1978 Masters Tournament
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The 1978 Masters Tournament was the 42nd Masters Tournament, held April 6–9 at Augusta National Golf Club in Augusta, Georgia. Gary Player overcame a 7-shot deficit going into the final round to win his third Masters and ninth major championship. Player, age 42, shot a record-tying 64 (−8) in the final round to win by one stroke. The runners-up were Rod Funseth, defending champion Tom Watson, and 54-hole leader Hubert Green, the reigning U.S. Open champion, who shot an even-par 72.[2][3]
Tied for tenth place at the start of the round, Player shot a 30 on the back nine in the summer-like heat. He holed seven putts ranging from 10 to 30 feet (3 to 9 m), including a final one of 15 feet (4.6 m) for birdie at 18. The leader in the clubhouse, Player had to wait forty minutes for the final groups to finish. Funseth had five birdies, but his two bogeys were both three-putts and he parred the last three holes. Watson eagled 13 and birdied both 15 and 16, but missed an 8-foot (2.4 m) putt for par on the final hole. After a bogey at 16, Green hit an outstanding approach shot at 18 which left a birdie putt from three feet (0.9 m) to tie, but he missed after being inadvertently distracted by a radio announcer.[3][4][5]
Player became the oldest winner of the Masters and the first over forty in nearly a quarter century; Sam Snead won his third green jacket at age 41 in 1954. Player retained the honor for eight years, until Jack Nicklaus won his sixth at 46 in 1986.
Field
- 1. Masters champions
Tommy Aaron, George Archer (8), Gay Brewer, Billy Casper (8), Charles Coody (10), Raymond Floyd (8,11,12), Doug Ford, Bob Goalby, Jack Nicklaus (4,8,9,10,11,12), Arnold Palmer (8), Gary Player (3,8,9), Sam Snead, Art Wall Jr., Tom Watson (3,8,9,10,11,12)
- Jack Burke Jr., Jimmy Demaret, Ralph Guldahl, Claude Harmon, Ben Hogan, Herman Keiser, Cary Middlecoff, Byron Nelson, Henry Picard, and Gene Sarazen did not play.
- The following categories only apply to Americans
- 2. U.S. Open champions (last five years)
Lou Graham (8,9,10,12), Hubert Green (8,9,11,12), Hale Irwin (8,11,12), Johnny Miller (3), Jerry Pate (8,10,11)
- 3. The Open champions (last five years)
Tom Weiskopf (8,9,11)
- 4. PGA champions (last five years)
Dave Stockton (12), Lee Trevino (11), Lanny Wadkins (10,11,12)
- 5. 1977 U.S. Amateur semi-finalists
Doug Fischesser (a), Ralph Landrum (a), Jay Sigel (7,a)
- John Fought (6,7) forfeited his exemption by turning professional.
- 6. Previous two U.S. Amateur and Amateur champions
Dick Siderowf (7,a)
- Bill Sander (7) forfeited his exemption by turning professional.
- 7. Members of the 1977 U.S. Walker Cup team
Mike Brannan (a), Gary Hallberg (a), Vance Heafner (a), Lindy Miller (a), Fred Ridley (a)
- Scott Simpson forfeited his exemption by turning professional.
- 8. Top 24 players and ties from the 1977 Masters Tournament
Andy Bean, Jim Colbert, Ben Crenshaw (11), Danny Edwards, Lee Elder, Rod Funseth (9), Don January (10,12), Tom Kite, Billy Kratzert (11), Gene Littler (10,11), Rik Massengale, Andy North (11), John Schlee, Bob Wynn
- 9. Top 16 players and ties from the 1977 U.S. Open
Wally Armstrong, Terry Diehl, Al Geiberger (10,11), Jay Haas (11), Joe Inman, Gary Jacobson, Lyn Lott, Mike McCullough, Steve Melnyk, Tom Purtzer
- 10. Top eight players and ties from 1977 PGA Championship
Jerry McGee (11,12)
- 11. Winners of PGA Tour events since the previous Masters
Miller Barber, Dave Eichelberger, Mike Hill, Mac McLendon, Gil Morgan, Mike Morley, Bill Rogers, Jim Simons, Ed Sneed (12), Leonard Thompson
- 12. Members of the U.S. 1977 Ryder Cup team
Dave Hill
- 13. Foreign invitations
Isao Aoki, Seve Ballesteros (11), Bobby Cole (11), Antonio Garrido, David Graham (8), Peter McEvoy (6,a), Tsuneyuki Nakajima, Peter Oosterhuis (9), Masashi Ozaki, Manuel Piñero
- Numbers in brackets indicate categories that the player would have qualified under had they been American.
