1983 Masters Tournament

The 1983 Masters Tournament was the 47th Masters Tournament, held April 7–11 at Augusta National Golf Club in Augusta, Georgia. Seve Ballesteros won his second Masters and third major title, four strokes ahead of runners-up Ben Crenshaw and Tom Kite.[2] Play on Friday was postponed due to heavy rain, and the final round was completed on Monday for the first time since 1973.[3]

1983 Masters Tournament

Tournament information
Dates	April 7–11, 1983
Location	Augusta, Georgia
Course(s)	Augusta National Golf Club
Organized by	Augusta National Golf Club
Tour(s)	PGA Tour
Statistics
Par	72
Length	6,905 yards (6,314 m)[1]
Field	82 players, 49 after cut
Cut	147 (+3)
Prize fund	$500,000
Winner's share	$90,000
Champion
Seve Ballesteros
280 (−8)

Augusta 

Location in the United States

Defending champion Craig Stadler was tied for the 54-hole lead with 1976 champion Raymond Floyd, with Ballesteros one stroke back, and two-time champion Tom Watson an additional stroke behind.[4] Ballesteros got off to a fast start in the final round on Monday with a birdie-eagle start. With another birdie at the difficult par-3 fourth, he added four pars and another birdie at the ninth for a five-under 31 on the front nine. Ballesteros cruised to a 69 (−3) and a comfortable win as neither Stadler, Floyd, nor Watson broke par.[2][5]

During the postponement of Friday's round, the possibility was raised that the tournament would not complete the entire 72 holes,[6][7] as the southeastern U.S. was experiencing heavy rains and flooding and forecasts were not favorable.[8][9]

Saturday's second round went off from split tees (1st and 10th)[10][11] and six players did not complete their rounds until early Sunday morning.[12] With this extension, the tournament committee did not attempt to complete the final two rounds on Sunday, opting for the third round only on Sunday and the fourth on Monday.[10][12]

Four-time champion Arnold Palmer, 53, opened with a 68 on Thursday and made the cut at the Masters for the final time.[13] In his 29th Masters, he stated that the conditions on Saturday were the worst he had ever seen at Augusta.[14] Five-time winner Jack Nicklaus 43, withdrew before his second round start time due to back spasms experienced while warming up. Nicklaus had shot a first round of 73. [3][12] It was only his second withdrawal as a pro, the first was three years earlier at the 1980 World Series of Golf.[15] Nicklaus had missed only one cut in the previous 23 Masters and made ten consecutive after this year, including his record sixth green jacket in 1986.

It was the final major championship for Sam Snead, 70, a three-time Masters champion. He withdrew after a first round 79 as he assessed he could not make the cut.[13]

Caddie policy change

This was the first year that players were allowed to use their own caddies, rather than those of Augusta National.[3][16][17] Twelve players continued to use caddies from the club, including Nicklaus.[18] The first female caddie at the Masters appeared this year as George Archer, the 1969 champion, employed his 19-year-old daughter Elizabeth. She had carried the bag for her father for twenty previous events since the summer of 1980.[18][19] Archer finished tied for twelfth, one of his better finishes at Augusta.

Field

1. Masters champions

Tommy Aaron, George Archer, Seve Ballesteros (3,8), Gay Brewer, Billy Casper, Charles Coody, Raymond Floyd (4,8,10,11,12,13), Doug Ford, Bob Goalby, Jack Nicklaus (2,3,4,8,9,11,12,13), Arnold Palmer, Gary Player (8), Sam Snead, Craig Stadler (8,11,12), Art Wall Jr., Tom Watson (2,3,8,9,12,13), Fuzzy Zoeller (8,9,12)

• Jack Burke, Jr., Jimmy Demaret, Ralph Guldahl, Claude Harmon, Ben Hogan, Herman Keiser, Cary Middlecoff, Byron Nelson, Henry Picard, and Gene Sarazen did not play.

