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2017 Masters Tournament
Front cover of the 2017 Masters Journal, featuring a tribute to Arnold Palmer who died the previous year.
Tournament information
DatesApril 6–9, 2017
LocationAugusta, Georgia, U.S.
33°30′11″N 82°01′12″W / 33.503°N 82.020°W / 33.503; -82.020
Course(s)Augusta National Golf Club
Tour(s)
Statistics
Par72
Length7,435 yards (6,799 m)
Field93 players, 53 after cut
Cut150 (+6)
Prize fund$11,000,000
Winner's share$1,980,000
Champion
Spain Sergio García
279 (−9), playoff
Location map
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Location in the United States
Augusta National is located in Georgia
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The 2017 Masters Tournament was the 81st edition of the Masters Tournament and the first of golf's four major championships in 2017. It was held April 6–9 at Augusta National Golf Club in Augusta, Georgia.

Sergio García defeated Justin Rose in a sudden-death playoff, after they both completed the 72 holes in nine-under-par. This was his first major title, which came in his 74th attempt. Previously, García had 22 top-ten finishes in majors (including three at the Masters, the best a tie for fourth in 2004). He was the first Spaniard to win at Augusta in eighteen years, since José María Olazábal in 1999.[1]

Course

Main article: Augusta National Golf Club
Hole Name Yards Par Hole Name Yards Par
1 Tea Olive 445 4 10 Camellia 495 4
2 Pink Dogwood 575 5 11 White Dogwood 505 4
3 Flowering Peach 350 4 12 Golden Bell 155 3
4 Flowering Crab Apple 240 3 13 Azalea 510 5
5 Magnolia 455 4 14 Chinese Fir 440 4
6 Juniper 180 3 15 Firethorn 530 5
7 Pampas 450 4 16 Redbud 170 3
8 Yellow Jasmine 570 5 17 Nandina 440 4
9 Carolina Cherry 460 4 18 Holly 465 4
Out 3,725 36 In 3,710 36
Source: Total 7,435 72

Field

The Masters has the smallest field of the four major championships. Officially, the Masters remains an invitation event, but there is a set of qualifying criteria that determines who is included in the field. Each player is classified according to the first category by which he qualified, with other categories in which he qualified shown in parentheses.[2]

Golfers who qualify based solely on their performance in amateur tournaments (categories 7–11) must remain amateurs on the starting day of the tournament to be eligible to play.

1. Past Masters Champions

2. Winners of the last five U.S. Opens

  • Dustin Johnson (12,13,16,17,18,19) withdrew after sustaining a back injury the day before the tournament.[4]

3. Winners of the last five British Opens

4. Winners of the last five PGA Championships

5. Winners of the last three Players Championships

6. Winner of the 2016 Olympic Golf Tournament

  • Eligible under category 2

7. Top two finishers in the 2016 U.S. Amateur

8. Winner of the 2016 Amateur Championship

9. Winner of the 2016 Asia-Pacific Amateur Championship

  • Eligible under category 7

10. Winner of the 2017 Latin America Amateur Championship

11. Winner of the 2016 U.S. Mid-Amateur

12. The top 12 finishers and ties in the 2016 Masters Tournament

13. Top 4 finishers and ties in the 2016 U.S. Open

14. Top 4 finishers and ties in the 2016 British Open Championship

15. Top 4 finishers and ties in the 2016 PGA Championship

16. Winners of PGA Tour events that award a full-point allocation for the FedEx Cup, between the 2016 Masters Tournament and the 2017 Masters Tournament

17. All players qualifying for the 2016 edition of the Tour Championship

18. Top 50 on the final 2016 Official World Golf Ranking list

19. Top 50 on the Official World Golf Ranking list on March 27

20. International invitees

  • None

All five amateurs were appearing in their first Masters, as were fourteen professionals: Tommy Fleetwood, Adam Hadwin, Tyrrell Hatton, Mackenzie Hughes, Billy Hurley III, Kim Si-woo, William McGirt, Alex Norén, Thomas Pieters, Jon Rahm, Brian Stuard, Daniel Summerhays, Hudson Swafford, and Wang Jeung-hun. All the professionals, and Scott Gregory, had previously appeared in a major.

