Tournament information | |
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Dates | April 9–12, 1998 |
Location | Augusta, Georgia 33°30′11″N 82°01′12″W / 33.503°N 82.020°W |
Course(s) | Augusta National Golf Club |
Organized by | Augusta National Golf Club |
Tour(s) | PGA Tour European Tour Japan Golf Tour |
Statistics | |
Par | 72 |
Length | 6,925 yards (6,332 m) |
Field | 88 players, 46 after cut |
Cut | 150 (+6) |
Prize fund | US$3.2 million |
Winner's share | $576,000 |
Champion | |
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279 (−9) | |
Location map | |
Location in Georgia | |
The 1998 Masters Tournament was the 62nd Masters Tournament, held from April 9–12 at Augusta National Golf Club. Mark O'Meara won his first major championship with a 20-foot (6 m) birdie putt on the final hole to win by one stroke over runners-up David Duval and Fred Couples.[1] [2] He birdied three of the final four holes in a final round 67 (−5).[3]
In one of the most remarkable performances of his career, Jack Nicklaus tied for sixth place at the age of 58. His final round 68 (−4) yielded a 283 (−5), the lowest 72-hole score by a player over age 50 at the Masters until Phil Mickelson shot a score of 280 (−8) in the 2023 tournament. Nicklaus was in contention for the title until well into the back nine holes in the final round. It was his last serious run for a major championship, twelve years after his sixth Masters victory in 1986.[1]
In his first Masters, David Toms shot a 29 (−7) on the back nine on Sunday, en route to a 64 (−8). He had six consecutive birdies on holes 12–17.[4]
O'Meara's win came in his 15th attempt at Augusta, setting a record for appearances before a victory. He had previously been considered one of the best players to never win a major. Later in July, he won the Open Championship and earned PGA Tour Player of the Year honors for 1998.
Matt Kuchar, a 19-year-old sophomore at Georgia Tech, was the low amateur at even-par 288 and tied for 21st place. The reigning U.S. Amateur champion, he carded a four-under 68 in the third round.
Field
[edit]- 1. Masters champions
Tommy Aaron, Seve Ballesteros, Gay Brewer, Billy Casper, Charles Coody, Fred Couples (9,12), Ben Crenshaw, Nick Faldo, Raymond Floyd, Doug Ford, Bernhard Langer (9), Sandy Lyle, Larry Mize, Jack Nicklaus, José María Olazábal (9,10), Arnold Palmer, Gary Player, Craig Stadler, Tom Watson (9), Tiger Woods (9,12,13), Ian Woosnam, Fuzzy Zoeller
- George Archer, Jack Burke Jr., Bob Goalby, Herman Keiser, Cary Middlecoff, Byron Nelson, Gene Sarazen, Sam Snead, and Art Wall Jr. did not play.
- 2. U.S. Open champions (last five years)
Ernie Els (9,10,12,13), Lee Janzen (11,13), Steve Jones (12,13), Corey Pavin
- 3. The Open champions (last five years)
John Daly, Tom Lehman (9,10,13), Justin Leonard (9,11,12,13), Greg Norman (12,13), Nick Price (4,9,12,13)
- 4. PGA champions (last five years)
Paul Azinger, Mark Brooks, Steve Elkington (9,13), Davis Love III (9,10,11,12,13)
- 5. U.S. Amateur champion and runner-up
Joel Kribel (a), Matt Kuchar (a)
- 6. The Amateur champion
Craig Watson (a)
- 7. U.S. Amateur Public Links champion
Tim Clark (a)
- 8. U.S. Mid-Amateur champion
Ken Bakst (a)
- 9. Top 24 players and ties from the 1997 Masters
Stuart Appleby (13), Mark Calcavecchia (12,13), Fred Funk, John Huston (12), Per-Ulrik Johansson, Tom Kite (11), Jesper Parnevik (12,13), Costantino Rocca, Vijay Singh (12,13), Jeff Sluman, Paul Stankowski (13), Tommy Tolles (10,13), Lee Westwood, Willie Wood
- 10. Top 16 players and ties from the 1997 U.S. Open
Billy Andrade, Olin Browne, Stewart Cink (12,13), Jim Furyk (11,13), Jay Haas, Scott Hoch (11,12,13), Bradley Hughes, Jeff Maggert (11,13), Scott McCarron (12,13), Colin Montgomerie, David Ogrin, Bob Tway
- Loren Roberts (12,13) was unable to compete due to a rib injury.[5]
- 11. Top eight players and ties from 1997 PGA Championship
Phil Blackmar (12)
- 12. Winners of PGA Tour events since the previous Masters
Michael Bradley, Billy Ray Brown, David Duval (13), David Frost, Bill Glasson (13), Tim Herron, Gabriel Hjertstedt, Billy Mayfair, Phil Mickelson (13), Frank Nobilo (13), Scott Simpson, David Toms
- 13. Top 30 players from the 1997 PGA Tour money list
John Cook, Brad Faxon, Andrew Magee, Mark O'Meara
- 14. Special foreign invitation
Darren Clarke, Ignacio Garrido, Retief Goosen, Shigeki Maruyama, Masashi Ozaki
Round summaries
[edit]First round
[edit]Thursday, April 9, 1998
Friday, April 10, 1998
Place | Player | Score | To par |
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1 | ![]() |
69 | −3 |
T2 | ![]() |
70 | −2 |
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T5 | ![]() |
71 | −1 |
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First round suspended by darkness; start was delayed by 90 minutes to get course playable after heavy rains Wednesday night.
