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1969 Masters Tournament

Field	Value
name	1969 Masters Tournament
image	1969_Masters_Tournament_Guide.jpg
caption	Front cover of the 1969 Masters Guide
dates	April 10–13, 1969
location	Augusta, Georgia
course	Augusta National Golf Club
org	Augusta National Golf Club
tour	PGA Tour
par	72
yardage	6980 yd
field	83 players, 48 after cut
cut	148 (+4)
purse
winners_share	$20,000
champion	USA George Archer
score	281 (−7)
previous	[1968](1968-masters-tournament)
next	[1970](1970-masters-tournament)
map	USA#USA Georgia
map_relief	yes
map_label	Augusta National
map_caption	Location in the United States##Location in Georgia
coordinates

The 1969 Masters Tournament was the 33rd Masters Tournament, held April 10–13 at Augusta National Golf Club in Augusta, Georgia.

George Archer won his only major championship, one stroke ahead of runners-up Billy Casper, George Knudson, and Tom Weiskopf. Third round leader Casper was five over-par after ten holes in his final round, then regrouped with three birdies but needed another. Weiskopf was tied for the lead until a bogey at 17, and future champion Charles Coody bogeyed the final three holes and finished two strokes back. Casper would win the title in 1970 in a playoff and Coody would win in 1971.

This was the last Masters that Ken Venturi participated in, and he missed the cut by twelve strokes. As an amateur in 1956, Venturi led after 54 holes but finished runner-up to Jack Burke Jr. Burke made the cut at the Masters for the final time in 1969 and finished in 24th place. Past champions were noticeably absent from the leaderboard this year, as Burke tied for the best finish with three-time winner Jack Nicklaus.

It was Archer's third Masters and his only top ten finish at Augusta; his next best result was tied for eleventh in 1981.

Bob Lunn won the tenth Par 3 contest on Wednesday with a score of 23.

Course

Main article: Augusta National Golf Club

Hole	Name	Yards	Par	Hole	Name	Yards	Par
1	White Pine	400	4		10	Camellia	470
2	Woodbine	555	5	11	Dogwood	445	4
3	Flowering Peach	355	4	12	Golden Bell	155	3
4	Palm	220	3	13	Azalea	475	5
5	Magnolia	450	4	14	Chinese Fir	420	4
6	Juniper	190	3	15	Firethorn	520	5
7	Pampas	365	4	16	Redbud	190	3
8	Yellow Jasmine	530	5	17	Nandina	400	4
9	Carolina Cherry	420	4	18	Holly	420	4
Out	3,485	36	In	3,495	36
Source:	Total	6,980	72

^ Holes 1, 2, 4, and 11 were later renamed.

Field

;1. Masters champions Gay Brewer (9,11), Jack Burke Jr., Doug Ford, Bob Goalby (8,10), Ralph Guldahl, Claude Harmon, Herman Keiser, Cary Middlecoff, Jack Nicklaus (2,3,8,9), Arnold Palmer (10,11), Henry Picard, Gary Player (2,3,8,9), Gene Sarazen, Sam Snead (9), Art Wall Jr. (8)

Jimmy Demaret, Ben Hogan, and Byron Nelson did not play.

;The following categories only apply to Americans

;2. U.S. Open champions (last five years) Billy Casper (8,9,10,11), Lee Trevino (9), Ken Venturi

;3. The Open champions (last five years)

;4. PGA champions (last five years) Julius Boros (8,9,10,11), Al Geiberger (9,10,11), Don January (8), Dave Marr (8), Bobby Nichols (9,11)

;5. The first eight finishers in the 1968 U.S. Amateur Bob Barbarossa (a), John Bohmann (a), Bruce Fleisher (6,7,a), Vinny Giles (7,8,a), Hubert Green (a), Jack Lewis Jr. (7,a), Rik Massengale (a), Allen Miller (a)

Miller and Billy Joe Patton tied for 8th place but Miller won the place by the drawing of lots. Canadian Gary Cowan also tied for 8th place but was not eligible.

;6. Previous two U.S. Amateur and Amateur champions

Bob Dickson forfeited his exemption by turning professional.

;7. Members of the 1968 U.S. Eisenhower Trophy team Dick Siderowf (a)

;8. Top 24 players and ties from the 1968 Masters Tournament Tommy Aaron, George Archer (9,10), Miller Barber (10), Frank Beard (10), Gardner Dickinson (11), Raymond Floyd, Lionel Hebert, Jerry Pittman (9), Mason Rudolph, Doug Sanders (10,11), Tom Weiskopf, Bert Yancey (9), Kermit Zarley (10)

;9. Top 16 players and ties from the 1968 U.S. Open Don Bies, Rod Funseth, Dave Hill, Steve Spray, Dave Stockton

;10. Top eight players and ties from 1968 PGA Championship Frank Boynton, Charles Coody, Marty Fleckman, Lou Graham, Dan Sikes

;11. Members of the U.S. 1967 Ryder Cup team Gene Littler, Johnny Pott

;12. One player, either amateur or professional, not already qualified, selected by a ballot of ex-Masters champions. Bob Murphy

