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1972 Masters Tournament

The 1972 Masters Tournament was the 36th Masters Tournament, held April 6–9 at Augusta National Golf Club in Augusta, Georgia.

1972 Masters Tournament
Tournament information
DatesApril 6–9, 1972
LocationAugusta, Georgia
33°30′11″N 82°01′12″W / 33.503°N 82.020°W / 33.503; -82.020
Course(s)Augusta National Golf Club
Organized byAugusta National Golf Club
Tour(s)PGA Tour
Statistics
Par72
Length6,980 yards (6,383 m)[1]
Field84 players, 47 after cut
Cut151 (+7)
Winner's share$25,000
Champion
United States Jack Nicklaus
286 (−2)
Location map
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Jack Nicklaus opened with a 68 and led wire-to-wire to win the fourth[2] of his six Masters titles, three strokes ahead of three runners-up.[3] It was the tenth of 18 major titles as a professional for Nicklaus, who also won the U.S. Open in 1972 and was the runner-up at the Open Championship in Scotland, one stroke behind Lee Trevino.

It was the first Masters played without founder Bobby Jones, who died in December 1971 at age 69. This Masters was also the debut of twenty-year-old Ben Crenshaw of the University of Texas, a future two-time champion who was low amateur at 295 (T19).

Banned from the last five Masters, commentator Jack Whitaker returned to the CBS telecast in 1972. At the end of the 18-hole Monday playoff in 1966, he had referred to the portion of the gallery trailing the players as a "mob."[4][5]

Nicklaus became the third wire-to-wire winner in Masters history, following Craig Wood in 1941 and Arnold Palmer in 1960. Through 2016, there have been five; the next were Raymond Floyd in 1976 and Jordan Spieth in 2015.

Field edit

1. Masters champions

George Archer (9,11), Billy Casper (8,10,11,12), Charles Coody (8,12), Doug Ford, Bob Goalby (11), Ralph Guldahl, Herman Keiser, Jack Nicklaus (2,3,4,8,9,10,11,12), Arnold Palmer (8,11,12), Gary Player (3,8,10,11), Gene Sarazen, Sam Snead, Art Wall Jr.

The following categories only apply to Americans
2. U.S. Open champions (last five years)

Orville Moody (8), Lee Trevino (3,9,11,12)

3. The Open champions (last five years)
4. PGA champions (last five years)

Julius Boros, Raymond Floyd (8,9), Don January (8), Dave Stockton (8,11,12)

5. The first eight finishers in the 1971 U.S. Amateur

Rick Bendall (a), Ben Crenshaw (a), Tom Culligan (a), Vinny Giles (7,a), Jim McLean (a), Eddie Pearce (a), Marty West (a)

6. Previous two U.S. Amateur and Amateur champions
  • Steve Melnyk (7,8) and Lanny Wadkins (7,9) forfeited their exemptions by turning professional but qualified in other categories.
7. Members of the 1971 U.S. Walker Cup team

William C. Campbell (a), John Farquhar (a), Jim Gabrielsen (a), Bill Hyndman (a), Tom Kite (a), Jim Simons (9,a)

  • Allen Miller forfeited his exemption by turning professional.
8. Top 24 players and ties from the 1971 Masters Tournament

Tommy Aaron, Frank Beard (11,12), Dave Eichelberger (11), Al Geiberger, Bert Greene, Hale Irwin (11), Dick Lotz, Steve Melnyk, Johnny Miller (9,11), Bobby Mitchell (11), Bob Murphy, Ken Still, Tom Weiskopf (11)

  • Gene Littler (11,12) had been diagnosed with cancer and did not play.
9. Top 16 players and ties from the 1971 U.S. Open

Jim Colbert, Jerry Heard (11), Larry Hinson, Jerry McGee, Bobby Nichols, Chi-Chi Rodríguez, Bob Rosburg (11), Lanny Wadkins, Bert Yancey

10. Top eight players and ties from 1971 PGA Championship

Miller Barber (11,12), Tommy Bolt, Gibby Gilbert, Dave Hill, Jim Jamieson

11. Winners of PGA Tour events since the previous Masters

Homero Blancas, Gardner Dickinson (12), Hubert Green, Paul Harney, Labron Harris Jr., Grier Jones, DeWitt Weaver

12. Members of the U.S. 1971 Ryder Cup team

Mason Rudolph, J. C. Snead

13. Foreign invitations

Harry Bannerman, Brian Barnes, Bob Charles (9), Bobby Cole (9), Gary Cowan (5,6,a), Bruce Crampton (8,11), Roberto De Vicenzo (3,8), Bruce Devlin (8), David Graham, Hsieh Yung-yo, Tony Jacklin (2,3,11), Takaaki Kono, Lu Liang-Huan, Peter Oosterhuis, Masashi Ozaki, Ramón Sota

  • Numbers in brackets indicate categories that the player would have qualified under had they been American.

