1954 Masters Tournament

1954 Masters Tournament

Tournament information
Dates	April 8–12, 1954
Location	Augusta, Georgia
Course(s)	Augusta National Golf Club
Organized by	Augusta National Golf Club
Tour(s)	PGA Tour
Statistics
Par	72
Length	6,800 yards (6,220 m)
Field	78 players
Cut	None
Prize fund	$25,000
Winner's share	$5,000
Champion
Sam Snead
289 (+1), playoff

Augusta 

Location in the United States

The 1954 Masters Tournament was the 18th Masters Tournament, held April 8–12 at Augusta National Golf Club in Augusta, Georgia. Sam Snead defeated defending champion Ben Hogan by one stroke in an 18-hole Monday playoff to win his third Masters tournament. It was Snead's seventh and final major victory.

Both Snead and Hogan were age 41, and they had won the previous three Masters; Snead in 1952 and Hogan in 1951 and 1953. Hogan was also the reigning champion of the U.S. Open and British Open; he did not win another major, but often contended until his final appearances in 1967 at the Masters and U.S. Open.

Snead's 289 (+1), along with Jack Burke, Jr. in 1956 and Zach Johnson in 2007, remains the highest winning total in Masters history. Amateur Billy Joe Patton, 31, led after the first and second rounds and during the fourth, but a seven at the 13th hole and a six at the 15th ended his title hopes, and he finished one stroke back.^[1]

Past champions in the field

Player	Country	Year(s) won	R1	R2	R3	R4	Total	To par	Finish
Sam Snead	United States	1949, 1952	74	73	70	72	289	+1	1
Ben Hogan	United States	1951, 1953	72	73	69	75	289	+1	2
Byron Nelson	United States	1937, 1942	73	76	74	73	296	+8	T12
Jimmy Demaret	United States	1940, 1947, 1950	80	75	72	73	300	+12	T29
Horton Smith	United States	1934, 1936	80	78	71	74	303	+15	T38
Claude Harmon	United States	1948	77	75	77	78	307	+19	T53
Gene Sarazen	United States	1935	79	75	78	75	307	+19	T53
Craig Wood	United States	1941	87	80	78	75	320	+32	71

• The Masters did not have a 36-hole cut until 1957

Round summaries

First round

Thursday, April 8, 1954

Place	Player	Country	Score	To par
T1	Billy Joe Patton (a)	United States	70	−2
	Dutch Harrison	United States}
T3	Lloyd Mangrum	United States	71	−1
	Jack Burke, Jr.	United States
T5	Ben Hogan	United States	72	E
	Dave Douglas	United States
T7	Byron Nelson	United States	73	+1
	Bob Rosburg	United States
	Chick Harbert	United States
	Denny Shute	United States
	Tommy Bolt	United States
	Vic Ghezzi	United States
	Gardner Dickinson	United States
	Pete Cooper	United States
	William C. Campbell (a)	United States
	Cary Middlecoff	United States

Second round

Friday, April 9, 1954

Place	Player	Country	Score	To par
1	Billy Joe Patton (a)	United States	70-74=144	E
2	Ben Hogan	United States	72-73=145	+1
T3	Bob Rosburg	United States	73-73=146	+2
	Lloyd Mangrum	United States	71-75=146
T5	Tommy Bolt	United States	73-74=147	+3
	Sam Snead	United States	74-73=147
T7	Al Besselink	United States	74-74=148	+4
	Lew Worsham	United States	74-74=148
	Chick Harbert	United States	73-75=148
	Dave Douglas	United States	72-76=148
	Jack Burke, Jr.	United States	71-77=148
	Peter Thomson	Australia	76-72=148

Third round

Saturday, April 10, 1954

Place	Player	Country	Score	To par
1	Ben Hogan	United States	72-73-69=214	−2
2	Sam Snead	United States	74-73-70=217	+1
T3	Cary Middlecoff	United States	73-76-70=219	+3
	Tommy Bolt	United States	73-74-72=219
	Billy Joe Patton (a)	United States	70-74-75=219
T6	Jerry Barber	United States	74-76-71=221	+5
	Jack Burke, Jr.	United States	71-77-73=221
T8	Al Besselink	United States	74-74-74=222	+6
	Lew Worsham	United States	74-74-74=222
	Lloyd Mangrum	United States	71-75-76=222
	Bob Rosburg	United States	73-73-76=222

Final round

Sunday, April 11, 1954

Place	Player	Country	Score	To par	Money ($)
T1	Sam Snead	United States	74-73-70-72=289	+1	Playoff
	Ben Hogan	United States	72-73-69-75=289
3	Billy Joe Patton (a)	United States	70-74-75-71=290	+2	0
T4	Dutch Harrison	United States	70-79-74-68=291	+3	1,937
	Lloyd Mangrum	United States	71-75-76-69=291
T6	Jerry Barber	United States	74-76-71-71=292	+4	1,041
	Jack Burke, Jr.	United States	71-77-73-71=292
	Bob Rosburg	United States	73-73-76-70=292
T9	Al Besselink	United States	74-74-74-72=294	+6	781
	Cary Middlecoff	United States	73-76-70-75=294

Source:^[2]

Scorecard

Final round

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
Snead	+1	+1	+1	+2	+3	+2	+2	+2	+2	+2	+2	+3	+2	+2	+1	+1	+1	+1
Hogan	−1	−1	−2	−2	−2	−2	−1	−1	−1	−1	+1	+1	+1	+2	+1	+1	+1	+1
Patton	+4	+3	+3	+3	+3	+1	+1	E	−1	−1	−1	E	+2	+1	+2	+2	+2	+2
Harrison	+7	+6	+6	+6	+6	+5	+5	+5	+5	+5	+5	+5	+4	+5	+4	+4	+3	+3
Mangrum	+6	+5	+6	+6	+6	+6	+6	+6	+6	+6	+6	+6	+6	+6	+5	+4	+3	+3

Cumulative tournament scores, relative to par

Eagle

Birdie

Bogey

Double bogey

Playoff

Monday, April 12, 1954

Place	Player	Country	Score	To par	Money ($)
1	Sam Snead	United States	70	−2	5,000
2	Ben Hogan	United States	71	−1	3,125

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
Snead	E	−1	−1	E	E	−1	−1	−1	−1	−2	−2	−1	−2	−2	−3	−3	−3	−2
Hogan	E	−1	−1	−1	−1	−1	−1	−1	−1	−1	−1	−1	−1	−1	−2	−1	−1	−1

Source:^[3]

References

External links

• Masters.com – past winners and results
• About.com: 1954 Masters
• Augusta.com – 1954 Masters leaderboard and scorecards