2010 Masters Tournament

The 2010 Masters Tournament was the 74th Masters Tournament, played April 8–11 at Augusta National Golf Club. Phil Mickelson won his third Masters and fourth major title, three shots ahead of runner-up Lee Westwood.[2]

2010 Masters Tournament
Tournament information
DatesApril 8–11, 2010
LocationAugusta, Georgia
Course(s)Augusta National Golf Club
Organized byAugusta National Golf Club
Tour(s)PGA Tour
European Tour
Japan Golf Tour
Statistics
Par72
Length7,435 yards (6,799 m)[1]
Field96 players (48 after cut)
Cut147 (+3)
Prize fund$7,500,000
€5,595,094
Winner's share$1,350,000
€1,002,905
Champion
Phil Mickelson
272 (−16)
Augusta 
Location in the United States
Augusta 
Location in Georgia

Field

The Masters has the smallest field of the major championships. Officially the Masters remains an invitation event, but there is now a qualification process. In theory, the club could simply decline to invite a qualified player. This is the list of the 96 players who played in the 2010 Masters Tournament.[3] Each player is classified according to the first category by which he qualified, but other categories are shown in parentheses.

1. Past Masters Champions
Ángel Cabrera (2,11,15,17,18,19), Fred Couples, Ben Crenshaw, Trevor Immelman, Zach Johnson (15,16,17,18,19), Bernhard Langer, Sandy Lyle, Phil Mickelson (4,5,11,12,15,16,17,18,19), Larry Mize, Mark O'Meara, Vijay Singh (18,19), Craig Stadler, Tom Watson (13), Mike Weir (15,17,18,19), Tiger Woods (2,3,4,11,12,14,15,16,17,18,19), Ian Woosnam

(Past champions who did not play: Tommy Aaron, Seve Ballesteros, Jack Burke, Jr., Billy Casper, Charles Coody, Nick Faldo, Raymond Floyd,[4] Doug Ford, Bob Goalby, Jack Nicklaus, José María Olazábal,[5] Arnold Palmer, Gary Player, and Fuzzy Zoeller). Nicklaus joined Palmer as "honorary starters" and teed off on the first day at the first hole to kick off the tournament.

2. Last five U.S. Open Champions
Michael Campbell, Lucas Glover (12,15,17,18,19), Geoff Ogilvy (11,15,16,17,18,19)

3. Last five British Open Champions
Stewart Cink (13,15,17,18,19), Pádraig Harrington (4,15,17,18,19)

4. Last five PGA Champions
Y. E. Yang (14,15,16,17,18,19)

5. Last three of The Players Champions
Sergio García (18,19), Henrik Stenson (18,19)

6. Top two finishers in the 2009 U.S. Amateur
An Byeong-hun (a), Ben Martin (a)

7. Winner of the 2009 Amateur Championship
Matteo Manassero (a)

8. Winner of the 2009 Asian Amateur
Han Chang-won (a)

9. Winner of the 2009 U.S. Amateur Public Links
Brad Benjamin (a)

10. Winner of the 2009 U.S. Mid-Amateur
Nathan Smith (a)

11. The top 16 finishers and ties in the 2009 Masters Tournament
Chad Campbell, Tim Clark (15,18,19), Steve Flesch, Jim Furyk (15,16,17,18,19), Todd Hamilton, Shingo Katayama, Hunter Mahan (12,15,16,17,18,19), John Merrick, Sean O'Hair (15,16,17,18,19), Kenny Perry (15,16,17,18,19), Steve Stricker (15,16,17,18,19), Camilo Villegas (16,18,19)

12. Top 8 finishers and ties in the 2009 U.S. Open
Ricky Barnes, David Duval, Ross Fisher (18,19), Søren Hansen (18,19)

13. Top 4 finishers and ties in the 2009 British Open Championship
Lee Westwood (14,18,19), Chris Wood

14. Top 4 finishers and ties in the 2009 PGA Championship
Rory McIlroy (18,19)

15. Top 30 leaders on the 2009 PGA Tour official money earnings list
Paul Casey (18,19), Brian Gay (16,17,18), Retief Goosen (17,18,19), Dustin Johnson (16,17,19), Jerry Kelly (16,17), Matt Kuchar (19), Justin Leonard (18), Kevin Na (17,19), Ian Poulter (16,18,19), John Rollins, Rory Sabbatini (16), John Senden (17), David Toms (17,18), Nick Watney (17,18,19)

