1987 Masters Tournament

The 1987 Masters Tournament was the 51st Masters Tournament, held April 9−12 at Augusta National Golf Club in Augusta, Georgia. Augusta native Larry Mize won his only major championship in a sudden-death playoff over Seve Ballesteros and Greg Norman.^[2][3] Norman had barely missed a 20-foot (6 m) birdie opportunity on the 72nd hole which would have won him the tournament in regulation.^[4]

1987 Masters Tournament

Front cover of the 1987 Masters Guide
Tournament information
Dates	April 9−12, 1987
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	85 players, 54 after cut
Cut	151 (+7)
Prize fund	$867,100
Winner's share	$162,000
Champion
Larry Mize
285 (−3), playoff
Location map
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The playoff began on the par-4 10th hole, where the approach shots of Ballesteros and Norman came to rest on the fringe, and Mize's was on the green, below the hole. Ballesteros failed to par and was eliminated while Norman two-putted for four. Mize's uphill birdie putt came up short and he tapped in to continue with Norman. Both of their tee shots were in the fairway on the next hole, the par-4 11th, but with the pond on the left of the green, Mize's avoidant approach shot was about pin-high but well right, about 140 feet (45 m) from the hole. Norman then played conservatively to the right fringe, with a 50-foot (15 m) putt, sensing a par could win the green jacket. But Mize chipped in for an improbable birdie 3 and a stunned Norman failed to hole his to tie, which ended the tournament.^[4][5][6] Mize was the first, and only winner of the Masters to come from Augusta.^[7]

It was considered one of the most miraculous shots (and endings) in major championship history, and was just one of the many "bad breaks" in Norman's career.

Field

1. Masters champions

Tommy Aaron, Seve Ballesteros (3,8), Gay Brewer, Billy Casper, Charles Coody, Ben Crenshaw (8,9,11,12), Raymond Floyd (2,4,9,11,12,13), Doug Ford, Bernhard Langer (8,9,12), Jack Nicklaus (8,9), Arnold Palmer, Gary Player, Craig Stadler (9,13), Art Wall Jr., Tom Watson (2,3,8,12), Fuzzy Zoeller (2,8,9,11,12,13)

• George Archer, Jack Burke Jr., Bob Goalby, Ralph Guldahl, Claude Harmon, Ben Hogan, Herman Keiser, Cary Middlecoff, Byron Nelson, Henry Picard, Gene Sarazen, and Sam Snead did not play.

2. U.S. Open champions (last five years)

Larry Nelson, Andy North (13)

3. The Open champions (last five years)

Sandy Lyle (8,11), Greg Norman (8,9,10,11,12)

4. PGA champions (last five years)

Hubert Green (13), Hal Sutton (9,11,12,13), Lee Trevino (9), Bob Tway (8,9,10,11,12)

5. 1986 U.S. Amateur semi-finalists

Buddy Alexander (6,7,a), Chris Kite (a), Bob Lewis (7,a), Brian Montgomery (a)

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

David Curry (a), Garth McGimpsey (a)

• Sam Randolph forfeited his exemption by turning professional.

7. Members of the 1986 U.S. Eisenhower Trophy team

Billy Andrade (a), Jay Sigel (a)

8. Top 24 players and ties from the 1986 Masters Tournament

Dave Barr, Chen Tze-chung (11), Jay Haas, Donnie Hammond (12), Tom Kite (11,12,13), Gary Koch (9), Roger Maltbie, Mark McCumber (9), Larry Mize (12), Tsuneyuki Nakajima, Corey Pavin (11,12), Calvin Peete (12,13), Nick Price, Payne Stewart (9,10,11,12), Curtis Strange (11,13)

9. Top 16 players and ties from the 1986 U.S. Open

Chip Beck, Mark Calcavecchia (11), David Frost, David Graham (10), Jodie Mudd, Joey Sindelar (12), Scott Verplank, Bobby Wadkins (12), Lanny Wadkins (11,143), Denis Watson

10. Top eight players and ties from 1986 PGA Championship

Mike Hulbert (11,12), Bruce Lietzke, Jim Thorpe (11,12), D. A. Weibring

• Peter Jacobsen (13) did not play.

11. Winners of PGA Tour events since the previous Masters

Paul Azinger (12), Andy Bean (12), George Burns, Rick Fehr, Ernie Gonzalez, Ken Green (12), Johnny Miller, Bob Murphy, Mac O'Grady (12), Dan Pohl (12), Gene Sauers, Scott Simpson, Fred Wadsworth, Mark Wiebe (12)

12. Top 30 players from the 1986 PGA Tour money list

John Cook, Kenny Knox, John Mahaffey, Mark O'Meara (13), Don Pooley, Doug Tewell

13. Members of the U.S. 1985 Ryder Cup team

14. Special foreign invitation

Isao Aoki, Howard Clark, José María Olazábal, Masashi Ozaki

Round summaries

First round

Thursday, April 9, 1987

Place	Player	Score	To par
1	John Cook	69	−3
2	Larry Mize	70	−2
T3	Bernhard Langer	71	−1
	Corey Pavin
	Calvin Peete
	Payne Stewart
	Curtis Strange
	Tom Watson
T9	Tommy Aaron	72	E
	Jay Haas
	Mac O'Grady
	Scott Simpson
	D. A. Weibring

