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.^[2]

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.^[3] 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 (2,11,15,17,18,19), Fred Couples, Ben Crenshaw, Trevor Immelman, Zach Johnson (15,16,17,18,19), Bernhard Langer, Sandy Lyle, Phil Mickelson (4,5,11,12,15,16,17,18,19), Larry Mize, Mark O'Meara, Vijay Singh (18,19), Craig Stadler, Tom Watson (13), Mike Weir (15,17,18,19), Tiger Woods (2,3,4,11,12,14,15,16,17,18,19), Ian Woosnam

(Past champions who did not play: Tommy Aaron, Seve Ballesteros, Jack Burke Jr., Billy Casper, Charles Coody, Nick Faldo, Raymond Floyd,^[4] Doug Ford, Bob Goalby, Jack Nicklaus, José María Olazábal,^[5] Arnold Palmer, Gary Player, and Fuzzy Zoeller). 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 (12,15,17,18,19), Geoff Ogilvy (11,15,16,17,18,19)

3. Last five British Open Champions
Stewart Cink (13,15,17,18,19), Pádraig Harrington (4,15,17,18,19)

4. Last five PGA Champions
Y. E. Yang (14,15,16,17,18,19)

5. Last three of The Players Champions
Sergio García (18,19), Henrik Stenson (18,19)

6. Top two finishers in the 2009 U.S. Amateur
An Byeong-hun (a), Ben Martin (a)

7. Winner of the 2009 Amateur Championship
Matteo Manassero (a)

8. Winner of the 2009 Asian Amateur
Han Chang-won (a)

9. Winner of the 2009 U.S. Amateur Public Links
Brad Benjamin (a)

10. Winner of the 2009 U.S. Mid-Amateur
Nathan Smith (a)

11. The top 16 finishers and ties in the 2009 Masters Tournament
Chad Campbell, Tim Clark (15,18,19), Steve Flesch, Jim Furyk (15,16,17,18,19), Todd Hamilton, Shingo Katayama, Hunter Mahan (12,15,16,17,18,19), John Merrick, Sean O'Hair (15,16,17,18,19), Kenny Perry (15,16,17,18,19), Steve Stricker (15,16,17,18,19), Camilo Villegas (16,18,19)

12. Top 8 finishers and ties in the 2009 U.S. Open
Ricky Barnes, David Duval, Ross Fisher (18,19), Søren Hansen (18,19)

13. Top 4 finishers and ties in the 2009 British Open Championship
Lee Westwood (14,18,19), Chris Wood

14. Top 4 finishers and ties in the 2009 PGA Championship
Rory McIlroy (18,19)

15. Top 30 leaders on the 2009 PGA Tour official money earnings list
Paul Casey (18,19), Brian Gay (16,17,18), Retief Goosen (17,18,19), Dustin Johnson (16,17,19), Jerry Kelly (16,17), Matt Kuchar (19), Justin Leonard (18), Kevin Na (17,19), Ian Poulter (16,18,19), John Rollins, Rory Sabbatini (16), John Senden (17), David Toms (17,18), Nick Watney (17,18,19)

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 (17,18,19), Nathan Green, Bill Haas, Anthony Kim (18,19), Ryan Moore, Ryan Palmer, Heath Slocum (17)

17. All players qualifying for the 2009 edition of The Tour Championship
Luke Donald (18,19), Jason Dufner, Marc Leishman, Steve Marino, Scott Verplank

18. Top 50 on the final 2009 Official World Golf Rankings list
Robert Allenby (19), Ben Curtis, Simon Dyson, Anders Hansen, Yuta Ikeda (19), Ryo Ishikawa (19), Miguel Ángel Jiménez (19), Robert Karlsson (19), Martin Kaymer (19), Søren Kjeldsen, Graeme McDowell (19), Edoardo Molinari (19), Francesco Molinari (19), Adam Scott, Oliver Wilson (19)
(Michael Sim (19) withdrew prior to the tournament with a shoulder injury)^[6]

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

Par 3 Contest

Louis Oosthuizen 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.^[7] 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.^[8] 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.^[8]

Place	Player	Score	To par
1	Fred Couples	66	−6
T2	K. J. Choi	67	−5
	Phil Mickelson
	Tom Watson
	Lee Westwood
	Y. E. Yang
T7	Ricky Barnes	68	−4
	Anthony Kim
	Ian Poulter
	Nick Watney
	Tiger Woods

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.^[9]

Place	Player	Score	To par
T1	Ian Poulter	68-68=136	−8
	Lee Westwood	67-69=136
T3	Ricky Barnes	68-70=138	−6
	K. J. Choi	67-71=138
	Anthony Kim	68-70=138
	Phil Mickelson	67-71=138
	Tiger Woods	68-70=138
8	Y. E. Yang	67-72=139	−5
T9	Fred Couples	66-75=141	−3
	Søren Kjeldsen	70-71=141
	Tom Watson	67-74=141

Amateurs: Manassero (+3), Smith (+5), Benjamin (+6), An (+11), Han (+11), Martin (+11).