;13. Leading six players, not already qualified, from a points list based on finishes in PGA Tour events since the previous Masters Deane Beman, Dale Douglass, Bob Lunn, Mac McLendon, R. H. Sikes, Ken Still

;14. Foreign invitations Roberto Bernardini, Michael Bonallack (6,a), Peter Butler, Joe Carr (a), Bob Charles (8,9,10), Bruce Crampton, Roberto De Vicenzo (3,8), Bruce Devlin (8,9), Harold Henning (8), Tommy Horton, Brian Huggett, Tony Jacklin (8), George Knudson, Takaaki Kono, Lu Liang-Huan, Ramón Sota, Peter Thomson (3), Peter Townsend, Raul Travieso

Numbers in brackets indicate categories that the player would have qualified under had they been American.

Round summaries

First round

Thursday, April 10, 1969

Place	Player	Score	To par
1	USA Billy Casper	66	−6
T2	USA George Archer	67	−5
AUS Bruce Devlin
4	USA Jack Nicklaus	68	−4
T5	AUS Bruce Crampton	69	−3
USA Bruce Fleisher (a)
USA Lionel Hebert
USA Gene Littler
USA Mason Rudolph
USA Dan Sikes
USA Bert Yancey

Source:

Second round

Friday, April 11, 1969

Place	Player	Score	To par
T1	USA Billy Casper	66-71=137	−7
AUS Bruce Devlin	67-70=137
T3	USA George Archer	67-73=140	−4
USA Dan Sikes	69-71=140
T5	USA Tommy Aaron	71-71=142	−2
USA Miller Barber	71-71=142
USA Charles Coody	74-68=142
AUS Bruce Crampton	69-73=142
USA Al Geiberger	71-71=142
USA Lionel Hebert	69-73=142
USA Mason Rudolph	69-73=142
USA Dave Stockton	71-71=142
USA Tom Weiskopf	71-71=142

Source:

Third round

Saturday, April 12, 1969

Despite being 2-over-par for his round Bruce Devlin was still in the thick of the chase at 5-under on Saturday until the Par-3 16th Hole where he rinsed his tee shot leading to a double-bogey 5 and leaving him five strokes behind starting the Final Round (where he further faded with a front nine of 6-over par 42 leading to a tie for 19th). Earlier in the round Devlin had made a great scrambling bogey at the difficult Par-4 11th after finding the water on his second shot, but could not repeat the magic when he found the water at 16.

Place	Player	Score	To par
1	USA Billy Casper	66-71-71=208	−8
2	USA George Archer	67-73-69=209	−7
3	USA Miller Barber	71-71-68=210	−6
T4	USA Charles Coody	74-68-69=211	−5
USA Tom Weiskopf	71-71-69=211
T6	CAN George Knudson	70-73-69=212	−4
USA Lionel Hebert	69-73-70=212
T8	AUS Bruce Devlin	67-70-76=213	−3
USA Dan Sikes	69-71-73=213
T10	USA Don Bies	74-70-70=214	−2
JPN Takaaki Kono	71-75-68=214
USA Gene Littler	69-75-70=214

Source:

Final round

Sunday, April 13, 1969

Summary

Billy Casper started the final round at 8-under par with a one-stroke lead over George Archer, but Casper bogeyed five of the first 10 holes. Meanwhile, Archer had gained a three-stroke lead at 8-under after 9 holes over George Knudson, Charles Coody and Tom Weiskopf (who was playing with Archer). As the back nine unfolded there was a lot of movement on the leaderboard and standing on the 18th tee, five of the last 6 players on the course had a chance to win the tournament outright or force a Monday playoff. Only Miller Barber, playing with Casper in the final group, was out of contention for the title. The final three groups ended up on the 18th hole at the same time: Casper (−6) and Barber (-3) waiting on the tee with Archer (−7) and Weiskopf (−6) looking on from the fairway while Coody (−6) was left of the green needing to chip in for a birdie to tie and Knudson (−6) on the green some 26 feet away also needing a tying birdie.

Final leaderboard

(c) = past champion

Place	Player	Score	To par	Money (US$)
1	USA George Archer	67-73-69-72=281	−7	20,000
T2	USA Billy Casper	66-71-71-74=282	−6	12,333
CAN George Knudson	70-73-69-70=282
USA Tom Weiskopf	71-71-69-71=282
T5	USA Charles Coody	74-68-69-72=283	−5	6,750
USA Don January	74-73-70-66=283
7	USA Miller Barber	71-71-68-74=284	−4	5,000
T8	USA Tommy Aaron	71-71-73-70=285	−3	3,600
USA Lionel Hebert	69-73-70-73=285
USA Gene Littler	69-75-70-71=285