The following categories only apply to Americans

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

Hale Irwin (12,13), Andy North

3. The Open champions (last five years)

Bill Rogers (9,11,12,13)

4. PGA champions (last five years)

John Mahaffey, Larry Nelson (8,12,13)

5. 1982 U.S. Amateur semi-finalists

Rick Fehr (a), Jim Hallet (a), Jay Sigel (6,7,a), David Tolley (a)

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

Nathaniel Crosby (7,a)

7. Members of the 1982 U.S. Eisenhower Trophy team

Jim Holtgrieve (a), Bob Lewis (a)

8. Top 24 players and ties from the 1982 Masters Tournament

Andy Bean (12), Ben Crenshaw (13), Danny Edwards (9,12), Bob Gilder (10,11,12), Morris Hatalsky, Mark Hayes, Peter Jacobsen (12), Tom Kite (11,12,13), Wayne Levi (11,12), Bruce Lietzke (11,12,13), Jodie Mudd, Dan Pohl (9), Jack Renner, John Schroeder, Jim Simons (10), Curtis Strange (12), Tom Weiskopf (11,12)

• Jerry Pate (12,13) did not play

9. Top 16 players and ties from the 1982 U.S. Open

Chip Beck, Bobby Clampett (11,12), Jay Haas (10,11,12), Gary Koch (11), Lyn Lott, Calvin Peete (10,11,12), Larry Rinker, Scott Simpson (12), J. C. Snead, Lanny Wadkins (10,11,12)

10. Top eight players and ties from 1982 PGA Championship

Fred Couples

11. Winners of PGA Tour events since the previous Masters

Keith Fergus (12), Gary Hallberg, Scott Hoch (12), Johnny Miller (12,13), Gil Morgan (12), Mike Nicolette, Tim Norris, Ed Sneed (12), Payne Stewart, Hal Sutton (12)

12. Top 30 players from the 1982 PGA Tour money list

George Burns

13. Members of the U.S. 1981 Ryder Cup team

Lee Trevino

14. Foreign invitations

Isao Aoki (11), Bruce Devlin (9), Nick Faldo, David Graham (2,4,8,9), Yutaka Hagawa (8), Hsieh Min-Nan, Sandy Lyle, Tsuneyuki Nakajima, Greg Norman (10), Peter Oosterhuis (8), Philippe Ploujoux (6,a), Bob Shearer (11), Martin Thompson (6,a)

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

Nationalities in the field

North America (67)	South America (0)	Europe (6)	Oceania (4)	Asia (4)	Africa (1)
United States (67)		England (3)	Australia (4)	Japan (3)	South Africa (1)
		Scotland (1)		Taiwan (1)
		France (1)
		Spain (1)

Past champions in the field

Made the cut

Player	Country	Year(s) won	R1	R2	R3	R4	Total	To par	Finish
Seve Ballesteros	Spain	1980	68	70	73	69	280	−8	1
Raymond Floyd	United States	1976	67	72	71	75	285	−3	T4
Tom Watson	United States	1977, 1981	70	71	71	73	285	−3	T4
Craig Stadler	United States	1982	69	72	69	76	286	−2	T6
George Archer	United States	1969	71	73	71	74	289	+1	T12
Fuzzy Zoeller	United States	1979	70	74	76	72	292	+4	T20
Charles Coody	United States	1971	68	75	79	74	296	+8	T36
Arnold Palmer	United States	1958, 1960, 1962, 1964	68	74	76	78	296	+8	T36
Gay Brewer	United States	1967	72	73	80	76	301	+13	47

Missed the cut

Player	Country	Year(s) won	R1	R2	Total	To par
Billy Casper	United States	1970	72	76	148	+4
Tommy Aaron	United States	1973	76	75	151	+7
Gary Player	South Africa	1961, 1974, 1978	73	78	151	+7
Bob Goalby	United States	1968	76	79	155	+11
Art Wall, Jr.	United States	1959	74	84	158	+14
Jack Nicklaus	United States	1963, 1965, 1966, 1972, 1975	73		WD
Sam Snead	United States	1949, 1952, 1954	79		WD
Doug Ford	United States	1957	85		WD

