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

Tournament information
Dates	April 7–10, 2005
Location	Augusta, Georgia
Course(s)	Augusta National Golf Club
Organized by	Augusta National Golf Club
Tour(s)	PGA Tour European Tour Japan Golf Tour
Statistics
Par	72
Length	7,290 yards (6,666 m)
Field	93 players, 50 after cut
Cut	148 (+4)
Prize fund	$7,000,000 €5,320,691
Winner's share	$1,260,000 €977,045
Champion
Tiger Woods
276 (−12), playoff

Augusta 

Location in the United States

Augusta 

Location in Georgia

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

Main article: Augusta National Golf Club

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

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

• George Archer, Seve Ballesteros, Gay Brewer, Jack Burke, Jr., Doug Ford, Bob Goalby, Byron Nelson, and Arnold Palmer did not play.

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, Fredrik 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

Nationalities in the field

North America (51)	South America (2)	Europe (21)	Oceania (9)	Asia (3)	Africa (7)
Canada (2)	Argentina (1)	England (6)	Australia (8)	Japan (2)	South Africa (6)
United States (49)	Paraguay (1)	Northern Ireland (2)	Fiji (1)	South Korea (1)	Zimbabwe (1)
		Scotland (2)
		Wales (1)
		Denmark (1)
		Spain (3)
		France (1)
		Germany (1)
		Sweden (3)
		Ireland (1)

Note that Stephen Ames is included in this table as a Canadian.

Past champions in the field

Made the cut

Player	Country	Year(s) won	R1	R2	R3	R4	Total	To par	Finish
Tiger Woods	United States	1997, 2001, 2002	74	66	65	71	276	−12	1
Vijay Singh	Fiji	2000	68	73	71	72	284	−4	T5
Mike Weir	Canada	2003	74	71	68	71	284	−4	T5
Phil Mickelson	United States	2004	70	72	69	74	285	−3	10
Bernhard Langer	Germany	1985, 1993	74	74	70	71	289	+1	T20
Mark O'Meara	United States	1998	72	74	72	75	293	+5	T31
Fred Couples	United States	1992	75	71	77	72	295	+7	T39
Craig Stadler	United States	1982	75	73	79	79	306	+18	50

Source[5]

Missed the cut

Player	Country	Year(s) won	R1	R2	Total	To par
Raymond Floyd	United States	1976	76	76	152	+8
Sandy Lyle	Scotland	1988	74	78	152	+8
Larry Mize	United States	1987	78	75	153	+9
Jack Nicklaus	United States	1963, 1965, 1966, 1972, 1975, 1986	77	76	153	+9
José María Olazábal	Spain	1994, 1999	77	76	153	+9
Tom Watson	United States	1977, 1981	77	76	153	+9
Ben Crenshaw	United States	1984, 1995	76	80	156	+12
Ian Woosnam	Wales	1991	78	78	156	+12
Tommy Aaron	United States	1973	79	82	161	+17
Fuzzy Zoeller	United States	1979	84	78	162	+18
Gary Player	South Africa	1961, 1974, 1978	88	79	167	+23
Charles Coody	United States	1971	88	83	171	+27
Billy Casper	United States	1970	106		WD
Nick Faldo	England	1989, 1990, 1996	WD

Source[5]

• Casper did not turn in his scorecard, so his record 106 (+34) in the first round was unofficial.[3]
• Faldo withdrew after eight holes due to back spasms.[6]

Round summaries

First round

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][7] Three-time champion Nick Faldo withdrew while playing the ninth hole due to back spasms.[6]

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

Second round

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

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

Third round

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	Country	To par	Hole
1	Chris DiMarco	United States	−13	9
2	Tiger Woods	United States	−9	9
3	Thomas Bjørn	Denmark	−8	9
T4	Mark Hensby	Australia	−4	9
	Vijay Singh	Fiji		10
	Rod Pampling	Australia		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	Country	Score	To par
1	Tiger Woods	United States	74-66-65=205	−11
2	Chris DiMarco	United States	67-67-74=208	−8
3	Thomas Bjørn	Denmark	71-67-71=209	−7
T4	Trevor Immelman	South Africa	73-73-65=211	−5
	Phil Mickelson	United States	70-72-69=211
T6	Mark Hensby	Australia	69-73-70=212	−4
	Vijay Singh	Fiji	68-73-71=212
T8	Chad Campbell	United States	73-73-67=213	−3
	Mike Weir	Canada	74-71-68=213
T10	Luke Donald	England	68-77-69=214	−2
	Tim Herron	United States	76-68-70=214
	Thomas Levet	France	71-75-68=214
	Rod Pampling	Australia	73-71-70=214

Scorecard

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:[8]

Final round

Sunday, April 10, 2005

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. Woods made a sensational chip, aiming 20 feet (6 m) to the left of the hole and using the sloping green to run the ball towards the hole. The ball crept towards the cup and appeared to stop on the lip of the hole before toppling in for a dramatic birdie. DiMarco missed his birdie putt and the lead grew back to two with just two to play. 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.

Place	Player	Country	Score	To par	Money ($)
T1	Tiger Woods	United States	74-66-65-71=276	−12	Playoff
	Chris DiMarco	United States	67-67-74-68=276
T3	Luke Donald	England	68-77-69-69=283	−5	406,000
	Retief Goosen	South Africa	71-75-70-67=283
T5	Mark Hensby	Australia	69-73-70-72=284	−4	237,300
	Trevor Immelman	South Africa	73-73-65-73=284
	Rod Pampling	Australia	73-71-70-70=284
	Vijay Singh	Fiji	68-73-71-72=284
	Mike Weir	Canada	74-71-68-71=284
10	Phil Mickelson	United States	70-72-69-74=285	−3	189,000

Amateurs: Moore (−1), List (+6).

Full Leaderboard

Scorecard

Final 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	−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
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:[8]

Playoff

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,[9] 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	Country	Score	To par	Money ($)
1	Tiger Woods	United States	3	−1	1,260,000
2	Chris DiMarco	United States	4	E	756,000

Quotes

"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

1. Shipnuck, Alan (April 18, 2005). "Perfect Pitch". Sports Illustrated. Retrieved January 7, 2013.
2. Hackenberg, Dave (April 11, 2005). "Fantastic Fourth". Toledo Blade. Toledo, Ohio. p. C1. Retrieved January 7, 2013.
3. 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". databasegolf.com. Retrieved May 5, 2014.
6. Armour, Nancy (April 8, 2005). "Back spasms force Faldo out". Lakeland Ledger. Associated Press. p. C3.
7. "2005 Masters". About.com. Retrieved January 7, 2013.
8. "Leaderboard: 2005 Masters". Yahoo! Sports. April 10, 2005. Retrieved April 10, 2013.
9. "Masters playoff format is changed". CNN.com. April 7, 2004. Retrieved April 10, 2013.

External links

• Official website
• Coverage on the European Tour's official site
• About.com: 2005 Masters
• BBC Coverage
• Augusta.com – 2005 Masters leaderboard and scorecards

Preceded by 2004 PGA Championship	Major Championships	Succeeded by 2005 U.S. Open