1995 Masters Tournament

The 1995 Masters Tournament was the 59th Masters Tournament, held April 6–9 at Augusta National Golf Club in Augusta, Georgia. Ben Crenshaw won his second Masters championship, one stroke ahead of runner-up Davis Love III. It was an emotional victory for Crenshaw as it came just days after the death of his mentor, Harvey Penick. Crenshaw and Tom Kite attended the funeral in Texas on Wednesday and did not return to Augusta until that night, on the eve of the first round. The 1995 Masters marked the first major championship for Tiger Woods, who qualified as the 1994 U.S. Amateur champion. A 19-year-old college freshman at Stanford, he tied for 41st place and was the leading amateur, the only one to make the cut. Woods' average driving distance was the longest in the tournament. == Field == 1. Masters champions Seve Ballesteros (9), Gay Brewer, Billy Casper, Charles Coody, Fred Couples (10,12,13), Ben Crenshaw (9,13), Nick Faldo (3,11,12), Raymond Floyd (9), Doug Ford, Bernhard Langer, Sandy Lyle, Larry Mize (9), Jack Nicklaus, José María Olazábal (11,12,13), Arnold Palmer, Gary Player, Craig Stadler, Tom Watson (9,10), Ian Woosnam, Fuzzy Zoeller (13) Tommy Aaron, George Archer, Jack Burke Jr., Bob Goalby, Ben Hogan, Herman Keiser, Cary Middlecoff, Byron Nelson, Henry Picard, Gene Sarazen, Sam Snead, and Art Wall Jr. did not play. 2. U.S. Open champions (last five years) Ernie Els (9,13), Hale Irwin (9,12,13), Lee Janzen (12), Tom Kite (9,13), Payne Stewart 3. The Open champions (last five years) Ian Baker-Finch (9), Greg Norman (9,10,11,13), Nick Price (4,12,13) 4. PGA champions (last five years) Paul Azinger, John Daly (12), Wayne Grady 5. U.S. Amateur champion and runner-up Trip Kuehne (a), Tiger Woods (a) 6. The Amateur champion Lee S. James (a) 7. U.S. Amateur Public Links champion Guy Yamamoto (a) 8. U.S. Mid-Amateur champion Tim Jackson (a) 9. Top 24 players and ties from the 1994 Masters Chip Beck, Brad Faxon (13), David Edwards (10), Dan Forsman, Bill Glasson (13), Jay Haas (13), John Huston (13), Tom Lehman (12,13), Jim McGovern (10), Mark O'Meara (12), Corey Pavin (11,12,13), Loren Roberts (10,12,13), Lanny Wadkins 10. Top 16 players and ties from the 1994 U.S. Open John Cook (11), Clark Dennis, Scott Hoch (13), Steve Lowery (12,13), Jeff Maggert (13), Colin Montgomerie, Frank Nobilo, Jeff Sluman, Curtis Strange, Duffy Waldorf 11. Top eight players and ties from 1994 PGA Championship Steve Elkington (12), Phil Mickelson (12,13) 12. Winners of PGA Tour events since the previous Masters Mark Brooks, Bob Estes (13), Rick Fehr (13), David Frost (13), Mike Heinen, Brian Henninger, Peter Jacobsen, Neal Lancaster, Bruce Lietzke (13), Davis Love III, Mark McCumber (13), John Morse, Kenny Perry (13), Dicky Pride, Vijay Singh, Mike Springer (13), Mike Sullivan 13. Top 30 players from the 1994 PGA Tour money list Brad Bryant, Mark Calcavecchia, Hal Sutton 14. Special foreign invitation David Gilford, Miguel Ángel Jiménez, Mark McNulty, Tsuneyuki Nakajima, Masashi Ozaki == Round summaries == === First round === Thursday, April 6, 1995 Source: === Second round === Friday, April 7, 1995 Amateurs: Woods (E), Jackson (+11), Kuehne (+11), James (+13), Yamamoto (+17) === Third round === Saturday, April 8, 1995 === Final round === Sunday, April 9, 1995 ==== Final leaderboard ==== Sources: ==== Scorecard ==== Cumulative tournament scores, relative to par Source: == References == == External links == GolfCompendium.com: 1995 Masters Masters.com – Past winners and results Augusta.com – 1995 Masters leaderboard and scorecards