1941 Masters Tournament
Tournament information | |
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Dates | April 3–6, 1941 |
Location | Augusta, Georgia 33°30′11″N 82°01′12″W / 33.503°N 82.020°WCoordinates: 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 |
Statistics | |
Par | 72 |
Length | 6,800 yards (6,220 m)[1] |
Field | 51 players |
Cut | none |
Prize fund | $5,000 |
Winner's share | $1,500 |
Champion | |
Craig Wood | |
280 (−8) | |
Location Map | |
Augusta National Location in the United States | |
The 1941 Masters Tournament was the eighth Masters Tournament, held April 3–6 at Augusta National Golf Club in Augusta, Georgia. Craig Wood won his first major title, three strokes ahead of runner-up Byron Nelson.
Wood opened with a 66 and led by five strokes after the first round.[1][2] During the final round, Nelson caught him on the front nine and the two were briefly co-leaders. Wood scored a 34 (−2) over the final nine holes to secure the victory.[3] The purse was $5,000 and the winner's share was $1,500.[4]
Wood, 39, led the entire tournament, the Masters' first wire-to-wire champion. He also won the next major, the 1941 U.S. Open. Prior to his win at the Masters, Wood had lost in a playoff (or extra holes) in all four of the modern major championships, a dubious distinction since matched by only one other, Greg Norman.[5]
Through 2019, there have been only five wire-to-wire champions; Wood was followed by Arnold Palmer (1960), Jack Nicklaus (1972), Raymond Floyd (1976), and Jordan Spieth (2015).
Field[]
- 1. Masters champions
Jimmy Demaret (9), Ralph Guldahl (2,9,10,12), Byron Nelson (2,6,9,10,12), Gene Sarazen (2,4,6,9,10,12), Horton Smith (10)
- Henry Picard (6,9,10) did not play.
- 2. U.S. Open champions
Tommy Armour (4,6,10), Walter Hagen (4,6), Bobby Jones (3,4,5), Lawson Little (3,5,9,10), Tony Manero (9), Francis Ouimet (3,a), Sam Parks Jr. (10)
- 3. U.S. Amateur champions
Dick Chapman (11,a)
- 4. British Open champions
Denny Shute (6)
- 5. British Amateur champions
Charlie Yates (9,a)
- 6. PGA champions
Paul Runyan (9,12)
- 7. Members of the U.S. Ryder Cup team
- Not held
- 8. Members of the U.S. Walker Cup team
- Not held
- 9. Top 30 players and ties from the 1940 Masters Tournament
Johnny Bulla, Sammy Byrd, Harry Cooper, Ed Dudley (10), Jim Foulis (10), Willie Goggin, Jimmy Hines (10), Ben Hogan (10,12), Lloyd Mangrum (10), Jug McSpaden (10,12), Dick Metz (10), Toney Penna, Sam Snead (10,12), Frank Walsh (10), Al Watrous, Craig Wood (10)
- Johnny Farrell (2,10), Ed Oliver, Johnny Revolta (6,10) and Bud Ward (3,11,a) did not play.
- 10. Top 30 players and ties from the 1940 U.S. Open
, Vic Ghezzi, , , Gene Kunes, Ray Mangrum, Henry Ransom, , Felix Serafin, (a)
- , (12), (11,a) and did not play.
- 11. 1940 U.S. Amateur quarter-finalists
(a), (a)
- (a), (a) and Johnny Fischer (3,a) did not play
- 12. 1940 PGA Championship quarter-finalists
- 13. One amateur, not already qualified, selected by a ballot of ex-U.S. Amateur champions
Art Doering (a)
- 14. One professional, not already qualified, selected by a ballot of ex-U.S. Open champions
- 15. Two players, not already qualified, with the best scoring average in the winter part of the 1940 PGA Tour
Leonard Dodson, Clayton Heafner
- 16 Foreign invitations
Jim Ferrier (9,10), Martin Pose
- Numbers in brackets indicate categories that the player would have qualified under had they been American.
Round summaries[]
First round[]
Thursday, April 3, 1941
Place | Player | Country | Score | To par |
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1 | Craig Wood | United States | 66 | −6 |
T2 | Willie Goggin | United States | 71 | −1 |
Ben Hogan | United States | |||
Lawson Little | United States | |||
Byron Nelson | United States | |||
T6 | Harry Cooper | United States | 72 | E |
Felix Serafin | United States | |||
T8 | Johnny Bulla | United States | 73 | +1 |
Sammy Byrd | United States | |||
Ed Dudley | United States | |||
Clayton Heafner | United States | |||
Tony Manero | United States | |||
Toney Penna | United States | |||
Jack Ryan | United States | |||
Jimmy Thomson | United States | |||
Sam Snead | United States |
Second round[]
Friday, April 4, 1941
Place | Player | Country | Score | To par |
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1 | Craig Wood | United States | 66-71=137 | −7 |
2 | Byron Nelson | United States | 71-69=140 | −4 |
3 | Lawson Little | United States | 71-70=141 | −3 |
T4 | Sammy Byrd | United States | 73-70=143 | −1 |
Willie Goggin | United States | 71-72=143 | ||
Ben Hogan | United States | 71-72=143 | ||
Clayton Heafner | United States | 73-70=143 | ||
