2010 Masters Tournament


The 2010 Masters Tournament was the 74th Masters Tournament, played April 8–11 at Augusta National Golf Club.
Phil Mickelson won his third Masters and fourth major title, three shots ahead of runner-up Lee Westwood.

Field

The Masters has the smallest field of the major championships. Officially the Masters remains an invitation event, but there is now a qualification process. In theory, the club could simply decline to invite a qualified player. This is the list of the 96 players who played in the 2010 Masters Tournament. Each player is classified according to the first category by which he qualified, but other categories are shown in parentheses.
1. Past Masters Champions
Ángel Cabrera, Fred Couples, Ben Crenshaw, Trevor Immelman, Zach Johnson, Bernhard Langer, Sandy Lyle, Phil Mickelson, Larry Mize, Mark O'Meara, Vijay Singh, Craig Stadler, Tom Watson, Mike Weir, Tiger Woods, Ian Woosnam
. Nicklaus joined Palmer as "honorary starters" and teed off on the first day at the first hole to kick off the tournament.
2. Last five U.S. Open Champions
Michael Campbell, Lucas Glover, Geoff Ogilvy
3. Last five British Open Champions
Stewart Cink, Pádraig Harrington
4. Last five PGA Champions
Y. E. Yang
5. Last three of The Players Champions
Sergio García, Henrik Stenson
6. Top two finishers in the 2009 U.S. Amateur
An Byeong-hun, Ben Martin
7. Winner of the 2009 Amateur Championship
Matteo Manassero
8. Winner of the 2009 Asian Amateur
Han Chang-won
9. Winner of the 2009 U.S. Amateur Public Links
Brad Benjamin
10. Winner of the 2009 U.S. Mid-Amateur
Nathan Smith
11. The top 16 finishers and ties in the 2009 Masters Tournament
Chad Campbell, Tim Clark, Steve Flesch, Jim Furyk, Todd Hamilton, Shingo Katayama, Hunter Mahan, John Merrick, Sean O'Hair, Kenny Perry, Steve Stricker, Camilo Villegas
12. Top 8 finishers and ties in the 2009 U.S. Open
Ricky Barnes, David Duval, Ross Fisher, Søren Hansen
13. Top 4 finishers and ties in the 2009 British Open Championship
Lee Westwood, Chris Wood
14. Top 4 finishers and ties in the 2009 PGA Championship
Rory McIlroy
15. Top 30 leaders on the 2009 PGA Tour
Paul Casey, Brian Gay, Retief Goosen, Dustin Johnson, Jerry Kelly, Matt Kuchar, Justin Leonard, Kevin Na, Ian Poulter, John Rollins, Rory Sabbatini, John Senden, David Toms, Nick Watney
16. Winners of PGA Tour events that award a full-point allocation for the season-ending Tour Championship, between the 2009 Masters Tournament and the 2010 Masters Tournament
Ben Crane, Ernie Els, Nathan Green, Bill Haas, Anthony Kim, Ryan Moore, Ryan Palmer, Heath Slocum
17. All players qualifying for the 2009 edition of The Tour Championship
Luke Donald, Jason Dufner, Marc Leishman, Steve Marino, Scott Verplank
18. Top 50 on the final 2009 Official World Golf Rankings list
Robert Allenby, Ben Curtis, Simon Dyson, Anders Hansen, Yuta Ikeda, Ryo Ishikawa, Miguel Ángel Jiménez, Robert Karlsson, Martin Kaymer, Søren Kjeldsen, Graeme McDowell, Edoardo Molinari, Francesco Molinari, Adam Scott, Oliver Wilson
19. Top 50 on the Official World Golf Rankings list going into the tournament
K. J. Choi, Louis Oosthuizen, Álvaro Quirós, Charl Schwartzel, Thongchai Jaidee
20. International invitees
None

Past champions in the field

Made the cut

Missed the cut

Nationalities in the field

Par 3 Contest

won the contest with a 6 under par 21. There were 2 holes in one during the contest, both on the 9th hole, achieved by Graeme McDowell and Jim Furyk. McDowell went on to win the U.S. Open, Oosthuizen went on to win The Open Championship, and Furyk went on to win the 2010 FedEx Cup.

