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1997 Masters Tournament

American golf tournament held in 1997

Field	Value
name	1997 Masters Tournament
image	1997_Masters_Tournament_official_program_front_cover.jpg
caption	Front cover of the 1997 Masters Journal
dates	April 10–13, 1997
location	Augusta, Georgia
course	Augusta National Golf Club
org	Augusta National Golf Club
tour	PGA Tour
par	72
yardage	6925 yd
field	86 players, 46 after cut
cut	149 (+5)
purse	US$2.7 million
winners_share	$486,000
champion	USA Tiger Woods
score	270 (−18)
previous	[1996](1996-masters-tournament)
next	[1998](1998-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 1997 Masters Tournament was the 61st Masters Tournament, held April 10–13 at Augusta National Golf Club in Augusta, Georgia.

Tiger Woods won his first major championship, twelve strokes ahead of runner-up Tom Kite. The margin of victory is the largest in the tournament's history. The four-day score of 270 (−18) was also a tournament record until 2020 when it was beaten by Dustin Johnson. Woods also became both the youngest (21) and the first non-White player to win at Augusta.

Woods struggled on his first nine holes of the first round, turning at 4-over-par 40. Making four birdies and an eagle gave him a 6-under-par 30 on the back nine for a 70, three shots behind first-round leader John Huston.

In the second and third rounds, Woods scored the best rounds of each day (66-65) to open up a commanding nine-shot lead. A final-round 69 gave Woods a then tournament record 270 (−18), bettering the previous record of 271 set by Jack Nicklaus in 1965 and matched by Raymond Floyd in 1976.

Woods' victory set television ratings records for golf; the final round broadcast on Sunday was seen by an estimated 44 million viewers in the United States.

Field

;1. Masters champions Tommy Aaron, Seve Ballesteros, Gay Brewer, Billy Casper, Charles Coody, Fred Couples (9,13), Ben Crenshaw, Nick Faldo (3,9,10,12,13), Raymond Floyd, Doug Ford, Bernhard Langer, Sandy Lyle, Larry Mize (9,11), Jack Nicklaus, José María Olazábal, Arnold Palmer, Gary Player, Craig Stadler, Tom Watson (10,12,13), Ian Woosnam, Fuzzy Zoeller

George Archer, Jack Burke Jr., Bob Goalby, Ben Hogan, Herman Keiser, Cary Middlecoff, Byron Nelson, Henry Picard, 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 (9,10,11), Steve Jones (10,12,13), Tom Kite, Corey Pavin (9,12,13)

;3. The Open champions (last five years) Tom Lehman (9,10,12,13), Greg Norman (9,10,13), Nick Price (4,9,11)

John Daly did not play.

;4. PGA champions (last five years) Paul Azinger (9), Mark Brooks (10,11,12,13), Steve Elkington (11)

;5. U.S. Amateur champion and runner-up Steve Scott (a)

Tiger Woods forfeited his invitation by turning professional, but qualified via categories 12 & 13.

;6. The Amateur champion Warren Bladon (a)

;7. U.S. Amateur Public Links champion Tim Hogarth (a)

;8. U.S. Mid-Amateur champion Spider Miller (a)

;9. Top 24 players and ties from the 1996 Masters Mark Calcavecchia (13), David Duval (13), David Frost, Scott Hoch (10,12,13), John Huston, Davis Love III (10,13), Jeff Maggert (13), Scott McCarron, Phil Mickelson (11,12,13), Frank Nobilo (10,11), Mark O'Meara (10,12,13), Loren Roberts (12,13), Bob Tway, Duffy Waldorf (13)

;10. Top 16 players and ties from the 1996 U.S. Open David Berganio Jr., Stewart Cink, John Cook (12,13), Dan Forsman, Jim Furyk (13), Ken Green, Colin Montgomerie, John Morse, Vijay Singh (11,13), Sam Torrance

;11. Top eight players and ties from 1996 PGA Championship Per-Ulrik Johansson, Justin Leonard (12,13), Jesper Parnevik, Kenny Perry (13), Tommy Tolles (13)

;12. Winners of PGA Tour events since the previous Masters Stuart Appleby, Guy Boros, Michael Bradley (13), Brad Faxon (13), Ed Fiori, Fred Funk (13), Dudley Hart, David Ogrin, Clarence Rose, Jeff Sluman (13), Paul Stankowski, Steve Stricker (13), D. A. Weibring, Willie Wood, Tiger Woods (13)

;13. Top 30 players from the 1996 PGA Tour money list

;14. Special foreign invitation Robert Allenby, Yoshinori Kaneko, Mark McNulty, Masashi Ozaki, Costantino Rocca, Lee Westwood

Round summaries

First round

Thursday, April 10, 1997

John Huston shot 67 (−5) to lead by one stroke over Paul Stankowski. Tiger Woods shot a 40 (+4) on the first nine, but came back into the clubhouse on the back nine with a score of 30 (−6) for a 70 (−2).

