1989 Masters Tournament

1989 Masters Tournament

Front cover of the 1989 Masters Guide
Tournament information
Dates	April 6–9, 1989
Location	Augusta, Georgia 33.503°N 82.020°W / 33.503; -82.020
Course(s)	Augusta National Golf Club
Organized by	Augusta National Golf Club
Tour(s)	PGA Tour
Statistics
Par	72
Length	6,905 yards (6,314 m)
Field	85 players, 52 after cut
Cut	151 (+7)
Prize fund	$1.0 million
Winner's share	$200,000
Champion
Nick Faldo
283 (−5), playoff
Location map
Augusta National Location in the United States Augusta National Location in Georgia

The 1989 Masters Tournament was the 53rd Masters Tournament, held April 6–9 at Augusta National Golf Club in Augusta, Georgia.

Nick Faldo won the first of his three Masters titles, the second of his six major championships. After a third round 77 (+5), he shot a final round 65 (−7) and won with a birdie on the second hole of a sudden-death playoff with Scott Hoch. The 1989 Masters is remembered for Hoch missing a two-foot (0.6 m) putt on the first playoff hole that would have won him the green jacket. Greg Norman continued his misfortunes at the Masters with a bogey on the 72nd hole to miss a playoff by a stroke, similar to 1986. Third round leader Ben Crenshaw also bogeyed the final hole to tie Norman for third.

Faldo became the first man from England to win the Masters and was the second consecutive winner from the United Kingdom. Defending champion Sandy Lyle of Scotland missed the cut by two strokes, but made history at the champions' dinner on Tuesday by sporting a kilt and serving haggis.

Field

1. Masters champions

Tommy Aaron, George Archer, Seve Ballesteros (3,9,12), Gay Brewer, Billy Casper, Charles Coody, Ben Crenshaw (9,10,13,14), Raymond Floyd (2,9), Doug Ford, Bernhard Langer (9), Sandy Lyle (3,13), Larry Mize (10,14), Jack Nicklaus (9), Arnold Palmer, Gary Player, Craig Stadler (9), Tom Watson (3,9), Fuzzy Zoeller (2,9,10)

• Jack Burke Jr., Bob Goalby, Claude Harmon, 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)

Andy North, Scott Simpson (10,14), Curtis Strange (9,12,13,14)

3. The Open champions (last five years)

Nick Faldo (10,11), Greg Norman (9,12,13)

4. PGA champions (last five years)

Hubert Green (9), Larry Nelson (12,13,14), Jeff Sluman (12,13), Lee Trevino, Bob Tway (13)

5. U.S. Amateur champion and runner-up

Eric Meeks (a), Danny Yates (a)

6. The Amateur champion

Christian Hardin (a)

7. U.S. Amateur Public Links champion

Ralph Howe III (a)

8. U.S. Mid-Amateur champion

David Eger (a)

9. Top 24 players and ties from the 1988 Masters Tournament

Chip Beck (12,13), Mark Calcavecchia (12,13,14), Chen Tze-chung, Fred Couples (10,13), David Frost (12,13), Mark McCumber (13), Mark McNulty, Dan Pohl (10,11,13,14), Don Pooley, Nick Price, Doug Tewell, Lanny Wadkins (10,12,13,14)

10. Top 16 players and ties from the 1988 U.S. Open

Paul Azinger (11,13), Andy Bean (14), Bob Gilder (11), Mark O'Meara (12,13), Steve Pate (13), Payne Stewart (13,14), D. A. Weibring

11. Top eight players and ties from 1988 PGA Championship

Tom Kite (12,13,14), Tsuneyuki Nakajima, Dave Rummells

12. Winners of PGA Tour events since the previous Masters

Jim Benepe, Mark Brooks, Bill Glasson (13), Ken Green (13), Morris Hatalsky, Steve Jones, Gary Koch (13), Bruce Lietzke (13), Bob Lohr, Andrew Magee, Blaine McCallister, Jodie Mudd (13), Corey Pavin, Tom Purtzer, Mike Reid (13), Gene Sauers, Tom Sieckmann, Tim Simpson, Joey Sindelar (13), Mike Sullivan, Greg Twiggs, Scott Verplank

• Phil Blackmar, the winner of the Provident Classic was not invited.