Par 3 contest

Wednesday, April 5, 2017

Heavy rain forced the cancellation of the Par-3 contest for the first time in its history. Mike Weir recorded the only hole-in-one before play was suspended.[5]

Round summaries

First round

Thursday, April 6, 2017

After being one-over after five holes, Charley Hoffman birdied eight of his next twelve holes for 65 (−7). His four-stroke advantage after the first round was the largest at the Masters since 1955.[6][7]

Place Player Score To par
1 United States Charley Hoffman 65 −7
2 United States William McGirt 69 −3
3 England Lee Westwood 70 −2
T4 United States Kevin Chappell 71 −1
United States Jason Dufner
England Matt Fitzpatrick
Spain Sergio García
United States Russell Henley
United States Phil Mickelson
England Justin Rose
England Andy Sullivan

Second round

Friday, April 7, 2017

Charley Hoffman fell back to the pack with 75 and into a four-way tie for the lead at 140 (−4). Rickie Fowler had four birdies and an eagle on his way to a round of 67 (−5), the lowest score of the round, and tied for the lead along with Sergio García and Thomas Pieters.[8] García was originally credited with a triple-bogey seven on the 10th, but his score was later corrected to a five. Fifteen players were within five shots of the lead, including past champions Fred Couples, Phil Mickelson, Adam Scott, and Jordan Spieth.[9] Amateur Stewart Hagestad became the first U.S. Mid-Amateur champion to make the cut at the Masters since the winner of that tournament was granted entry in 1989.[10]

Place Player Score To par
T1 United States Rickie Fowler 73-67=140 −4
Spain Sergio García 71-69=140
United States Charley Hoffman 65-75=140
Belgium Thomas Pieters 72-68=140
5 United States William McGirt 69-73=142 −2
T6 United States Fred Couples 73-70=143 −1
United States Ryan Moore 74-69=143
Spain Jon Rahm 73-70=143
England Justin Rose 71-72=143
T10 United States Phil Mickelson 71-73=144 E
Australia Adam Scott 75-69=144
United States Jordan Spieth 75-69=144

Amateurs: Hagestad (+3), Luck (+6), Dalke (+9), Gregory (+13), Gana (+17)

Third round

Saturday, April 8, 2017

Justin Rose birdied five of his final seven holes for 67 (−5), the lowest of the round, and tied Sergio García for the lead. Charley Hoffman held solo possession of the lead before a bogey at 14 and double-bogey at 16 after hitting his tee shot in the water, finishing two shots behind.[11] Jordan Spieth was five-under on his round and within a shot of the lead until a bogey at 18 tied him with Hoffman.[12]

Place Player Score To par
T1 Spain Sergio García 71-69-70=210 −6
England Justin Rose 71-72-67=210
3 United States Rickie Fowler 73-67-71=211 −5
T4 United States Charley Hoffman 65-75-72=212 −4
United States Ryan Moore 74-69-69=212
United States Jordan Spieth 75-69-68=212
7 Australia Adam Scott 75-69-69=213 −3
8 South Africa Charl Schwartzel 74-72-68=214 −2
T9 Belgium Thomas Pieters 72-68-75=215 −1
England Lee Westwood 70-77-68=215
Amateurs: Hagestad (+5), Luck (+9)

Final round

Sunday, April 9, 2017

Summary

External videos
video icon Full final round coverage on CBS on YouTube

Sergio García birdied two of his first three holes to open up a three-shot lead. Starting at the 6th, Justin Rose recorded three consecutive birdies to tie; with bogeys by García at the 10th and 11th, Rose went ahead by two shots. At the 13th, García was forced to take a drop when his tee shot found the trees, but was able to get up and down to save par while Rose missed his birdie attempt.[13] García made birdie at the 14th to get within one and hit his approach to the par-5 15th to fourteen feet (4.3 m). After converting the eagle attempt, he once again tied Rose, who made birdie. On the par-3 16th, both hit approaches to within eight feet (2.4 m), and Rose made his birdie from 7 feet, while García missed his gimme three-footer. At the 17th, however, Rose found the greenside bunker and suffered a bogey while Garcia two-putted for par, once again tying for the lead heading to the last hole. Rose missed a seven-footer for birdie, while García missed from three feet (0.91 m) to win the championship, forcing a sudden-death playoff.

Charl Schwartzel, the 2011 champion, had four birdies on the back-nine for 68 (−4) and third place, three shots behind García and Rose.[14] Thomas Pieters also shot 68 after making four straight birdies on holes 12–15 and tied for fourth place. Matt Kuchar birdied three consecutive holes on his final nine, then made a hole-in-one at 16 to equal the lowest score of the round with 67 and tied Pieters. Rickie Fowler began the round a shot out of the lead, but seven bogeys yielded a 76 (+4) and dropped him to eleventh, while 2015 champion Jordan Spieth, two back at the start of the round, shot 75 and tied Fowler.[15][16] (He was six-over for the round and then birdied three of the last four.) Charley Hoffman carded 41 on the final nine for 78 and tied for 22nd place.

