2011 Masters Tournament

2011 Masters Tournament

Tournament information
Dates	April 7–10, 2011
Location	Augusta, Georgia
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	7,435 yards (6,799 m)[1][2]
Field	99 players, 49 after cut
Cut	145 (+1)
Prize fund	$8,000,000[3] €5,660,915
Winner's share	$1,440,000 €1,011,691
Champion
Charl Schwartzel
274 (−14)
«2010 2012»

The 2011 Masters Tournament was the 75th Masters Tournament, held April 7–10 at Augusta National Golf Club. Charl Schwartzel won his first major championship, two strokes ahead of runners-up Adam Scott and Jason Day.^[4]

Eight players held a share of the lead in the last round including Tiger Woods and Rory McIlroy (and one player from every continent except Antarctica). McIlroy had at least a share of the lead for the first three rounds and had a four stroke advantage entering Sunday's final round, but shot an 80 to finish ten strokes behind Schwartzel.^[5]

The 2011 Masters was Vijay Singh's 67th consecutive major championship and Ben Crenshaw's 40th consecutive Masters appearance. The top-ranked player in the world, Martin Kaymer, failed to make the cut, and Hideki Matsuyama was the only amateur to play on the weekend.^[5][6]

Arnold Palmer and Jack Nicklaus served as honorary starters on Thursday morning, hitting ceremonial tee shots to open the tournament.^[7]

Course

Field

The Masters has the smallest field of the major championships.^[8] Officially the Masters remains an invitation event, but there is a set of qualifying criteria that determines who is included in the field.^[9] Each player is classified according to the first category by which he qualified, and other categories are shown in parentheses.^[10]

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), Fred Couples (11), Ben Crenshaw, Trevor Immelman (11), Zach Johnson (14,15,16,17,18,19), Sandy Lyle, Phil Mickelson (11,12,15,16,17,18,19), Larry Mize, José María Olazábal, Mark O'Meara, Vijay Singh, Craig Stadler, Tom Watson, Mike Weir, Tiger Woods (2,3,4,11,12,18,19), Ian Woosnam

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

2. Last five U.S. Open Champions
Lucas Glover, Graeme McDowell (12,16,18,19), Geoff Ogilvy (15,17,18,19)

3. Last five British Open Champions
Stewart Cink (18), Pádraig Harrington (4,18,19), Louis Oosthuizen (13,16,18,19)

4. Last five PGA Champions
Martin Kaymer (12,14,16,18,19), Y. E. Yang (11,18,19)

5. Last three winners of The Players Championship
Tim Clark (15,16,17,18,19), Sergio García, Henrik Stenson (13)

6. Top two finishers in the 2010 U.S. Amateur
David Chung, Peter Uihlein

7. Winner of the 2010 Amateur Championship
Jin Jeong

8. Winner of the 2010 Asian Amateur
Hideki Matsuyama

9. Winner of the 2010 U.S. Amateur Public Links
Lion Kim

10. Winner of the 2010 U.S. Mid-Amateur
Nathan Smith

11. The top 16 finishers and ties in the 2010 Masters Tournament
Ricky Barnes, K. J. Choi (17,18,19), Miguel Ángel Jiménez (18,19), Jerry Kelly, Anthony Kim (15,18,19), Hunter Mahan (15,16,17,18,19), Steve Marino, Ryan Moore (17,18,19), Ian Poulter (18,19), David Toms, Nick Watney (15,16,17,18,19), Lee Westwood (13,16,18,19)

12. Top 8 finishers and ties in the 2010 U.S. Open
Alex Čejka, Ernie Els (15,17,18,19), Grégory Havret, Dustin Johnson (15,16,17,18,19), Matt Kuchar (15,16,17,18,19), Davis Love III, Brandt Snedeker

13. Top 4 finishers and ties in the 2010 British Open Championship
Paul Casey (15,17,18,19), Rory McIlroy (14,15,16,18,19)

14. Top 4 finishers and ties in the 2010 PGA Championship
Bubba Watson (15,16,17,18,19)

15. Top 30 leaders on the 2010 PGA Tour official money earnings list
Robert Allenby (17,18,19), Ben Crane (17,18,19), Jason Day (16,17,18,19), Luke Donald (16,17,18,19), Rickie Fowler (18,19), Jim Furyk (16,17,18,19), Retief Goosen (17,18,19), Bill Haas (19), Charley Hoffman (16,17), Jeff Overton (17), Ryan Palmer (17), Justin Rose (16,17,18,19), Adam Scott (16,17,18,19), Heath Slocum, Steve Stricker (16,17,18,19), Bo Van Pelt (17,18,19), Camilo Villegas (17,18,19)

16. Winners of PGA Tour events that award a full-point allocation for the season-ending Tour Championship, between the 2010 Masters Tournament and the 2011 Masters Tournament
Stuart Appleby, Arjun Atwal, Aaron Baddeley, Jason Bohn, Jonathan Byrd, Martin Laird (17,18,19), Carl Pettersson, D. A. Points, Rory Sabbatini, Jhonattan Vegas, Mark Wilson (19), Gary Woodland