Source:[12]

Round summaries

First round

Thursday, April 7, 1983

Place	Player	Country	Score	To par
T1	Raymond Floyd	United States	67	−5
	Gil Morgan	United States
	Jack Renner	United States
T4	Seve Ballesteros	Spain	68	−4
	Charles Coody	United States
	Jim Hallet (a)	United States
	Arnold Palmer	United States
	J. C. Snead	United States
T9	Bruce Lietzke	United States	69	−3
	Craig Stadler	United States

Source:[1]

Second round

Saturday, April 9, 1983
Sunday, April 10, 1983

Play on Friday was completely washed out due to rain and the second round started on Saturday;[20]
six players did not finish the second round until Sunday morning.[21]

Place	Player	Country	Score	To par
1	Gil Morgan	United States	67-70=137	−7
2	Seve Ballesteros	Spain	68-70=138	−6
T3	Keith Fergus	United States	70-69=139	−5
	Raymond Floyd	United States	67-72=139
T5	Nick Faldo	England	70-70=140	−4
	Jodie Mudd	United States	72-68=140
T7	Fred Couples	United States	73-68=141	−3
	Craig Stadler	United States	69-72=141
	Tom Watson	United States	70-71=141
T10	Jay Haas	United States	73-69=142	−2
	Gary Hallberg	United States	71-71=142
	Tom Kite	United States	70-72=142
	Wayne Levi	United States	72-70=142
	Tsuneyuki Nakajima	Japan	72-70=142
	Peter Oosterhuis	England	73-69=142
	Arnold Palmer	United States	68-74=142
	Jack Renner	United States	67-75=142
	J. C. Snead	United States	68-74=142

Source:[12][21]

Third round

Sunday, April 10, 1983

Place	Player	Country	Score	To par
T1	Raymond Floyd	United States	67-72-71=210	−6
	Craig Stadler	United States	69-72-69=210
3	Seve Ballesteros	Spain	68-70-73=211	−5
T4	Jodie Mudd	United States	72-68-72=212	−4
	Tom Watson	United States	70-71-71=212
T6	Keith Fergus	United States	70-69-74=213	−3
	Gil Morgan	United States	67-70-76=213
8	Tsuneyuki Nakajima	Japan	72-70-72=214	−2
T9	George Archer	United States	71-73-71=215	−1
	Jay Haas	United States	73-69-73=215
	Tom Kite	United States	70-72-73=215
	Johnny Miller	United States	72-72-71=215
	Greg Norman	Australia	71-74-70=215
	Scott Simpson	United States	70-73-72=215
	Lee Trevino	United States	71-72-72=215

Source:[22]

Final round

Monday, April 11, 1983

Place	Player	Country	Score	To par	Money ($)
1	Seve Ballesteros	Spain	68-70-73-69=280	−8	90,000
T2	Ben Crenshaw	United States	76-70-70-68=284	−4	44,000
	Tom Kite	United States	70-72-73-69=284
T4	Raymond Floyd	United States	67-72-71-75=285	−3	22,000
	Tom Watson	United States	70-71-71-73=285
T6	Hale Irwin	United States	72-73-72-69=286	−2	17,400
	Craig Stadler	United States	69-72-69-76=286
T8	Gil Morgan	United States	67-70-76-74=287	−1	14,500
	Dan Pohl	United States	74-72-70-71=287
	Lanny Wadkins	United States	73-70-73-71=287

Source:[23]