13. Top 30 players from the 1988 PGA Tour money list

Jay Haas, Scott Hoch, Peter Jacobsen, Mark Wiebe

14. Members of the U.S. 1987 Ryder Cup team

Hal Sutton

15. Special foreign invitation

José María Olazábal, Masashi Ozaki, Ian Woosnam

Round summaries

First round

Thursday, April 6, 1989

Lee Trevino, vying for an elusive Masters title, shot an opening round 67 to lead Nick Faldo by one shot. Only 10 players broke par on day one, including 1984 champion Ben Crenshaw and 1980 and 1983 champion Seve Ballesteros. Defending champion Sandy Lyle birdied 18 to shoot a disappointing 77.

Place	Player	Score	To par
1	Lee Trevino	67	−5
2	Nick Faldo	68	−4
3	Scott Hoch	69	−3
T4	Andy Bean	70	−2
	Don Pooley
T6	Seve Ballesteros	71	−1
	Chen Tze-chung
	Ben Crenshaw
	Masashi Ozaki
	Tom Purtzer

Second round

Friday, April 7, 1989

Lee Trevino and Nick Faldo, who both shot over par on the day, shared the lead after a difficult scoring day. Only four players broke par including Ken Green, who shot 69 and had the round of the day. Seve Ballesteros shot 72 even though he had a 4 putt on the 15th hole.

Place	Player	Score	To par
T1	Nick Faldo	68-73=141	−3
	Lee Trevino	67-74=141
T3	Seve Ballesteros	71-72=143	−1
	Ben Crenshaw	71-72=143
	Ken Green	74-69=143
	Scott Hoch	69-74=143
	Mike Reid	72-71=143
8	Tom Kite	72-72=144	E
T9	Mark O'Meara	74-71=145	+1
	Curtis Strange	74-71=145
	Tom Watson	72-73=145

Amateurs: Howe III (+12), Yates (+14), Eger (+18), Meeks (+18), Hardin (+26)

Third round

Saturday, April 8, 1989

Saturday was a long day that included a 90-minute delay and eventual suspension of play. Ben Crenshaw stormed to a four-shot lead at the suspension of play. Crenshaw was 3-under on the day through 13. Nick Faldo got off to a slow start with a double bogey on the first hole. On the second hole, he holed an improbable 100-foot (30 m) birdie putt, but was 3 over on the day through 12 holes. Out early, clubhouse leader Greg Norman posted a 68 to reach +1 and close within five shots of the lead when play was suspended. Lee Trevino, trying to complete the career Grand Slam, faded out of contention Saturday.

Place	Player	Score	To par	Hole
1	Ben Crenshaw	71-72-49=192	−4	13
T2	Nick Faldo	68-73-50=191	E	12
	Scott Hoch	69-74-53=196		13
	Mike Reid	72-71-53=196		13

Sunday, April 9, 1989

For the first time since 1984, the third round was completed on Sunday morning. Conditions were ideal, but overnight leader Ben Crenshaw was unable to take advantage as his four-shot morning lead was cut to one by the end of the third round. Seve Ballesteros who was +3 at the suspension of play on Saturday birdied 14, 15, and 17 to get back to level par. Nick Faldo continued to struggle in the morning, playing his last six holes in two over par, to fall 5 shots out of the lead at the end of the third round. First and second round leader Lee Trevino couldn't get any momentum in the morning and stumbled to an 81.

Place	Player	Score	To par
1	Ben Crenshaw	71-72-70=213	−3
T2	Scott Hoch	69-74-71=214	−2
	Mike Reid	72-71-71=214
T4	Seve Ballesteros	71-72-73=216	E
	Ken Green	74-69-73=216
	Tom Kite	72-72-72=216
T7	Greg Norman	74-75-68=217	+1
	Mark O'Meara	74-71-72=217
T9	Nick Faldo	68-73-77=218	+2
	Larry Mize	72-77-69=218