After García took his drop on 13, some TV viewers reported the possibility that he caused his ball to move while removing some pine straw near his ball. Prior to the conclusion of the round Masters Officials determined there was no penalty.[17] Per Rule 18-2 (Decision 18/4) even if high definition TV camera evidence shows movement, there is no penalty if it is deemed that the movement was not reasonably discernible to the naked eye at the time.[18]

Final leaderboard

Champion
Silver Cup winner (low amateur)
(a) = amateur
(c) = past champion
Top 10
Place Player Score To par Money (US$)
T1 Spain Sergio García 71-69-70-69=279 −9 Playoff
England Justin Rose 71-72-67-69=279
3 South Africa Charl Schwartzel (c) 74-72-68-68=282 −6 748,000
T4 United States Matt Kuchar 72-73-71-67=283 −5 484,000
Belgium Thomas Pieters 72-68-75-68=283
6 England Paul Casey 72-75-69-68=284 −4 396,000
T7 United States Kevin Chappell 71-76-70-68=285 −3 354,750
Northern Ireland Rory McIlroy 72-73-71-69=285
T9 United States Ryan Moore 74-69-69-74=286 −2 308,000
Australia Adam Scott (c) 75-69-69-73=286

Source:[19][20]

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
Spain García −7 −7 −8 −8 −8 −8 −8 −8 −8 −7 −6 −6 −6 −7 −9 −9 −9 −9
England Rose −6 −6 −6 −6 −5 −6 −7 −8 −8 −8 −8 −8 −8 −8 −9 −10 −9 −9
South Africa Schwartzel −2 −3 −2 −2 −2 −2 −2 −2 −3 −3 −4 −4 −5 −4 −5 −5 −5 −6
United States Kuchar +1 E +1 +1 +1 E −1 −1 E E E −1 −2 −3 −3 −5 −5 −5
Belgium Pieters −1 −2 −2 −1 −1 −1 −1 −2 −2 −2 −2 −3 −4 −5 −6 −5 −5 −5
United States Fowler −5 −5 −6 −5 −4 −4 −4 −5 −5 −5 −4 −3 −4 −4 −4 −3 −2 −1
United States Spieth −3 −4 −3 −3 −3 −2 −2 −2 −2 −1 −1 +1 +1 +2 +1 E E −1

Cumulative tournament scores, relative to par

Eagle Birdie Bogey Double bogey

Source:[19][20]

Playoff

The sudden-death playoff began at the par four 18th; Rose's drive found the trees and he was forced to chip out. García's drive was in the fairway and he hit his approach to twelve feet (3.7 m), while Rose was fourteen feet (4.3 m) away for par.[21] Rose missed the putt, giving García two putts to win the championship, but he converted the birdie to win his first major championship. The win came in García's 19th Masters appearance and 74th major, the most by any player before their first title.[22]

Place Player Score To par Money ($)
1 Spain Sergio García 3 −1 1,980,000
2 England Justin Rose 5 +1 1,188,000

Source:[19][20]

References

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  2. ^ "2017 Tournament Invitees". Masters. Retrieved January 24, 2017.
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  4. ^ DiMeglio, Steve (April 6, 2017). "Dustin Johnson withdraws from Masters". USA Today.
  5. ^ Kilbridge, Dan (April 5, 2017). "Masters Par 3 Contest wiped out, Augusta National closes course due to storms". Golfweek.
  6. ^ "Charley Hoffman's 4-shot, opening Masters lead biggest in 62 years". ESPN. Associated Press. April 6, 2017.
  7. ^ Murray, Scott; Butler, Michael (April 6, 2017). "The Masters 2017: first round – as it happened". The Guardian. Retrieved April 7, 2017.
  8. ^ Murray, Scott; Butler, Michael (April 8, 2017). "The Masters 2017: second round – as it happened". The Guardian. Retrieved April 11, 2017.
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  12. ^ "Justin Rose, Sergio Garcia tied atop Masters; Rickie Fowler 1 back". ESPN. Associated Press. April 8, 2017.
  13. ^ Brennan, Christine (April 9, 2017). "Sergio Garcia finally rises to the occasion at Masters to win first major". USA Today. Retrieved April 10, 2017.
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  15. ^ "Sergio Garcia outlasts Justin Rose to claim Masters, first major". ESPN. Associated Press. April 9, 2017.
  16. ^ Beal, Joel (April 9, 2017). "Masters 2017: Live Updates – Sergio Garcia defeats Justin Rose to win his first green jacket". Golf Digest.
  17. ^ Cunningham, Kevin (April 10, 2017). "Inside the alleged rules snafu that could have derailed Sergio's Masters victory". Golf.com. Retrieved April 10, 2017.
  18. ^ "Rules and Decisions". United States Golf Association. Retrieved April 10, 2017.
  19. ^ a b c "2017 Masters Tournament". ESPN. (leaderboard). August 9, 2017. Retrieved March 31, 2018.
  20. ^ a b c "Historic Leaderboard: 2017 Masters". Augusta Chronicle. (Georgia). April 9, 2017. Retrieved March 31, 2018.
  21. ^ Jurejko, Jonathan (April 10, 2017). "Sergio Garcia pips Justin Rose to win at Augusta". BBC Sport. Retrieved April 10, 2017.
  22. ^ Crouse, Karen (April 9, 2017). "Masters 2017: Sergio García Finally Wins First Major Title". The New York Times. Retrieved April 10, 2017.
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