2005 Masters Tournament

The 2005 Masters Tournament was the 69th Masters Tournament, played from April 7–10 at Augusta National Golf Club in Augusta, Georgia.

2005 Masters Tournament
Front cover of the 2005 Masters Journal
Tournament information
DatesApril 7–10, 2005
LocationAugusta, Georgia
33°30′11″N 82°01′12″W / 33.503°N 82.020°W / 33.503; -82.020
Course(s)Augusta National Golf Club
Organized byAugusta National Golf Club
Tour(s)PGA Tour
European Tour
Japan Golf Tour
Statistics
Par72
Length7,290 yards (6,666 m)
Field93 players, 50 after cut
Cut148 ( 4)
Prize fundUS$7,000,000
Winner's share$1,260,000
Champion
United States Tiger Woods
276 (−12), playoff
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Augusta National is located in Georgia
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Tiger Woods, 29, won his fourth green jacket on the first hole of a playoff with Chris DiMarco. Rain was a factor the whole week, and delayed much of the play.[1] The purse was $7.0 million with a winner's share of $1.26 million.[2] It was the ninth of Woods' fifteen major championships.

This Masters was the last as competitors for three former champions: Tommy Aaron (1973), Billy Casper (1970), and six-time winner Jack Nicklaus.

Ryan Moore was low amateur at 287 (−1), the best score by an amateur since 1978, and earned an exemption to the 2006 tournament.

Jerry Pate, a non-playing invitee, won the 46th Par-3 contest on Wednesday with a five-under 22.[3]

Course

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Hole Name Yards Par Hole Name Yards Par
1 Tea Olive 435 4 10 Camellia 495 4
2 Pink Dogwood 575 5 11 White Dogwood 490 4
3 Flowering Peach 350 4 12 Golden Bell 155 3
4 Flowering Crab Apple 205 3 13 Azalea 510 5
5 Magnolia 455 4 14 Chinese Fir 440 4
6 Juniper 180 3 15 Firethorn 500 5
7 Pampas 410 4 16 Redbud 170 3
8 Yellow Jasmine 570 5 17 Nandina 425 4
9 Carolina Cherry 460 4 18 Holly 465 4
Out 3,640 36 In 3,650 36
Source:[4] Total 7,290 72

Field

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1. Masters champions
Tommy Aaron, Billy Casper, Charles Coody, Fred Couples (10,16,17), Ben Crenshaw, Nick Faldo, Raymond Floyd, Bernhard Langer (10), Sandy Lyle, Phil Mickelson (10,11,12,14,15,16,17), Larry Mize, Jack Nicklaus, José María Olazábal, Mark O'Meara, Gary Player, Vijay Singh (4,10,13,14,15,16,17), Craig Stadler, Tom Watson, Mike Weir (11,14,16,17), Tiger Woods (2,3,4,14,15,16,17), Ian Woosnam, Fuzzy Zoeller

2. U.S. Open champions (last five years)
Jim Furyk (16,17), Retief Goosen (10,11,14,15,16,17)

3. The Open champions (last five years)
Ben Curtis, David Duval, Ernie Els (10,12,13,14,16,17), Todd Hamilton (12,14,16,17)

4. PGA champions (last five years)
Rich Beem, Shaun Micheel, David Toms (14,15,16,17)

5. The Players Championship winners (last three years)
Fred Funk (11,14,15,17), Davis Love III (10,14,16,17), Adam Scott (14,15,16,17)

6. U.S. Amateur champion and runner-up
Luke List (a), Ryan Moore (a,8)

7. The Amateur champion
Stuart Wilson (a)

8. U.S. Amateur Public Links champion

  • Eligible under category 6

9. U.S. Mid-Amateur champion
Austin Eaton III (a)

10. Top 16 players and ties from the 2004 Masters
Paul Casey (16,17), K. J. Choi (14,16,17), Chris DiMarco (13,14,16,17), Sergio García (14,16,17), Pádraig Harrington (16,17), Charles Howell III (14,17), Nick Price, Kirk Triplett (14), Casey Wittenberg

11. Top eight players and ties from the 2004 U.S. Open
Robert Allenby (16,17), Steve Flesch (14,16,17), Jeff Maggert, Shigeki Maruyama (14,16,17)

