1952 Masters Tournament

1952 Masters Tournament
Tournament information
Dates	April 3–6, 1952
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
Field	72 players
Cut	none
Prize fund	$20,000
Winner's share	$4,000
Champion
	Sam Snead
	286 (−2)
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The 1952 Masters Tournament was the 16th Masters Tournament, held April 3–6 at Augusta National Golf Club in Augusta, Georgia.

In strong winds and cool temperatures on the final two days, Sam Snead held on to the lead and won the second of his three Masters titles, four strokes ahead of runner-up Jack Burke Jr.^[1]^[2] It was the sixth of Snead's seven major titles.

Defending champion Ben Hogan hosted the first Masters Club dinner (popularly known as the Champions dinner). He was the co-leader with Snead after three rounds at 214 (−2),^[3]^[4] but shot a 79 (+7) on Sunday and finished seven strokes back.

With a Sunday gallery estimated at 18,000 patrons at five dollars each, the purse was doubled by the tournament committee to $20,000, with a winner's share of $4,000.^[1]

Field[]

1. Masters champions

Jimmy Demaret (7,10), Claude Harmon, Ben Hogan (2,6,7,9,10), Byron Nelson (2,6,9), Henry Picard (6,10), Gene Sarazen (2,4,6,9), Horton Smith, Sam Snead (4,6,7,9,10,12), Craig Wood (2)

Ralph Guldahl (2) and Herman Keiser did not play.

2. U.S. Open champions

Billy Burke, Lawson Little (3,5,9), Lloyd Mangrum (7,9,10), Fred McLeod, Cary Middlecoff (9,10), Lew Worsham (9,10)

3. U.S. Amateur champions

Ted Bishop (a), Dick Chapman (5,8,9,a), Charles Coe (8,9,11,a), Billy Maxwell (11,a), Skee Riegel (9,10), Jess Sweetser (5,a), Sam Urzetta (8,a), Bud Ward

4. British Open champions

Denny Shute (6)

5. British Amateur champions

Frank Stranahan (8,a), Robert Sweeny Jr. (a)

6. PGA champions

Jim Ferrier (9), Vic Ghezzi, Bob Hamilton, Chandler Harper, Johnny Revolta (10)

7. Members of the U.S. 1951 Ryder Cup team

Skip Alexander, Jack Burke Jr. (9,12), Clayton Heafner (9,10), Ed Oliver (10)

Dutch Harrison (9) and Henry Ransom (10) did not play.

8. Members of the U.S. 1951 Walker Cup team

Dow Finsterwald, (a), (a), (a), Al Mengert (a), Harvie Ward (a)

William C. Campbell (a), Harold Paddock Jr. (a) and Willie Turnesa (a) did not play. Finsterwald, Goodloe, Mengert and Ward were reserves for the team.

9. Top 24 players and ties from the 1951 Masters Tournament

Al Besselink (10), Julius Boros (10), Johnny Bulla (12), Dave Douglas (10), George Fazio, Ed Furgol, Joe Kirkwood Jr. (10), Bob Toski

10. Top 24 players and ties from the 1951 U.S. Open

(12), Al Brosch (12), Marty Furgol, Ray Gafford, Fred Hawkins, Chuck Kocsis (a), Johnny Palmer, Smiley Quick, Earl Stewart, Buck White

Paul Runyan (6) did not play.

11. 1951 U.S. Amateur quarter-finalists

(a), (a), Tommy Jacobs (a)

(a), (a) and (a) did not play.

12. 1951 PGA Championship quarter-finalists

Walter Burkemo,

Ellsworth Vines did not play.

13. One amateur, not already qualified, selected by a ballot of ex-U.S. Amateur champions

Johnny Dawson (a)

14. One professional, not already qualified, selected by a ballot of ex-U.S. Open champions

Tommy Bolt

15. Two players, not already qualified, with the best scoring average in the winter part of the 1952 PGA Tour

Doug Ford, Ted Kroll

16. Foreign invitations

Stan Leonard, Bobby Locke (4,10), , Norman Von Nida

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

Round summaries[]

First round[]

Thursday, April 3, 1952

Place	Player	Country	Score	To par
T1	Ray Gafford	United States	69	−3
T1	Johnny Palmer	United States	69	−3
T3	Al Besselink	United States	70	−2
	Ben Hogan	United States
	Sam Snead	United States
T6	Skip Alexander	United States	71	−1
	Tommy Bolt	United States
	Doug Ford	United States
	Fred Hawkins	United States
	Joe Kirkwood, Jr.	United States
	Lloyd Mangrum	United States
	Johnny Revolta	United States
	Lew Worsham	United States

Source:^[5]^[6]

