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1975 Masters Tournament

Field	Value
name	1975 Masters Tournament
image	1975_Masters_Tournament_Guide.jpg
caption	Front cover of the 1975 Masters Guide
dates	April 10–13, 1975
location	Augusta, Georgia
course	Augusta National Golf Club
org	Augusta National Golf Club
tour	PGA Tour
par	72
yardage	7020 yd
field	76 players, 46 after cut
cut	148 (+4)
purse
winners_share	$40,000
champion	USA Jack Nicklaus
score	276 (−12)
previous	[1974](1974-masters-tournament)
next	[1976](1976-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 1975 Masters Tournament was the 39th Masters Tournament, held April 10–13 at Augusta National Golf Club in Augusta, Georgia.

Jack Nicklaus won his fifth Masters and thirteenth major title, one stroke ahead of runners-up Johnny Miller and Tom Weiskopf. At age 40, Lee Elder became the first African-American to compete at the tournament, but missed the cut by four strokes.

The 1975 Masters is widely considered to be one of the greatest majors ever, with three great players at the peak of their games dueling in a thrilling Sunday finish.

Had a playoff been required, it would have been a full 18-hole round on Monday. Prior to the next Masters in 1976, a sudden-death format was introduced and was first used in 1979.

Nicklaus won his sixth green jacket eleven years later in 1986 at age 46.

Course

Main article: Augusta National Golf Club

Hole	Name	Yards	Par	Hole	Name	Yards	Par
1	Tea Olive	400	4		10	Camellia	485
2	Pink Dogwood	555	5	11	White Dogwood	445	4
3	Flowering Peach	360	4	12	Golden Bell	155	3
4	Flowering Crab Apple	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	440	4	18	Holly	420	4
Out	3,510	36	In	3,510	36
Source:	Total	7,020	72

Field

;1. Masters champions Tommy Aaron (12), George Archer, Gay Brewer (12), Billy Casper (12), Charles Coody, Doug Ford, Bob Goalby (8), Jack Nicklaus (2,3,4,8,9,10,11,12), Arnold Palmer (8,9,12), Gary Player (3,4,8,9,10,11), Sam Snead (8,10), Art Wall Jr.

Jack Burke Jr., Jimmy Demaret, Ralph Guldahl, Claude Harmon, Ben Hogan, Herman Keiser, Cary Middlecoff, Byron Nelson, Henry Picard, and Gene Sarazen did not play.

;The following categories only apply to Americans

;2. U.S. Open champions (last five years) Hale Irwin (8,9), Johnny Miller (8,11), Lee Trevino (3,4,10,11,12)

;3. The Open champions (last five years) Tom Weiskopf (8,9,11,12)

;4. PGA champions (last five years) Dave Stockton (8,11)

;5. 1974 U.S. Amateur semi-finalists John Grace (a), Gary Koch (7,a), Jerry Pate (6,7,a), Curtis Strange (7,a)

;6. Previous two U.S. Amateur and Amateur champions Dick Siderowf (a), Craig Stadler (a)

;7. Members of the 1974 U.S. Eisenhower Trophy team George Burns (a)

;8. Top 24 players and ties from the 1974 Masters Tournament Buddy Allin (9,11), Miller Barber (11), Frank Beard (9), Jim Colbert (9,11), Ben Crenshaw, Raymond Floyd (9), Hubert Green (10,11), Jerry Heard, Dave Hill (10,11,12), Ralph Johnston, Bobby Nichols (11), Phil Rodgers, Chi-Chi Rodríguez (12), Dan Sikes

;9. Top 16 players and ties from the 1974 U.S. Open Forrest Fezler (11), Lou Graham (12), Tom Kite, John Mahaffey, Mike Reasor, Tom Watson (11), Bert Yancey, Larry Ziegler (11)

;10. Top eight players and ties from 1974 PGA Championship Al Geiberger (11)

;11. Winners of PGA Tour events since the previous Masters Rod Curl, Terry Diehl, Lee Elder, Pat Fitzsimons, Gary Groh, Richie Karl, Gene Littler, Mac McLendon, Bob Menne, Allen Miller, Bob Murphy, J. C. Snead (12), Ed Sneed

;12. Members of the U.S. 1973 Ryder Cup team Homero Blancas

;13. Foreign invitations Isao Aoki, Hugh Baiocchi, Maurice Bembridge (8), Bob Charles, Bobby Cole (10), Bruce Crampton (8), Roberto De Vicenzo, Bruce Devlin, Dale Hayes, Tony Jacklin (2), Lu Liang-Huan, Graham Marsh, Peter Oosterhuis, Masashi Ozaki, Victor Regalado (11)

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

Round summaries

First round

Thursday, April 10, 1975

Place	Player	Score	To par
1	USA Bobby Nichols	67	−5
T2	USA Allen Miller	68	−4
USA Jack Nicklaus
T4	USA Arnold Palmer	69	−3
USA J. C. Snead
USA Tom Weiskopf
T7	USA Billy Casper	70	−2
USA Bob Murphy
USA Tom Watson
T10	USA Tommy Aaron	71	−1
USA Jerry Heard
USA Mac McLendon
USA Jerry Pate (a)
USA Sam Snead
USA Lee Trevino
USA Larry Ziegler

(a) = amateur

Source:

Second round

Friday, April 11, 1975

Snead, age 62, was one-over-par after 27 holes when he withdrew due to a back injury.

