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
Front cover of the 2010 Masters Journal
Tournament information
DatesApril 8–11, 2010
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
Length7,435 yards (6,799 m)[1]
Field96 players (48 after cut)
Cut147 ( 3)
Prize fundUS$7,500,000
Winner's share$1,350,000
Champion
United States Phil Mickelson
272 (−16)
Location map
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Location in the United States
Augusta National is located in Georgia
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Field

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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

Par 3 Contest

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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

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First round

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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]

Place Player Score To par
1   Fred Couples 66 −6
T2   K. J. Choi 67 −5
  Phil Mickelson
  Tom Watson
  Lee Westwood
  Y. E. Yang
T7   Ricky Barnes 68 −4
  Anthony Kim
  Ian Poulter
  Nick Watney
  Tiger Woods

Second round

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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]

Place Player Score To par
T1   Ian Poulter 68-68=136 −8
  Lee Westwood 67-69=136
T3   Ricky Barnes 68-70=138 −6
  K. J. Choi 67-71=138
  Anthony Kim 68-70=138
  Phil Mickelson 67-71=138
  Tiger Woods 68-70=138
8   Y. E. Yang 67-72=139 −5
T9   Fred Couples 66-75=141 −3
  Søren Kjeldsen 70-71=141
  Tom Watson 67-74=141

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

Third round

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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]

Place Player Score To par
1   Lee Westwood 67-69-68=204 −12
2   Phil Mickelson 67-71-67=205 −11
T3   K. J. Choi 67-71-70=208 −8
  Tiger Woods 68-70-70=208
5   Fred Couples 66-75-68=209 −7
T6   Ricky Barnes 68-70-72=210 −6
  Hunter Mahan 71-71-68=210
  Ian Poulter 68-68-74=210
T9   Anthony Kim 68-70-73=211 −5
  Y. E. Yang 67-72-72=211

Final round

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Sunday, April 11, 2010

Summary

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External videos
  Full final round coverage on CBS on YouTube

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]

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$)
1   Phil Mickelson (c) 67-71-67-67=272 −16 1,350,000
2   Lee Westwood 67-69-68-71=275 −13 810,000
3   Anthony Kim 68-70-73-65=276 −12 510,000
T4   K. J. Choi 67-71-70-69=277 −11 330,000
  Tiger Woods (c) 68-70-70-69=277
6   Fred Couples (c) 66-75-68-70=279 −9 270,000
7   Nick Watney 68-76-71-65=280 −8 251,250
T8   Hunter Mahan 71-71-68-71=281 −7 225,000
  Yang Yong-eun 67-72-72-70=281
T10   Ricky Barnes 68-70-72-73=283 −5 195,000
  Ian Poulter 68-68-74-73=283
  • Final bulletin - 2010 prize money[12]

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
  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]

References

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  1. ^ "Inside the course: Augusta National Golf Club". PGA Tour. April 1, 2012. Archived from the original on April 4, 2012. Retrieved August 25, 2012.
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  4. ^ "Four-time major winner Floyd calls it a career". Archived from the original on April 9, 2010. Retrieved April 6, 2010.
  5. ^ Olazabal To Miss Masters
  6. ^ "Sim to miss Masters debut with injury". ESPN. Associated Press. April 2, 2010. Archived from the original on April 9, 2010. Retrieved April 16, 2010.
  7. ^ Nichols, Bill (April 7, 2010). "Oosthuizen wins Par-3 Contest at Masters". The Dallas Morning News. Archived from the original on July 15, 2010. Retrieved July 23, 2010.
  8. ^ a b Hodgetts, Rob (April 9, 2010). "Tiger Woods in hunt as Fred Couples takes Masters lead". BBC Sport. Archived from the original on April 12, 2010. Retrieved April 12, 2010.
  9. ^ Hodgetts, Rob (April 9, 2010). "Lee Westwood and Ian Poulter share Masters halfway lead". BBC Sport. Archived from the original on April 12, 2010. Retrieved April 12, 2010.
  10. ^ Hodgetts, Rob (April 11, 2010). "Lee Westwood holds off Phil Mickelson for Masters lead". BBC Sport. Archived from the original on April 11, 2010. Retrieved April 12, 2010.
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  12. ^ "Final bulletin – 2010 prize money" (PDF). Retrieved March 27, 2012.
  13. ^ "2010 Masters leaderboard". Yahoo! Sports. Retrieved January 4, 2013.
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