=298
	David Toms	74-72-73-79=298
T52	Steve Elkington	74-74-78-73=299	+11	10,948
	Rocco Mediate	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	Skip Kendall	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
	Scott Hoch	78-71=149
	Jeff Maggert	77-72=149
	José María Olazábal (c)	72-77=149
	Bob Tway	77-72=149
	Duffy Waldorf	78-71=149
	Stuart Appleby	73-77=150	+6
	Ángel Cabrera	74-76=150
	Brent Geiberger	76-74=150
	Kim Sung-yoon (a)	75-75=150
	Mark O'Meara (c)	75-75=150
	Corey Pavin	80-70=150
	Gary Player (c)	76-74=150
	Craig Stadler (c)	73-77=150
	Gabriel Hjertstedt	78-73=151	+7
	Sandy Lyle (c)	79-72=151
	Tom Watson (c)	75-76=151
	Lee Janzen	76-76=152	+8
	Naomichi Ozaki	75-77=152
	Lee Westwood	77-75=152
	John Daly	80-73=153	+9
	Hunter Haas (a)	80-73=153
	Paul Lawrie	79-74=153
	Charles Coody (c)	81-74=155	+11
	Ben Crenshaw (c)	79-76=155
	Kirk Triplett	76-79=155
	Ted Tryba	75-81=156	+12
	Fuzzy Zoeller (c)	82-74=156
	Brian Watts	78-79=157	+13
	Raymond Floyd (c)	80-78=158	+14
	Tim Herron	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]

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

Birdie

Bogey

Source:^[9]

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