Round summaries edit

First round edit

Thursday, April 6, 1972

Place Player Score To par
1   Jack Nicklaus 68 −4
2   Sam Snead 69 −3
3   Arnold Palmer 70 −2
T4   Paul Harney 71 −1
  Jim Simons (a)
T6   Frank Beard 72 E
  Bob Charles
  Bruce Crampton
  Gibby Gilbert
  Tony Jacklin
  Jim Jamieson
  Steve Melnyk
  Bobby Nichols
  Lanny Wadkins
  Bert Yancey

Source[9]

Second round edit

Friday, April 7, 1972

Place Player Score To par
1   Jack Nicklaus 68-71=139 −5
2   Paul Harney 71-69=140 −4
3   Bert Yancey 72-69=141 −3
4   Jim Jamieson 72-70=142 −2
T5   Charles Coody 73-70=143 −1
  Bobby Nichols 72-71=143
T7   Roberto De Vicenzo 75-69=144 E
  Jerry Heard 73-71=144
  Steve Melnyk 72-72=144
  Sam Snead 69-75=144
  Lanny Wadkins 72-72=144

Source[10]

Third round edit

Saturday, April 8, 1972

Place Player Score To par
1   Jack Nicklaus 68-71-73=212 −4
2   Jim Jamieson 72-70-71=213 −3
T3   Paul Harney 71-69-75=215 −1
  Tom Weiskopf 74-71-70=215
T5   Homero Blancas 76-71-69=216 E
  Bruce Crampton 72-75-69=216
  Jerry Heard 73-71-72=216
  Bobby Mitchell 73-72-71=216
T9   Charles Coody 73-70-74=217 +1
  Bert Yancey 72-69-76=217

Source[11]

Final round edit

Sunday, April 9, 1972

Final leaderboard edit

Champion
Silver Cup winner (low amateur)
(a) = amateur
(c) = past champion
Top 10
Place Player Score To par Money (US$)
1   Jack Nicklaus (c) 68-71-73-74=286 −2 25,000
T2   Bruce Crampton 72-75-69-73=289 +1 15,833
  Bobby Mitchell 73-72-71-73=289
  Tom Weiskopf 74-71-70-74=289
T5   Homero Blancas 76-71-69-74=290 +2 6,200
  Bruce Devlin 74-75-70-71=290
  Jerry Heard 73-71-72-74=290
  Jim Jamieson 72-70-71-77=290
  Jerry McGee 73-74-71-72=290
T10   Gary Player (c) 73-75-72-71=291 +3 3,600
  Dave Stockton 76-70-74-71=291

Sources:[12][13]

Scorecard edit

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
  Nicklaus −4 −5 −5 −5 −5 −5 −4 −5 −5 −5 −4 −4 −4 −3 −2 −2 −2 −2
  Crampton −1 −1 E E E E +2 +2 +2 +2 +2 +1 +1 +1 +1 +1 +1 +1
  Mitchell E E E E +1 +1 +2 +1 +1 +1 E +1 +1 +1 +1 +1 +1 +1
  Weiskopf E E +1 +2 +2 +2 +1 +1 +1 +2 +3 +3 +3 +3 +2 +2 +1 +1
  Blancas E E E +1 +1 +1 +1 +1 +1 +3 +3 +3 +2 +2 +1 +1 +2 +2
  Heard −1 −1 E −1 E +1 +1 +2 +1 +1 +1 E +1 +1 +1 +2 +2 +2
  Jamieson −2 −3 −2 −2 −1 −1 E E E E +1 +3 +2 +2 +1 +2 +1 +2
  Harney E +1 +1 +2 +2 +2 +2 +2 +2 +1 +1 +1 +3 +4 +5 +7 +7 +8

Cumulative tournament scores, relative to par

Birdie Bogey Double bogey

References edit

  1. ^ Gundelfinger, Phil (April 7, 1972). "Nicklaus leading Masters with 68". Pittsburgh-Post Gazette. p. 12.
  2. ^ Gundelfinger, Phil (April 10, 1972). "Nicklaus coasts to Masters". Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. p. 25.
  3. ^ Jenkins, Dan (April 17, 1972). "Poa Jack beats himself". Sports Illustrated. p. 22.
  4. ^ Rothenberg, Fred (April 12, 1979). "Jack Whitaker's welcome now". Boca Raton News. Florida. Associated Press. p. 2B.
  5. ^ Sandomir, Richard (May 5, 2012). "Jack Whitaker was always camera ready". New York Times. Retrieved April 8, 2016.
  6. ^ "Golfer Brewer: ulcers, hernia". Montreal Gazette. UPI. April 11, 1972. p. 16.
  7. ^ "Gay Brewer in hospital". Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Associated Press. April 7, 1972. p. 12.
  8. ^ "Brewer takes Par Three test". Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. April 5, 1973. p. 19.
  9. ^ "Nicklaus leads by 1". Milwaukee Sentinel. Associated Press. April 7, 1972. p. 1, part 2.
  10. ^ "Nicklaus' 71 keeps lead". Milwaukee Sentinel. Associated Press. April 8, 1972. p. 1, part 2.
  11. ^ "Golf: Masters". Eugene Register-Guard. Oregon. April 9, 1972. p. 6B.
  12. ^ "Masters – Past Winners & Results". Augusta National Inc. Retrieved April 20, 2021.
  13. ^ "Past results – Masters tournament". PGA Tour. Retrieved April 20, 2021.

External links edit

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