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1934 - Horton Smith sinks a 20-foot birdie on the 17th hole
and makes par at 18 to edge Craig Wood by one stroke
in the first-ever Masters tournament.
1935 - Gene Sarazen records the first double eagle in Masters
history as he holes a 220-yard 4-wood at the 15th hole
during the final round. He went on to win a 36-hole
playoff with Wood.
1936 - Smith's second Masters victory is highlighted by a
50-foot chip for birdie on the 14th hole during the
final round
- Wood shoots a 16-over 88 in the opening round, but
comes back with a 5-under 67 the following day. The
21-stroke improvement is the best in tournament history.
1939 - Ralph Guldahl plays the final nine holes in 3-under 33
to score a one-stroke victory over Sam Snead.
1941 - Wood becomes the first player in Masters history to lead
outright after all four rounds and wins his first major
title.
1942 - Byron Nelson edges Ben Hogan, 69-70, in an 18-hole
playoff considered to be among the best ever. Nelson
plays 6-under during an 11-hole stretch to pick up
five strokes on Hogan.
1947 - Sarazen and George Fazio, the first players to tee off
for the final round, finish 18 holes in one hour and 57
minutes. Sarazen shot a 70.
1948 - Claude Harmon becomes the first player in tournament
history to shoot four sub-par rounds.
1950 - Jimmy Demaret becomes the first player to win the Masters
three times. He gains seven shots on third-round leader
Jim Ferrier over the final six holes.
1951 - Hogan wins his first Masters, beating Skee Riegel by two
strokes.
1952 - Johnny Revolta records a Masters record 26 straight pars
beginning with the ninth hole of the opening round.
1953 - Hogan shatters the then tournament record of 279 by five
strokes en route to his second title.
1954 - Snead defeats Hogan, 70-71, in a memorable playoff for his
third Masters title.
- Amateur Billy Joe Patton leads after the second round and
finishes third, one stroke behind Snead and Hogan.
1956 - Jack Burke, Jr. comes from eight strokes back to edge
then amateur Ken Venturi by a stroke. Venturi began
the final round with an eight-stroke cushion, but shoots
an 80 in difficult playing conditions. Burke shoots a
71 and wins with a 1-over 289, the highest winning
score in tournament history.
1957 - Doug Ford shoots a final round 66 to defeat Sam Snead by
three strokes for his first Masters title.
- After putting his first tee shot in the water on the
par-3 16th hole, Byron Nelson hits the flagstick with
a 7-iron from the tee. The ball bounces off the stick
and into the water.
1958 - 28-year-old Arnold Palmer win the first of his four
Masters titles.
1959 - Charles Coe sets the Masters 72-hole record for an amateur
with a 7-under 281.
1960 - Palmer leads "wire-to-wire" en route to the second Masters
title.
- George Bayer and Jack Fleck complete 18 holes in one
hour and 52 minutes. Bayer shot a 72 and Fleck carded
a 74.
1961 - South Africa's Gary Player becomes the first foreign-born
entry to win the Masters.
1962 - Palmer defeats Player and Dow Fisterwald in the first
three-way playoff at the Masters.
1963 - At the age of 23 years, 2 months and 16 days, Jack
Nicklaus becomes the youngest winner in the 40-year
history of the Masters.
1964 - Palmer becomes the Masters first four-time winner,
beating Dave Marr by a comfortable margin of six strokes.
1965 - Nicklaus shoots a tournament record 17-under 271
in capturing his second Masters title.
1966 - Nicklaus defends his title in a three-way playoff with
Gay Brewer and Tommy Jacobs.
1967 - Bruce Devlin records a double eagle on the eighth hole
during the first round using a 4-wood.
1968 - Roberto De Vincenzo, who was tied wih Bob Goalby after
72 holes, inadvertently signs an incorrect scorecard
and finishes second by a stroke. De Vincenzo made a
birdie 3 on the 17th hole but recorded his score as a
4. Since he signed the card, the higher score stood.
1970 - Billy Casper wins the Masters in his 14th attempt,
defeating Gene Little in an 18-hole playoff.
