1970 Masters Tournament

August 2023 March 2026 1970 Masters Tournament 1970_Masters_Tournament_Guide.jpg Front cover of the 1970 Masters Guide April 9–13, 1970 Augusta, Georgia Augusta National Golf Club Augusta National Golf Club PGA Tour 72 6980 yd 0https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=dKxVAAAAIBAJ&sjid=POEDAAAAIBAJ&pg=2913%2C2443908 Eugene Register-Guard Associated Press Scoreboard: Masters (second round) April 11, 1970 2B 83 players, 48 after cuthttps://news.google.com/newspapers?id=x3FIAAAAIBAJ&sjid=x4IMAAAAIBAJ&pg=5835%2C3807254 Youngstown Vindicator Associated Press Masters scores (second round) April 11, 1970 10 150 (+6) $25,000 USA Billy Casper 279 (−9), playoff 1969 1971 USA#USA Georgia yes Augusta National Location in the United States##Location in Georgia 33.503 N 82.020 W type:event inline,title thumb|Billy Casper and Gene Littler at the 1970 Masters The 1970 Masters Tournament was the 34thMasters Tournament, held April9–13 at Augusta National Golf Club in Augusta, Georgia. A field of 83players started the tournament and 48 made the 36-hole cut at 150(+6). Billy Casper defeated Gene Littler 69 to 74 in an 18-hole playoff on Monday to win his third major championship. It was the last 18-hole playoff at the Masters; the format was changed to sudden-death in 1976 and first used in 1979.https://edition.cnn.com/2004/SPORT/04/07/golf.usmasters/ CNN.com Masters playoff format is changed April 7, 2004 February 26, 2013 To get into the playoff, Casper scored a final round of 71(−1), while Littler shot a 70 to tie at 279(−9).https://www.si.com/vault/1970/04/20/610815/all-yours-billy-boy Sports Illustrated All yours, Billy boy Jenkins Dan Dan Jenkins April 20, 1970 14 Jack Nicklaus shot 69-69 on the weekend, but was hampered by a second round 75 and finished in 8th place. It was the final Masters tournament as a player for 1938 champion Henry Picard, who withdrew without finishing the first round.https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=J38yAAAAIBAJ&sjid=q7UFAAAAIBAJ&pg=2231%2C4034612 Palm Beach Post Associated Press Aaron leads first round April 10, 1970 C1 Three-time Masters champion Sam Snead finished in a tie for 23rd place at the age of 57. It was the Masters debut of two-time champion Tom Watson, then a 20-year-old amateur from Stanford who shot 77-76 and missed the cut by three strokes.https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=J38yAAAAIBAJ&sjid=q7UFAAAAIBAJ&pg=1027%2C4352975 Palm Beach Post Associated Press Yancey, Littler deadlock April 11, 1970 B2 Harold Henning won the eleventh Par3 Contest on Wednesday with a score of 21. Dick Schaap's The Masters: The Winning of a Golf Classic covers in detail the 1970 tournament.https://archive.org/details/masterswinningof00scha registration The Masters: The Winning of a Golf Classic Random House Schaap Dick 1970 Field 1. Masters champions George Archer (8,9), Gay Brewer, Jack Burke Jr. (8), Doug Ford, Bob Goalby, Ralph Guldahl, Herman Keiser, Cary Middlecoff, Jack Nicklaus (2,3,8,11), Arnold Palmer (9), Henry Picard, Gary Player (2.3,10), Gene