1973_Masters_Tournament

1973 Masters Tournament

Golf tournament

The 1973 Masters Tournament was the 37th Masters Tournament, held April 5–9 at the Augusta National Golf Club. Due to weather delays, the final round was played on Monday for the first time since 1961.^[2]

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1973 Masters Tournament
Tournament information
Dates	April 5–9, 1973
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
Statistics
Par	72
Length	6,980 yards (6,383 m)^[1]
Field	82 players, 57 after cut
Cut	151 (+7)
Winner's share	$30,000
Champion
Tommy Aaron
283 (−5)
Location map
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Tommy Aaron, age 36, won his only major title, one stroke ahead of runner-up J. C. Snead.^[2]^[3] Before this win at Augusta, Aaron was best known as the player who kept Roberto De Vicenzo's incorrect scorecard at the Masters five years earlier in 1968. Ironically, Aaron's final round playing partner in 1973, Johnny Miller, recorded a higher score when keeping Aaron's card, and Aaron caught the mistake.^[4] This was his third and last victory on the PGA Tour, and after this win, Aaron's best result in a major was a tie for 28th at the Masters in 1979.

Gary Player played in 52 Masters from 1957 through 2009;^[5] and missed only this one, to recover from leg and abdominal surgery.^[6]^[7]^[8] He returned in 1974 to win the second of his three green jackets.

Gay Brewer won the fourteenth Par 3 contest on Wednesday with a seven-under 20.^[9] At the previous Masters, the 1967 champion was hospitalized in Augusta for ulcers on Wednesday night and missed the tournament.^[10]

This Masters was the last as competitors for two former champions: Gene Sarazen (1935) and Ralph Guldahl (1939).

Field

1. Masters champions

George Archer (8), Gay Brewer (10,11), Billy Casper (8,9,10,12), Charles Coody (8,12), Doug Ford, Bob Goalby (8), Ralph Guldahl, Jack Nicklaus (2,3,4,8,9,11,12), Arnold Palmer (9,11,12), Gene Sarazen, Sam Snead (10), Art Wall Jr.

Jack Burke Jr., Jimmy Demaret, Claude Harmon, Ben Hogan, Herman Keiser, Cary Middlecoff, Byron Nelson, Henry Picard, and Gary Player (3,4,8,9,10) did not play. Player missed his only Masters in 53 years to recover from surgery.^[6]^[7]

The following categories only apply to Americans

2. U.S. Open champions (last five years)

Orville Moody (9), Lee Trevino (3,9,11,12)

3. The Open champions (last five years)

4. PGA champions (last five years)

Julius Boros, Raymond Floyd (10), Dave Stockton (12)

5. The first eight finishers in the 1972 U.S. Amateur

Doug Ballenger (a), Ben Crenshaw (7,8,a), Vinny Giles (6,7,a), Charles Harrison (a), Mike Killian (a), Marty West (7,a)

Mark Hayes (7,a) forfeited his exemption by turning professional. Bruce Robertson forfeited his exemption by losing his amateur status.^[11]

6. Previous two U.S. Amateur and Amateur champions

Steve Melnyk forfeited his exemption by turning professional.

7. Members of the 1972 U.S. Eisenhower Trophy team

8. Top 24 players and ties from the 1972 Masters Tournament

Homero Blancas (9), Gardner Dickinson (12), Al Geiberger, Hubert Green, Paul Harney, Jerry Heard (10,11), Jim Jamieson (10,11), Jerry McGee, Steve Melnyk, Bobby Mitchell (11), Lanny Wadkins (11), Tom Weiskopf (9), Bert Yancey (9,11)

9. Top 16 players and ties from the 1972 U.S. Open

Don January, Don Massengale, Johnny Miller (11), Bobby Nichols, Chi-Chi Rodríguez (11), Cesar Sanudo, Jim Simons, Kermit Zarley (11)

10. Top eight players and ties from 1972 PGA Championship

Tommy Aaron, Phil Rodgers, Doug Sanders (11)

11. Winners of PGA Tour events since the previous Masters

Buddy Allin, Deane Beman, Jim Colbert, Bob Dickson, Rod Funseth, Lou Graham, Dave Hill, Mike Hill, Babe Hiskey, Grier Jones, Bob Lunn, John Schlee, J. C. Snead (12), DeWitt Weaver

12. Members of the U.S. 1971 Ryder Cup team

Miller Barber, Frank Beard, Gene Littler, Mason Rudolph

13. Foreign invitations

Brian Barnes, Bob Charles (8), Gary Cowan (6,a), Bruce Crampton (8,9,11), Roberto De Vicenzo (8), Bruce Devlin (8,11), David Graham (11), Han Chang-sang, Trevor Homer (6,a), Guy Hunt, Tony Jacklin (2,3), George Knudson (11), Takaaki Kono (8), Lu Liang-Huan, Peter Oosterhuis, Masashi Ozaki, Bob Shaw (11)

Numbers in brackets indicate categories that the player would have qualified under had they been American.