Scorecard

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
Ballesteros	−6	−8	−8	−9	−9	−9	−9	−9	−10	−9	−9	−8	−8	−8	−8	−8	−8	−8
Crenshaw	E	−1	−2	−2	−2	−1	−2	−2	−2	−2	−2	−2	−4	−4	−4	−4	−4	−4
Kite	−1	−2	−1	−1	E	E	E	E	E	E	E	−1	−2	−3	−3	−2	−3	−4
Floyd	−6	−6	−6	−6	−5	−4	−4	−4	−4	−3	−3	−3	−3	−3	−3	−4	−3	−3
Watson	−4	−5	−5	−5	−6	−6	−5	−7	−6	−5	−4	−4	−5	−3	−3	−3	−3	−3
Stadler	−5	−6	−6	−6	−6	−5	−6	−6	−6	−6	−5	−4	−4	−3	−2	−2	−2	−2
Irwin	+1	E	−1	−1	−1	−1	−1	−1	E	E	E	E	E	−1	−1	−2	−2	−2

Cumulative tournament scores, relative to par

References

1. "Masters Thursday's results". Spokesman-Review. Spokane, Washington. Associated Press. April 9, 1983. p. 19.
2. Parascenzo, Marino (April 12, 1983). "Ballesteros takes Masters". Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. p. 9.
3. Jenkins, Dan (April 18, 1983). "Another Green Jacket for Seve". Sports Illustrated: 30.
4. "Stadler bids for second straight". Spokesman-Review. Spokane, Washington. Associated Press. April 11, 1983. p. 15.
5. "Ballesteros ends Masters race early". Spokesman-Review. Spokane, Washington. Associated Press. April 12, 1983. p. 15.
6. "Masters may not see champion". Spokesman-Review. Spokane, Washington. Associated Press. April 9, 1983. p. 17.
7. Anderson, Dave (April 9, 1983). "Arnie isn't upset by the rain". Spokesman-Review. Spokane, Washington. (New York Times). p. 17.
8. "Record floods plague South". Milwaukee Sentinel. wire services. April 9, 1983. p. 1, part 1.
9. "Thousands flee floods". Spokesman-Review. Spokane, Washington. Associated Press. April 9, 1983. p. 1.
10. Breitenbucher, Cathy (April 9, 1983). "Rains dampen Masters". Milwaukee Sentinel. p. 1, part 2.
11. "Scoreboard: 47th Masters". Spokesman-Review. Spokane, Washington. (tee times). April 9, 1983. p. 19.
12. "Morgan goes to the front while Nicklaus backs out". Eugene Register-Guard. Oregon. wire services. April 10, 1983. p. 3E.
13. "Arnie stirs memories". Spokesman-Review. Spokane, Washington. Associated Press. April 8, 1983. p. 25.
14. "Morgan leads after 2 incomplete rounds". Rome News-Tribune. Georgia. Associated Press. April 10, 1983. p. 1C.
15. "Back spasms take Jack Nicklaus out of Masters field". Rome News-Tribune. Georgia. Associated Press. April 10, 1983. p. 1C.
16. Wade, Harless (April 7, 1983). "Augusta loses caddy tradition". Spartanburg Herald. South Carolina. (Dallas Morning News). p. C1.
17. Anderson, Dave (April 10, 1983). "New Masters caddies collide". Sunday Star-News. Wilmington, North Carolina. p. 6D.
18. Greenday, Joe (April 11, 1983). "Elizabeth Archer enjoying a first in golf at Masters". Boca Raton News. Florida. Knight Ridder Newspapers. p. 1D.
19. "Pro Archer has daughter carry bag". News and Courier. Charleston, South Carolina. Associated Press. August 17, 1980. p. 8B.
20. "They're still waiting for skies to clear at Augusta". Eugene Register-Guard. (Oregon). Associated Press. April 9, 1983. p. 1B.
21. "Morgan goes to the front as Nicklaus backs out". Eugene Register-Guard. (Oregon). wire services. April 10, 1983. p. 3E.
22. "A great 'final four' at the Masters". Eugene Register-Guard. (Oregon). (Washington Post). April 11, 1983. p. 1B.
23. "Masters: final scores". Spokane Chronicle. Washington. Associated Press. April 12, 1983. p. 17.

External links

• Official website – Past winners and results
• About.com – 1983 Masters Tournament
• Augusta.com – 1983 Masters leaderboard and scorecards

Preceded by 1982 PGA Championship	Major Championships	Succeeded by 1983 U.S. Open