17. All players qualifying for the 2010 edition of The Tour Championship
Kevin Na, Kevin Streelman

18. Top 50 on the final 2010 Official World Golf Rankings list
Ross Fisher (19), Hiroyuki Fujita, Peter Hanson (19), Yuta Ikeda (19), Ryo Ishikawa (19), Robert Karlsson (19), Kim Kyung-tae (19), Edoardo Molinari (19), Francesco Molinari (19), Sean O'Hair, Álvaro Quirós (19), Charl Schwartzel (19)

19. Top 50 on the Official World Golf Rankings list on March 27, 2011
Anders Hansen

20. International invitees
None

Past champions in the field

Made the cut

Player	Country	Year(s) won	R1	R2	R3	R4	Total	To par	Finish
Tiger Woods	United States	1997, 2001, 2002, 2005	71	66	74	67	278	−10	T4
Ángel Cabrera	Argentina	2009	71	70	67	71	279	−9	7
Fred Couples	United States	1992	71	68	72	73	284	−4	T15
Trevor Immelman	South Africa	2008	69	73	73	69	284	−4	T15
Phil Mickelson	United States	2004, 2006, 2010	70	72	71	74	287	−1	T27

Missed the cut

Player	Country	Year(s) won	R1	R2	Total	To par
Zach Johnson	United States	2007	73	73	146	+2
Larry Mize	United States	1987	73	77	150	+6
Mark O'Meara	United States	1998	77	73	150	+6
José María Olazábal	Spain	1994, 1999	73	77	150	+6
Craig Stadler	United States	1982	80	71	151	+7
Tom Watson	United States	1977, 1981	79	72	151	+7
Sandy Lyle	Scotland	1988	73	80	153	+9
Vijay Singh	Fiji	2000	76	78	154	+10
Ben Crenshaw	United States	1984, 1995	78	77	155	+11
Mike Weir	Canada	2003	76	79	155	+11
Ian Woosnam	Wales	1991	78	77	155	+11

Round summaries

First round

Thursday, April 7, 2011

Rory McIlroy and Álvaro Quirós shot 65 to co-lead after the first round.^[6] K. J. Choi and Y. E. Yang shot 67 to trail by two shots. Defending champion Phil Mickelson, whose lone bogey came at the 18th hole, shot 70 and Tiger Woods a 71. Henrik Stenson struggled to an 83, including a quintuple bogey 8 on the par-3 4th hole, the highest score on the hole in the history of the Masters.^[11]

Place	Player	Country	Score	To par
T1	Rory McIlroy	Northern Ireland	65	−7
	Álvaro Quirós	Spain
T3	K. J. Choi	South Korea	67	−5
	Y. E. Yang	South Korea
T5	Ricky Barnes	United States	68	−4
	Matt Kuchar	United States
T7	Ross Fisher	England	69	−3
	Sergio García	Spain
	Trevor Immelman	South Africa
	Geoff Ogilvy	Australia
	Charl Schwartzel	South Africa
	Brandt Snedeker	United States
	Gary Woodland	United States

Second round

Friday, April 8, 2011

McIlroy kept his lead with a 69 (−3), while Álvaro Quirós shot a 73 (+1) to fall back to −6, four shots off the lead. Jason Day, in his first Masters appearance, shot a 64 (−8) on Friday to move into second place with record second round score for a first time participant. Tiger Woods shot a 66 to put himself back in the tournament at −7, three shots off the lead. Woods shot 31 on the back nine to charge up the leaderboard. K. J. Choi shot a 70 to move to −7, into third place along with Woods. Notable players who missed the cut were Graeme McDowell, Martin Kaymer, Pádraig Harrington, and Hunter Mahan.^[6]

Place	Player	Country	Score	To par
1	Rory McIlroy	Northern Ireland	65-69=134	−10
2	Jason Day	Australia	72-64=136	−8
T3	K. J. Choi	South Korea	67-70=137	−7
	Tiger Woods	United States	71-66=137
T5	Geoff Ogilvy	Australia	69-69=138	−6
	Álvaro Quirós	Spain	65-73=138
T7	Ricky Barnes	United States	68-71=139	−5
	Fred Couples	United States	71-68=139
	Rickie Fowler	United States	70-69=139
	Lee Westwood	England	72-67=139
	Y. E. Yang	South Korea	67-72=139

Amateurs: Matsuyama (+1), Chung (+4), Kim (+4), Uihlein (+5), Jeong (+6), Smith (+8).