Final round

Sunday, April 9, 1989

Summary

An exciting final round had six different players hold at least a share of the lead on the back nine. Nick Faldo, five shots back to start the round, birdied four of his first seven holes to post 32 on the front nine. Faldo continued his comeback with miraculous birdies on 16 and 17 to post 65 and hold the clubhouse lead at −5. In the round Faldo made eight birdies and just one bogey at the 11th hole. Mike Reid chipped in for birdie on the 12th hole to take sole possession of the lead for the first time in the tournament at −6. However, Reid missed a short putt for par on 14 and double-bogeyed 15 after hitting his approach into the water to fade to 6th place. Seve Ballesteros, who went out in 5-under 31, had held the lead earlier in the day and was still only 1 behind as he teed off on the par-3 16th but underhit his tee-shot into the water and took a double dogey. Ballesteros later birdied 18 to finish 3-under. Meanwhile, Greg Norman had stormed into contention with birdies on 9, 10, 13, 15, 16 and 17 to tie for the lead at 5-under. Norman, however, mis-clubbed his 2nd shot from the fairway on 18 and came up short. Subsequently, he was unable to get up and down from the chipping area fronting the green and made bogey, missing the playoff by one stroke.

In the end it came down to the final pairing of Ben Crenshaw and Scott Hoch. Hoch birdied the 15th to take sole possession of the lead at −6, but missed a short par putt at 17 to drop back to −5. Crenshaw, three back of the lead after the 15th hole, birdied 16 and 17 to share the lead with Hoch heading to the final hole. Both players hit the fairway off the tee, and then Hoch hit his approach on the green after Crenshaw missed in the front greenside bunker. After Crenshaw chipped out to 12 feet (4 m), Hoch had 25 feet (8 m) for birdie and his first major championship. Hoch barely missed his birdie putt and was able to tap in for par, tying Faldo for the clubhouse lead. Crenshaw then had 12 feet to join a playoff with Faldo and Hoch, but missed.

Final leaderboard

Champion

(a) = amateur

(c) = past champion

Top 10

Place	Player	Score	To par	Money (US$)
T1	Nick Faldo	68-73-77-65=283	−5	Playoff
	Scott Hoch	69-74-71-69=283
T3	Ben Crenshaw (c)	71-72-70-71=284	−4	64,450
	Greg Norman	74-75-68-67=284
5	Seve Ballesteros (c)	71-72-73-69=285	−3	44,400
6	Mike Reid	72-71-71-72=286	−2	40,000
7	Jodie Mudd	73-76-72-66=287	−1	37,200
T8	Chip Beck	74-76-70-68=288	E	32,200
	José María Olazábal	77-73-70-68=288
	Jeff Sluman	74-72-74-68=288

