1995 Masters Tournament

The 1995 Masters Tournament was the 59th Masters Tournament, held April 6–9 at Augusta National Golf Club in Augusta, Georgia. Ben Crenshaw won his second Masters championship, one stroke ahead of runner-up Davis Love III. It was an emotional victory for Crenshaw as it came just days after the death of his mentor, Harvey Penick. Crenshaw and Tom Kite attended the funeral in Texas on Wednesday and did not return to Augusta until that night, on the eve of the first round.^[1][2][3]

1995 Masters Tournament

Front cover of the 1995 Masters Journal
Tournament information
Dates	April 6–9, 1995
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	6,925 yards (6,332 m)
Field	86 players, 47 after cut
Cut	145 (+1)
Prize fund	US$2.2 million
Winner's share	$396,000
Champion
Ben Crenshaw
274 (−14)
Location map
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The 1995 Masters marked the first major championship for Tiger Woods, who qualified as the 1994 U.S. Amateur champion.^[4] A 19-year-old college freshman at Stanford, he tied for 41st place and was the leading amateur, the only one to make the cut.^[5][6] Woods' average driving distance was the longest in the tournament.^[7]

Field

1. Masters champions

Seve Ballesteros (9), Gay Brewer, Billy Casper, Charles Coody, Fred Couples (10,12,13), Ben Crenshaw (9,13), Nick Faldo (3,11,12), Raymond Floyd (9), Doug Ford, Bernhard Langer, Sandy Lyle, Larry Mize (9), Jack Nicklaus, José María Olazábal (11,12,13), Arnold Palmer, Gary Player, Craig Stadler, Tom Watson (9,10), Ian Woosnam, Fuzzy Zoeller (13)

• Tommy Aaron, George Archer, Jack Burke Jr., Bob Goalby, Ben Hogan, Herman Keiser, Cary Middlecoff, Byron Nelson, Henry Picard, Gene Sarazen, Sam Snead, and Art Wall Jr. did not play.

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

Ernie Els (9,13), Hale Irwin (9,12,13), Lee Janzen (12), Tom Kite (9,13), Payne Stewart

3. The Open champions (last five years)

Ian Baker-Finch (9), Greg Norman (9,10,11,13), Nick Price (4,12,13)

4. PGA champions (last five years)

Paul Azinger, John Daly (12), Wayne Grady

5. U.S. Amateur champion and runner-up

Trip Kuehne (a), Tiger Woods (a)

6. The Amateur champion

Lee S. James (a)

7. U.S. Amateur Public Links champion

Guy Yamamoto (a)

8. U.S. Mid-Amateur champion

Tim Jackson (a)

9. Top 24 players and ties from the 1994 Masters

Chip Beck, Brad Faxon (13), David Edwards (10), Dan Forsman, Bill Glasson (13), Jay Haas (13), John Huston (13), Tom Lehman (12,13), Jim McGovern (10), Mark O'Meara (12), Corey Pavin (11,12,13), Loren Roberts (10,12,13), Lanny Wadkins

10. Top 16 players and ties from the 1994 U.S. Open

John Cook (11), Clark Dennis, Scott Hoch (13), Steve Lowery (12,13), Jeff Maggert (13), Colin Montgomerie, Frank Nobilo, Jeff Sluman, Curtis Strange, Duffy Waldorf

11. Top eight players and ties from 1994 PGA Championship

Steve Elkington (12), Phil Mickelson (12,13)

12. Winners of PGA Tour events since the previous Masters

Mark Brooks, Bob Estes (13), Rick Fehr (13), David Frost (13), Mike Heinen, Brian Henninger, Peter Jacobsen, Neal Lancaster, Bruce Lietzke (13), Davis Love III, Mark McCumber (13), John Morse, Kenny Perry (13), Dicky Pride, Vijay Singh, Mike Springer (13), Mike Sullivan

13. Top 30 players from the 1994 PGA Tour money list

Brad Bryant, Mark Calcavecchia, Hal Sutton

14. Special foreign invitation

David Gilford, Miguel Ángel Jiménez, Mark McNulty, Tsuneyuki Nakajima, Masashi Ozaki

Round summaries

First round

Thursday, April 6, 1995

Place	Player	Score	To par
T1	David Frost	66	−6
	Phil Mickelson
	José María Olazábal
T4	David Gilford	67	−5
	Jack Nicklaus
	Corey Pavin
T7	Chip Beck	68	−4
	Mark O'Meara
T9	David Edwards	69	−3
	Wayne Grady
	Scott Hoch
	Hale Irwin
	Lee Janzen
	Davis Love III
	Ian Woosnam