Sarazen, Sam Snead, Art Wall Jr. Jimmy Demaret, Ben Hogan, Claude Harmon, and Byron Nelson did not play. The following categories only apply to Americans 2. U.S. Open champions (last five years) Billy Casper (8,11), Orville Moody (9,10) Lee Trevino (8,11) did not play. 3. The Open champions (last five years) 4. PGA champions (last five years) Julius Boros (9), Raymond Floyd (9,10,11), Al Geiberger (8,9), Don January (8), Dave Marr (9) 5. The first eight finishers in the 1969 U.S. Amateur Charles Coe (a), Vinny Giles (7,a), John Farquhar (a), Steve Melnyk (6,7,a), Allen Miller (7,a), Ed Updegraff (7,a), Tom Watson (a), Bob Zender (a)https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=zj0aAAAAIBAJ&sjid=OSgEAAAAIBAJ&pg=1690%2C5478215 Milwaukee Sentinel Melnyk shoots a 70, Wins Amateur Title August 31, 1969 1, part 2https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=zj0aAAAAIBAJ&sjid=OSgEAAAAIBAJ&pg=7321%2C5490423 Milwaukee Sentinel Amateur August 31, 1969 4, part 2 6. Previous two U.S. Amateur and Amateur champions Bruce Fleisher (7) forfeited his exemption by turning professional. 7. Members of the 1969 U.S. Walker Cup team John Bohmann (a), Bill Hyndman (a), Joe Inman (a), Dick Siderowf (a), Lanny Wadkins (a) 8. Top 24 players and ties from the 1969 Masters Tournament Tommy Aaron (11), Miller Barber (9,10,11), Frank Beard (11), Deane Beman (9), Charles Coody (9,10), Dale Douglass (9,11), Lionel Hebert, Dave Hill (9,11), Gene Littler (11), Mason Rudolph, Dan Sikes (11), Dave Stockton, Tom Weiskopf, Bert Yancey 9. Top 16 players and ties from the 1969 U.S. Open Bunky Henry, Howie Johnson, Bob Murphy, Dean Refram, Phil Rodgers, Bob Rosburg, Kermit Zarley 10. Top eight players and ties from 1969 PGA Championship Bert Greene, Terry Wilcox, Jimmy Wright, Larry Ziegler 11. Members of the U.S. 1969 Ryder Cup team Ken Still 12. One player, either amateur or professional, not already qualified, selected by a ballot of ex-Masters champions.https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=caxVAAAAIBAJ&sjid=POEDAAAAIBAJ&pg=5704%2C1819583 Eugene Register-Guard Oregon Associated Press Masters still without black competitors April 8, 1970 3E Bob Lunn 13. Leading six players, not already qualified, from a points list based on finishes in PGA Tour events since the previous Masters Homero Blancas, Larry Hinson, Grier Jones, Dick Lotz, Chi-Chi Rodríguez, R. H. Sikes 14. Foreign invitations Maurice Bembridge, Roberto Bernardini, Michael Bonallack (6,a), Peter Butler, Bob Charles, Bruce Crampton (8,9), Roberto De Vicenzo (3), Bruce Devlin (8,9), Bernard Gallacher, Harold Henning (8), Hsieh Yung-yo, Tony Jacklin (3), George Knudson (8), Takaaki Kono (8), Sukree Onsham Numbers in brackets indicate categories that the player would have qualified under had they been American. Round summaries First round Thursday, April 9, 1970 PlacePlayerScoreTo par1 USA Tommy Aaron 68 −4 T2 USA Gene Littler 69 −3 USA Bert Yancey T4 USA Charles Coody 70 −2 USA Bob Lunn USA Chi-Chi Rodríguez USA Dan Sikes USA R. H. Sikes T9 USA Frank Beard 71 −1 USA Jack Nicklaus