2006 Masters Tournament

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Tournament information
2006 Masters Tournament

Dates	April 6 - 9, 2006
Location	Augusta, Georgia
Course(s)	Augusta National Golf Club
Tour(s)	PGA Tour PGA European Tour Japan Tour
Statistics
Par	72
Yardage	7,445
Field	90 players, 47 after cut
Cut	148 (+4)
Purse	$7,000,000
Winner's share	$1,260,000
Champion
Phil Mickelson
281 (-7)

The 2006 Masters Tournament was the 70th Masters Tournament, played from April 6 to April 9, 2006 at Augusta National Golf Club. The course was lengthed significantly before the tournament making the course play 7,445 yards (up from 7,290 in 2005). Phil Mickelson won his second Masters and second consecutive major winning by two with a score of seven under 281. The purse was $7.0 million and Mickelson earned $1.26 million.

1 Field
2 First round (Thursday)
3 Second round (Friday)
4 Third round (Saturday)
5 Final round (Sunday)
6 Par 3 Contest
7 External links

[edit] Field

Masters Tournament Champions (Lifetime)
U.S. Open Champions (Honorary, non-competing after 5 years)
British Open Champions (Honorary, non-competing after 5 years)
PGA Champions (Honorary, non-competing after 5 years)
Winners of The Players Championship (3 years)
Current U.S. Amateur Champion (6-A) (Honorary, non-competing after 1 year) and the runner-up (6-B) to the current U.S. Amateur Champion
Current British Amateur Champion (Honorary, non-competing after 1 year)
Current U.S. Amateur Public Links Champion
Current U.S. Mid-Amateur Champion for 2005
The first 16 players, including ties, in the 2005 Masters Tournament
The first 8 players, including ties, in the 2005 U.S. Open Championship
The first 4 players, including ties, in the 2005 British Open Championship
The first 4 players, including ties, in the 2005 PGA Championship
The 40 leaders on the Final Official PGA Tour Money List for 2005
The 10 leaders on the Official PGA Tour Money List published during the week prior to the 2006 Masters Tournament.
The 50 leaders on the Final Official World Golf Ranking for 2005.
The 50 leaders on the Official World Golf Ranking published during the week prior to the 2006 Masters Tournament

Full eligibility list

[edit] First round (Thursday)

18 players broke par on the lengthened Augusta National. Vijay Singh leads Rocco Mediate by one shot as he shot a five under 67. Four others shot 70s, including 2004 Masters champion Phil Mickelson and two-time U.S. Open champion Retief Goosen of South Africa. Defending champion Tiger Woods shot an even-par 72 despite a pair of three-putt bogeys and a double-bogey on No. 15.

#	Player	Country	Score	To par
1	Vijay Singh	Fiji	67	-5
2	Rocco Mediate	United States	68	-4
3	Arron Oberholser	United States	69	-3
4	Tim Clark	South Africa	70	-2
	Retief Goosen	South Africa
	Geoff Ogilvy	Australia
	Phil Mickelson	United States

[edit] Second round (Friday)

[edit] Third round (Saturday)

[edit] Final round (Sunday)

Phil Mickelson won his second consecutive major and his second green jacket with a final round 69 for a two shot lead over Tim Clark. Clark broke a five way tie at 4 under by holing out from a greenside bunker at the 72nd hole. Tiger Woods who started just two shots behind the lead could never get it going on the back nine and finished with a 70, three shots back.

#	Player	Country	Score	To par	Winnings ($)
1	Phil Mickelson	United States	70-72-70-69=281	-7	1,260,000
2	Tim Clark	South Africa	70-72-72-69=283	-5	756,000
T3	Chad Campbell	United States	71-67-75-71=284	-4	315,700
	Fred Couples	United States	71-70-72-71=284
	Retief Goosen	South Africa	70-73-72-69=284
	José María Olazábal	Spain	76-71-71-66=284
	Tiger Woods	United States	72-71-71-70=284
T8	Angel Cabrera	Argentina	73-74-70-68=285	-3	210,000
T8	Vijay Singh	Fiji	67-74-73-71=285	-3	210,000
10	Stewart Cink	United States	72-73-71-70=286	-2	189,000
T11	Miguel Ángel Jiménez	Spain	72-74-69-72=287	-1	161,000
	Stephen Ames	Canada	74-70-70-73=287
	Mike Weir	Canada	71-73-73-70=287
T14	Billy Mayfair	United States	71-72-73-72=288	E	129,500
T14	Arron Oberholser	United States	69-75-73-71=288	E	129,500

Full final leaderboard

[edit] Par 3 Contest

Ben Crane won the annual Par 3 contest, which took place on Wednesday, April 5. Crane fired a four under 23. Arnold Palmer and Jack Nicklaus, made a curtain call at the event. Nicklaus shot one under and was in contention throughout the day. Padraig Harrington, Tim Clark and Arron Oberholser all aced the 135-yard ninth.