1989 Masters Tournament
Tournament information
DatesApril 6–9, 1989
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
Length6,905 yards (6,314 m)[1]
Field85 players, 52 after cut
Cut151 (+7)
Prize fund$1.0 million
Winner's share$200,000
Champion
England Nick Faldo
283 (−5), playoff
Location Map
Augusta National is located in the United States
Augusta National
Augusta National
Location in the United States
Augusta National is located in Georgia
Augusta National
Augusta National
Location in Georgia
← 1988
1990 →

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.[2] 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.[1][3] 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.[4]

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.[5]

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)

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

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.[2]

Place Player Score To par
1 United States Lee Trevino 67 −5
2 England Nick Faldo 68 −4
3 United States Scott Hoch 69 −3
T4 United States Andy Bean 70 −2
United States Don Pooley
T6 Spain Seve Ballesteros 71 −1
Taiwan Chen Tze-chung
United States Ben Crenshaw
Japan Masashi Ozaki
United States 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.[2]

Place Player Score To par
T1 England Nick Faldo 68-73=141 −3
United States Lee Trevino 67-74=141
T3 Spain Seve Ballesteros 71-72=143 −1
United States Ben Crenshaw 71-72=143
United States Ken Green 74-69=143
United States Scott Hoch 69-74=143
United States Mike Reid 72-71=143
8 United States Tom Kite 72-72=144 E
T9 United States Mark O'Meara 74-71=145 +1
United States Curtis Strange 74-71=145
United States 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.[2]

Place Player Score To par Hole
1 United States Ben Crenshaw 71-72-49=192 −4 13
T2 England Nick Faldo 68-73-50=191 E 12
United States Scott Hoch 69-74-53=196 13
United States 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.[2]

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

Final leaderboard

Champion
(a) = amateur
(c) = past champion
Top 10
Place Player Score To par Money (US$)
T1 England Nick Faldo 68-73-77-65=283 −5 Playoff
United States Scott Hoch 69-74-71-69=283
T3 United States Ben Crenshaw (c) 71-72-70-71=284 −4 64,450
Australia Greg Norman 74-75-68-67=284
5 Spain Seve Ballesteros (c) 71-72-73-69=285 −3 44,400
6 United States Mike Reid 72-71-71-72=286 −2 40,000
7 United States Jodie Mudd 73-76-72-66=287 −1 37,200
T8 United States Chip Beck 74-76-70-68=288 E 32,200
Spain José María Olazábal 77-73-70-68=288
United States Jeff Sluman 74-72-74-68=288

Sources:[6][7]

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
England Faldo +1 E E −1 −1 −1 −2 −2 −2 −2 −1 −1 −2 −3 −3 −4 −5 −5
United States Hoch −2 −3 −3 −3 −4 −4 −4 −4 −5 −5 −5 −5 −5 −5 −6 −6 −5 −5
United States Crenshaw −3 −3 −3 −3 −2 −2 −3 −4 −4 −4 −4 −3 −3 −3 −3 −4 −5 −4
Australia Norman E E +1 +1 +1 +1 +1 +1 E −1 −1 −1 −2 −2 −3 −4 −5 −4
Spain Ballesteros −1 −2 −2 −3 −4 −4 −4 −4 −5 −4 −4 −4 −4 −4 −4 −2 −2 −3
United States 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:[4][8]

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,[9] but Faldo made his long birdie putt for his second major championship and first Masters title.[2][10]

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

References

  1. ^ a b Dorman, Larry (April 10, 1989). "Hoch's miss is Faldo's gain". Spokesman-Review. (Spokane, Washington). Knight-Ridder. p. D1.
  2. ^ a b c d e f g Swift, E.M. (April 17, 1989). "Jolly Good Show". Sports Illustrated. p. 18.
  3. ^ Van Sickle, Gary (April 10, 1989). "Faldo becomes new master of Augusta". Milwaukee Journal. p. 1C. Retrieved January 14, 2013.
  4. ^ a b Hyman, Mark (April 10, 1989). "Faldo does when others don't". Eugene Register-Guard. (Oregon). (from The Baltimore Sun). p. 1B. Retrieved January 14, 2013.
  5. ^ Lader, Martin (April 8, 1989). "Lyle's reign as champion ends quietly". Schenectady Gazette. (New York). UPI. p. 20.
  6. ^ "Masters – Past Winners & Results". Augusta National Inc. Retrieved April 20, 2021.
  7. ^ "Past results – Masters tournament". PGA Tour. Retrieved April 20, 2021.
  8. ^ "Historic leaderboards: 1989 Masters". Augusta.com. Retrieved August 16, 2013.
  9. ^ "Faldo wins Masters in playoff". The New York Times. April 10, 1989. Retrieved January 14, 2013.
  10. ^ Harig, Bob (April 12, 2011). "1989 Masters: Nick Faldo wins in playoff". ESPN. Retrieved January 14, 2013.

External links

1989 Men's major golf championships
Masters Tournaments
PGA Tour on CBS
Categories