Second round[]

Friday, April 4, 1952

Place	Player	Country	Score	To par
1	Sam Snead	United States	70-67=137	−7
2	Ben Hogan	United States	70-70=140	−4
T3	Tommy Bolt	United States	71-71=142	−2
	Jim Ferrier	United States	72-70=142
	Johnny Revolta	United States	71-71=142
T6	Jack Burke Jr.	United States	76-67=143	−1
	George Fazio	United States	72-71=143
	Johnny Palmer	United States	69-74=143
	Harvie Ward (a)	United States	72-71=143
T10	Skip Alexander	United States	71-73=144	E
	Dow Finsterwald	United States	72-72=144
	Fred Hawkins	United States	71-73=144
	Cary Middlecoff	United States	72-72=144
	Ed Oliver	United States	72-72=144

Source:^[7]

Third round[]

Saturday, April 5, 1952

Place	Player	Country	Score	To par
T1	Ben Hogan	United States	70-70-74=214	−2
T1	Sam Snead	United States	70-67-77=214	−2
3	Cary Middlecoff	United States	72-72-72=216	E
T4	Al Besselink	United States	70-76-71=217	+1
T4	Tommy Bolt	United States	71-71-75=217	+1
6	Johnny Palmer	United States	69-74-75=218	+2
T7	Jim Ferrier	United States	72-70-77=219	+3
	Johnny Revolta	United States	71-71-77=219
	Lew Worsham	United States	71-75-73=219
10	Lloyd Mangrum	United States	71-74-75=220	+4

Source:^[3]^[4]

Final round[]

Sunday, April 6, 1952

Final leaderboard[]

Champion
Silver Cup winner (low amateur)
(a) = amateur
(c) = past champion

*Top 10*
Place	Player	Score	To par	Money (US$)
1	Sam Snead (c)	70-67-77-72=286	−2	4,000
2	Jack Burke Jr.	76-67-78-69=290	+2	2,500
T3	Al Besselink	70-76-71-74=291	+3	1,367
	Tommy Bolt	71-71-75-74=291
	Jim Ferrier	72-70-77-72=291
6	Lloyd Mangrum	71-74-75-72=292	+4	800
T7	Julius Boros	73-73-76-71=293	+5	625
	Fred Hawkins	71-73-78-71=293
	Ben Hogan (c)	70-70-74-79=293
	Lew Worsham	71-75-73-74=293

Leaderboard below the top 10
Place	Player	Score	To par	Money ($)
11	Cary Middlecoff	72-72-72-78=294	+6	520
12	Johnny Palmer	69-74-75-77=295	+7	500
13	Johnny Revolta	71-71-77-77=296	+8	450
T14	George Fazio	72-71-78-76=297	+9	443
	Claude Harmon (c)	73-74-77-73=297		443
	Chuck Kocsis (a)	75-78-71-73=297		0
	Ted Kroll	74-74-76-73=297		443
	Skee Riegel	75-71-78-73=297		443
T19	Joe Kirkwood Jr.	71-77-74-76=298	+10	420
T19	Frank Stranahan (a)	72-74-76-76=298	+10	0
T21	Doug Ford	71-74-79-75=299	+11	420
	Bobby Locke	74-71-79-75=299		420
	Harvie Ward (a)	72-71-78-78=299		0
T24	(a)	74-77-77-74=302	+14	0
	Clayton Heafner	76-74-74-78=302		400
	Byron Nelson (c)	72-75-78-77=302		400
T27	Skip Alexander	71-73-77-82=303	+15	267
	Smiley Quick	73-76-79-75=303
	Norman Von Nida	77-77-73-76=303
T30	Dave Douglas	76-69-81-78=304	+16	200
	Vic Ghezzi	77-77-76-74=304
	Ed Oliver	72-72-77-83=304
	Horton Smith (c)	74-73-77-80=304
T34		74-75-79-77=305	+17	200
	Stan Leonard	75-76-75-79=305		200
	Al Mengert (a)	74-77-78-76=305		0
	Earl Stewart	75-80-75-75=305		200
T38	Ed Furgol	74-77-78-77=306	+18	200
T38	Chandler Harper	76-74-79-77=306	+18	200
T40	Bob Hamilton	80-71-81-75=307	+19	200
T40	Bob Toski	80-72-78-77=307	+19	200
T42	Walter Burkemo	80-74-76-78=308	+20	200
	Johnny Dawson (a)	74-78-78-78=308		0
	Marty Furgol	73-76-79-80=308		200
	(a)	78-77-79-74=308		0
T46	Charles Coe (a)	80-76-81-72=309	+21	0
	Dow Finsterwald	72-72-83-82=309		200
	Sam Urzetta (a)	78-73-76-82=309		0
T49	Ray Gafford	69-80-81-80=310	+22	200
	Billy Maxwell (a)	77-77-77-79=310		0
	Denny Shute	74-77-78-81=310		200
T52	(a)	77-71-77-86=311	+23	0
T52	Henry Picard (c)	76-77-78-80=311	+23	200
54		77-75-80-80=312	+24	200
T55	Ted Bishop (a)	82-75-81-75=313	+25	0
	Al Brosch	76-74-85-78=313		200
	Dick Chapman (a)	72-79-80-82=313		0
	Robert Sweeny Jr. (a)	74-77-79-83=313		0
59	Craig Wood (c)	73-81-80-80=314	+26	200
60	Tommy Jacobs (a)	79-81-77-79=316	+28	0
61	(a)	74-79-88-81=322	+34	0
WD	(a)	72-77-81=230	+14
	Jimmy Demaret (c)	77-76=153	+9
		78-80=158	+14
	Bud Ward	74	+2
	Jess Sweetser (a)	84	+12
	Billy Burke
	Lawson Little
	Fred McLeod
	Gene Sarazen (c)
	Buck White
DQ	Johnny Bulla	77	+5