Jug McSpaden | United States | 76-67=143 | ||
T9 | Ed Dudley | United States | 73-72=145 | +1 |
Harry Cooper | United States | 72-73=145 |
Source:[6]
Third round[]
Saturday, April 5, 1941
Place | Player | Country | Score | To par |
---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Craig Wood | United States | 66-71-71=208 | −8 |
2 | Sammy Byrd | United States | 73-70-68=211 | −5 |
3 | Byron Nelson | United States | 71-69-73=213 | −3 |
T4 | Willie Goggin | United States | 71-72-72=215 | −1 |
Lawson Little | United States | 71-70-74=215 | ||
6 | Jimmy Demaret | United States | 77-69-71=217 | +1 |
7 | Ben Hogan | United States | 71-72-75=218 | +2 |
T8 | Dick Chapman (a) | United States | 76-73-70=219 | +3 |
Vic Ghezzi | United States | 77-71-71=219 | ||
Clayton Heafner | United States | 73-70-76=219 |
Final round[]
Sunday, April 6, 1941
Final leaderboard[]
Place | Player | Score | To par | Money (US$) |
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1 | Craig Wood | 66-71-71-72=280 | −8 | 1,500 |
2 | Byron Nelson (c) | 71-69-73-70=283 | −5 | 800 |
3 | Sammy Byrd | 73-70-68-74=285 | −3 | 600 |
4 | Ben Hogan | 71-72-75-68=286 | −2 | 500 |
5 | Ed Dudley | 73-72-75-68=288 | E | 400 |
T6 | Vic Ghezzi | 77-71-71-70=289 | +1 | 275 |
Sam Snead | 73-75-72-69=289 | |||
8 | Lawson Little | 71-70-74-75=290 | +2 | 200 |
T9 | Willie Goggin | 71-72-72-76=291 | +3 | 117 |
Lloyd Mangrum | 71-72-72-76=291 | |||
Jug McSpaden | 76-67-80-68=291 |
Leaderboard below the top 10 | |||||
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Place | Player | Score | To par | Money ($) | |
T12 | Jimmy Demaret (c) | 77-69-71-75=292 | +4 | 100 | |
Clayton Heafner | 73-70-76-73=292 | ||||
T14 | Harry Cooper | 72-73-75-73=293 | +5 | ||
Ralph Guldahl (c) | 76-71-75-71=293 | ||||
Jimmy Thomson | 73-75-72-73=293 | ||||
17 | 73-74-74-74=295 | +7 | |||
18 | Denny Shute | 77-75-74-70=296 | +8 | ||
T19 | Dick Chapman (a) | 76-73-70-78=297 | +9 | ||
Jimmy Hines | 76-74-75-72=297 | ||||
Gene Kunes | 76-74-76-71=297 | ||||
Dick Metz | 74-72-75-76=297 | ||||
Sam Parks Jr. | 75-76-75-71=297 | ||||
Toney Penna | 73-74-80-70=297 | ||||
Gene Sarazen (c) | 76-72-74-75=297 | ||||
Felix Serafin | 72-79-74-72=297 | ||||
Horton Smith (c) | 74-72-77-74=297 | ||||
28 | Ray Mangrum | 76-70-78-74=298 | +10 | ||
T29 | Jim Ferrier | 75-76-73-75=299 | +11 | ||
Jim Foulis | 76-75-71-77=299 | ||||
Martin Pose | 77-74-76-72=299 | ||||
32 | Al Watrous | 74-75-76-75=300 | +12 | ||
33 | Leonard Dodson | 75-77-78-71=301 | +13 | ||
34 | (a) | 74-78-77-73=302 | +14 | ||
T35 | Paul Runyan | 78-78-74-73=303 | +15 | ||
Charlie Yates (a) | 78-75-75-75=303 | ||||
37 | Frank Walsh | 74-76-76-78=304 | +16 | ||
38 | Tommy Armour | 75-75-76-79=305 | +17 | ||
39 | Johnny Bulla | 73-76-78-79=306 | +18 | ||
40 | Bobby Jones | 76-74-78-79=307 | +19 | ||
41 | 80-78-75-75=308 | +20 | |||
42 | 78-75-80-76=309 | +21 | |||
43 | 77-81-76-78=312 | +24 | |||
T44 | Tony Manero | 73-80-78-82=313 | +25 | ||
(a) | 79-74-84-76=313 | ||||
46 | Art Doering (a) | 77-79-77-81=314 | +26 | ||
47 | (a) | 81-79-78-81=319 | +31 | ||
WD | Francis Ouimet (a) | 82 | +10 | ||
Walter Hagen | 87 | +15 | |||
Henry Ransom |
References[]
- ^ a b c "Craig Wood's 66 leads Masters by five strokes". St. Petersburg Times. Florida. United Press. April 4, 1941. p. 13.
- ^ a b "Wood's 6-under 66 leads in Masters". Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Associated Press. April 4, 1941. p. 16.
- ^ "Craig Wood wins Masters with 280". Milwaukee Journal. Associated Press. April 7, 1941. p. 5-part 2.
- ^ "Wood's 280 total wins Masters golf". Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. April 7, 1941. p. 14.
- ^ "Craig Wood, a study in major championship heartache". Associated Press. April 5, 2016. Retrieved April 12, 2016.
- ^ "Wood retains lead in Masters tourney". Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Associated Press. April 5, 1941. p. 12.
- ^ Carver, Lawton (April 6, 1941). "Wood leads; Sam Byrd second". St. Petersburg Times. Florida. INS. p. 9.
- ^ Boni, Bill (April 6, 1941). "Byrd challenges Wood with 68 in Augusta tourney". Spartanburg Herald-Journal. South Carolina. Associated Press. p. 22.
- ^ "Masters – Past Winners & Results". Augusta National Inc. Retrieved April 20, 2021.
- ^ "Past results – Masters tournament". PGA Tour. Retrieved April 20, 2021.
External links[]
- Masters.com – past winners and results
- About.com – 1941 Masters
- Augusta.com – 1941 Masters leaderboard
- Masters Tournament
- 1941 in golf
- 1941 in American sports
- 1941 in sports in Georgia (U.S. state)
- April 1941 sports events