2011 Masters Tournament

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

2011 Masters Tournament

Front cover of the 2011 Masters Journal
Tournament information
Dates	April 7–10, 2011
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 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	US$8,000,000[3]
Winner's share	$1,440,000
Champion
Charl Schwartzel
274 (−14)
Location map
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Eight players held a share of the lead in the last round including Tiger Woods and Rory McIlroy. 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]

This was 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]

Course

Main article: Augusta National Golf Club

Hole	Name	Yards	Par		Hole	Name	Yards	Par
1	Tea Olive	445	4		10	Camellia	495	4
2	Pink Dogwood	575	5		11	White Dogwood	505	4
3	Flowering Peach	350	4		12	Golden Bell	155	3
4	Flowering Crab Apple	240	3		13	Azalea	510	5
5	Magnolia	455	4		14	Chinese Fir	440	4
6	Juniper	180	3		15	Firethorn	530	5
7	Pampas	450	4		16	Redbud	170	3
8	Yellow Jasmine	570	5		17	Nandina	440	4
9	Carolina Cherry	460	4		18	Holly	465	4
Out		3,725	36		In		3,710	36
Source:[1]					Total		7,435	72

Field

The Masters has the smallest field of the major championships.^[7] Officially the Masters remains an invitation event, but there is a set of qualifying criteria that determines who is included in the field.^[8] Each player is classified according to the first category by which he qualified, and other categories are shown in parentheses.^[9]

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. Nicklaus and Palmer served as "honorary starters" and teed off on the first day at the first hole to kick off the tournament.^[10])

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 (a), Peter Uihlein (a)

7. Winner of the 2010 Amateur Championship
Jin Jeong (a)

8. Winner of the 2010 Asian Amateur
Hideki Matsuyama (a)

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

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

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

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 shot a 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	Score	To par
T1	Rory McIlroy	65	−7
	Álvaro Quirós
T3	K. J. Choi	67	−5
	Y. E. Yang
T5	Ricky Barnes	68	−4
	Matt Kuchar
T7	Ross Fisher	69	−3
	Sergio García
	Trevor Immelman
	Geoff Ogilvy
	Charl Schwartzel
	Brandt Snedeker
	Gary Woodland

Second round

Friday, April 8, 2011

McIlroy kept his lead with a 69 (−3), while Quirós shot a 73 (+1) to fall back to −6, four shots off the lead. Jason Day, in his first Masters appearance, shot a tournament-low 64 (−8) on Friday to move into second place. 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	Score	To par
1	Rory McIlroy	65-69=134	−10
2	Jason Day	72-64=136	−8
T3	K. J. Choi	67-70=137	−7
	Tiger Woods	71-66=137
T5	Geoff Ogilvy	69-69=138	−6
	Álvaro Quirós	65-73=138
T7	Ricky Barnes	68-71=139	−5
	Fred Couples	71-68=139
	Rickie Fowler	70-69=139
	Lee Westwood	72-67=139
	Y. E. Yang	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	Score	To par
1	Rory McIlroy	65-69-70=204	−12
T2	Ángel Cabrera	71-70-67=208	−8
	K. J. Choi	67-70-71=208
	Jason Day	72-64-72=208
	Charl Schwartzel	69-71-68=208
T6	Luke Donald	72-68-69=209	−7
	Adam Scott	72-70-67=209
8	Bo Van Pelt	73-69-68=210	−6
T9	Fred Couples	71-68-72=211	−5
	Ross Fisher	69-71-71=211
	Geoff Ogilvy	69-69-73=211
	Bubba Watson	73-71-67=211
	Tiger Woods	71-66-74=211

Final round

Sunday, April 10, 2011

Summary

External videos
Full final round coverage on CBS on YouTube

Eight different players had at least a share of the lead at one point during the final round, included five simultaneously on the back nine. 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, to tie 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 had previously 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 also shared the lead but bogeys at 12 and 16 led to a solo 7th-place finish.^[13]

Adam Scott stormed up the leader board and after a birdie at 16 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]

Final leaderboard

Champion

Silver Cup winner (low amateur)