Place	Player	Score	To par
1	USA Jack Nicklaus	68-67=135	−9
T2	USA Billy Casper	70-70=140	−4
USA Arnold Palmer	69-71=140
USA Tom Watson	70-70=140
T5	USA Homero Blancas	72-69=141	−3
USA Pat Fitzsimons	73-68=141
USA Bobby Nichols	67-74=141
USA J. C. Snead	69-72=141
USA Lee Trevino	71-70=141
USA Tom Weiskopf	69-72=141

Source:

Third round

Saturday, April 12, 1975

Nicklaus entered the weekend with a five-shot lead but struggled with a one-over 73 in the final pairing with Arnold Palmer. Weiskopf carded a 66 (−6) to take a one-stroke lead and Miller a 65 to climb into solo third. Nicklaus three-putted four times on Saturday and was three-over-par on the last four holes to lose the lead.

Place	Player	Score	To par
1	USA Tom Weiskopf	69-72-66=207	−9
2	USA Jack Nicklaus	68-67-73=208	−8
3	USA Johnny Miller	75-71-65=211	−5
4	USA Tom Watson	70-70-72=212	−4
T5	USA Billy Casper	70-70-73=213	−3
USA Bobby Nichols	67-74-72=213
T7	USA Buddy Allin	73-69-73=215	−1
USA Hubert Green	74-71-70=215
USA Allen Miller	68-75-72=215
USA Arnold Palmer	69-71-75=215
USA Lee Trevino	71-70-74=215

Source:

Final round

Sunday, April 13, 1975

Summary

Although Nicklaus was in solo second after 54 holes, he played with Tom Watson in the penultimate pairing, followed by Miller and leader Weiskopf. Nicklaus was three-under for the round and led Weiskopf by a stroke at the 14th tee, but he bogeyed while Weiskopf birdied for a two-shot swing and a lead change. On the par-3 16th hole, Nicklaus listened on the green as both Weiskopf and Miller birdied on the 15th green, as he had done. Nicklaus then sank a 40 ft birdie putt, while Weiskopf and Miller watched from the 16th tee. Weiskopf left his tee shot 80 ft short and bogeyed, while Miller made par and birdied 17.

Both were a stroke behind with makeable birdie putts on the 72nd green to tie Nicklaus, who had just missed his 12 ft birdie attempt. Miller missed left and low from 18 ft while Weiskopf's eight-footer (2.4 m) missed right.

Final leaderboard

(c) = past champion

Place	Player	Score	To par	Money (US$)
1	USA Jack Nicklaus (c)	68-67-73-68=276	−12	40,000
T2	USA Johnny Miller	75-71-65-66=277	−11	21,250
USA Tom Weiskopf	69-72-66-70=277
T4	USA Hale Irwin	73-74-71-64=282	−6	12,500
USA Bobby Nichols	67-74-72-69=282
6	USA Billy Casper (c)	70-70-73-70=283	−5	7,500
7	USA Dave Hill	75-71-70-68=284	−4	6,000
T8	USA Hubert Green	74-71-70-70=285	−3	4,500
USA Tom Watson	70-70-72-73=285
T10	USA Tom Kite	72-74-71-69=286	−2	3,600
USA J. C. Snead	69-72-75-70=286
USA Lee Trevino	71-70-74-71=286

