1983 Masters Tournament

The 1983 Masters Tournament was the 47th Masters Tournament, held April 7–11 at Augusta National Golf Club in Augusta, Georgia. Seve Ballesteros won his second Masters and third major title, four strokes ahead of runners-up Ben Crenshaw and Tom Kite.^[2] Play on Friday was postponed due to heavy rain, and the final round was completed on Monday for the first time since 1973.^[3]

1983 Masters Tournament

Front cover of the 1983 Masters Guide
Tournament information
Dates	April 7–11, 1983
Location	Augusta, Georgia 33.503°N 82.020°W / 33.503; -82.020
Course(s)	Augusta National Golf Club
Organized by	Augusta National Golf Club
Tour(s)	PGA Tour
Statistics
Par	72
Length	6,905 yards (6,314 m)[1]
Field	82 players, 49 after cut
Cut	147 (+3)
Prize fund	$500,000
Winner's share	$90,000
Champion
Seve Ballesteros
280 (−8)
Location map
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Defending champion Craig Stadler was tied for the 54-hole lead with 1976 champion Raymond Floyd, with Ballesteros one stroke back, and two-time champion Tom Watson an additional stroke behind.^[4] Ballesteros got off to a fast start in the final round on Monday with a birdie-eagle start. With another birdie at the difficult par-3 fourth, he added four pars and another birdie at the ninth for a five-under 31 on the front nine. Ballesteros cruised to a 69 (−3) and a comfortable win as neither Stadler, Floyd, nor Watson broke par.^[2][5]

During the postponement of Friday's round, the possibility was raised that the tournament would not complete the entire 72 holes,^[6][7] as the southeastern U.S. was experiencing heavy rains and flooding and forecasts were not favorable.^[8][9]

Saturday's second round went off from split tees (1st and 10th)^[10][11] and six players did not complete their rounds until early Sunday morning.^[12] With this extension, the tournament committee did not attempt to complete the final two rounds on Sunday, opting for the third round only on Sunday and the fourth on Monday.^[10][12]

Four-time champion Arnold Palmer, 53, opened with a 68 on Thursday and made the cut at the Masters for the final time.^[13] In his 29th Masters, he stated that the conditions on Saturday were the worst he had ever seen at Augusta.^[14] Five-time winner Jack Nicklaus 43, withdrew before his second round start time due to back spasms experienced while warming up. Nicklaus had shot a first round of 73.^[3][12] It was only his second withdrawal as a pro, the first was three years earlier at the 1980 World Series of Golf.^[15] Nicklaus had missed only one cut in the previous 23 Masters and made ten consecutive after this year, including his record sixth green jacket in 1986.

As of 2024, it is still the most recent Masters Tournament to have a Monday finish. Due to time constraints with local news/primetime programming, the green jacket ceremony happened before all the players had finished their final rounds, as Stadler and Floyd, the final two golfers on the course, were deemed mathematically too far behind winner Ballesteros for their results to change the outcome of who would win the tournament. Since 1982 champion Stadler was still on the course during the ceremony, Augusta National chairman Hord Hardin placed the green jacket on Ballesteros.

It was the final major championship for Sam Snead, 70, a three-time Masters champion. He withdrew after a first round 79 as he assessed he could not make the cut.^[13]

Caddie policy change

This was the first year that players were allowed to use their own caddies, rather than those of Augusta National.^[3][16][17] Twelve players continued to use caddies from the club, including Nicklaus.^[18] The first female caddie at the Masters appeared this year as George Archer, the 1969 champion, employed his 19-year-old daughter Elizabeth. She had carried the bag for her father for twenty previous events since the summer of 1980.^[18][19] Archer finished tied for twelfth, one of his better finishes at Augusta.

Field

1. Masters champions

Tommy Aaron, George Archer, Seve Ballesteros (3,8), Gay Brewer, Billy Casper, Charles Coody, Raymond Floyd (4,8,10,11,12,13), Doug Ford, Bob Goalby, Jack Nicklaus (2,3,4,8,9,11,12,13), Arnold Palmer, Gary Player (8), Sam Snead, Craig Stadler (8,11,12), Art Wall Jr., Tom Watson (2,3,8,9,12,13), Fuzzy Zoeller (8,9,12)

• 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)

Hale Irwin (12,13), Andy North

3. The Open champions (last five years)

Bill Rogers (9,11,12,13)

4. PGA champions (last five years)

John Mahaffey, Larry Nelson (8,12,13)

5. 1982 U.S. Amateur semi-finalists

Rick Fehr (a), Jim Hallet (a), Jay Sigel (6,7,a), David Tolley (a)

6. Previous two U.S. Amateur and Amateur champions

Nathaniel Crosby (7,a)

7. Members of the 1982 U.S. Eisenhower Trophy team

Jim Holtgrieve (a), Bob Lewis (a)