16. Winners of PGA Tour events that award a full-point allocation for the season-ending Tour Championship, between the 2009 Masters Tournament and the 2010 Masters Tournament
Ben Crane, Ernie Els (17,18,19), Nathan Green, Bill Haas, Anthony Kim (18,19), Ryan Moore, Ryan Palmer, Heath Slocum (17)

17. All players qualifying for the 2009 edition of The Tour Championship
Luke Donald (18,19), Jason Dufner, Marc Leishman, Steve Marino, Scott Verplank

18. Top 50 on the final 2009 Official World Golf Rankings list
Robert Allenby (19), Ben Curtis, Simon Dyson, Anders Hansen, Yuta Ikeda (19), Ryo Ishikawa (19), Miguel Ángel Jiménez (19), Robert Karlsson (19), Martin Kaymer (19), Søren Kjeldsen, Graeme McDowell (19), Edoardo Molinari (19), Francesco Molinari (19), Adam Scott, Oliver Wilson (19)
(Michael Sim (19) withdrew prior to the tournament with a shoulder injury)[6]

19. Top 50 on the Official World Golf Rankings list going into the tournament
K. J. Choi, Louis Oosthuizen, Álvaro Quirós, Charl Schwartzel, Thongchai Jaidee

20. International invitees
None

Past champions in the field

Made the cut
PlayerCountryYear(s) wonR1R2R3R4TotalTo parFinish
Phil Mickelson United States2004, 200667716767272−161st
Tiger Woods United States1997, 2001, 2002, 200568707069277−11T4
Fred Couples United States199266756870279−96th
Trevor Immelman South Africa200869737272286−2T14
Ángel Cabrera Argentina200973746971287−1T18
Tom Watson United States1977, 198167747373287−1T18
Zach Johnson United States200770747675295+742
Mike Weir Canada200371727677296+8T43

Missed the cut
PlayerCountryYear(s) wonR1R2TotalTo par
Larry Mize United States19877672148+4
Mark O'Meara United States19987574149+5
Bernhard Langer Germany1985, 19937178149+5
Vijay Singh Fiji20007678154+10
Ben Crenshaw United States1984, 19957778155+11
Sandy Lyle Scotland19886986155+11
Craig Stadler United States19827978157+13
Ian Woosnam Wales19918183164+20

Nationalities in the field
North America (45)South America (2)Europe (26)Oceania (8)Asia (8)Africa (7)
 Canada (1) Argentina (1) England (8) Australia (6) Japan (3) South Africa (7)
 United States (44) Colombia (1) Northern Ireland (2) Fiji (1) South Korea (4)
 Scotland (1) New Zealand (1) Thailand (1)
 Wales (1)
 Denmark (3)
 Spain (3)
 Germany (2)
 Italy (3)
 Sweden (2)
 Ireland (1)

Par 3 Contest

Louis Oosthuizen won the contest with a 6 under par 21. There were 2 holes in one during the contest, both on the 9th hole, achieved by Graeme McDowell and Jim Furyk.[7] McDowell went on to win the U.S. Open, Oosthuizen went on to win The Open Championship, and Furyk went on to win the 2010 FedEx Cup.

Round summaries

First round

Thursday, April 8, 2010

The day started very sunny, but clouds began accumulating later in the morning and thunderstorms were expected in the afternoon; however, the weather remained fair. The much anticipated return of Tiger Woods came on Thursday, who shot a 4-under 68. This was a good opening for Woods, who had never before shot a first round in the 60s at the Masters.[8] But the story of the day was the two Champions Tour players, 60-year-old Tom Watson and 50-year-old Fred Couples, who shot 67 and 66 respectively. Major champions Phil Mickelson and Y.E. Yang were one stroke back of leader Couples along with Lee Westwood, K.J. Choi, and Watson.[8]

PlacePlayerCountryScoreTo par
1Fred Couples United States66−6
T2K. J. Choi South Korea67−5
Phil Mickelson United States
Tom Watson United States
Lee Westwood England
Y. E. Yang South Korea
T7Ricky Barnes United States68−4
Anthony Kim United States
Ian Poulter England
Nick Watney United States
Tiger Woods United States