Source:^[8]

Second round

Friday, April 10, 1987

Place	Player	Score	To par
1	Curtis Strange	71-70=141	−3
T2	John Cook	69-73=142	−2
	Roger Maltbie	76-66=142
	Larry Mize	70-72=142
	Corey Pavin	71-71=142
T6	Chen Tze-chung	74-69=143	−1
	Bernhard Langer	71-72=143
	Tom Watson	71-72=143
T9	Seve Ballesteros	73-71=144	E
	Andy Bean	75-69=144
	Jay Haas	72-72=144
	Joey Sindelar	74-70=144

Source:^[9]

Third round

Saturday, April 11, 1987

Place	Player	Score	To par
T1	Ben Crenshaw	75-70-67=212	−4
	Roger Maltbie	76-66-70=212
T3	Bernhard Langer	71-72-70=213	−3
	Greg Norman	73-74-66=213
T5	Seve Ballesteros	73-71-70=214	−2
	Chen Tze-chung	74-69-71=214
	Larry Mize	70-72-72=214
	Curtis Strange	71-70-73=214
T9	Mark McCumber	75-71-69=215	−1
	Lanny Wadkins	73-72-70=215

Source:^[10]

Final round

External videos
Full final round coverage on CBS on YouTube

Sunday, April 12, 1987

Final leaderboard

Champion

Silver Cup winner (low amateur)

(a) = amateur

(c) = past champion

Top 10

Place	Player	Score	To par	Money (US$)
T1	Seve Ballesteros (c)	73-71-70-71=285	−3	Playoff
	Larry Mize	70-72-72-71=285
	Greg Norman	73-74-66-72=285
T4	Ben Crenshaw (c)	75-70-67-74=286	−2	37,200
	Roger Maltbie	76-66-70-74=286
	Jodie Mudd	74-72-71-69=286
T7	Jay Haas	72-72-72-73=289	+1	26,200
	Bernhard Langer (c)	71-72-70-76=289
	Jack Nicklaus (c)	74-72-73-70=289
	Tom Watson (c)	71-72-74-72=289
	D. A. Weibring	72-75-71-71=289

Leaderboard below the top 10
Place	Player	Score	To par	Money ($)
T12	Chip Beck	75-72-70-73=290	+2	17,640
	Chen Tze-chung	74-69-71-76=290
	Mark McCumber	75-71-69-75=290
	Curtis Strange	71-70-73-76=290
	Lanny Wadkins	73-72-70-75=290
T17	Paul Azinger	77-73-69-72=291	+3	13,050
	Mark Calcavecchia	73-72-78-68=291
	Sandy Lyle	77-74-68-72=291
	Craig Stadler (c)	74-74-72-71=291
21	Bobby Wadkins	76-69-73-74=292	+4	10,800
T22	Gary Koch	76-75-72-70=293	+5	9,750
	Nick Price	73-73-71-76=293
T24	John Cook	69-73-74-78=294	+6	7,900
	Tom Kite	73-74-74-73=294
	Mark O'Meara	75-74-71-74=294
T27	David Graham	73-77-72-73=295	+7	6,267
	Donnie Hammond	73-75-74-73=295
	Corey Pavin	71-71-81-72=295
	Scott Simpson	72-75-72-76=295
	Denis Watson	76-74-73-72=295
	Fuzzy Zoeller (c)	76-71-76-72=295
T33	Calvin Peete	71-77-75-73=296	+8	5,200
	Gene Sauers	75-73-74-74=296
T35	Andy Bean	75-69-78-75=297	+9	4,257
	Howard Clark	74-71-77-75=297
	Hubert Green	80-71-74-72=297
	John Mahaffey	73-75-76-73=297
	Gary Player (c)	75-75-71-76=297
	Joey Sindelar	74-70-81-72=297
	Mark Wiebe	73-74-71-79=297
T42	Johnny Miller	75-75-71-77=298	+10	3,333
	Payne Stewart	71-75-74-78=298
	Jim Thorpe	77-74-76-71=298
T45	David Frost	75-70-77-78=300	+12	2,800
	Kenny Knox	75-75-75-75=300
	Don Pooley	76-75-76-73=300
48	Mike Hulbert	76-75-71-79=301	+13	2,400
49	Bruce Lietzke	75-74-77-76=302	+14	2,300
T50	Tommy Aaron (c)	72-76-76-81=305	+17	2,200
	Dave Barr	79-68-79-79=305
	Billy Casper (c)	77-74-75-79=305
	Mac O'Grady	72-79-79-75=305
54	Bob Lewis (a)	74-77-79-79=309	+21	0
CUT	Buddy Alexander (a)	76-76=152	+8
	Billy Andrade (a)	74-78=152
	George Burns	78-74=152
	Raymond Floyd (c)	75-77=152
	Dan Pohl	81-71=152
	Scott Verplank	76-76=152
	Rick Fehr	78-75=153	+9
	Andy North	79-74=153
	Hal Sutton	77-76=153
	Bob Tway	78-75=153
	Tsuneyuki Nakajima	73-81=154	+10
	Larry Nelson	75-79=154
	José María Olazábal	79-75=154
	Charles Coody (c)	75-80=155	+11
	Ken Green	78-77=155
	Bob Murphy	82-73=155
	Masashi Ozaki	73-82=155
	David Curry (a)	78-78=156	+12
	Chris Kite (a)	80-76=156
	Garth McGimpsey (a)	79-77=156
	Lee Trevino	80-76=156
	Fred Wadsworth	74-82=156
	Ernie Gonzalez	77-80=157	+13
	Isao Aoki	81-77=158	+14
	Doug Ford (c)	79-81=160	+16
	Arnold Palmer (c)	83-77=160
	Jay Sigel (a)	77-83=160
	Gay Brewer (c)	80-81=161	+17
	Brian Montgomery (a)	77-84=161
	Doug Tewell	85-76=161
	Art Wall Jr. (c)	85-76=161