8. Top 24 players and ties from the 1982 Masters Tournament

Andy Bean (12), Ben Crenshaw (13), Danny Edwards (9,12), Bob Gilder (10,11,12), Morris Hatalsky, Mark Hayes, Peter Jacobsen (12), Tom Kite (11,12,13), Wayne Levi (11,12), Bruce Lietzke (11,12,13), Jodie Mudd, Dan Pohl (9), Jack Renner, John Schroeder, Jim Simons (10), Curtis Strange (12), Tom Weiskopf (11,12)

• Jerry Pate (12,13) did not play

9. Top 16 players and ties from the 1982 U.S. Open

Chip Beck, Bobby Clampett (11,12), Jay Haas (10,11,12), Gary Koch (11), Lyn Lott, Calvin Peete (10,11,12), Larry Rinker, Scott Simpson (12), J. C. Snead, Lanny Wadkins (10,11,12)

10. Top eight players and ties from 1982 PGA Championship

Fred Couples

11. Winners of PGA Tour events since the previous Masters

Keith Fergus (12), Gary Hallberg, Scott Hoch (12), Johnny Miller (12,13), Gil Morgan (12), Mike Nicolette, Tim Norris, Ed Sneed (12), Payne Stewart, Hal Sutton (12)

12. Top 30 players from the 1982 PGA Tour money list

George Burns

13. Members of the U.S. 1981 Ryder Cup team

Lee Trevino

14. Foreign invitations

Isao Aoki (11), Bruce Devlin (9), Nick Faldo, David Graham (2,4,8,9), Yutaka Hagawa (8), Hsieh Min-Nan, Sandy Lyle, Tsuneyuki Nakajima, Greg Norman (10), Peter Oosterhuis (8), Philippe Ploujoux (6,a), Bob Shearer (11), Martin Thompson (6,a)

• Numbers in brackets indicate categories that the player would have qualified under had they been American.

Round summaries

First round

Thursday, April 7, 1983

Place	Player	Score	To par
T1	Raymond Floyd	67	−5
	Gil Morgan
	Jack Renner
T4	Seve Ballesteros	68	−4
	Charles Coody
	Jim Hallet (a)
	Arnold Palmer
	J. C. Snead
T9	Bruce Lietzke	69	−3
	Craig Stadler

Source:^[1]

Second round

Saturday, April 9, 1983
Sunday, April 10, 1983

Play on Friday was completely washed out due to rain and the second round started on Saturday;^[20]
six players did not finish the second round until Sunday morning.^[21]

Place	Player	Score	To par
1	Gil Morgan	67-70=137	−7
2	Seve Ballesteros	68-70=138	−6
T3	Keith Fergus	70-69=139	−5
	Raymond Floyd	67-72=139
T5	Nick Faldo	70-70=140	−4
	Jodie Mudd	72-68=140
T7	Fred Couples	73-68=141	−3
	Craig Stadler	69-72=141
	Tom Watson	70-71=141
T10	Jay Haas	73-69=142	−2
	Gary Hallberg	71-71=142
	Tom Kite	70-72=142
	Wayne Levi	72-70=142
	Tsuneyuki Nakajima	72-70=142
	Peter Oosterhuis	73-69=142
	Arnold Palmer	68-74=142
	Jack Renner	67-75=142
	J. C. Snead	68-74=142

Source:^[12][21]

Third round

Sunday, April 10, 1983

Place	Player	Score	To par
T1	Raymond Floyd	67-72-71=210	−6
	Craig Stadler	69-72-69=210
3	Seve Ballesteros	68-70-73=211	−5
T4	Jodie Mudd	72-68-72=212	−4
	Tom Watson	70-71-71=212
T6	Keith Fergus	70-69-74=213	−3
	Gil Morgan	67-70-76=213
8	Tsuneyuki Nakajima	72-70-72=214	−2
T9	George Archer	71-73-71=215	−1
	Jay Haas	73-69-73=215
	Tom Kite	70-72-73=215
	Johnny Miller	72-72-71=215
	Greg Norman	71-74-70=215
	Scott Simpson	70-73-72=215
	Lee Trevino	71-72-72=215

Source:^[22]

Final round

Monday, April 11, 1983

Final leaderboard

Champion

Silver Cup winner (low amateur)

(a) = amateur

(c) = past champion

Top 10

Place	Player	Score	To par	Money (US$)
1	Seve Ballesteros (c)	68-70-73-69=280	−8	90,000
T2	Ben Crenshaw	76-70-70-68=284	−4	44,000
	Tom Kite	70-72-73-69=284
T4	Raymond Floyd (c)	67-72-71-75=285	−3	22,000
	Tom Watson (c)	70-71-71-73=285
T6	Hale Irwin	72-73-72-69=286	−2	17,400
	Craig Stadler (c)	69-72-69-76=286
T8	Gil Morgan	67-70-76-74=287	−1	14,500
	Dan Pohl	74-72-70-71=287
	Lanny Wadkins	73-70-73-71=287