Leaderboard below the top 10	Place	Player	Score	To par
T13	USA Arnold Palmer (c)	69-71-75-72=287	−1	3,250
USA Larry Ziegler	71-73-74-69=287
T15	ZAF Bobby Cole	73-71-73-71=288	E	2,900
USA Rod Curl	72-70-76-70=288
AUS Bruce Devlin	72-70-76-70=288
USA Allen Miller	68-75-72-73=288
USA Art Wall Jr. (c)	72-74-72-70=288
T20	USA Buddy Allin	73-69-73-74=289	+1	2,550
USA Ralph Johnston	74-73-69-73=289
T22	ZAF Hugh Baiocchi	76-72-72-70=290	+2	2,275
USA Pat Fitzsimons	73-68-79-70=290
USA Gene Littler	72-72-72-74=290
AUS Graham Marsh	75-70-74-71=290
T26	USA Miller Barber	74-72-72-73=291	+3	2,000
ENG Maurice Bembridge	75-72-75-69=291
USA Jerry Heard	71-75-72-73=291
USA Dave Stockton	72-72-73-74=291
T30	USA George Burns (a)	72-72-76-72=292	+4	0
USA Ben Crenshaw	72-71-75-74=292	1,950
USA Forrest Fezler	76-71-71-74=292
USA Raymond Floyd	72-73-79-68=292
ZAF Gary Player (c)	72-74-73-73=292
MEX Victor Regalado	76-72-72-72=292
USA Bert Yancey	74-71-74-73=292
37	USA Jerry Pate (a)	71-75-78-69=293	+5	0
T38	USA Tommy Aaron (c)	71-75-76-72=294	+6	1,850
USA Gary Groh	72-76-71-75=294
T40	USA Charles Coody (c)	72-75-75-73=295	+7	1,850
USA Lou Graham	72-72-77-74=295
42	USA Bob Murphy	70-72-80-74=296	+8	1,750
T43	USA Homero Blancas	72-69-79-77=297	+9	1,700
TPE Lu Liang-Huan	73-74-78-72=297
JPN Masashi Ozaki	73-73-83-68=297
46	USA Richie Karl	72-75-79-76=302	+14	1,650
CUT	USA Gay Brewer (c)	77-72=149	+5
ARG Roberto De Vicenzo	74-75=149
USA Mac McLendon	71-78=149
USA Mike Reasor	74-75=149
USA Phil Rodgers	77-72=149
USA Chi-Chi Rodríguez	74-75=149
USA Frank Beard	76-74=150	+6
NZL Bob Charles	76-74=150
USA Jim Colbert	75-75=150
USA Terry Diehl	72-78=150
USA Al Geiberger	79-71=150
USA Ed Sneed	74-76=150
JPN Isao Aoki	75-76=151	+7
ZAF Dale Hayes	77-74=151
ENG Tony Jacklin	77-74=151
USA Gary Koch (a)	77-74=151
ENG Peter Oosterhuis	79-72=151
USA George Archer (c)	80-72=152	+8
USA Lee Elder	74-78=152
USA Doug Ford (c)	78-74=152
USA John Mahaffey	77-75=152
USA Curtis Strange (a)	75-77=152
USA Bob Goalby (c)	81-72=153	+9
USA Dick Siderowf (a)	75-78=153
USA John Grace (a)	79-75=154	+10
AUS Bruce Crampton	76-79=155	+11
USA Craig Stadler (a)	80-76=156	+12
USA Bob Menne	76-82=158	+14
USA Dan Sikes	76-82=158
WD	USA Sam Snead (c)	71	−1

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 Nicklaus	−7	−8	−9	−9	−10	−10	−10	−10	−11	−11	−11	−11	−11	−10	−11	−12	−12	−12
USA Miller	−5	−6	−5	−6	−6	−7	−7	−8	−9	−9	−8	−8	−9	−9	−10	−10	−11	−11
USA Weiskopf	−9	−9	−10	−10	−10	−11	−11	−11	−11	−11	−10	−10	−10	−11	−12	−11	−11	−11
USA Irwin	+2	+1	E	−1	−1	−1	−1	−2	−2	−3	−3	−3	−4	−4	−5	−5	−6	−6
USA Nichols	−3	−3	−4	−4	−4	−4	−4	−5	−5	−5	−5	−6	−6	−6	−6	−6	−6	−6
USA Casper	−3	−3	−4	−4	−4	−4	−4	−5	−5	−5	−4	−4	−5	−5	−5	−5	−5	−5
USA Hill	E	−1	−1	−1	−1	−1	−1	−2	−2	−1	−2	−2	−3	−3	−4	−4	−4	−4
USA Green	E	E	+1	+1	+1	+1	+1	+1	+1	E	E	E	−2	−2	−2	−2	−2	−3
USA Watson	−4	−4	−4	−4	−4	−4	−5	−5	−6	−6	−5	−5	−6	−6	−6	−2	−2	−3
USA Kite	+1	E	E	−1	−1	−1	−1	E	E	E	E	E	−1	−1	−2	−2	−2	−2
USA Snead	+1	+1	+1	+1	+1	E	E	E	E	−1	E	E	−1	E	−1	−1	−1	−2
USA Trevino	−1	−1	−2	−3	−3	−3	−2	−3	−3	−3	−2	−3	−3	−3	−3	−2	−2	−2

Cumulative tournament scores, relative to par :{|class="wikitable" span = 50 style="font-size:85%; |- |Eagle |Birdie |Bogey |Double bogey |Triple bogey+ |} Source:

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