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.^[10]

Place	Player	Score	To par
1	Lee Westwood	67-69-68=204	−12
2	Phil Mickelson	67-71-67=205	−11
T3	K. J. Choi	67-71-70=208	−8
	Tiger Woods	68-70-70=208
5	Fred Couples	66-75-68=209	−7
T6	Ricky Barnes	68-70-72=210	−6
	Hunter Mahan	71-71-68=210
	Ian Poulter	68-68-74=210
T9	Anthony Kim	68-70-73=211	−5
	Y. E. Yang	67-72-72=211

Final round

Sunday, April 11, 2010

Summary

External videos
Full final round coverage on CBS on YouTube

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 (they were paired together for all four rounds of the tournament). 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.^[11]

Final leaderboard

Champion

Silver Cup winner (low amateur)

(a) = amateur

(c) = past champion

Top 10

Place	Player	Score	To par	Money (US$)
1	Phil Mickelson (c)	67-71-67-67=272	−16	1,350,000
2	Lee Westwood	67-69-68-71=275	−13	810,000
3	Anthony Kim	68-70-73-65=276	−12	510,000
T4	K. J. Choi	67-71-70-69=277	−11	330,000
	Tiger Woods (c)	68-70-70-69=277
6	Fred Couples (c)	66-75-68-70=279	−9	270,000
7	Nick Watney	68-76-71-65=280	−8	251,250
T8	Hunter Mahan	71-71-68-71=281	−7	225,000
	Yang Yong-eun	67-72-72-70=281
T10	Ricky Barnes	68-70-72-73=283	−5	195,000
	Ian Poulter	68-68-74-73=283

Leaderboard below the top 10
Place	Player	Score	To par	Money ($)
T12	Miguel Ángel Jiménez	72-75-72-66=285	−3	165,000
	Jerry Kelly	72-74-67-72=285
T14	Trevor Immelman (c)	69-73-72-72=286	−2	131,250
	Steve Marino	71-73-69-73=286
	Ryan Moore	72-73-73-68=286
	David Toms	69-75-71-71=286
T18	Ángel Cabrera (c)	73-74-69-71=287	−1	94,500
	Ernie Els	71-73-75-68=287
	Adam Scott	69-75-72-71=287
	Heath Slocum	72-73-70-72=287
	Scott Verplank	73-73-73-68=287
	Tom Watson (c)	67-74-73-73=287
T24	Ben Crane	71-75-74-68=288	E	69,000
	Matt Kuchar	70-73-74-71=288
T26	Bill Haas	72-70-71-76=289	+1	57,750
	Geoff Ogilvy	74-72-69-74=289
	Kenny Perry	72-71-72-74=289
29	Yuta Ikeda	70-77-72-71=290	+2	53,250
T30	Jason Dufner	75-72-75-69=291	+3	45,563
	Søren Kjeldsen	70-71-75-75=291
	Francesco Molinari	70-74-75-72=291
	Sean O'Hair	72-71-72-76=291
	Charl Schwartzel	69-76-72-74=291
	Steve Stricker	73-73-74-71=291
T36	Lucas Glover	76-71-71-74=292	+4	38,625
	Matteo Manassero (a)	71-76-73-72=292		0
T38	Steve Flesch	75-71-70-78=294	+6	34,500
	Retief Goosen	74-71-76-73=294
	Dustin Johnson	71-72-76-75=294
	Camilo Villegas	74-72-71-77=294
42	Zach Johnson (c)	70-74-76-75=295	+7	30,750
T43	Robert Karlsson	71-72-77-76=296	+8	28,500
	Mike Weir (c)	71-72-76-77=296
T45	Robert Allenby	72-75-78-73=298	+10	24,750
	Chad Campbell	79-68-80-71=298
	Sergio García	74-70-76-78=298
48	Nathan Green	72-75-80-75=302	+14	21,750
CUT	Tim Clark	75-73=148	+4
	Ben Curtis	73-75=148
	Ryo Ishikawa	72-76=148
	Larry Mize (c)	76-72=148
	John Senden	71-77=148
	Luke Donald	74-75=149	+5
	Søren Hansen	74-75=149
	Pádraig Harrington	74-75=149
	Martin Kaymer	76-73=149
	Bernhard Langer (c)	71-78=149
	Graeme McDowell	75-74=149
	John Merrick	72-77=149
	Mark O'Meara (c)	75-74=149
	Ryan Palmer	72-77=149
	Nathan Smith (a)	74-75=149
	Brad Benjamin (a)	73-77=150	+6
	Simon Dyson	77-73=150
	Justin Leonard	75-75=150
	Kevin Na	74-76=150
	Álvaro Quirós	75-75=150
	David Duval	76-75=151	+7
	Brian Gay	74-77=151
	Todd Hamilton	74-77=151
	Marc Leishman	72-79=151
	Rory McIlroy	74-77=151
	Edoardo Molinari	76-75=151
	John Rollins	75-76=151
	Oliver Wilson	78-73=151
	Stewart Cink	76-76=152	+8
	Shingo Katayama	75-77=152
	Louis Oosthuizen	75-77=152
	Paul Casey	75-78=153	+9
	Ross Fisher	77-76=153
	Rory Sabbatini	75-78=153
	Vijay Singh (c)	76-78=154	+10
	Chris Wood	78-76=154
	An Byeong-hun (a)	78-77=155	+11
	Ben Crenshaw (c)	77-78=155
	Han Chang-won (a)	79-76=155
	Sandy Lyle (c)	69-86=155
	Ben Martin (a)	75-80=155
	Henrik Stenson	80-75=155
	Jim Furyk	80-76=156	+12
	Anders Hansen	80-77=157	+13
	Craig Stadler (c)	79-78=157
	Michael Campbell	83-81=164	+20
	Ian Woosnam (c)	81-83=164
WD	Thongchai Jaidee	74	+2

• Final bulletin - 2010 prize money^[12]

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
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

Eagle

Birdie

Bogey

Double bogey

Source:^[13]

References

External links

• Official website
• Coverage from the PGA of America
• Coverage on the European Tour's official site