(a) = amateur

(c) = past champion

Top 10

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

Leaderboard below the top 10
Place	Player	Score	To par	Money ($)
T11	Edoardo Molinari	74-70-69-70=283	−5	176,000
	Justin Rose	73-71-71-68=283
	Steve Stricker	72-70-71-70=283
	Lee Westwood	72-67-74-70=283
T15	Fred Couples (c)	71-68-72-73=284	−4	128,000
	Ross Fisher	69-71-71-73=284
	Trevor Immelman (c)	69-73-73-69=284
	Rory McIlroy	65-69-70-80=284
	Brandt Snedeker	69-71-74-70=284
T20	Ricky Barnes	68-71-75-71=285	−3	93,200
	Ryo Ishikawa	71-71-73-70=285
	Martin Laird	74-69-69-73=285
	Yang Yong-eun	67-72-73-73=285
T24	Jim Furyk	72-68-74-72=286	−2	70,400
	David Toms	72-69-73-72=286
	Gary Woodland	69-73-74-70=286
T27	Charley Hoffman	74-69-72-72=287	−1	54,400
	Miguel Ángel Jiménez	71-73-70-73=287
	Robert Karlsson	72-70-74-71=287
	Matt Kuchar	68-75-69-75=287
	Hideki Matsuyama (a)	72-73-68-74=287		0
	Phil Mickelson (c)	70-72-71-74=287		54,400
	Ian Poulter	74-69-71-73=287
	Álvaro Quirós	65-73-75-74=287
T35	Alex Čejka	72-71-75-70=288	E	43,200
	Sergio García	69-71-75-73=288
	Ryan Moore	70-73-72-73=288
T38	Paul Casey	70-72-76-71=289	+1	36,800
	Rickie Fowler	70-69-76-74=289
	Dustin Johnson	74-68-73-74=289
	Bubba Watson	73-71-67-78=289
T42	Bill Haas	74-70-74-72=290	+2	32,000
	Steve Marino	74-71-72-73=290
T44	Kim Kyung-tae	70-75-78-68=291	+3	28,800
	Jeff Overton	73-72-72-74=291
46	Nick Watney	72-72-75-73=292	+4	26,400
T47	Aaron Baddeley	75-70-74-74=293	+5	24,000
	Ernie Els	75-70-76-72=293
49	Camilo Villegas	70-75-73-76=294	+6	21,920
CUT	Robert Allenby	75-71=146	+2
	Stewart Cink	71-75=146
	Tim Clark	73-73=146
	Lucas Glover	75-71=146
	Zach Johnson (c)	73-73=146
	Anthony Kim	73-73=146
	Hunter Mahan	75-71=146
	Francesco Molinari	75-71=146
	Sean O'Hair	70-76=146
	Stuart Appleby	75-72=147	+3
	Jerry Kelly	74-73=147
	Graeme McDowell	74-73=147
	Kevin Na	73-74=147
	Mark Wilson	76-71=147
	Jason Bohn	73-75=148	+4
	David Chung (a)	72-76=148
	Ben Crane	73-75=148
	Retief Goosen	70-78=148
	Peter Hanson	72-76=148
	Yuta Ikeda	74-74=148
	Lion Kim (a)	76-72=148
	Carl Pettersson	75-73=148
	D. A. Points	72-76=148
	Heath Slocum	72-76=148
	Jhonattan Vegas	72-76=148
	Hiroyuki Fujita	70-79=149	+5
	Anders Hansen	72-77=149
	Pádraig Harrington	77-72=149
	Grégory Havret	70-79=149
	Louis Oosthuizen	75-74=149
	Kevin Streelman	75-74=149
	Peter Uihlein (a)	72-77=149
	Jin Jeong (a)	73-77=150	+6
	Martin Kaymer	78-72=150
	Larry Mize (c)	73-77=150
	José María Olazábal (c)	73-77=150
	Mark O'Meara (c)	77-73=150
	Rory Sabbatini	74-76=150
	Arjun Atwal	80-71=151	+7
	Jonathan Byrd	73-78=151
	Craig Stadler (c)	80-71=151
	Tom Watson (c)	79-72=151
	Davis Love III	75-77=152	+8
	Nathan Smith (a)	75-77=152
	Sandy Lyle (c)	73-80=153	+9
	Vijay Singh (c)	76-78=154	+10
	Ben Crenshaw (c)	78-77=155	+11
	Mike Weir (c)	76-79=155
	Ian Woosnam (c)	78-77=155
	Henrik Stenson	83-74=157	+13

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
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

Eagle

Birdie

Bogey

Double bogey

Triple bogey+

Source:^[14]

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External links

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