1979 Masters Tournament

The 1979 Masters Tournament was a major golf tournament held April 12-15 at Augusta National Golf Club in Augusta, Georgia. Fuzzy Zoeller won the tournament with a birdie on the second hole of a playoff with Ed Sneed and Tom Watson. Jack Nicklaus climbed up the leaderboard on Sunday with a 69 (-3) to finish a stroke out of the playoff; Tom Kite was at even par in the final round to finish fifth.

Second and third round leader Sneed bogeyed the final three holes to card a final round 76 (+4) and fell into the playoff. It was the debut of the sudden-death format at the Masters, which started on the tenth hole, a downhill par-4 where all three players missed birdie putts and parred. On the second hole, the par-4 11th, Sneed failed to hole a bunker shot and Watson a birdie putt, but Zoeller made his from 6 feet (1.8 m) and won his first major championship.^[1]

Final leaderboard

Place	Player	Country	Score	To par	Money ($)	Playoff
1	Fuzzy Zoeller	United States	70-71-69-70=280	-8	50,000	4-3
T2	Ed Sneed	United States	68-67-69-76=280		30,000	4-x
T2	Tom Watson	United States	68-71-70-71=280		30,000	4-x
4	Jack Nicklaus	United States	69-71-72-69=281	-7	15,000
5	Tom Kite	United States	71-72-68-72=283	-5	13,000
6	Bruce Lietzke	United States	67-75-68-74=284	-4	11,500
T7	Craig Stadler	United States	69-66-74-76=285	-3	9,000
	Leonard Thompson	United States	68-70-73-74=285
	Lanny Wadkins	United States	73-69-70-73=285
T10	Hubert Green	United States	74-69-72-71=286	-2	6,500
T10	Gene Littler	United States	74-71-69-72=286	-2	6,500

References

^ Jenkins, Dan (April 23, 1979). "Fuzzy came in loud and clear". Sports Illustrated. http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/article/magazine/MAG1094850/2/index.htm. Retrieved August 11, 2011.

External links

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1979 Men's Major Golf Championships

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