Sources:^[8]^[9]

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	−2	−2	−2	−3	−3	−3	−3	−2	−1	−2	−1	E	−1	−1	−1	−1	−1	−2
Burke	+6	+5	+4	+4	+4	+4	+4	+4	+3	+3	+3	+3	+2	+2	+2	+2	+2	+2
Besselink	+1	+2	+1	+2	+3	+2	+2	+2	+1	+2	+2	+2	+3	+3	+2	+3	+3	+3
Bolt	+1	−1	−1	−1	E	E	E	E	+1	+1	+1	+1	−1	−1	E	+1	+3	+3
Ferrier	+3	+3	+2	+2	+3	+2	+2	+2	+2	+3	+3	+4	+4	+4	+3	+3	+3	+3
Hogan	−1	−1	−1	E	+1	+1	+1	+1	+1	+1	+1	+1	+1	+2	+3	+4	+4	+5
Middlecoff	+1	+1	+2	+2	+3	+3	+3	+4	+5	+5	+5	+5	+4	+4	+6	+6	+6	+6

Source:^[1]^[2]

References[]

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Bartlett, Charles (April 7, 1952). "Snead wins Masters golf on 286". Chicago Daily Tribune. p. 1, part 4.
^ ^a ^b "Snead's 286 wins Masters golf title". Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Associated Press. April 7, 1952. p. 20.
^ ^a ^b Bartlett, Charles (April 6, 1952). "Hogan ties Snead for Masters golf lead". Chicago Sunday Tribune. p. 1, part 2.
^ ^a ^b "Snead, Hogan lead Masters with 214". Milwaukee Sentinel. April 6, 1952. p. 1B.
^ Bartlett, Charles (April 4, 1952). "Hogan, Snead fire 70s in Masters". Chicago Daily Tribune. p. 1, part 4.
^ "Palmer, Gafford fire 69s in Masters". Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Associated Press. April 4, 1952. p. 29.
^ Bartlett, Charles (April 5, 1952). "Snead gets 67; leads Masters golf". Chicago Daily Tribune. p. 1, part 3.
^ "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^{[permanent dead link]} – 1952 Masters
Augusta.com – 1952 Masters leaderboard and scorecards

[cdtswmgo-1] Bartlett, Charles (April 7, 1952). "Snead wins Masters golf on 286". Chicago Daily Tribune. p. 1, part 4.

[steswmt-2] "Snead's 286 wins Masters golf title". Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Associated Press. April 7, 1952. p. 20.

[htsndcst-3] Bartlett, Charles (April 6, 1952). "Hogan ties Snead for Masters golf lead". Chicago Sunday Tribune. p. 1, part 2.

[shlmwtf-4] "Snead, Hogan lead Masters with 214". Milwaukee Sentinel. April 6, 1952. p. 1B.

[hsfsim-5] Bartlett, Charles (April 4, 1952). "Hogan, Snead fire 70s in Masters". Chicago Daily Tribune. p. 1, part 4.

[ppgfr-6] "Palmer, Gafford fire 69s in Masters". Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Associated Press. April 4, 1952. p. 29.

[sg67-7] Bartlett, Charles (April 5, 1952). "Snead gets 67; leads Masters golf". Chicago Daily Tribune. p. 1, part 3.

[8] "Masters – Past Winners & Results". Augusta National Inc. Retrieved April 20, 2021.

[9] "Past results – Masters tournament". PGA Tour. Retrieved April 20, 2021.

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