2000 Masters Tournament


The 2000 Masters Tournament was the 64th Masters Tournament, held April 6–9 at Augusta National Golf Club in Augusta, Georgia. Vijay Singh won his only Masters, three strokes ahead of runner-up Ernie Els. It was the second of Singh's three major titles.

Course

Field

Each player is classified according to the first category by which he qualified, with other categories in which he qualified shown in parentheses.
;1. Masters champions
Tommy Aaron, Seve Ballesteros, Gay Brewer, Billy Casper, Charles Coody, Fred Couples, Ben Crenshaw, Nick Faldo, Raymond Floyd, Doug Ford, Bernhard Langer, Sandy Lyle, Larry Mize, Jack Nicklaus, José María Olazábal, Mark O'Meara, Arnold Palmer, Gary Player, Craig Stadler, Tom Watson, Tiger Woods, Ian Woosnam, Fuzzy Zoeller
;2. U.S. Open champions
Ernie Els, Lee Janzen, Steve Jones, Corey Pavin
;3. The Open champions
John Daly, Paul Lawrie, Tom Lehman, Justin Leonard
;4. PGA champions
Mark Brooks, Steve Elkington, Davis Love III, Vijay Singh
;5. The Players Championship winners
David Duval, Hal Sutton
;6. U.S. Amateur champion and runner-up
David Gossett, Kim Sung-yoon
;7. The Amateur champion
Graeme Storm
;8. U.S. Amateur Public Links champion
Hunter Haas
;9. U.S. Mid-Amateur champion
Danny Green
;10. Top 16 players and ties from the 1999 Masters
Bob Estes, Carlos Franco, Jim Furyk, Brandt Jobe, Phil Mickelson, Colin Montgomerie, Greg Norman, Steve Pate, Nick Price, Lee Westwood
;11. Top eight players and ties from the 1999 U.S. Open
Tim Herron, Jeff Maggert, Steve Stricker
;12. Top four players and ties from 1999 PGA Championship
Stewart Cink, Sergio García, Jay Haas
;13. Top four players and ties from the 1999 Open Championship
Ángel Cabrera, Craig Parry, Jean van de Velde
;14. Top 40 players from the 1999 PGA Tour money list
Stuart Appleby, Notah Begay III, Glen Day, Fred Funk, Brent Geiberger, Scott Gump, Dudley Hart, Gabriel Hjertstedt, Scott Hoch, John Huston, Skip Kendall, Rocco Mediate, Jesper Parnevik, Dennis Paulson, Chris Perry, Loren Roberts, Jeff Sluman, David Toms, Ted Tryba, Duffy Waldorf, Mike Weir
;15. Top 3 players from the 2000 PGA Tour money list on March 5
Kirk Triplett
;16. Top 50 players from the final 1999 world ranking
Thomas Bjørn, Darren Clarke, Retief Goosen, Pádraig Harrington, Miguel Ángel Jiménez, Masashi Ozaki, Naomichi Ozaki, Bob Tway, Brian Watts
;17. Top 50 players from world ranking published March 5
Paul Azinger, Shigeki Maruyama
;18. Special foreign invitation
Aaron Baddeley
All the amateurs except Danny Green were playing in their first Masters, as were Notah Begay III, Ángel Cabrera, Brent Geiberger, Pádraig Harrington, Skip Kendall, Paul Lawrie, Dennis Paulson, Jean van de Velde, and Mike Weir. Sergio García made his first appearance as a professional.

Nationalities in the field

Past champions in the field

Made the cut

Missed the cut

Round summaries

First round

Thursday, April 6, 2000
PlacePlayerCountryScoreTo par
1Dennis Paulson68−4
2Tom Lehman69−3
T3Sergio García70−2
T3Steve Stricker70−2
T5Thomas Bjørn71−1
T5Steve Jones71−1
T5Bernhard Langer71−1
T5Rocco Mediate71−1
T5Phil Mickelson71−1
T10Tommy Aaron72E
T10Paul Azinger72E
T10Mark Brooks72E
T10Darren Clarke72E
T10Ernie Els72E
T10Bob Estes72E
T10Nick Faldo72E
T10Justin Leonard72E
T10José María Olazábal72E
T10Masashi Ozaki72E
T10Vijay Singh72E
T10Hal Sutton72E

Second round

Friday, April 7, 2000
PlacePlayerCountryScoreTo par
1David Duval73-65=138−6
T2Ernie Els72-67=139−5
T2Phil Mickelson71-68=139−5
T2Vijay Singh72-67=139−5
T5Steve Jones71-70=141−3
T5Tom Lehman69-72=141−3
T7Sergio García70-72=142−2
T7Retief Goosen73-69=142−2
T7Bernhard Langer71-71=142−2
T7Loren Roberts73-69=142−2
T7Jeff Sluman73-69=142−2

Amateurs: Gossett , Baddeley, Green, Kim, Haas, Storm.

Third round

Saturday, April 8, 2000
& Sunday, April 9, 2000
PlacePlayerCountryScoreTo par
1Vijay Singh72-67-70=209−7
2David Duval73-65-74=212−4
T3Ernie Els72-67-74=213−3
T3Loren Roberts73-69-71=213−3
T5Davis Love III75-72-68=215−1
T5Phil Mickelson71-68-76=215−1
T5Mike Weir75-70-70=215−1
T5Tiger Woods75-72-68=215−1
T9Tom Lehman69-72-75=216E
T9Nick Price74-69-73=216E

Third round suspended by darkness due to two-hour rain delay and completed Sunday morning.

Final round

Sunday, April 9, 2000
PlacePlayerCountryScoreTo parMoney
1Vijay Singh72-67-70-69=278−10828,000
2Ernie Els72-67-74-68=281−7496,800
T3David Duval73-65-74-70=282−6266,800
T3Loren Roberts73-69-71-69=282−6266,800
5Tiger Woods75-72-68-69=284−4184,000
6Tom Lehman69-72-75-69=285−3165,600
T7Carlos Franco79-68-70-69=286−2143,367
T7Davis Love III75-72-68-71=286−2143,367
T7Phil Mickelson71-68-76-71=286−2143,367
10Hal Sutton72-75-71-69=287−1124,200

Amateurs: Gossett.

Scorecard

Final round
Hole 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18
Par454343454443545344
Singh−7−7−6−6−6−7−7−8−9−9−8−8−9−9−10−9−9−10
Els−3−3−3−3−3−3−3−4−4−4−5−5−6−6−7−7−7−7
Duval−4−5−5−5−5−6−6−7−8−7−7−7−6−6−7−7−7−6
Roberts−4−4−4−4−4−4−4−5−6−5−4−4−5−6−6−6−6−6
Woods−1−2−2−3−3−2−3−4−4−4−4−4−4−4−5−4−4−4
Lehman+1EEE−1−1EEEEE−1−2−1−1−2−2−3
FrancoEEEEEEEE−1−1−1−1−2−1−2−2−2−2
LoveEEEEEEE−1−1−1−1−1−2−2−2−2−2−2
Mickelson−1−2−2−2−2−2−2−2−2−1−1−2−3−2−1−1−2−2

Cumulative tournament scores, relative to par
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