Leaderboard below the top 10	Place	Player	Score	To par
11	USA Mason Rudolph	69-73-74-70=286	−2	3,200
12	USA Dan Sikes	69-71-73-74=287	−1	3,000
T13	AUS Bruce Crampton	69-73-74-72=288	E	2,700
USA Al Geiberger	71-71-74-72=288
ZAF Harold Henning	73-72-71-72=288
JPN Takaaki Kono	71-75-68-74=288
USA Bert Yancey	69-75-71-73=288
18	USA Dave Stockton	71-71-75-72=289	+1	2,400
T19	USA Frank Beard	72-74-70-74=290	+2	2,100
USA Deane Beman	74-73-74-69=290
AUS Bruce Devlin	67-70-76-77=290
USA Dale Douglass	73-72-71-74=290
USA Lee Trevino	72-74-75-69=290
T24	USA Jack Burke Jr. (c)	73-72-70-76=291	+3	1,800
USA Dave Hill	75-73-72-71=291
USA Jack Nicklaus (c)	68-75-72-76=291
27	USA Arnold Palmer (c)	73-75-70-74=292	+4	1,450
28	USA Johnny Pott	72-72-71-78=293	+5	1,450
T29	ITA Roberto Bernardini	76-71-72-75=294	+6	1,450
NZL Bob Charles	70-76-72-76=294
USA Gardner Dickinson	73-74-71-76=294
USA Bobby Nichols	78-69-74-73=294
T33	USA Don Bies	74-70-70-81=295	+7	1,425
USA Julius Boros	72-73-73-77=295
ZAF Gary Player (c)	74-70-75-76=295
T36	USA Raymond Floyd	73-71-78-74=296	+8	1,425
USA Doug Sanders	72-71-76-77=296
USA Ken Still	73-75-71-77=296
USA Kermit Zarley	73-73-76-74=296
T40	USA Bob Goalby (c)	70-76-76-75=297	+9	1,400
USA Art Wall Jr. (c)	70-77-78-72=297
42	ENG Peter Townsend	75-71-73-79=298	+10	1,400
43	USA Steve Spray	75-72-74-78=299	+11	1,400
44	USA Bruce Fleisher (a)	69-75-73-83=300	+12	0
45	USA Mac McLendon	72-75-76-80=303	+15	1,400
46	USA Dick Siderowf (a)	78-69-80-82=309	+21	0
CUT	USA Frank Boynton	76-73=149	+5
USA Gay Brewer (c)	75-74=149
USA Marty Fleckman	73-76=149
USA Rod Funseth	73-76=149
USA Vinny Giles (a)	80-69=149
ENG Tony Jacklin	73-76=149
USA Bob Lunn	74-75=149
USA Jerry Pittman	74-75=149
ARG Roberto De Vicenzo	75-75=150	+6
USA Lou Graham	73-77=150
WAL Brian Huggett	78-72=150
USA Bob Murphy	71-79=150
USA R. H. Sikes	75-75=150
USA Rik Massengale (a)	75-76=151	+7
USA Allen Miller (a)	77-74=151
USA Henry Picard (c)	75-76=151
USA Sam Snead (c)	74-77=151
ENG Tommy Horton	74-78=152	+8
ARG Raul Travieso	76-76=152
USA Hubert Green (a)	76-77=153	+9
USA Jack Lewis Jr. (a)	75-78=153
USA Dave Marr	77-76=153
AUS Peter Thomson	78-75=153
USA Bob Barbarossa (a)	75-79=154	+10
USA Doug Ford (c)	73-81=154
ESP Ramón Sota	75-79=154
ENG Michael Bonallack (a)	76-79=155	+11
ENG Peter Butler	77-78=155
IRL Joe Carr (a)	79-76=155
TPE Lu Liang-Huan	80-76=156	+12
USA Gene Sarazen (c)	78-80=158	+14
USA John Bohmann (a)	77-82=159	+15
USA Ralph Guldahl (c)	77-83=160	+16
USA Ken Venturi	83-77=160
WD	USA Herman Keiser (c)	71-77-80=228	+12
USA Cary Middlecoff (c)	72-76-80=228
USA Claude Harmon (c)	83	+11

Sources:

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
USA Archer	−7	−8	−8	−7	−7	−7	−8	−8	−8	−7	−7	−7	−8	−7	−7	−7	−7	−7
USA Casper	−8	−8	−8	−7	−7	−6	−5	−5	−4	−3	−4	−4	−5	−5	−6	−6	−6	−6
CAN Knudson	−5	−5	−5	−5	−5	−5	−5	−5	−5	−4	−4	−4	−4	−4	−5	−6	−6	−6
USA Weiskopf	−5	−6	−5	−5	−4	−4	−4	−5	−5	−5	−5	−5	−6	−6	−7	−7	−6	−6
USA Coody	−5	−5	−5	−5	−5	−5	−5	−5	−5	−5	−6	−6	−8	−7	−8	−7	−6	−5
USA January	+2	+1	+1	E	E	E	−1	−2	−2	−2	−2	−2	−3	−3	−4	−4	−4	−5
USA Barber	−5	−5	−4	−4	−4	−4	−2	−3	−3	−4	−4	−4	−3	−4	−3	−3	−3	−4

Cumulative tournament scores, relative to par

Source:--

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