Place	Player	Score	To par
1	USA John Huston	67	−5
2	USA Paul Stankowski	68	−4
3	USA Paul Azinger	69	−3
4	USA Tiger Woods	70	−2
T5	ITA Costantino Rocca	71	−1
ESP José María Olazábal
ZIM Nick Price
T8	AUS Stuart Appleby	72	E
USA David Berganio Jr.
USA Fred Couples
USA Lee Janzen
SWE Per-Ulrik Johansson
DEU Bernhard Langer
USA Davis Love III
SCO Colin Montgomerie
USA Tommy Tolles
USA Willie Wood

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 Woods	+1	+1	+1	+2	+2	+2	+2	+3	+4	+3	+3	+2	+1	+1	−1	−1	−2	−2

Source:

Second round

Friday, April 11, 1997

Woods started the round three strokes back, but a 66 gave him his first lead in a professional major championship, three shots ahead of Colin Montgomerie from Scotland.

Place	Player	Score	To par
1	USA Tiger Woods	70-66=136	−8
2	SCO Colin Montgomerie	72-67=139	−5
3	ITA Costantino Rocca	71-69=140	−4
T4	USA Fred Couples	72-69=141	−3
ESP José María Olazábal	71-70=141
USA Jeff Sluman	74-67=141
T7	USA Paul Azinger	69-73=142	−2
ZIM Nick Price	71-71=142
USA Paul Stankowski	68-74=142
T10	ZAF Ernie Els	73-70=143	−1
USA Davis Love III	72-71=143
USA Tom Watson	75-68=143

Amateurs: Bladon (+7), Scott (+13), Hogarth (+14), Miller (+19)

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 Woods	−2	−3	−2	−2	−3	−3	−3	−4	−4	−4	−4	−4	−6	−7	−8	−8	−8	−8

Cumulative tournament scores, relative to par

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Third round

Saturday, April 12, 1997

Woods shot a 65 in the third round for 201 (−15) and his lead increased to nine shots; the closest competitor was Costantino Rocca from Italy. Montgomerie's 74 dropped him into a tie for sixth.

Place	Player	Score	To par
1	USA Tiger Woods	70-66-65=201	−15
2	ITA Costantino Rocca	71-69-70=210	−6
3	USA Paul Stankowski	68-74-69=211	−5
T4	USA Tom Kite	77-69-66=212	−4
USA Tom Watson	75-68-69=212
T6	SCO Colin Montgomerie	72-67-74=213	−3
USA Jeff Sluman	74-67-72=213
8	USA Fred Couples	72-69-73=214	−2
9	ESP José María Olazábal	71-70-74=215	−1
T10	USA Fred Funk	73-74-69=216	E
USA Justin Leonard	76-69-71=216
SWE Jesper Parnevik	73-72-71=216
USA Tommy Tolles	72-72-72=216

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 Woods	−8	−9	−9	−9	−10	−10	−11	−12	−12	−12	−13	−13	−13	−13	−14	−14	−14	−15

Cumulative tournament scores, relative to par

Source:

Final round

Sunday, April 13, 1997

Summary

Woods won his first major championship, finishing 12 strokes ahead runner-up Tom Kite. It was the largest victory margin in Masters history, passing Nicklaus' 9-shot winning margin in 1965, and tied for the second largest victory margin in any major championship, only one stroke behind Old Tom Morris' 13-shot winning margin set at the 1862 Open Championship at Prestwick (a mark Woods later surpassed at the 2000 U.S. Open at Pebble Beach when he won by 15 shots). Rocca and Stankowski fell into a tie for fifth.

Final leaderboard

(c) = past champion

Place	Player	Score	To par	Money (US$)
1	USA Tiger Woods	70-66-65-69=270	−18	486,000
2	USA Tom Kite	77-69-66-70=282	−6	291,600
3	USA Tommy Tolles	72-72-72-67=283	−5	183,600
4	USA Tom Watson (c)	75-68-69-72=284	−4	129,600
T5	ITA Costantino Rocca	71-69-70-75=285	−3	102,600
USA Paul Stankowski	68-74-69-74=285
T7	USA Fred Couples (c)	72-69-73-72=286	−2	78,570
DEU Bernhard Langer (c)	72-72-74-68=286
USA Justin Leonard	76-69-71-70=286
USA Davis Love III	72-71-72-71=286
USA Jeff Sluman	74-67-72-73=286