1972 - Nicklaus is the only player to finish below par and
he joins Palmer as the only four-time winners of the
Masters.
- Charles Coody scores a hole-in-one on the sixth hole
during the opening round and proceeds to record a
triple bogey on number seven.
1975 - Nicklaus wins his fifth Masters and Tom Weiskopf
records his fourth runner-up finish.
- Johnny Miller becomes the first player to birdie six
straight holes at the Masters. Miller's third-round
streak begins at the second hole and ends at the
seventh, enabling him to set the tournament record
with a 30 on the front nine.
1976 - Raymond Floyd matches Nicklaus' tournament record of
17-under 271.
1978 - Player comes from seven shots off the lead with an
8-under 64 in the final round to win his third Masters.
- Tommy Nakajima of Japan shoots a 13 on the par-5 13th
hole.
1979 - Fuzzy Zoeller birdies the second extra hole to defeat
Ed Sneed in the first-ever sudden-death playoff at
the Masters.
1980 - Seve Ballesteros of Spain becomes the youngest winner
in Masters history as he claims the first of his two
green jackets at the age of 23 years and four days.
- Weiskopf shoots a 13 on the par-3 12th hole.
1982 - Dan Pohl, playing in his first Masters, goes 6-under
during a four-hole stretch of the third round. Pohl
records back-to-back eagles on the 13th and 14th holes
followed by birdies on the 15th and 16th.
1983 - Ballesteros wins his second Masters in a tournament
marred by bad weather. Rain and darkness prevents
the second round from being completed until Sunday
morning.
1985 - Bernhard Langer of Germany becomes the third foreigner
to win the Masters, finishing with consecutive rounds
of 68.
1986 - Nicklaus becomes the oldest winner in tournament
history as he records his sixth Masters victory at the
age of 46.
- Nick Price sets the course record with a 9-under 63.
Price shoots a 3-under 33 on the front, 6-under 30
on the back and sets a Masters one-round record with
10 birdies.
1987 - Augusta native Larry Mize holes an incredible chip
shot to defeat Greg Norman on the second playoff hole.
Ballesteros was part of the three-way playoff, but was
eliminated on the first extra hole.
1988 - Scotland's Sandy Lyle records a one-stroke victory to
become the fourth foreign player to win the Masters.
- Norman matches the tournament record by shooting
a 30 on the front nine during the final round.
1989 - Nick Faldo of Britain wins the first of his back-to-back
Masters titles and sinks the longest putt in Masters
history, a 100-footer for birdie on the second hole
during the third round.
1990 - Faldo defeats Floyd on the second hole of a playoff.
- Mike Donald shoots an 8-under 64 in the opening round,
but follows with a 10-over 82.
1991 - Ian Woosnam of Wales makes it four in a row for golfers
from the United Kingdom, nipping Jose Maria Olazabal of
Spain by one stroke.
1992 - Fred Couples wins his first major title and temporarily
ends the dominance of European golfers at the Masters.
- Mark Calcavecchia shatters the tournament record by
shooting a 29 on the back nine during the final round.
Calcavecchia birdied the final six holes, matching
Miller's record set in 1975.
1993 - Thirteen different players led or shared the lead during
the opening round, but Langer holds the lead for the
final 34 holes en route to his second Masters title.
1994 - Jose Maria Olazabal of Spain breaks out of a three-way
battle with Larry Mize and Tom Lehman with an eagle on the
15th hole during the final round and records a two-stroke
victory.
- Jeff Maggert holes a 222-yard 3-iron for a double eagle
on the 13th hole during the final round.
1995 - Four days after serving as a pallbearer at the funeral of
long-time mentor and legendary golf instructor Harvey
Pennick, Ben Crenshaw birdies the 70th and 71st holes to
defeat Davis Love III by one stroke and earn his second
Masters title.
- Phil Mickelson shoots a 6-under 66 in the opening round,
the lowest round ever by a lefthander at the Masters.
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