1977 Masters Tournament

August 2023 March 2026 1977 Masters Tournament 1977_Masters_Tournament_Guide.jpg Front cover of the 1977 Masters Guide April 7–10, 1977 Augusta, Georgia Augusta National Golf Club Augusta National Golf Club PGA Tour 72 7030 yd 0https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=1flLAAAAIBAJ&sjid=6PgDAAAAIBAJ&pg=5080%2C2012242 Spokane Daily Chronicle Washington Associated Press Funseth fires 67 for lead April 9, 1977 17 77 players, 50 after cuthttps://news.google.com/newspapers?id=wTRWAAAAIBAJ&sjid=zOcDAAAAIBAJ&pg=4313%2C2283880 Eugene Register-Guard Oregon wire reports Will Watson choke on the Masters? April 9, 1977 1C 149 (+5) $40,000 USA Tom Watson 276 (−12) 1976 1978 USA#USA Georgia yes Augusta National Location in the United States##Location in Georgia 33.503 N 82.020 W type:event inline,title The 1977 Masters Tournament was the 41st Masters Tournament, held April 7–10 at Augusta National Golf Club in Augusta, Georgia. Tom Watson, age 27, won the first of his two green jackets, two strokes ahead of runner-up Jack Nicklaus.http://archives.chicagotribune.com/1977/04/11/page/65/article/watson-doesnt-wilt-this-time Chicago Tribune Condon David Watson doesn't wilt this time April 11, 1977 1, sec. 6 https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=rZxRAAAAIBAJ&sjid=N20DAAAAIBAJ&pg=5293%2C1259725 Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Parascenzo Mario Watson Masters Augusta - self April 11, 1977 14https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=1_lLAAAAIBAJ&sjid=6PgDAAAAIBAJ&pg=6807%2C2430062 Spokane Daily Chronicle Washington Associated Press No choking for Watson April 11, 1977 19 The two were tied after 68 holes, then Watson birdied the par-4 17th. Needing a birdie to tie, Nicklaus bogeyed the final hole, one of 19 times in his career that he was the runner-up in a major championship.https://www.si.com/vault/1977/04/18/627734/what-a-beauty-of-a-masters Sports Illustrated Jenkins Dan Dan Jenkins What a beauty of a Masters April 18, 1977 24https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=PnVQAAAAIBAJ&sjid=9hEEAAAAIBAJ&pg=6670%2C1921233 Milwaukee Sentinel Associated Press Watson Masters Nicklaus by 2 April 11, 1977 1-part 2 It was the second of Watson's eight major championships, and he won a second Masters in 1981.https://www.si.com/vault/1981/04/20/825563/true-grit-at-augusta-tom-watson-had-his-troubles--notably-with-the-trap-at-the-17th-hole--but-when-it-counted-he-clung-grimly-to-a-slim-lead-and-held-off-jack-nicklaus-to-win-his-second-masters Sports Illustrated True Grit at Augusta Jenkins Dan Dan Jenkins April 20, 1981 34 December 11, 2017 October 17, 2019 https://web.archive.org/web/20191017015026/https://www.si.com/vault/1981/04/20/825563/true-grit-at-augusta-tom-watson-had-his-troubles--notably-with-the-trap-at-the-17th-hole--but-when-it-counted-he-clung-grimly-to-a-slim-lead-and-held-off-jack-nicklaus-to-win-his-second-masters dead The pair again dueled for a major title in the final round in July in Scotland, at the Open Championship at Turnberry, also won by Watson. Although he had won a major in 1975 and led the PGA Tour in season earnings entering this Masters,http://archives.chicagotribune.com/1977/04/05/page/50/ Chicago Tribune PGA Top money winners April 5, 1977 6, sec. 4 Watson had been labeled a "choker" early in his pro career, known for relinquishing leads in the final round of majors and regular events. Notable among these was the U.S. Open in 1974 at Winged Foot;https://www.si.com/vault/1974/06/24/615304/hale-irwin-sole-survivor Sports Illustrated Jenkins Dan Dan Jenkins Hale Irwin, sole survivor June 24, 1974 18 his win here and in Scotland put that to rest. Field 1. Masters champions Tommy Aaron, George Archer (11), Gay Brewer (8), Billy Casper (8,12), Charles Coody (8,10), Raymond Floyd (8,9,10,12), Doug Ford, Bob Goalby, Jack Nicklaus (2,4,8,9,10,11,12), Arnold Palmer, Gary Player (3,4), Sam Snead, Art Wall Jr. 