Source:^[8]

Second round

Friday, April 7, 1995

Place	Player	Score	To par
1	Jay Haas	71-64=135	−9
T2	Scott Hoch	69-67=136	−8
	John Huston	70-66=136
T4	Ben Crenshaw	70-67=137	−7
	David Frost	66-71=137
	Phil Mickelson	66-71=137
T7	Brian Henninger	70-68=138	−6
	Lee Janzen	69-69=138
	Davis Love III	69-69=138
	Corey Pavin	67-71=138

Amateurs: Woods (E), Jackson (+11), Kuehne (+11), James (+13), Yamamoto (+17)

Third round

Saturday, April 8, 1995

Place	Player	Score	To par
T1	Ben Crenshaw	70-67-69=206	−10
	Brian Henninger	70-68-68=206
T3	Fred Couples	71-69-67=207	−9
	Steve Elkington	73-67-67=207
	Jay Haas	71-64-72=207
	Scott Hoch	69-67-71=207
	Phil Mickelson	66-71-70=207
T8	David Frost	66-71-71=208	−8
	John Huston	70-66-72=208
	Curtis Strange	72-71-65=208

Final round

Sunday, April 9, 1995

Final leaderboard

Champion

Silver Cup winner (low amateur)

(a) = amateur

(c) = past champion

Top 10

Place	Player	Score	To par	Money (US$)
1	Ben Crenshaw (c)	70-67-69-68=274	−14	396,000
2	Davis Love III	69-69-71-66=275	−13	237,600
T3	Jay Haas	71-64-72-70=277	−11	127,600
	Greg Norman	73-68-68-68=277
T5	Steve Elkington	73-67-67-72=279	−9	83,600
	David Frost	66-71-71-71=279
T7	Scott Hoch	69-67-71-73=280	−8	70,950
	Phil Mickelson	66-71-70-73=280
9	Curtis Strange	72-71-65-73=281	−7	63,800
T10	Fred Couples (c)	71-69-67-75=282	−6	57,200
	Brian Henninger	70-68-68-76=282

Leaderboard below the top 10
Place	Player	Score	To par	Money ($)
T12	Lee Janzen	69-69-74-71=283	−5	48,400
	Kenny Perry	73-70-71-69=283
T14	Hale Irwin	69-72-71-72=284	−4	39,600
	José María Olazábal (c)	66-74-72-72=284
	Tom Watson (c)	73-70-69-72=284
T17	Paul Azinger	70-72-73-70=285	−3	28,786
	Brad Faxon	76-69-69-71=285
	Raymond Floyd (c)	71-70-70-74=285
	John Huston	70-66-72-77=285
	Colin Montgomerie	71-69-76-69=285
	Corey Pavin	67-71-72-75=285
	Ian Woosnam (c)	69-72-71-73=285
T24	David Edwards	69-73-73-71=286	−2	18,260
	Nick Faldo (c)	70-70-71-75=286
	David Gilford	67-73-75-71=286
	Loren Roberts	72-69-72-73=286
	Duffy Waldorf	74-69-67-76=286
T29	Bob Estes	73-70-76-68=287	−1	15,300
	Masashi Ozaki	70-74-70-73=287
T31	Peter Jacobsen	72-73-69-74=288	E	13,325
	Bernhard Langer (c)	71-69-73-75=288
	Bruce Lietzke	72-71-71-74=288
	Mark O'Meara	68-72-71-77=288
T35	Chip Beck	68-76-69-77=290	+2	10,840
	Dan Forsman	71-74-74-71=290
	Wayne Grady	69-73-74-74=290
	Mark McCumber	73-69-69-79=290
	Jack Nicklaus (c)	67-78-70-75=290
40	Tom Lehman	71-72-74-75=292	+4	9,500
T41	Mark Calcavecchia	70-72-78-73=293	+5	8,567
	Jeff Sluman	73-72-71-77=293
	Payne Stewart	71-72-72-78=293
	Tiger Woods (a)	72-72-77-72=293		0
T45	Seve Ballesteros (c)	75-68-78-75=296	+8	7,500
	John Daly	75-69-71-81=296
47	Rick Fehr	76-69-69-83=297	+9	6,800
CUT	Clark Dennis	73-73=146	+2
	Miguel Ángel Jiménez	71-75=146
	Sandy Lyle (c)	75-71=146
	Tsuneyuki Nakajima	72-74=146
	Craig Stadler (c)	70-76=146
	Hal Sutton	77-69=146
	Fuzzy Zoeller (c)	72-74=146
	Brad Bryant	77-70=147	+3
	Charles Coody (c)	74-73=147
	John Cook	73-74=147
	Ernie Els	72-75=147
	Mike Heinen	73-74=147
	Tom Kite	74-73=147
	Larry Mize (c)	76-71=147
	Mike Sullivan	72-75=147
	Steve Lowery	75-73=148	+4
	Jeff Maggert	78-70=148
	Mark McNulty	75-73=148
	John Morse	74-74=148
	Vijay Singh	77-71=148
	Gay Brewer (c)	79-70=149	+5
	Gary Player (c)	76-73=149
	Nick Price	76-73=149
	Lanny Wadkins	74-75=149
	Jim McGovern	77-73=150	+6
	Bill Glasson	71-80=151	+7
	Neal Lancaster	74-77=151
	Arnold Palmer (c)	79-73=152	+8
	Dicky Pride	79-73=152
	Mark Brooks	76-77=153	+9
	Frank Nobilo	81-73=154	+10
	Tim Jackson (a)	79-76=155	+11
	Trip Kuehne (a)	79-76=155
	Lee S. James (a)	77-80=157	+13
	Mike Springer	77-80=157
	Ian Baker-Finch	79-81=160	+16
	Guy Yamamoto (a)	84-77=161	+17
	Billy Casper (c)	79-89=168	+24
WD	Doug Ford (c)	88	+16