12. Top four players and ties from the 2004 Open Championship
Lee Westwood (16,17)

13. Top four players and ties from 2004 PGA Championship
Justin Leonard (16,17), Chris Riley (16)

14. Top 40 players from the 2004 PGA Tour money list
Stephen Ames (16,17), Stuart Appleby (16,17), Chad Campbell (16,17), Stewart Cink (16,17), Darren Clarke (16,17), John Daly (16), Luke Donald (15,16,17), Carlos Franco, Jay Haas (16,17), Mark Hensby (16,17), Tim Herron (17), Zach Johnson (16,17), Jonathan Kaye (16,17), Jerry Kelly (16,17), Ryan Palmer, Rod Pampling (16), Jesper Parnevik, Kenny Perry (16,17), Ted Purdy, Rory Sabbatini (16,17), Bo Van Pelt, Scott Verplank (16,17)

15. Top 10 players from the 2005 PGA Tour money list on March 28
Tom Lehman (17), Joe Ogilvie

16. Top 50 players from the final 2004 world ranking
Thomas Bjørn (17), Ángel Cabrera (17), Joakim Haeggman, David Howell (17), Trevor Immelman, Freddie Jacobson, Miguel Ángel Jiménez (17), Thomas Levet, Peter Lonard (17), Nick O'Hern (17), Ian Poulter (17)

17. Top 50 players from world ranking published March 28
Tim Clark, Graeme McDowell, Craig Parry

18. Special foreign invitation
Shingo Katayama

Round summaries

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First round

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Thursday, April 7, 2005
Friday, April 8, 2005

Sixty-eight players were on the course when darkness suspended the first round since the start of the round was delayed by over five hours due to heavy morning rain. The round was completed Friday morning. Chris DiMarco shot a five-under 67 to take the first round lead. Vijay Singh and Luke Donald were at 68, one stroke behind in second. Tiger Woods struggled through much of his round ending at two over par. After the round, Woods was questioned by rules officials for an illegal putting stance on the 14th before getting the all-clear. In his final appearance, Billy Casper shot the worst round in Masters history on Thursday, a triple-digit 106 ( 34), but the round was unofficial because he withdrew.[3][5] Three-time champion Nick Faldo withdrew while playing the ninth hole due to back spasms.[6]

Place Player Score To par
1   Chris DiMarco 67 −5
T2   Luke Donald 68 −4
  Vijay Singh
T4   Stuart Appleby 69 −3
  Mark Hensby
T6   Phil Mickelson 70 −2
  Ryan Palmer
T8   Thomas Bjørn 71 −1
  Retief Goosen
  Thomas Levet
  Ryan Moore (a)
  Chris Riley
  Adam Scott

Second round

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Friday, April 8, 2005
Saturday, April 9, 2005

Rain suspended play for much of the day and the second round spilled into Saturday. Chris DiMarco posted another five-under 67 to take a four-stroke lead at the halfway point. Thomas Bjørn also shot a 67 to take second place by himself at −6. Tiger Woods recovered from his poor first round with a six-under 66, six strokes back in third place.

Place Player Score To par
1   Chris DiMarco 67-67=134 −10
2   Thomas Bjørn 71-67=138 −6
3   Tiger Woods 74-66=140 −4
T4   David Howell 72-69=141 −3
  Vijay Singh 68-73=141
T6   Mark Hensby 69-73=142 −2
  Phil Mickelson 70-72=142
  Ryan Moore (a) 71-71=142
T9   Jim Furyk 76-67=143 −1
  Kirk Triplett 75-68=143

Amateurs: Moore (−2), List ( 2), Eaton III ( 14), Wilson ( 20).

Third round

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Saturday, April 9, 2005
Sunday, April 10, 2005

Chris DiMarco continued his hot ways shooting a three-under 33 on the front nine before play was suspended due to darkness. His −13 through 45 holes was four strokes better than Tiger Woods, who shot a five-under 31 on the first nine holes. Thomas Bjørn stayed in contention with a two-under 34 for nine holes and was −8 for the championship.

Place Player To par Hole
1   Chris DiMarco −13 9
2   Tiger Woods −9 9
3   Thomas Bjørn −8 9
T4   Mark Hensby −4 9
  Vijay Singh 10
  Rod Pampling 12

Tiger Woods resumed play on Sunday morning on the back nine and made four consecutive birdies to card a 7-under 65 and take the 54-hole lead. Dating back to play on Saturday, Woods birdied seven straight holes in the third round, tying a record by Steve Pate. Chris DiMarco struggled in with a 41 ( 5) back nine for a third round 74 ( 2), losing seven shots to Woods in the final nine holes. DiMarco's troubles began when his second shot at the 10th went into a bush and was unplayable. After a drop, he chipped onto the green and two-putted for the double bogey, which ended a streak of 44 holes at par or better.