Third round

Saturday, April 9, 2011

Rory McIlroy held at least a share of the lead for the third straight day. After playing the first 12 holes in one-over par, he birdied 13, 15 and 17 to gain a four shot lead. 2009 champion Ángel Cabrera stormed into second place with a 67 to play in the final pairing on Sunday for the second time in three years. Jason Day, who held the outright lead after hole 5, shot 72 and was also 4 shots back. Tiger Woods struggled to a 74 after a 66 on Friday. Cabrera, Bubba Watson and Adam Scott all shot 67, the round of the day.^[12]

Place	Player	Country	Score	To par
1	Rory McIlroy	Northern Ireland	65-69-70=204	−12
T2	Ángel Cabrera	Argentina	71-70-67=208	−8
	K. J. Choi	South Korea	67-70-71=208
	Jason Day	Australia	72-64-72=208
	Charl Schwartzel	South Africa	69-71-68=208
T6	Luke Donald	England	72-68-69=209	−7
	Adam Scott	Australia	72-70-67=209
8	Bo Van Pelt	United States	73-69-68=210	−6
T9	Fred Couples	United States	71-68-72=211	−5
	Ross Fisher	England	69-71-71=211
	Geoff Ogilvy	Australia	69-69-73=211
	Bubba Watson	United States	73-71-67=211
	Tiger Woods	United States	71-66-74=211

Final round

Sunday, April 10, 2011

Eight different players had at least a share of the lead at one point during the final round, included five simultaneously on the back 9. Rory McIlroy, the 54-hole leader, shot 37 on the front to hold onto the lead, but made triple bogey on 10 and a four-putt double bogey on 12 to quickly fade with a final round 80. He finished ten strokes back in a tie for 15th place. Tiger Woods, who was seven shots back to start the final round, shot 31 on the front nine including an eagle at 8. He eventually tied for the lead, but a three-putt bogey on 12 and a missed 5-foot (1.5 m) eagle putt on 15 doomed his chance at a fifth Masters title. Woods has never come from behind in the final round to win any of his 14 major championships. Geoff Ogilvy, also seven shots back to start the day, birdied 12 through 16 to share the lead, but came up short of his second major. K. J. Choi tied for the lead with a birdie at the 9th hole, but struggled putting on the back nine and finished in a tie for 8th. 2009 champion Ángel Cabrera led for much of the back 9, but bogeys at 12 and 16 led to a solo 7th-place finish.

Adam Scott stormed up the leader board and after a birdie at 16 he held a two shot lead. Jason Day made a 35-foot (11 m) birdie putt on 17 and another birdie on 18 to post −12, a share of the clubhouse lead with Scott. However the day belonged to Charl Schwartzel, who chipped in for birdie at 1, holed out for eagle on 3, and birdied the final four holes to win by two shots; his 66 was the low round of the day. It was Schwartzel's first major win, and he became the third South African to win the Masters, along with Gary Player and Trevor Immelman. It was also the 50th anniversary of Player's 1961 Masters win, when he became the first international player to win the Masters.^[5]

Place	Player	Country	Score	To par	Money ($)
1	Charl Schwartzel	South Africa	69-71-68-66=274	−14	1,440,000
T2	Jason Day	Australia	72-64-72-68=276	−12	704,000
	Adam Scott	Australia	72-70-67-67=276
T4	Luke Donald	England	72-68-69-69=278	−10	330,667
	Geoff Ogilvy	Australia	69-69-73-67=278
	Tiger Woods	United States	71-66-74-67=278
7	Ángel Cabrera	Argentina	71-70-67-71=279	−9	268,000
T8	K. J. Choi	South Korea	67-70-71-72=280	−8	240,000
	Bo Van Pelt	United States	73-69-68-70=280
10	Ryan Palmer	United States	71-72-69-70=282	−6	216,000

Amateurs: Matsuyama (−1).

Scorecard

Final round

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
Schwartzel	−9	−9	−11	−10	−10	−10	−10	−10	−10	−10	−10	−10	−10	−10	−11	−12	−13	−14
Day	−7	−8	−8	−8	−8	−8	−7	−8	−8	−8	−8	−9	−10	−10	−10	−10	−11	−12
Scott	−7	−8	−8	−8	−7	−8	−8	−9	−9	−9	−10	−10	−10	−11	−11	−12	−12	−12
Donald	−7	−8	−8	−8	−8	−8	−7	−8	−8	−9	−9	−7	−8	−8	−9	−10	−9	−10
Ogilvy	−5	−6	−5	−4	−4	−4	−4	−5	−5	−5	−5	−6	−7	−8	−9	−10	−10	−10
Woods	−5	−6	−7	−6	−6	−7	−8	−10	−10	−10	−10	−9	−9	−9	−10	−10	−10	−10
Cabrera	−8	−9	−8	−8	−8	−8	−9	−10	−10	−10	−10	−9	−9	−9	−10	−9	−9	−9
McIlroy	−11	−11	−11	−11	−10	−10	−11	−11	−11	−8	−7	−5	−5	−5	−4	−4	−4	−4

Cumulative tournament scores, relative to par
Source:^[13]

References

External links

• Masters.com – past winners and results
• Coverage on the European Tour's official site
• About.com – 2011 Masters Tournament
• Augusta.com – 2011 Masters leaderboard and scorecards

Coordinates: 33°30′11″N 82°01′12″W / 33.503°N 82.020°W / 33.503; -82.020