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) Lou Graham (8,12), Hale Irwin (8,12), Johnny Miller (3,8,9,12), Jerry Pate (9,10,11) 3. The Open champions (last five years) Tom Watson (9,11), Tom Weiskopf (8,9,10,12) Lee Trevino (4,11,12) was recovering from back surgery and did not play 4. PGA champions (last five years) Dave Stockton (10) 5. 1976 U.S. Amateur semi-finalists James T. Mason (a), Cary Parker Moore Jr. (a), Bill Sander (6,7,a), Stan Souza (a) 6. Previous two U.S. Amateur and Amateur champions Vinny Giles (a), Fred Ridley (7,a), Dick Siderowf (7,a) 7. Members of the 1976 U.S. Eisenhower Trophy team John Fought (a) 8. Top 24 players and ties from the 1976 Masters Tournament Buddy Allin (11), Jim Colbert, Ben Crenshaw (9,10,11), Al Geiberger (9,11,12), Hubert Green (9), Dave Hill (11), Tom Kite (11), Gene Littler (12), Roger Maltbie (11), Rik Massengale (11), Jerry McGee (10), Curtis Strange, Larry Ziegler (11) 9. Top 16 players and ties from the 1976 U.S. Open Butch Baird (11), Rod Funseth, Mark Hayes (11), Don January (10,11), Lyn Lott, Mike Morley, Andy North, J. C. Snead (11,12) John Mahaffey was injured and did not play 10. Top eight players and ties from 1976 PGA Championship Gil Morgan, John Schlee 11. Winners of PGA Tour events since the previous Masters Andy Bean, Woody Blackburn, Danny Edwards, Lee Elder, Gibby Gilbert, Joe Inman, Gary Koch, Billy Kratzert, Bruce Lietzke, Mac McLendon, Tom Purtzer, Bob Wynn Blackburn and Kratzert were the winners of the Walt Disney World National Team Championship. Subsequent winners of this pairs event did not receive an invitation. 12. Members of the U.S. 1975 Ryder Cup team Bob Murphy 13. Foreign invitations Isao Aoki, Seve Ballesteros, Bruce Devlin (8), David Graham (10,11), Dale Hayes (8), Tommy Horton, John Lister (11), Graham Marsh (8,11), Takashi Murakami, Jack Newton, Christy O'Connor Jnr, Peter Oosterhuis (8), Bob Shearer Numbers in brackets indicate categories that the player would have qualified under had they been American. Round summaries First round Thursday, April 7, 1977 PlacePlayerScoreTo par1 USA Hubert Green 67 −5T2 USA Don January 69 −3 USA Billy Kratzert T4 USA Hale Irwin 70 −2 USA Tom Kite USA Rik Massengale USA Jerry Pate USA Tom Watson T9 USA Buddy Allin 71 −1 USA Ben Crenshaw USA Raymond Floyd USA Mark Hayes USA Dave Hill USA Gene Littler ZAF 1928 Gary Player Source:https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=wDRWAAAAIBAJ&sjid=zOcDAAAAIBAJ&pg=3602%2C1948813 Eugene Register-Guard Oregon Associated Press Youth can't overcome Green at Masters April 8, 1977 1B Second round Friday, April 8, 1977 PlacePlayerScoreTo parT1 USA Rod Funseth 72-67=139 −5 USA Tom Watson 70-69=139 T3 USA Ben Crenshaw 71-69=140 −4 USA Billy Kratzert 69-71=140 T5 USA Hubert Green 67-74=141 −3 ZAF 1928 Gary Player 71-70=141 AUS Bob Shearer 74-67=141T8 AUS David Graham 75-67=142 −2 USA Mac McLendon 72-70=142 USA Jack Nicklaus 72-70=142 USA Jerry Pate 70-72=142 Source:https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=rJxRAAAAIBAJ&sjid=N20DAAAAIBAJ&pg=6872%2C1145317 Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Golf: Masters, second round April 9, 1977 8 Third round Saturday, April 9, 1977 PlacePlayerScoreTo parT1 USA Ben Crenshaw 71-69-69=209 −7 USA Tom Watson 70-69-70=209 3 USA Rik Massengale 70-73-67=210 −6T4 USA Jim Colbert 72-71-69=212 −4 USA Jack Nicklaus 72-70-70=212 T6 USA Rod Funseth 72-67-74=213 −3 USA Hubert Green 67-74-72=213 USA Tom Kite 70-73-70=213 ZAF 1928 Gary Player 71-70-72=213 T10 USA Danny Edwards 72-74-68=214 −2 USA Raymond Floyd 71-72-71=214 USA Hale Irwin 70-74-70=214 USA Don January 69-76-69=214 Source:https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=wjRWAAAAIBAJ&sjid=zOcDAAAAIBAJ&pg=4685%2C2555375 Eugene Register-Guard Oregon wire reports Crenshaw, Watson tied in scramble at