Round summaries

First round

Thursday, April 8, 2010
The day started very sunny, but clouds began accumulating later in the morning and thunderstorms were expected in the afternoon; however, the weather remained fair. The much anticipated return of Tiger Woods came on Thursday, who shot a 4-under 68. This was a good opening for Woods, who had never before shot a first round in the 60s at the Masters. But the story of the day was the two Champions Tour players, 60-year-old Tom Watson and 50-year-old Fred Couples, who shot 67 and 66 respectively. Major champions Phil Mickelson and Y.E. Yang were one stroke back of leader Couples along with Lee Westwood, K.J. Choi, and Watson.
PlacePlayerCountryScoreTo par
1Fred Couples66−6
T2K. J. Choi67−5
T2Phil Mickelson67−5
T2Tom Watson67−5
T2Lee Westwood67−5
T2Y. E. Yang67−5
T7Ricky Barnes68−4
T7Anthony Kim68−4
T7Ian Poulter68−4
T7Nick Watney68−4
T7Tiger Woods68−4

Second round

Friday, April 9, 2010
Phil Mickelson shot a 1-under 71 despite missing a 1-foot putt on Hole 5. Fred Couples and Tom Watson both fell back after solid opening rounds. Englishmen Lee Westwood and Ian Poulter shared the lead heading into the weekend.
PlacePlayerCountryScoreTo par
T1Ian Poulter68-68=136−8
T1Lee Westwood67-69=136−8
T3Ricky Barnes68-70=138−6
T3K. J. Choi67-71=138−6
T3Anthony Kim68-70=138−6
T3Phil Mickelson67-71=138−6
T3Tiger Woods68-70=138−6
8Y. E. Yang67-72=139−5
T9Fred Couples66-75=141−3
T9Søren Kjeldsen70-71=141−3
T9Tom Watson67-74=141−3

Amateurs: Manassero , Smith, Benjamin, An, Han, Martin.

Third round

Saturday, April 10, 2010
Lee Westwood continued his solid play in the third round to stay in the lead. Phil Mickelson shot a 67, including a dramatic eagle-eagle-birdie on 13, 14 and 15, to move into second place, three strokes clear of the rest of the field.
PlacePlayerCountryScoreTo par
1Lee Westwood67-69-68=204−12
2Phil Mickelson67-71-67=205−11
T3K. J. Choi67-71-70=208−8
T3Tiger Woods68-70-70=208−8
5Fred Couples66-75-68=209−7
T6Ricky Barnes68-70-72=210−6
T6Hunter Mahan71-71-68=210−6
T6Ian Poulter68-68-74=210−6
T9Anthony Kim68-70-73=211−5
T9Y. E. Yang67-72-72=211−5

Final round

Sunday, April 11, 2010
Fred Couples mounted an early charge up the leaderboard with two birdies in his first three holes, but he quickly cooled off and ended up in sixth place. Overnight leader Lee Westwood started erratically, while Phil Mickelson parred his first seven holes. K.J. Choi was briefly tied for the lead at -12 with a birdie at 10 but he eventually fell back to a tie for fourth with playing partner Tiger Woods. Twenty-four-year-old Anthony Kim shot a blistering 65, including a -5 run over four holes; he finished third. But down the stretch, Mickelson pulled away from Westwood with a bogey-free round of 67 to win the tournament.
PlacePlayerCountryScoreTo parMoney
1Phil Mickelson67-71-67-67=272−161,350,000
2Lee Westwood67-69-68-71=275−13810,000
3Anthony Kim68-70-73-65=276−12510,000
T4K. J. Choi67-71-70-69=277−11330,000
T4Tiger Woods68-70-70-69=277−11330,000
6Fred Couples66-75-68-70=279−9270,000
7Nick Watney68-76-71-65=280−8251,250
T8Hunter Mahan71-71-68-71=281−7225,000
T8Y. E. Yang67-72-72-70=281−7225,000
T10Ricky Barnes68-70-72-73=283−5195,000
T10Ian Poulter68-68-74-73=283−5195,000

Amateurs: Manassero.
Final round
Hole 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 101112131415161718
Par454343454443545344
Mickelson−11−11−11−11−11−11−11−12−12−12−12−13−14−14−15−15−15−16
Westwood−11−12−12−11−12−12−12−12−11−11−11−11−12−12−12−12−13−13
Kim−5−6−6−6−6−5−6−7−7−7−7−7−8−9−11−12−12−12
Choi−8−9−9−9−9−10−10−11−11−12−12−12−11−10−11−11−11−11
Woods−7−7−7−6−5−5−7−8−9−9−8−8−9−8−10−10−10−11
Couples−7−8−9−9−9−9−9−9−10−10−9−7−8−9−9−8−9−9
Watney−1−2−3−3−2−3−4−5−5−5−5−5−6−6−7−7−8−8

Cumulative tournament scores, relative to par
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