Round summaries

First round

Thursday, April 5, 1973

More information Place, Player ...

Place	Player	Score	To par
1	Tommy Aaron	68	−4
T2	Jack Nicklaus	69	−3
T2	Masashi Ozaki	69	−3
T4	Bob Dickson	70	−2
T4	J. C. Snead	70	−2
T6	Grier Jones	71	−1
T6	Phil Rodgers	71	−1
T8	David Graham	72	E
	Hubert Green
	Steve Melnyk
	Chi-Chi Rodríguez
	Mason Rudolph
	Cesar Sanudo
	Dave Stockton

Source^[12]

Second round

Friday, April 6, 1973

More information Place, Player ...

Place	Player	Score	To par
T1	Tommy Aaron	68-73=141	−3
	Gay Brewer	75-66=141
	Bob Dickson	70-71=141
	J. C. Snead	70-71=141
5	Chi-Chi Rodríguez	72-70=142	−2
T6	Bob Goalby	73-70=143	−1
	Grier Jones	71-72=143
	Peter Oosterhuis	73-70=143
	Masashi Ozaki	69-74=143
T10	Bob Charles	74-70=144	E
	Gardner Dickinson	74-70=144
	Jim Jamieson	73-71=144
	Johnny Miller	75-69=144
	Mason Rudolph	72-72=144

Source^[13]

Third round

Sunday, April 8, 1973

Heavy rain on Saturday morning limited play to the first several pairs when the course was deemed unplayable. The third round was restarted in the late morning on Sunday from split tees.^[14]

More information Place, Player ...

Place	Player	Score	To par
1	Peter Oosterhuis	73-70-68=211	−5
T2	Bob Goalby	73-70-71=214	−2
	Jim Jamieson	73-71-70=214
	J. C. Snead	70-71-73=214
T5	Tommy Aaron	68-73-74=215	−1
	Gay Brewer	75-66-74=215
	Johnny Miller	75-69-71=215
	Chi-Chi Rodríguez	72-70-73=215
T9	Gardner Dickinson	74-70-72=216	E
T9	Masashi Ozaki	69-74-73=216	E

Source^[15]^[16]

Final round

Monday, April 9, 1973

Final leaderboard

Champion
Silver Cup winner (low amateur)
(a) = amateur
(c) = past champion

More information Place, Player ...

*Top 10*
Place	Player	Score	To par	Money (US$)
1	Tommy Aaron	68-73-74-68=283	−5	30,000
2	J. C. Snead	70-71-73-70=284	−4	22,500
T3	Jim Jamieson	73-71-70-71=285	−3	12,500
	Jack Nicklaus (c)	69-77-73-66=285
	Peter Oosterhuis	73-70-68-74=285
T6	Bob Goalby (c)	73-70-71-74=288	E	6,250
T6	Johnny Miller	75-69-71-73=288	E	6,250
T8	Bruce Devlin	73-72-72-72=289	+1	4,250
T8	Masashi Ozaki	69-74-73-73=289	+1	4,250
T10	Gay Brewer (c)	75-66-74-76=291	+3	3,425
	Gardner Dickinson	74-70-72-75=291
	Don January	75-71-75-70=291
	Chi-Chi Rodríguez	72-70-73-76=291

More information Leaderboard below the top 10, Place ...