Masters April 10, 1977 3B Final round Sunday, April 10, 1977 Final leaderboard Champion Silver Cup winner (low amateur)(a) = amateur(c) = past champion Top 10PlacePlayerScoreTo parMoney (US$)1 USA Tom Watson 70-69-70-67=276 −12 40,0002 USA Jack Nicklaus (c) 72-70-70-66=278 −10 30,000T3 USA Tom Kite 70-73-70-67=280 −8 17,500 USA Rik Massengale 70-73-67-70=2805 USA Hale Irwin 70-74-70-68=282 −6 12,500T6 AUS David Graham 75-67-73-69=284 −4 10,500 USA Lou Graham 75-71-69-69=284T8 USA Ben Crenshaw 71-69-69-76=285 −3 5,667 USA Raymond Floyd (c) 71-72-71-71=285 USA Hubert Green 67-74-72-72=285 USA Don January 69-76-69-71=285 USA Gene Littler 71-72-73-69=285 USA John Schlee 75-73-69-68=285 Leaderboard below the top 10PlacePlayerScoreTo parMoney ($)T14 USA Billy Casper (c) 72-72-73-69=286 −2 3,000 USA Jim Colbert 72-71-69-74=286 USA Rod Funseth 72-67-74-73=286 USA Jerry Pate 70-72-74-70=286 USA Tom Weiskopf 73-71-71-71=286T19 USA George Archer (c) 74-74-69-70=287 −1 2,500 USA Andy Bean 74-70-71-72=287 USA Danny Edwards 72-74-68-73=287 USA Lee Elder 76-68-72-71=287 ZAF 1928 Gary Player (c) 71-70-72-74=287T24 USA Billy Kratzert 69-71-78-70=288 E 2,200 USA Andy North 74-74-71-69=288 USA Arnold Palmer (c) 76-71-71-70=288 USA Bob Wynn 75-73-70-70=288T28 JPN 1947 Isao Aoki 73-76-70-70=289 +1 2,000 USA Bruce Lietzke 73-71-72-73=289 USA Jerry McGee 73-73-72-71=289T31 AUS Graham Marsh 77-72-72-69=290 +2 1,975 USA Bob Murphy 74-72-71-73=290T33 ESP 1977 Seve Ballesteros 74-75-70-72=291 +3 1,950 USA Mark Hayes 71-72-72-76=291T35 USA Tommy Aaron (c) 73-72-73-74=292 +4 1,925 USA Johnny Miller 78-71-69-74=292 AUS Bob Shearer 74-67-75-76=292 USA Art Wall Jr. (c) 75-74-71-72=292T39 USA Dave Hill 71-72-76-74=293 +5 1,900 USA J. C. Snead 72-76-73-72=293 USA Dave Stockton 73-72-75-73=293T42 USA Buddy Allin 71-74-75-74=294 +6 1,875 AUS Bruce Devlin 75-69-77-73=294 USA Gary Koch 78-71-72-73=29445 USA Mac McLendon 72-70-78-75=295 +7 1,850T46 USA Lyn Lott 76-72-77-71=296 +8 1,825 ENG Peter Oosterhuis 73-75-76-72=29648 USA Mike Morley 75-73-73-76=297 +9 1,80049 USA Bill Sander (a) 80-69-78-72=299 +11 050 USA John Fought (a) 73-74-78-78=303 +15CUT USA Charles Coody (c) 72-78=150 +6 USA Al Geiberger 76-74=150 USA Bob Goalby (c) 76-74=150 ZAF 1928 Dale Hayes 75-75=150 USA Joe Inman 75-75=150 USA Tom Purtzer 75-75=150 USA Butch Baird 76-75=151 +7 NZL John Lister 80-71=151 USA James T. Mason (a) 76-75=151 JPN 1947 Takashi Murakami 78-73=151 USA Dick Siderowf (a) 76-75=151 USA Gay Brewer (c) 78-74=152 +8 USA Gibby Gilbert 76-76=152 ENG Tommy Horton 77-75=152 USA Cary Parker Moore Jr. (a) 76-76=152 USA Gil Morgan 73-79=152 USA Woody Blackburn 74-79=153 +9 USA Roger Maltbie 77-76=153 AUS Jack Newton 76-77=153 USA Curtis Strange 79-74=153 USA Doug Ford (c) 77-77=154 +10 USA Fred Ridley (a) 76-78=154 USA Larry Ziegler 83-71=154 IRL Christy O'Connor Jnr 78-79=157 +13 USA Stan Souza (a) 75-83=158 +14 USA Vinny Giles (a) 82-79=161 +17WD USA Sam Snead (c) 83 +11 Sources:Masters – Past Winners & Results https://www.masters.com/en_US/tournament/past_winners.html Augusta National Inc. April 20, 2021Past results – Masters tournament https://www.pgatour.com/tournaments/masters-tournament/past-results.html PGA Tour April 20, 2021 Scorecard Hole  1    2    3    4    5    6    7    8    9  101112131415161718Par454343454 443545344USA Watson −7−7−7−7−8−9−10−11−11−10−10−10−11−10−11−11−12−12USA Nicklaus −5−6−6−6−6−6−6−7−7−8−8−9−10−10−11−11−11−10USA Massengale −6−7−7−7−8−8−9−10−10−9−8−8−8−8−8−8−8−8USA Crenshaw −7−6−5−5−5−5−5−5−5−5−4−2−2−2−3−3−3−3 Cumulative tournament scores, relative to par EagleBirdieBogeyDouble bogeyTriple bogey+ Source: References 2 External links Masters.com – past winners Augusta.com – 1977 Masters leaderboard and scorecards 1977 1977 Category:1977 in golf Category:1977 in American sports Category:1977 in sports in Georgia (U.S. state) Category:April 1977 sports events in the United States