Sources:^[9][10]

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
Crenshaw	−10	−11	−11	−11	−10	−11	−11	−11	−12	−12	−12	−12	−13	−13	−13	−14	−15	−14
Love III	−7	−8	−8	−8	−9	−9	−9	−10	−10	−11	−11	−11	−11	−12	−13	−12	−13	−13
Haas	−9	−9	−9	−10	−10	−10	−10	−11	−11	−11	−10	−10	−10	−11	−11	−10	−11	−11
Norman	−7	−8	−8	−8	−8	−9	−9	−9	−9	−10	−10	−10	−11	−11	−12	−12	−11	−11
Elkington	−9	−9	−9	−9	−8	−8	−8	−8	−7	−7	−6	−7	−8	−8	−9	−9	−9	−9
Frost	−8	−9	−9	−8	−8	−9	−8	−8	−9	−9	−8	−8	−9	−8	−8	−8	−9	−9
Hoch	−8	−9	−9	−8	−8	−8	−7	−8	−8	−7	−7	−6	−7	−7	−8	−7	−7	−8
Mickelson	−9	−9	−9	−10	−10	−8	−7	−8	−8	−7	−6	−6	−8	−8	−8	−8	−8	−8
Couples	−9	−9	−9	−9	−7	−8	−8	−10	−10	−10	−9	−8	−7	−7	−7	−6	−6	−6
Henninger	−10	−9	−8	−8	−8	−8	−7	−7	−7	−7	−7	−7	−7	−7	−7	−6	−6	−6

Cumulative tournament scores, relative to par

Eagle

Birdie

Bogey

Double bogey

Source:^[11]

References

1. Reilly, Rick (April 17, 1995). "For you, Harvey". Sports Illustrated. p. 16.
2. Bonk, Thomas (April 10, 1995). "Master's touch carries Crenshaw". Eugene Register-Guard. (Oregon). (Los Angeles Times). p. 1B.
3. Dorman, Larry (April 10, 1995). "In memory of golf's master". Spokesman-Review. (Spokane, Washington). (New York Times). p. C1.
4. Thiel, Art (April 7, 1995). "Masters just another tale for Tiger". Eugene Register-Guard. (Oregon). (Seattle Post-Intelligencer). p. 5C.
5. Newberry, Mark (April 10, 1995). "Tiger Woods loses but gains maturity". Eugene Register-Guard. (Oregon). Associated Press. p. 1B.
6. "Class dismissed: He'll be back". Spokesman-Review. (Spokane, Washington). Associated Press. April 10, 1995. p. C5.
7. "Crenshaw wins 1995 Masters". Golf.com. April 17, 1995.
8. "1995 Masters". databasegolf.com. Retrieved August 14, 2012.
9. "Masters – Past Winners & Results". Augusta National Inc. Retrieved April 20, 2021.
10. "Past results – Masters tournament". PGA Tour. Retrieved April 20, 2021.
11. "Historic Leaderboards: 1995 Masters". AUGUSTA CHRONICLE. Retrieved September 15, 2015.

External links

• GolfCompendium.com: 1995 Masters
• Masters.com – Past winners and results
• Augusta.com – 1995 Masters leaderboard and scorecards