Leaderboard below the top 10
Place	Player	Score	To par	Money ($)
T14	Hubert Green	72-74-75-71=292	+4	3,000
	Mason Rudolph	72-72-77-71=292
	Dave Stockton	72-74-71-75=292
T17	Billy Casper (c)	75-73-72-73=293	+5	2,550
	Bob Dickson	70-71-76-76=293
	Lou Graham	77-73-72-71=293
	Babe Hiskey	74-73-72-74=293
	Gene Littler	77-72-71-73=293
	Kermit Zarley	74-71-77-71=293
23	Phil Rodgers	71-75-75-73=294	+6	2,200
T24	Frank Beard	73-75-71-76=295	+7	2,100
	Ben Crenshaw (a)	73-72-74-76=295		0
	Paul Harney	77-71-74-73=295		2,100
	Bobby Nichols	79-72-76-68=295
	Arnold Palmer (c)	77-72-76-70=295
T29	Bob Charles	74-70-74-78=296	+8	1,750
	Charles Coody (c)	74-73-79-70=296
	David Graham	72-74-77-73=296
	Sam Snead (c)	74-76-73-73=296
	Lanny Wadkins	75-74-71-76=296
T34	Vinny Giles (a)	78-71-72-76=297	+9	0
	Steve Melnyk	72-74-79-72=297		1,750
	Tom Weiskopf	77-71-75-74=297		1,750
T37	Rod Funseth	73-75-74-76=298	+10	1,675
	Al Geiberger	75-76-77-70=298
	Dave Hill	77-70-76-75=298
	Grier Jones	71-72-77-78=298
	Art Wall Jr. (c)	79-69-74-76=298
	Marty West (a)	75-70-77-76=298		0
T43	George Archer (c)	73-74-74-78=299	+11	1,675
	Miller Barber	78-72-80-69=299
	Jim Colbert	74-72-76-77=299
	Bruce Crampton	74-74-77-74=299
	Lu Liang-Huan	74-72-75-78=299
	Bob Lunn	76-74-72-77=299
	Cesar Sanudo	72-75-76-76=299
	Lee Trevino	74-75-75-75=299
T51	Roberto De Vicenzo	74-74-74-78=300	+12	1,600
	Takaaki Kono	74-74-78-74=300
	Bert Yancey	75-74-74-77=300
54	Raymond Floyd	76-73-75-77=301	+13	1,600
55	Don Massengale	74-74-76-78=302	+14	1,600
56	Jerry Heard	76-75-72-80=303	+15	1,600
57	John Schlee	76-73-74-82=305	+17	1,600
CUT	Buddy Allin	76-76=152	+8
	Deane Beman	77-75=152
	Gary Cowan (a)	74-78=152
	Han Chang-sang	77-75=152
	Tony Jacklin	77-75=152
	Bob Shaw	74-78=152
	Jerry McGee	81-72=153	+9
	Julius Boros	75-79=154	+10
	Doug Ford (c)	76-78=154	+10
	Mike Killian (a)	79-76=155	+11
	Bobby Mitchell	81-74=155	+11
	Brian Barnes	79-77=156	+12
	George Knudson	79-77=156	+12
	Mike Hill	79-78=157	+13
	Jim Simons	79-78=157	+13
	Doug Ballenger (a)	81-77=158	+14
	Homero Blancas	81-77=158
	Orville Moody	81-77=158
	DeWitt Weaver	81-77=158
	Guy Hunt	78-81=159	+15
	Doug Sanders	83-78=161	+17
	Ralph Guldahl (c)	82-80=162	+18
	Charles Harrison (a)	81-81=162	+18
	Trevor Homer (a)	81-88=169	+25
	Gene Sarazen (c)	88-86=174	+30

Sources:^[17]^[18]^[19]

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
Aaron	−2	−3	−4	−4	−4	−4	−4	−5	−5	−4	−3	−3	−4	−4	−5	−5	−5	−5
Snead	−3	−3	−3	−4	−4	−4	−4	−5	−5	−5	−5	−3	−4	−4	−4	−4	−4	−4
Jamieson	−3	−4	−3	−2	−2	−2	−2	−2	−2	−2	−1	−1	−2	−2	−2	−2	−3	−3
Nicklaus	+2	+1	+1	+2	+1	E	E	−1	−1	−1	−1	−1	−2	−1	−2	−2	−2	−3
Oosterhuis	−5	−5	−6	−5	−5	−5	−4	−4	−4	−4	−3	−3	−4	−4	−3	−3	−3	−3
Goalby	−2	−3	−2	−2	−2	−2	−2	−2	−2	−1	−1	E	E	+1	+1	+1	+1	E
Miller	−1	−1	−1	−1	−1	−2	−2	−2	−2	−2	−2	−1	−1	−1	−2	−2	−2	E

Cumulative tournament scores, relative to par

	Birdie		Bogey		Double bogey

References

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[2]
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[3]
Gundelfinger, Phil (April 10, 1973). "Georgian Aaron wins Masters with a 283". Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. p. 18.
[4]
"Aaron can count strokes, money". Ellensburg Daily Record. (Washington). UPI. April 10, 1973. p. 6.
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"Gary Player reached Masters on pass of hat". Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Associated Press. April 5, 1973. p. 20.
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"Brewer takes Par Three test". Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. April 5, 1973. p. 19.
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"Golfer Brewer: ulcers, hernia". Montreal Gazette. UPI. April 11, 1972. p. 16.
[11]
Robinson, Dave (April 3, 1973). "Robertson Loses Amateur Status". The Stanford Daily.
[12]
"Aaron gets lucky, leads Masters by 1". Milwaukee Sentinel. UPI. April 6, 1973. p. 1, part 2.
[13]
"Brewer charges, Nicklaus falters". Milwaukee Sentinel. Associated Press. April 7, 1973. p. 1, part 2.
[14]
"Rain postpones Masters classic". Sunday Star-News. (Wilmington, North Carolina). UPI. April 8, 1973. p. 1C.
[15]
"Englishman takes Masters lead". Milwaukee Sentinel. April 9, 1973. p. 1, part 2.
[16]
"Oosterhuis has three stroke Masters lead". Wilmington Morning Star. (North Carolina). UPI. April 9, 1973. p. 1C.
[17]
"Masters – Past Winners & Results". Augusta National Inc. Retrieved April 20, 2021.
[18]
"Past results – Masters tournament". PGA Tour. Retrieved April 20, 2021.
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"Masters cash box". Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. April 10, 1973. p. 20.

External links

Masters.com – past winners and results
Augusta.com – 1973 Masters leaderboard and scorecards

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