Round summaries
First round
Thursday, April 6, 1978
Place | Player | Score | To par |
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1 | ![]() | 68 | −4 |
2 | ![]() | 69 | −3 |
T3 | ![]() | 70 | −2 |
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T5 | ![]() | 71 | −1 |
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T8 | ![]() | 72 | E |
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Source:[6]
Second round
Friday, April 7, 1978
Place | Player | Score | To par |
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T1 | ![]() | 73-66=139 | −5 |
![]() | 70-69=139 | ||
T3 | ![]() | 73-67=140 | −4 |
![]() | 72-68=140 | ||
T5 | ![]() | 72-69=141 | −3 |
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T8 | ![]() | 72-70=142 | −2 |
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Source:[7]
Third round
Saturday, April 8, 1978
Place | Player | Score | To par |
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1 | ![]() | 72-69-65=206 | −10 |
T2 | ![]() | 73-66-70=209 | −7 |
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4 | ![]() | 72-68-70=210 | −6 |
T5 | ![]() | 75-69-67=211 | −5 |
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9 | ![]() | 72-70-70=212 | −4 |
T10 | ![]() | 74-71-68=213 | −3 |
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Source:[8]
Final round
Sunday, April 9, 1978
Final leaderboard
Champion |
Silver Cup winner (low amateur) |
(a) = amateur |
(c) = past champion |
Place | Player | Score | To par | Money (US$) |
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1 | ![]() | 72-72-69-64=277 | −11 | 45,000 |
T2 | ![]() | 73-66-70-69=278 | −10 | 21,667 |
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T5 | ![]() | 72-70-70-68=280 | −8 | 11,750 |
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7 | ![]() | 72-73-69-67=281 | −7 | 10,000 |
8 | ![]() | 73-67-71-71=282 | −6 | 8,500 |
T9 | ![]() | 75-69-67-72=283 | −5 | 6,750 |
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Leaderboard below the top 10 | |||||
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Place | Player | Score | To par | Money ($) | |
T11 | ![]() | 72-70-72-70=284 | −4 | 4,417 | |
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T14 | ![]() | 74-70-70-71=285 | −3 | 3,300 | |
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T16 | ![]() | 76-71-71-68=286 | −2 | 2,950 | |
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T18 | ![]() | 74-71-68-74=287 | −1 | 2,550 | |
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T24 | ![]() | 75-67-73-73=288 | E | 2,200 | |
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28 | ![]() | 77-70-70-72=289 | +1 | 2,000 | |
T29 | ![]() | 73-71-69-77=290 | +2 | 1,975 | |
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T32 | ![]() | 74-73-75-69=291 | +3 | 1,950 | |
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36 | ![]() | 73-74-71-74=292 | +4 | 1,925 | |
T37 | ![]() | 75-70-74-74=293 | +5 | 1,900 | |
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41 | ![]() | 72-76-71-75=294 | +6 | 1,875 | |
T42 | ![]() | 73-75-74-73=295 | +7 | 1,850 | |
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T45 | ![]() | 73-74-74-75=296 | +8 | 0 | |
![]() | 72-76-74-74=296 | 1,825 | |||
T47 | ![]() | 74-73-74-76=297 | +9 | 1,800 | |
![]() | 73-73-78-73=297 | 0 | |||
49 | ![]() | 77-72-78-71=298 | +10 | ||
50 | ![]() | 74-70-78-77=299 | +11 | 1,750 | |
51 | ![]() | 71-78-75-76=300 | +12 | 1,725 | |
52 | ![]() | 73-75-78-75=301 | +13 | 1,700 | |
53 | ![]() | 73-75-77-77=302 | +14 | 0 | |
CUT | ![]() | 75-75=150 | +6 | ||
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![]() | 76-75=151 | +7 | |||
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![]() | 79-73=152 | +8 | |||
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![]() | 79-74=153 | +9 | |||
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![]() | 78-76=154 | +10 | |||
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![]() | 77-78=155 | +11 | |||
![]() | 79-77=156 | +12 | |||
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![]() | 79-79=158 | +14 | |||
![]() | 80-80=160 | +16 | |||
![]() | 80-82=162 | +18 | |||
![]() | 81-84=165 | +21 | |||
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WD | ![]() | 81 | +9 | ||
![]() | 82 | +10 |
Sources:[9][10]
Scorecard
Hole | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 |
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Par | 4 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 4 |
![]() | −3 | −4 | −4 | −5 | −5 | −5 | −4 | −4 | −5 | −6 | −6 | −7 | −8 | −8 | −9 | −10 | −10 | −11 |
![]() | −7 | −8 | −8 | −8 | −7 | −7 | −7 | −8 | −8 | −9 | −9 | −9 | −10 | −9 | −10 | −10 | −10 | −10 |
![]() | −9 | −10 | −10 | −10 | −9 | −9 | −9 | −10 | −10 | −10 | −9 | −9 | −10 | −10 | −11 | −10 | −10 | −10 |
![]() | −7 | −8 | −8 | −8 | −8 | −8 | −8 | −8 | −8 | −8 | −8 | −8 | −10 | −9 | −10 | −11 | −11 | −10 |
Cumulative tournament scores, relative to par
Eagle Birdie Bogey
Source:[4]
References
- ^ Parascenzo, Marino (April 7, 1978). "The Masters leader – Oh, Schlee". Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. p. 10. Retrieved August 18, 2021.
- ^ Parascenzo, Marino (April 10, 1978). "3rd win to Player in Masters". Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. p. 17. Retrieved August 18, 2021.
- ^ a b Jenkins, Dan (April 17, 1978). "And then there was one". Sports Illustrated. p. 16. Retrieved August 18, 2021.
- ^ a b Loomis, Tom (April 10, 1978). "Champ Player fired 64, then 'choked'". Toledo Blade. (Ohio). p. 14.
- ^ "What Are the Worst Choke Jobs in Golf History?". Archived from the original on April 7, 2015. Retrieved April 11, 2015.
- ^ "Schlee tames Masters field". Eugene Register-Guard. (Oregon). Associated Press. April 7, 1978. p. 3D.
- ^ "Trevino plays to center stage at Masters". Eugene Register-Guard. (Oregon). Associated Press. April 8, 1978. p. 1C.
- ^ "Green chips his way three ahead in Masters". Eugene Register-Guard. (Oregon). wire service. April 9, 1978. p. 2B.
- ^ "Masters – Past Winners & Results". Augusta National Inc. Retrieved April 20, 2021.
- ^ "Past results – Masters tournament". PGA Tour. Retrieved April 20, 2021.
External links
- Masters.com – past winners
- Augusta.com – 1978 Masters leaderboard and scorecards