Leaderboard below the top 10
Place	Player	Score	To par	Money ($)
T11	Fred Couples	72-76-74-67=289	+1	25,567
	Ken Green	74-69-73-73=289
	Mark O'Meara	74-71-72-72=289
T14	Paul Azinger	75-75-69-71=290	+2	19,450
	Don Pooley	70-77-76-67=290
	Tom Watson (c)	72-73-74-71=290
	Ian Woosnam	74-76-71-69=290
T18	David Frost	76-72-73-70=291	+3	14,000
	Tom Kite	72-72-72-75=291
	Jack Nicklaus (c)	73-74-73-71=291
	Masashi Ozaki	71-75-73-72=291
	Curtis Strange	74-71-74-72=291
	Lee Trevino	67-74-81-69=291
T24	Tom Purtzer	71-76-73-72=292	+4	10,250
	Payne Stewart	73-75-74-70=292
T26	Bernhard Langer (c)	74-75-71-73=293	+5	8,240
	Larry Mize (c)	72-77-69-75=293
	Steve Pate	76-75-74-68=293
	Lanny Wadkins	76-71-73-73=293
	Fuzzy Zoeller (c)	76-74-69-74=293
T31	Mark Calcavecchia	74-72-74-74=294	+6	6,900
	Steve Jones	74-73-80-67=294
	Dave Rummells	74-74-75-71=294
T34	Hubert Green	74-75-76-71=296	+8	6,000
	Peter Jacobsen	74-73-78-71=296
	Bruce Lietzke	74-75-79-68=296
37	Bob Gilder	75-74-77-71=297	+9	5,400
T38	Tommy Aaron (c)	76-74-72-76=298	+10	4,900
	Charles Coody (c)	76-74-76-72=298
	Raymond Floyd (c)	76-75-73-74=298
	Scott Simpson	72-77-72-77=298
42	Dan Pohl	72-74-78-75=299	+11	4,300
T43	George Archer (c)	75-75-75-75=300	+12	3,900
	Mark McCumber	72-75-81-72=300
	Greg Twiggs	75-76-79-70=300
T46	Jay Haas	73-77-79-72=301	+13	3,125
	Bob Lohr	75-76-77-73=301
	Mike Sullivan	76-74-73-78=301
	D. A. Weibring	72-79-74-76=301
50	Corey Pavin	74-74-78-76=302	+14	2,800
51	Andy Bean	70-80-77-77=304	+16	2,700
52	Chen Tze-chung	71-75-76-84=306	+18	2,600
CUT	Andy North	77-75=152	+8
	Tim Simpson	75-77=152
	Mark Wiebe	77-75=152
	Billy Casper (c)	75-78=153	+9
	Sandy Lyle (c)	77-76=153
	Andrew Magee	73-80=153
	Blaine McCallister	76-77=153
	Larry Nelson	77-76=153
	Gary Player (c)	76-77=153
	Gene Sauers	74-79=153
	Joey Sindelar	75-78=153
	Craig Stadler (c)	74-79=153
	Bill Glasson	77-77=154	+10
	Tom Sieckmann	79-75=154
	Hal Sutton	72-82=154
	Bob Tway	77-77=154
	Mark Brooks	77-78=155	+11
	Mark McNulty	80-75=155
	Ralph Howe III (a)	77-79=156	+12
	Gary Koch	76-80=156
	Jim Benepe	82-75=157	+13
	Tsuneyuki Nakajima	76-81=157
	Nick Price	76-82=158	+14
	Doug Tewell	77-81=158
	Scott Verplank	79-79=158
	Danny Yates (a)	81-77=158
	Morris Hatalsky	78-81=159	+15
	Arnold Palmer (c)	81-80=161	+17
	David Eger (a)	84-78=162	+18
	Eric Meeks (a)	83-79=162
	Doug Ford (c)	81-82=163	+19
	Christian Hardin (a)	85-85=170	+26
WD	Gay Brewer (c)	83	+11

Sources:

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
Faldo	+1	E	E	−1	−1	−1	−2	−2	−2	−2	−1	−1	−2	−3	−3	−4	−5	−5
Hoch	−2	−3	−3	−3	−4	−4	−4	−4	−5	−5	−5	−5	−5	−5	−6	−6	−5	−5
Crenshaw	−3	−3	−3	−3	−2	−2	−3	−4	−4	−4	−4	−3	−3	−3	−3	−4	−5	−4
Norman	E	E	+1	+1	+1	+1	+1	+1	E	−1	−1	−1	−2	−2	−3	−4	−5	−4
Ballesteros	−1	−2	−2	−3	−4	−4	−4	−4	−5	−4	−4	−4	−4	−4	−4	−2	−2	−3
Reid	−2	−3	−2	−2	−2	−3	−3	−4	−5	−5	−5	−6	−6	−5	−3	−3	−3	−2

Cumulative tournament scores, relative to par

Birdie

Bogey

Double bogey

Source:

Playoff

Faldo and Hoch were in the tenth playoff in Masters history and the fourth to use the sudden death format. The playoff began at the 10th hole, where both had made par every day. Both hit the fairway, but Faldo pushed his approach in the short right side bunker. Hoch then played safely, hitting the front middle of the green, leaving an uphill birdie putt. After Faldo chipped out to 15 feet (5 m), Hoch had 25 feet (8 m) to win his first major championship. Hoch lagged his putt up to 2 feet, forcing Faldo to make his 15 footer for par. Faldo missed, but made his 4-foot comebacker for a bogey five. Hoch then had his third putt of the day to win the championship, but missed, then made the 4-foot comebacker for bogey to extend the playoff.

The playoff went to the 11th hole, which Faldo had bogeyed in all four rounds. After Faldo hit his approach to 25 feet, Hoch pushed his approach right of the green. Hoch chipped to six feet, but Faldo made his long birdie putt for his second major championship and first Masters title.

Place	Player	Score	To par	Money ($)
1	Nick Faldo	5-3	E	200,000
2	Scott Hoch	5-x		120,000

External links

• Masters.com – Past winners and results
• Augusta.com – 1989 Masters leaderboard and scorecards
• You Tube.com– video – 1989 Masters, final round Archived 2016-07-24 at the Wayback Machine