Source:https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=rMJWAAAAIBAJ&sjid=ZOsDAAAAIBAJ&pg=7237%2C3138114 Spokesman-Review Spokane, Washington Tommy Aaron's 68 tops Masters field April 10, 1970 18 Second round Friday, April 10, 1970 PlacePlayerScoreTo parT1 USA Gene Littler 69-70=139 −5 USA Bert Yancey 69-70=139 T3 USA Billy Casper 72-68=140 −4 USA Bob Lunn 70-70=140 T5 USA Tommy Aaron 68-74=142 −2 ZAF 1928 Gary Player 74-68=142T7 USA Dave Hill 73-70=143 −1 JPN 1947 Takaaki Kono 75-68=143 T9 USA Charles Coody 70-74=144 E USA Larry Hinson 72-72=144 USA Dave Stockton 72-72=144 Source:https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=dKxVAAAAIBAJ&sjid=POEDAAAAIBAJ&pg=4940%2C2436369 Eugene Register-Guard Oregon Associated Press Yancey, Littler pace Masters with 139s April 11, 1970 1B Third round Saturday, April 11, 1970 PlacePlayerScoreTo par1 USA Billy Casper 72-68-68=208 −8 2 USA Gene Littler 69-70-70=209 −7 3 ZAF 1928 Gary Player 74-68-68=210 −6T4 USA Tommy Aaron 68-74-69=211 −5 USA Charles Coody 70-74-67=211 USA Bert Yancey 69-70-72=211 T7 USA Dave Hill 73-70-70=213 −3 USA Dave Stockton 72-72-69=2139 JPN 1947 Takaaki Kono 75-68-71=214 −2 T10 USA Frank Beard 71-76-68=215 −1 USA Larry Hinson 72-72-71=215 USA Bob Lunn 70-70-75=215 USA Jack Nicklaus 71-75-69=215 Source:https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=daxVAAAAIBAJ&sjid=POEDAAAAIBAJ&pg=6877%2C2589723 Eugene Register-Guard Oregon Associated Press Golf: Masters April 12, 1970 6B Final round Sunday, April 12, 1970 Final leaderboard Champion Silver Cup winner (low amateur)(a) = amateur(c) = past champion Top 10PlacePlayerScoreTo parMoney (US$)T1 USA Billy Casper 72-68-68-71=279 −9 Playoff USA Gene Littler 69-70-70-70=2793 ZAF 1928 Gary Player (c) 74-68-68-70=280 −8 14,0004 USA Bert Yancey 69-70-72-70=281 −7 10,000T5 USA Tommy Aaron 68-74-69-72=283 −5 6,667 USA Dave Hill 73-70-70-70=283 USA Dave Stockton 72-72-69-70=2838 USA Jack Nicklaus (c) 71-75-69-69=284 −4 4,5009 USA Frank Beard 71-76-68-70=285 −3 4,000T10 USA Bob Lunn 70-70-75-72=287 −1 3,500 USA Chi-Chi Rodríguez 70-76-73-68=287 Leaderboard below the top 10PlacePlayerScoreTo parMoney ($)T12 USA Charles Coody 70-74-67-77=288 E 3,000 USA Bert Greene 75-71-70-72=288 ENG Tony Jacklin 73-74-70-71=288 USA Don January 76-73-69-70=288 JPN 1947 Takaaki Kono 75-68-71-74=28817 NZL Bob Charles 75-71-71-72=289 +1 2,700T18 USA Howie Johnson 75-71-73-71=290 +2 2,500 USA Dick Lotz 74-72-72-72=290 USA Orville Moody 73-72-71-74=290T21 USA Miller Barber 76-73-77-65=291 +3 2,250 USA Terry Wilcox 79-70-70-72=291T23 USA Deane Beman 74-72-72-74=292 +4 2,020 USA Julius Boros 75-71-74-72=292USA Charles Coe (a) 74-71-72-75=292 0 USA Bob Murphy 78-70-73-71=292 2,020 USA Sam Snead (c) 76-73-71-72=292 USA Tom Weiskopf 73-73-72-74=292T29 TPE Hsieh Yung-yo 75-75-69-74=293 +5 1,650 USA Jimmy Wright 75-72-71-75=293T31 USA George Archer (c) 73-72-74-75=294 +6 1,650 USA Gay Brewer (c) 78-70-72-74=294 AUS Bruce Devlin 72-74-78-70=294 USA Larry Hinson 72-72-71-79=294 USA Ken Still 74-73-74-73=294T36 USA Arnold Palmer (c) 75-73-74-73=295 +7 1,575 USA Dan Sikes 70-77-71-77=295T38 ENG Maurice Bembridge 77-72-70-77=296 +8 1,575 AUS Bruce Crampton 75-71-75-75=296 USA Dale Douglass 76-74-72-74=296 USA Vinny Giles (a) 78-72-72-74=296 0 USA Grier Jones 73-75-73-75=296 1,57543 USA Steve Melnyk (a) 73-76-71-77=297 +9 044 USA Bob Rosburg 77-73-75-73=298 +10 1,500T45 USA Al Geiberger 73-77-74-75=299 +11 1,500 CAN George Knudson 73-72-78-76=29947 USA R. H. Sikes 70-75-77-78=300 +12 1,50048 USA Dean Refram 76-74-78-75=303 +15 1,500CUT ARG Roberto De Vicenzo 78-73=151 +7 SCO Bernard Gallacher 77-74=151 ZAF 1928 Harold Henning 74-77=151 USA Bunky Henry 77-74=151 USA Dave Marr 75-76=151 USA Lanny Wadkins (a) 79-72=151 USA Raymond Floyd 76-76=152 +8 USA Bill Hyndman (a) 76-76=152 USA Mason Rudolph 76-76=152 USA Ed Updegraff (a) 78-74=152 USA Art Wall Jr. (c) 76-76=152 USA Kermit Zarley 74-78=152 USA Lionel Hebert 75-78=153 +9 USA Cary Middlecoff (c) 78-75=153 USA Tom Watson (a) 77-76=153 ENG Peter Butler 82-72=154 +10 USA John Farquhar (a) 74-80=154 USA Larry Ziegler 76-78=154 USA Homero Blancas 81-74=155 +11 USA Doug Ford (c) 76-79=155 USA Bob Goalby (c) 77-78=155 USA Gene Sarazen (c) 81-74=155 USA Bob Zender (a) 77-78=155 USA Joe Inman (a) 77-79=156 +12 USA Dick Siderowf (a) 80-76=156 USA Allen Miller (a) 81-76=157 +13 USA Phil Rodgers 78-79=157 USA Jack Burke Jr. (c) 78-80=158 +14 USA Herman Keiser (c) 79-79=158 USA John Bohmann (a) 81-78=159 +15 ITA Roberto Bernardini 80-80=160 +16 ENG Michael Bonallack (a) 75-86=161 +17 THA Sukree Onsham 78-84=162 +18 USA Ralph Guldahl (c) 84-83=167 +23WD USA Henry Picard (c) 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   10  11  12  13  14  15  16  17  18 Par454343454 443545344USA Casper −8−8−8−9−9−9−9−7−8−8−7−7−8−8−9−9−9−9USA Littler −7−7−7−7−8−8−8−9−8−8−8−8−9−9−10−9−9−9ZAF 1928 Player −6−6−6−7−6−6−6−6−7−7−7−8−9−8−8−9−9−8USA Yancey −5−6−7−7−8−8−8−8−8−8−8−8−8−8−8−8−8−7 Cumulative tournament scores, relative to par BirdieBogeyDouble bogey Playoff Monday, April 13, 1970 PlacePlayerScoreTo parMoney ($)1 USA Billy Casper 69 −325,0002 USA Gene Littler 74 +217,500 Source:https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=r8JWAAAAIBAJ&sjid=ZOsDAAAAIBAJ&pg=7300%2C4274967 Spokesman-Review Golf buddies Littler and Casper play off for Masters title today Associated Press April 13, 1970 13 Scorecard Hole 1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9 101112131415161718Par454343454 443545344USA Casper −1−1−2−2−2−2−3−3−3−2−3−2−2−1−1−2−3−3USA Littler E+1+1+2+2+2+2+2+2+4+4+4+3+3+2+2+3+2 Source:https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=jx0qAAAAIBAJ&sjid=VIcFAAAAIBAJ&pg=816,2710897&dq=casper+littler+play+off&hl=en Casper Surges Past Littler for Masters Title Tri-City Herald Associated Press April 14, 1970 10 June 28, 2012 July 2026 InternetArchiveBot References 2 External links Masters.com – past winners and results Augusta.com – 1970 Masters leaderboard and scorecards 1970 1970 Category:1970 in golf Category:1970 in American sports Category:1970 in sports in Georgia (U.S. state) Category:April 1970 sports events in the United States