Leaderboard below the top 10	Place	Player	Score	To par
T12	AUS Steve Elkington	76-72-72-67=287	−1	52,920
SWE Per-Ulrik Johansson	72-73-73-69=287
USA Tom Lehman	73-76-69-69=287
ESP José María Olazábal (c)	71-70-74-72=287
USA Willie Wood	72-76-71-68=287
T17	USA Mark Calcavecchia	74-73-72-69=288	E	39,150
ZAF Ernie Els	73-70-71-74=288
USA Fred Funk	73-74-69-72=288
FJI Vijay Singh	75-74-69-70=288
T21	AUS Stuart Appleby	72-76-70-71=289	+1	30,240
USA John Huston	67-77-75-70=289
SWE Jesper Parnevik	73-72-71-73=289
T24	ZWE Nick Price	71-71-75-74=291	+3	24,840
ENG Lee Westwood	77-71-73-70=291
T26	USA Lee Janzen	72-73-74-73=292	+4	21,195
USA Craig Stadler (c)	77-72-71-72=292
T28	USA Paul Azinger	69-73-77-74=293	+5	19,575
USA Jim Furyk	74-75-72-72=293
T30	USA Scott McCarron	77-71-72-74=294	+6	17,145
USA Larry Mize (c)	79-69-74-72=294
SCO Colin Montgomerie	72-67-74-81=294
USA Mark O'Meara	75-74-70-75=294
T34	SCO Sandy Lyle (c)	73-73-74-75=295	+7	14,918
USA Fuzzy Zoeller (c)	75-73-69-78=295
36	USA Duffy Waldorf	74-75-72-75=296	+8	13,905
37	ZAF David Frost	74-71-73-79=297	+9	13,905
38	USA Scott Hoch	79-68-73-78=298	+10	12,690
T39	USA Jack Nicklaus (c)	77-70-74-78=299	+11	11,610
SCO Sam Torrance	75-73-73-78=299
WAL Ian Woosnam (c)	77-68-75-79=299
42	JPN Masashi Ozaki	74-74-74-78=300	+12	10,530
T43	USA Corey Pavin	75-74-78-74=301	+13	9,720
USA Clarence Rose	73-75-79-74=301
45	USA Ben Crenshaw (c)	75-73-74-80=302	+14	8,910
46	NZL Frank Nobilo	76-72-74-81=303	+15	8,370
CUT	USA David Berganio Jr.	72-78=150	+6
USA John Cook	77-73=150
USA David Duval	78-72=150
USA Dan Forsman	74-76=150
USA Phil Mickelson	76-74=150
USA John Morse	77-73=150
ENG Warren Bladon (a)	79-72=151	+7
USA Brad Faxon	77-74=151
USA Dudley Hart	74-77=151
AUS Greg Norman	77-74=151
USA David Ogrin	77-74=151
USA Kenny Perry	73-78=151
ZAF Gary Player (c)	76-75=151
USA Bob Tway	78-73=151
USA D. A. Weibring	78-73=151
USA Stewart Cink	75-78=153	+9
USA Ed Fiori	78-75=153
USA Jeff Maggert	77-76=153
ZWE Mark McNulty	81-72=153
USA Tommy Aaron (c)	77-77=154	+10
USA Raymond Floyd (c)	79-75=154
JPN Yoshinori Kaneko	77-77=154
ESP Seve Ballesteros (c)	81-74=155	+11
USA Michael Bradley	79-77=156	+12
ENG Nick Faldo (c)	75-81=156
USA Steve Stricker	77-79=156
USA Steve Scott (a)	78-79=157	+13
USA Guy Boros	79-79=158	+14
USA Tim Hogarth (a)	80-78=158
AUS Robert Allenby	82-77=159	+15
USA Mark Brooks	77-82=159
USA Billy Casper (c)	83-77=160	+16
USA Charles Coody (c)	83-77=160
USA Steve Jones	82-78=160
USA Ken Green	87-74=161	+17
USA Loren Roberts	85-77=162	+18
USA Gay Brewer (c)	84-79=163	+19
USA Spider Miller (a)	82-81=163
USA Arnold Palmer (c)	89-87=176	+32
USA Doug Ford (c)	85-94=179	+35

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 Woods	−15	−16	−16	−16	−15	−15	−14	−15	−15	−15	−16	−16	−17	−18	−18	−18	−18	−18
USA Kite	−4	−5	−5	−4	−4	−3	−4	−5	−5	−5	−5	−5	−6	−6	−5	−5	−6	−6
USA Tolles	E	−1	−2	−2	−2	−2	−2	−1	−2	−2	−2	−2	−3	−3	−4	−5	−5	−5
USA Watson	−5	−6	−6	−6	−7	−6	−3	−4	−4	−5	−5	−6	−6	−6	−6	−5	−5	−4
ITA Rocca	−6	−7	−7	−7	−7	−6	−6	−6	−6	−6	−5	−5	−5	−5	−5	−5	−4	−3
USA Stankowski	−5	−4	−3	−2	−2	−2	−3	−3	−2	−3	−2	−2	−2	−3	−3	−3	−3	−3

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

Quotes

"There it is – a win for the ages!" – Jim Nantz's (CBS Sports) call as Woods sunk his final putt on the 18th hole to win the tournament.

References

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(April 12, 1997). "Woods charges to Masters lead". The Daily Reporter.
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