2012 Masters Tournament

The 2012 Masters Tournament will be the 76th edition of the Masters Tournament, one of golf's four major championships. It will be held from April 5–8, 2012.

Field

The Masters has the smallest field of the major championships. Officially the Masters remains an invitation event, but there is a set of qualifying criteria that determines who is included in the field. Each player is classified according to the first category by which he qualified, but other categories are shown in parentheses.

Golfers who qualify based solely on their performance in amateur tournaments (categories 6-10) must remain amateurs on the starting day of the tournament to be eligible to play.

1. Past Masters Champions
Ángel Cabrera (2,11), Fred Couples (11), Ben Crenshaw, Trevor Immelman (11), Zach Johnson (18), Bernhard Langer, Sandy Lyle, Phil Mickelson (13,15,17,18), Larry Mize, José María Olazábal, Mark O'Meara, Charl Schwartzel (11,15,18), Vijay Singh (15,17), Craig Stadler, Tom Watson, Mike Weir, Tiger Woods (2,4,11,18), Ian Woosnam

(Past champions not expected to play: Tommy Aaron, Jack Burke, Jr., Billy Casper, Charles Coody, Nick Faldo, Raymond Floyd, Doug Ford, Bob Goalby, Jack Nicklaus, Arnold Palmer, Gary Player, and Fuzzy Zoeller.)

2. Last five U.S. Open Champions
Lucas Glover (16), Graeme McDowell (18), Rory McIlroy (11,12,18)

3. Last five British Open Champions
Stewart Cink, Darren Clarke (13,18), Pádraig Harrington (4), Louis Oosthuizen (18)

4. Last five PGA Champions
Keegan Bradley (14,15,16,17,18), Martin Kaymer (18), Y. E. Yang (12,17,18)

5. Last three winners of The Players Championship
K. J. Choi (11,15,17,18), Tim Clark, Henrik Stenson

6. Top two finishers in the 2011 U.S. Amateur
Patrick Cantlay, Kelly Kraft

7. Winner of the 2011 Amateur Championship
Bryden Macpherson

8. Winner of the 2011 Asian Amateur
Hideki Matsuyama

9. Winner of the 2011 U.S. Amateur Public Links
Corbin Mills

10. Winner of the 2011 U.S. Mid-Amateur
Randal Lewis

11. The top 16 finishers and ties in the 2011 Masters Tournament
Jason Day (12,15,17,18), Luke Donald (15,17,18), Ross Fisher, Edoardo Molinari, Geoff Ogilvy (17,18), Ryan Palmer, Justin Rose (15,16,17,18), Adam Scott (15,16,17,18), Brandt Snedeker (15,16,17,18), Steve Stricker (15,16,17,18), Bo Van Pelt (15,17,18), Lee Westwood (12,18)

12. Top 8 finishers and ties in the 2011 U.S. Open
Kevin Chappell, Sergio García (18), Robert Garrigus, Peter Hanson (18)

13. Top 4 finishers and ties in the 2011 British Open Championship
Thomas Bjørn (18), Dustin Johnson (15,16,17,18)

14. Top 4 finishers and ties in the 2011 PGA Championship
Jason Dufner (15,17,18), Anders Hansen (18), Robert Karlsson (18), David Toms (15,16,17,18), Scott Verplank

15. Top 30 leaders on the 2011 PGA Tour official money earnings list
Aaron Baddeley (17,18), Jonathan Byrd (17), Bill Haas (16,17,18), Charles Howell III (17), Fredrik Jacobson (16,17,18), Matt Kuchar (17,18), Martin Laird (18), Hunter Mahan (17,18), Kevin Na, Rory Sabbatini, Webb Simpson (16,17,18), Nick Watney (16,17,18), Bubba Watson (16,17,18), Mark Wilson (17), Gary Woodland (17)

16. Winners of PGA Tour events that award a full-point allocation for the season-ending Tour Championship, between the 2011 Masters Tournament and the 2012 Masters Tournament
Harrison Frazar, Sean O'Hair, Scott Stallings, Brendan Steele

17. All players qualifying for the 2011 edition of The Tour Championship
Chez Reavie, John Senden (18)

18. Top 50 on the final 2011 Official World Golf Rankings list
Bae Sang-moon, Paul Casey, Simon Dyson, Gonzalo Fernández-Castaño, Rickie Fowler, Jim Furyk, Miguel Ángel Jiménez, Kim Kyung-tae, Francesco Molinari, Ian Poulter, Álvaro Quirós

19. Top 50 on the Official World Golf Rankings list on March 27, 2012

20. International invitees
None

External links

• Official website