Place Player Score To par
1   Tiger Woods 74-66-65=205 −11
2   Chris DiMarco 67-67-74=208 −8
3   Thomas Bjørn 71-67-71=209 −7
T4   Trevor Immelman 73-73-65=211 −5
  Phil Mickelson 70-72-69=211
T6   Mark Hensby 69-73-70=212 −4
  Vijay Singh 68-73-71=212
T8   Chad Campbell 73-73-67=213 −3
  Mike Weir 74-71-68=213
T10   Luke Donald 68-77-69=214 −2
  Tim Herron 76-68-70=214
  Thomas Levet 71-75-68=214
  Rod Pampling 73-71-70=214

Scorecard

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Third round

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
  Woods −4 −5 −6 −6 −6 −6 −7 −8 −9 −10 −11 −12 −13 −12 −11 −11 −11 −11
  DiMarco −10 −11 −11 −11 −11 −11 −12 −13 −13 −11 −11 −11 −11 −10 −9 −9 −8 −8

Cumulative tournament scores, relative to par
Source:[7]

Final round

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Sunday, April 10, 2005

Summary

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External videos
  Full final round coverage on CBS on YouTube

A thrilling final round came down to a two-man duel between Tiger Woods and Chris DiMarco. DiMarco narrowed the three shot lead to one by the 11th with a second birdie in three holes after Woods had dropped a shot at the 10th. The lead stretched back to two when DiMarco bogeyed the 12th at the heart of Amen Corner, but a stunning approach on 14 set up a birdie for DiMarco and cut the gap back to one.

Both players birdied 15 and set up a dramatic and memorable 16th hole. With DiMarco sitting comfortably in the center of the green Woods pulled his tee shot just off the green; with about 50 feet (15 m) between him and the hole, and considering the difficulty of the lie, co-commentator Lanny Wadkins remarked that "this is one of the toughest pitches on the entire place here", and that "there's a good chance he doesn't get this inside DiMarco's ball", who had left himself a good 20 feet (6 m) away. Aiming at least 20 feet (6 m) to the left of the pin and intending to use the sloping green to run the ball towards the hole, Woods proceeded to play what was voted in 2019 as the greatest shot in Masters history.[8] The ball crept towards the hole and appeared to stop on the lip of the hole before toppling in for a dramatic birdie,[9] prompting lead commentator Verne Lundquist to give the now iconic piece of commentary: "Well... here it comes... Oh, my goodness... OH, WOW! In your life have you seen anything like that!?". DiMarco missed his birdie putt and the lead grew back to two with just two to play. However, Woods pushed his drive on 17 leading to a bogey, cutting the lead to one as they went to the 72nd hole.

Woods' approach on 18 ended up in the greenside bunker while DiMarco ended up just short of the green. DiMarco's chip for birdie hit the pin and rebounded ten feet away when it could easily have jammed in the hole. Woods hit his chip to 14 feet (4 m), but missed his par putt to win. DiMarco calmly sank a ten-foot (3 m) putt to force a playoff.

Retief Goosen had the round of the day, firing a five under 67 which was the only round better than DiMarco's 68.

Final leaderboard

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Champion
Silver Cup winner (low amateur)
(a) = amateur
(c) = past champion
Top 10
Place Player Score To par Money (US$)
T1   Chris DiMarco 67-67-74-68=276 −12 Playoff
  Tiger Woods (c) 74-66-65-71=276
T3   Luke Donald 68-77-69-69=283 −5 406,000
  Retief Goosen 71-75-70-67=283
T5   Mark Hensby 69-73-70-72=284 −4 237,300
  Trevor Immelman 73-73-65-73=284
  Rod Pampling 73-71-70-70=284
  Vijay Singh (c) 68-73-71-72=284
  Mike Weir (c) 74-71-68-71=284
10   Phil Mickelson (c) 70-72-69-74=285 −3 189,000