Second round
[edit]Friday, April 10, 1998
Place | Player | Score | To par |
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T1 | ![]() |
69-70=139 | −5 |
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71-68=139 | ||
3 | ![]() |
70-71=141 | −3 |
T4 | ![]() |
71-72=143 | −1 |
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72-71=143 | ||
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74-69=143 | ||
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70-73=143 | ||
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71-72=143 | ||
T9 | ![]() |
73-71=144 | E |
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74-70=144 |
Source:[6]
Amateurs: Kuchar (+4), Kribel (+6), Watson (+13), Clark (+14), Bakst (+16).
Third round
[edit]Saturday, April 11, 1998
Place | Player | Score | To par |
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1 | ![]() |
69-70-71=210 | −6 |
T2 | ![]() |
71-72-69=212 | −4 |
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74-69-69=212 | ||
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74-70-68=212 | ||
T5 | ![]() |
71-68-74=213 | −3 |
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76-70-67=213 | ||
T7 | ![]() |
72-71-71=214 | −2 |
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70-71-73=214 | ||
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70-73-71=214 | ||
T10 | ![]() |
75-70-70=215 | −1 |
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71-75-69=215 | ||
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73-72-70=215 | ||
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71-72-72=215 |
Final round
[edit]External videos | |
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Sunday, April 12, 1998
Final leaderboard
[edit]Champion |
Silver Cup winner (low amateur) |
(a) = amateur |
(c) = past champion |
Place | Player | Score | To par | Money (US$) |
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1 | ![]() |
74-70-68-67=279 | −9 | 576,000 |
T2 | ![]() |
69-70-71-70=280 | −8 | 281,600 |
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71-68-74-67=280 | |||
4 | ![]() |
76-70-67-68=281 | −7 | 153,600 |
5 | ![]() |
71-72-69-70=282 | −6 | 128,000 |
T6 | ![]() |
73-72-70-68=283 | −5 | 111,200 |
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75-72-72-64=283 | |||
T8 | ![]() |
76-73-67-69=285 | −3 | 89,600 |
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74-73-69-69=285 | |||
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71-75-69-70=285 | |||
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71-72-72-70=285 |
Leaderboard below the top 10 | |||||
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Place | Player | Score | To par | Money ($) | |
T12 | ![]() |
72-71-71-72=286 | −2 | 64,800 | |
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74-69-69-74=286 | ||||
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70-73-71-72=286 | ||||
T16 | ![]() |
74-74-69-70=287 | −1 | 48,000 | |
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75-70-70-72=287 | ||||
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70-71-73-73=287 | ||||
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73-71-72-71=287 | ||||
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74-71-72-70=287 | ||||
T21 | ![]() |
72-76-68-72=288 | E | 0 | |
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74-74-70-70=288 | 38,400 | |||
T23 | ![]() |
74-76-69-70=289 | +1 | 33,280 | |
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77-71-70-71=289 | ||||
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72-73-72-72=289 | ||||
T26 | ![]() |
73-74-71-72=290 | +2 | 26,133 | |
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72-73-74-71=290 | ||||
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75-70-75-70=290 | ||||
29 | ![]() |
73-74-72-72=291 | +3 | 23,680 | |
30 | ![]() |
75-75-71-71=292 | +4 | 22,720 | |
T31 | ![]() |
74-72-74-73=293 | +5 | 21,280 | |
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75-73-73-72=293 | ||||
T33 | ![]() |
71-78-75-70=294 | +6 | 18,112 | |
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77-71-71-75=294 | ||||
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76-74-72-72=294 | ||||
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74-75-67-78=294 | ||||
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71-74-75-74=294 | ||||
38 | ![]() |
73-74-74-74=295 | +7 | 15,680 | |
T39 | ![]() |
75-73-74-74=296 | +8 | 14,720 | |
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70-80-72-74=296 | ||||
T41 | ![]() |