Second round

Friday, April 9, 2010

Phil Mickelson shot a 1-under 71 despite missing a 1-foot putt on Hole 5. Fred Couples and Tom Watson both fell back after solid opening rounds. Englishmen Lee Westwood and Ian Poulter shared the lead heading into the weekend.[9]

PlacePlayerCountryScoreTo par
T1Ian Poulter England68-68=136−8
Lee Westwood England67-69=136
T3Ricky Barnes United States68-70=138−6
K. J. Choi South Korea67-71=138
Anthony Kim United States68-70=138
Phil Mickelson United States67-71=138
Tiger Woods United States68-70=138
8Y. E. Yang South Korea67-72=139−5
T9Fred Couples United States66-75=141−3
Søren Kjeldsen Denmark70-71=141
Tom Watson United States67-74=141

Amateurs: Manassero (+3), Smith (+5), Benjamin (+6), An (+11), Han (+11), Martin (+11).

Third round

Saturday, April 10, 2010

Lee Westwood continued his solid play in the third round to stay in the lead. Phil Mickelson shot a 67, including a dramatic eagle-eagle-birdie on 13, 14 and 15, to move into second place, three strokes clear of the rest of the field.[10]

PlacePlayerCountryScoreTo par
1Lee Westwood England67-69-68=204−12
2Phil Mickelson United States67-71-67=205−11
T3K. J. Choi South Korea67-71-70=208−8
Tiger Woods United States68-70-70=208
5Fred Couples United States66-75-68=209−7
T6Ricky Barnes United States68-70-72=210−6
Hunter Mahan United States71-71-68=210
Ian Poulter England68-68-74=210
T9Anthony Kim United States68-70-73=211−5
Y. E. Yang South Korea67-72-72=211

Final round

Sunday, April 11, 2010

Fred Couples mounted an early charge up the leaderboard with two birdies in his first three holes, but he quickly cooled off and ended up in sixth place. Overnight leader Lee Westwood started erratically, while Phil Mickelson parred his first seven holes. K.J. Choi was briefly tied for the lead at -12 with a birdie at 10 but he eventually fell back to a tie for fourth with playing partner Tiger Woods (they were paired together for all four rounds of the tournament). Twenty-four-year-old Anthony Kim shot a blistering 65, including a -5 run over four holes; he finished third. But down the stretch, Mickelson pulled away from Westwood with a bogey-free round of 67 to win the tournament.[11]

PlacePlayerCountryScoreTo parMoney ($)
1Phil Mickelson United States67-71-67-67=272−161,350,000
2Lee Westwood England67-69-68-71=275−13810,000
3Anthony Kim United States68-70-73-65=276−12510,000
T4K. J. Choi South Korea67-71-70-69=277−11330,000
Tiger Woods United States68-70-70-69=277
6Fred Couples United States66-75-68-70=279−9270,000
7Nick Watney United States68-76-71-65=280−8251,250
T8Hunter Mahan United States71-71-68-71=281−7225,000
Y. E. Yang South Korea67-72-72-70=281
T10Ricky Barnes United States68-70-72-73=283−5195,000
Ian Poulter England68-68-74-73=283

Amateurs: Manassero (+4).

  • Final bulletin - 2010 prize money[12]

Scorecard

Final round

Hole 1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9 101112131415161718
Par454343454443545344
Mickelson−11−11−11−11−11−11−11−12−12−12−12−13−14−14−15−15−15−16
Westwood−11−12−12−11−12−12−12−12−11−11−11−11−12−12−12−12−13−13
Kim−5−6−6−6−6−5−6−7−7−7−7−7−8−9−11−12−12−12
Choi−8−9−9−9−9−10−10−11−11−12−12−12−11−10−11−11−11−11
Woods−7−7−7−6−5−5−7−8−9−9−8−8−9−8−10−10−10−11
Couples−7−8−9−9−9−9−9−9−10−10−9−7−8−9−9−8−9−9
Watney−1−2−3−3−2−3−4−5−5−5−5−5−6−6−7−7−8−8

Cumulative tournament scores, relative to par

Eagle Birdie Bogey Double bogey

Source:[13]

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Preceded by
2009 PGA Championship		 Major Championships Succeeded by
2010 U.S. Open

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