Scorecard

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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
  Woods −12 −13 −13 −13 −12 −12 −12 −12 −13 −12 −12 −12 −12 −12 −13 −14 −13 −12
  DiMarco −8 −9 −9 −9 −9 −9 −9 −9 −10 −10 −11 −10 −10 −11 −12 −12 −12 −12
  Donald −2 −2 −2 −2 −2 −2 −1 −1 −1 1 E E −2 −2 −4 −5 −5 −5
  Goosen −1 −2 −1 −1 −1 −1 −1 −1 −1 −1 −1 −1 −2 −2 −3 −4 −4 −5
  Hensby −4 −4 −4 −4 −4 −4 −4 −5 −5 −4 −2 −3 −3 −3 −4 −5 −5 −4
  Immelman −4 −4 −4 −4 −5 −6 −6 −6 −6 −6 −5 −5 −3 −3 −3 −5 −4 −4
  Pampling −2 −2 −1 −2 −2 −2 −1 −1 −2 −2 −2 −2 −2 −3 −4 −4 −4 −4
  Singh −4 −4 −3 −2 −1 −2 −2 −3 −3 −3 −3 −3 −3 −3 −3 −3 −3 −4
  Weir −3 −4 −4 −4 −4 −5 −5 −5 −5 −6 −6 −6 −6 −6 −7 −6 −5 −4
  Mickelson −5 −5 −5 −6 −6 −6 −6 −6 −6 −6 −6 −4 −5 −5 −5 −3 −3 −3
  Bjørn −7 −5 −5 −5 −5 −4 −4 −4 −4 −3 −2 E E E 1 1 1 2

Cumulative tournament scores, relative to par

Eagle Birdie Bogey Double bogey

Source:[7]

Playoff

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The previous six sudden-death playoffs (going back to 1979) at Augusta began at the 10th hole; this was the first to start at the 18th hole,[10] where both put their drives in the fairway. DiMarco hit his approach to the very front section of the green and the ball backed off the green a bit, ending up in almost the exact spot he was at the end of regulation. Woods knocked his approach to 15 feet (4.6 m) past the flag. DiMarco then chipped up to around a foot and tapped in for par. After taking a long time to study the putt, Woods buried his birdie putt to win his fourth green jacket and ninth major title. It was the second consecutive major that DiMarco lost in a playoff following his loss in the PGA Championship in 2004 to Vijay Singh.

Place Player Score To par Money ($)
1   Tiger Woods 3 −1 1,260,000
2   Chris DiMarco 4 E 756,000

Quotes

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"Here it comes ... Oh, my goodness! ... OH, WOW! IN YOUR LIFE, have you seen anything like that?!" - CBS's Verne Lundquist's famous call of Tiger Woods' chip-in on the 16th hole.

"Chris is a tough competitor and a fighter. He's never going to back off and he proved that again." - Tiger Woods on the gutsy final round of runner-up Chris DiMarco.

""I was just trying to throw the ball up there on the hill and let it feed down there and hopefully have a makeable putt. All of a sudden, it looked really good, and it looked like how could it not go in, and how did it not go in, and all of a sudden it went in." - Tiger Woods on his remarkable chip on 16.

"I went out and shot 68 around here on Sunday, which is a very good round, and 12-under is usually good enough to win. It was just that I was playing against Tiger Woods." - Chris DiMarco on his runner-up finish.

"I would let it hurt if I gave it away but I didn't. I really didn't." - Chris DiMarco

"You know I played him as hard as I could down the stretch, birdieing a bunch of holes coming down the back nine and putting it on him really. And since I put that behind me and went out and put a good number on the back nine, I feel very good." - Chris DiMarco on his final round.

"That was a hard-fought week with the rain delays, I didn't get off to the greatest of starts." - Tiger Woods on the long week of golf.

References

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  1. ^ Shipnuck, Alan (April 18, 2005). "Perfect Pitch". Sports Illustrated. Archived from the original on March 17, 2013. Retrieved January 7, 2013.
  2. ^ Hackenberg, Dave (April 11, 2005). "Fantastic Fourth". Toledo Blade. Toledo, Ohio. p. C1. Retrieved January 7, 2013.
  3. ^ a b Bonk, Thomas (April 8, 2005). "Casper's last shot ends up being 106 of them". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved May 5, 2014.
  4. ^ "Augusta lengthened to 7,290 yards for '03 Masters". ESPN. Reuters. August 20, 2002. Retrieved January 7, 2013.
  5. ^ "2005 Masters". About.com. Archived from the original on April 24, 2013. Retrieved January 7, 2013.
  6. ^ Armour, Nancy (April 8, 2005). "Back spasms force Faldo out". Lakeland Ledger. Associated Press. p. C3.
  7. ^ a b "Leaderboard: 2005 Masters". Yahoo! Sports. April 10, 2005. Retrieved April 10, 2013.
  8. ^ ""Masters 2019: Tiger Woods' incredible chip in 2005 voted greatest Masters shot"". BBC Sport.
  9. ^ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m-htXOZy9Eo#t=228m30s
  10. ^ "Masters playoff format is changed". CNN.com. April 7, 2004. Retrieved April 10, 2013.
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