BEST CAREER
SCORING AVERAGE
AT THE MASTERS (MINIMUM 50 ROUNDS)
SCORE
70.73
71.03
71.90
71.98
72.02
PLAYER
Tiger Woods
Phil Mickelson
Fred Couples
Jack Nicklaus
Ernie Els
ROUNDS
66
74
104
163
64
SOURCE www.masters.com
MARKO’MEARA
HOLDS THE RECORD FOR
LONGEST WAIT
BY AN EVENTUAL CHAMPION.
HE WON IN 1998 IN HIS
15th TRY.
HOLE NO. 4
Jeff Sluman, 1992
4-iron, 213 yards
HOLE NO. 6
Leland Gibson, 1954
4-iron, 190 yards
Billy Joe Patton, 1954
5-iron, 190 yards
Charles Coody, 1972
5-iron, 190 yards
Chris DiMarco, 2004
5-iron, 198 yards
HOLE NO. 12
Claude Harmon, 1947
7-iron, 155 yards
William Hyndman, 1959
6-iron, 155 yards
Curtis Strange, 1988
7-iron, 155 yards
HOLE NO. 16
Ross Somerville, 1934
mashie niblick, 145 yards
Willie Goggin, 1935
spade mashie, 145 yards
Ray Billows, 1940
8-iron, 145 yards
John Dawson, 1949
4-iron, 190 yards
Clive Clark, 1968
2-iron, 190 yards
Corey Pavin, 1992
8-iron, 140 yards
Raymond Floyd, 1996
5-iron, 182 yards
Padraig Harrington, 2004
6-iron, 177 yards
Kirk Triplett, 2004
6-iron, 177 yards
Trevor Immelman, 2005
7-iron, 177 yards
Ian Poulter, 2008
8-iron, 169 yards
Nathan Green, 2010
6-iron, 176 yards
Ryan Moore, 2010
7-iron, 176 yards
THERE HAVE BEEN ONLY FOUR
WIRE-TO-WIRE
CHAMPIONS IN MASTERS HISTORY
Craig Wood, 1941
Arnold Palmer, 1960
Jack Nicklaus, 1972
Raymond Floyd, 1976
A BIRDIE ON
THE FINAL
HOLE
PLAYERS WHO WON THE MASTERS BY GETTING...
ARNOLD PALMER 1960
(BIRDIED 17 & 18)
SANDY LYLE 1988
MARK O’MEARA 1998
(BIRDIED 17 & 18)
PHIL MICKELSON 2004
THE FIRST TWO YEARS OF THE MASTERS,
1934 & 1935
PRODUCED TWO OF THE THREE GOLFERS TO
WIN A MASTERS IN THEIR FIRST TRY.
THE THIRD WAS FUZZY ZOELLER (1979).