Sources:^[11][12]

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
Mize	−2	−3	−2	−1	−1	−2	−3	−3	−3	−2	−2	−3	−4	−3	−2	−2	−2	−3
Norman	−4	−4	−3	−3	−4	−3	−2	−2	−2	−1	E	−1	−2	−2	−3	−2	−3	−3
Ballesteros	−2	−2	−2	−2	−2	−1	−1	−1	−2	−2	−1	−1	−1	−1	−2	−2	−3	−3
Crenshaw	−4	−5	−5	−5	−5	−4	−3	−3	−3	−3	−3	−3	−3	−3	−3	−3	−2	−2
Maltbie	−4	−4	−4	−4	−4	−3	−3	−4	−4	−3	−2	−2	−2	−1	−1	−1	−2	−2
Langer	−3	−3	−2	−2	−2	−2	−2	−2	−3	−2	−2	−1	−1	E	+1	+1	+1	+1
Chen	−2	−3	−2	−2	−2	−2	−2	−2	−2	−2	E	E	+1	+1	E	+1	+2	+2
Strange	−2	−1	−1	−2	−2	−3	−3	−3	−2	−1	+1	+2	+2	+1	+2	+1	+2	+2

Cumulative tournament scores, relative to par

Birdie

Bogey

Double bogey

Source:^[13]

Playoff

Place	Player	Score	To par	Money ($)
1	Larry Mize	4-3	−1	162,000
T2	Greg Norman	4-x		79,200
	Seve Ballesteros	5-

• Sudden-death playoff began on hole #10 and ended at hole #11, where Mize birdied.

References

1. Green, Bob (April 13, 1987). "Oh, what a feeling! Mize masters Masters". Spokesman-Review. (Spokane, Washington). Associated Press. p. C1.
2. "Larry Mize masters hometown course". Wilmington Morning Star. (North Carolina). Associated Press. April 13, 1987. p. 1B.
3. "Oh what a feeling! Mize masters Masters". Spokesman-Review. (Spokane, Washington). Knight-Ridder newspapers. April 13, 1987. p. C1.
4. Ballard, Sarah (April 20, 1987). "My, Oh Mize". Sports Illustrated. pp. 36−43.
5. Parascenzo, Marino (April 13, 1987). "Magnificent shot by Mize wins Masters". Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. p. 23.
6. Van Sickle, Gary (April 13, 1987). "Mize miracle just masterful". Milwaukee Journal. p. 1C.
7. http://www.wrdw.com/home/headlines/2598236.html%5B%5D
8. Green, Bob (April 10, 1987). "Cook fires 69, tames fast Augusta greens". Wilmington Morning Star. (North Carolina). Associated Press. p. 1B.
9. Green, Bob (April 11, 1987). "Strange survives 5 bogeys for halfway lead". Wilmington Morning Star. (North Carolina). Associated Press. p. 1B.
10. Green, Bob (April 12, 1987). "Crenshaw ties Maltbie for lead". Sunday Star-News. (Wilmington, North Carolina). Associated Press. p. 1B.
11. "Masters – Past Winners & Results". Augusta National Inc. Retrieved April 20, 2021.
12. "Past results – Masters tournament". PGA Tour. Retrieved April 20, 2021.
13. "Historic leaderboards: 1987 Masters". Augusta.com. Retrieved August 16, 2013.

External links

• Masters.com – past winners and results
• Augusta.com – 1987 Masters leaderboard and scorecards
• YouTube.com − video − 1987 Masters playoff highlights
• YouTube.com − video − 1987 Masters playoff-winning shot, from CBS Sports