73-77-72-75=297 | +9 | 13,440 | |
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79-68-73-77=297 | ||||
43 | ![]() |
75-73-74-76=298 | +10 | 12,480 | |
44 | ![]() |
74-76-72-78=300 | +12 | 11,840 | |
45 | ![]() |
74-76-76-75=301 | +13 | 0 | |
46 | ![]() |
77-72-78-75=302 | +14 | 11,200 | |
CUT | ![]() |
76-75=151 | +7 | ||
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72-79=151 | ||||
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74-77=151 | ||||
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74-77=151 | ||||
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76-75=151 | ||||
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74-77=151 | ||||
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76-75=151 | ||||
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75-76=151 | ||||
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75-76=151 | ||||
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78-73=151 | ||||
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72-80=152 | +8 | |||
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73-79=152 | ||||
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75-77=152 | ||||
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74-78=152 | ||||
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75-78=153 | +9 | |||
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75-78=153 | ||||
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77-76=153 | ||||
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81-72=153 | ||||
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77-77=154 | +10 | |||
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74-80=154 | ||||
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76-78=154 | ||||
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78-76=154 | ||||
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83-72=155 | +11 | |||
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77-78=155 | ||||
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80-76=156 | +12 | |||
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80-76=156 | ||||
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76-80=156 | ||||
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78-79=157 | +13 | |||
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79-78=157 | ||||
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85-72=157 | ||||
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79-78=157 | ||||
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79-78=157 | ||||
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72-86=158 | +14 | |||
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80-78=158 | ||||
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81-79=160 | +16 | |||
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82-78=160 | ||||
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82-79=161 | +17 | |||
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79-85=164 | +20 | |||
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79-87=166 | +22 | |||
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81-86=167 | +23 | |||
WD | ![]() |
86 | +14 |
Scorecard
[edit]Cumulative tournament scores, relative to par
Eagle Birdie Bogey Double bogey
Source:[9]
Quotes
[edit]- "Good-looking putt...Mark O'Meara has won the Masters!" – Jim Nantz's (CBS Sports) call as O'Meara sunk his birdie putt on the 18th hole to defeat Fred Couples and David Duval and win the tournament
References
[edit]- ^ a b Rushin, Steve (April 20, 1998). "Out of the Woods". Sports Illustrated. p. 32.
- ^ Dulac, Gerry (April 13, 1998). "Oh, My". Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. p. C-1.
- ^ Bonk, Thomas (April 13, 1998). "O'Meara clears major hurdle". Eugene Register-Guard. (Oregon). (from Los Angeles Times). p. 1B.
- ^ "Toms makes run at record book in final-round 64". Eugene Register-Guard. (Oregon). April 13, 1998. p. 3B.
- ^ "Loren Roberts withdraws from Masters". Golf News. April 6, 1998. Archived from the original on July 9, 2014. Retrieved May 13, 2016.
- ^ "Golf scoreboard: Masters". Eugene Register-Guard. (Oregon). Associated Press. April 11, 1998. p. 4D.
- ^ "Masters – Past Winners & Results". Augusta National Inc. Retrieved April 20, 2021.
- ^ "Past results – Masters tournament". PGA Tour. Retrieved April 20, 2021.
- ^ "Leaders Cards". Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. April 13, 1998. p. C-6.
External links
[edit]- Masters.com – Past winners and results
- Augusta.com – 1998 Masters leaderboard and scorecards