Leaderboard below the top 10
Place	Player	Score	To par	Money ($)
11	Scott Simpson	70-73-72-73=288	E	12,500
T12	George Archer (c)	71-73-71-74=289	+1	10,125
	Wayne Levi	72-70-74-73=289
	Johnny Miller	72-72-71-74=289
	J. C. Snead	68-74-74-73=289
T16	Keith Fergus	70-69-74-77=290	+2	8,000
	Tsuneyuki Nakajima	72-70-72-76=290
	Jack Renner	67-75-78-70=290
19	Isao Aoki	70-76-74-71=291	+3	7,000
T20	Nick Faldo	70-70-76-76=292	+4	5,214
	Mark Hayes	71-73-76-72=292
	Peter Jacobsen	73-71-76-72=292
	Peter Oosterhuis	73-69-78-72=292
	Lee Trevino	71-72-72-77=292
	Tom Weiskopf	75-72-71-74=292
	Fuzzy Zoeller (c)	70-74-76-72=292
T27	Jay Haas	73-69-73-78=293	+5	3,667
	Scott Hoch	74-69-74-76=293
	Hal Sutton	73-73-70-77=293
T30	Greg Norman	71-74-70-79=294	+6	3,350
	Andy North	72-75-72-75=294
T32	Chip Beck	71-76-76-72=295	+7	2,900
	Fred Couples	73-68-81-73=295
	Gary Hallberg	71-71-75-78=295
	Payne Stewart	70-76-78-71=295
T36	Charles Coody (c)	68-75-79-74=296	+8	2,450
	Danny Edwards	70-76-79-71=296
	Yutaka Hagawa	72-75-75-74=296
	Arnold Palmer (c)	68-74-76-78=296
T40	Jim Hallet (a)	68-73-78-78=297	+9	0
	John Mahaffey	72-75-74-76=297		2,200
T42	Bruce Lietzke	69-75-82-72=298	+10	2,050
	Jodie Mudd	72-68-72-86=298
T44	Bob Gilder	72-74-76-77=299	+11	1,970
	Mike Nicolette	73-74-78-74=299
46	David Graham	71-74-80-75=300	+12	1,940
47	Gay Brewer (c)	72-73-80-76=301	+13	1,920
48	Bob Shearer	70-77-82-76=305	+17	1,900
49	Calvin Peete	70-72-87-80=309	+21	1,880
CUT	Billy Casper (c)	72-76=148	+4
	Rick Fehr (a)	74-74=148
	Lyn Lott	77-71=148
	Sandy Lyle	74-74=148
	Larry Nelson	73-75=148
	Ed Sneed	74-74=148
	Bobby Clampett	74-75=149	+5
	Curtis Strange	77-72=149
	George Burns	77-73=150	+6
	Bruce Devlin	73-77=150
	Tim Norris	75-75=150
	Bill Rogers	72-78=150
	Tommy Aaron (c)	76-75=151	+7
	Morris Hatalsky	77-74=151
	Gary Player (c)	73-78=151
	Jim Simons	74-77=151
	David Tolley (a)	77-74=151
	Andy Bean	76-76=152	+8
	Hsieh Min-Nan	74-78=152
	Martin Thompson (a)	76-76=152
	Gary Koch	76-77=153	+9
	Bob Lewis (a)	74-79=153
	Jay Sigel (a)	72-81=153
	Bob Goalby (c)	76-79=155	+11
	Larry Rinker	75-81=156	+12
	Jim Holtgrieve (a)	78-80=158	+14
	John Schroeder	79-79=158
	Art Wall Jr. (c)	74-84=158
	Nathaniel Crosby (a)	79-81=160	+16
	Philippe Ploujoux (a)	81-84=165	+21
WD	Jack Nicklaus (c)	73	+1
	Sam Snead (c)	79	+7
	Doug Ford (c)	85	+13

Sources:^[23][24]

Scorecard

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
Ballesteros	−6	−8	−8	−9	−9	−9	−9	−9	−10	−9	−9	−8	−8	−8	−8	−8	−8	−8
Crenshaw	E	−1	−2	−2	−2	−1	−2	−2	−2	−2	−2	−2	−4	−4	−4	−4	−4	−4
Kite	−1	−2	−1	−1	E	E	E	E	E	E	E	−1	−2	−3	−3	−2	−3	−4
Floyd	−6	−6	−6	−6	−5	−4	−4	−4	−4	−3	−3	−3	−3	−3	−3	-3	−4	−3
Watson	−4	−5	−5	−5	−6	−6	−5	−7	−6	−5	−4	−4	−5	−3	−3	−3	−3	−3
Stadler	−5	−6	−6	−6	−6	−5	−6	−6	−6	−6	−5	−4	−4	−3	−2	−2	−2	−2
Irwin	+1	E	−1	−1	−1	−1	−1	−1	E	E	E	E	E	−1	−1	−2	−2	−2

Cumulative tournament scores, relative to par

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External links

• Official website – Past winners and results
• Augusta.com – 1983 Masters leaderboard and scorecards