1963 Masters Tournament

1963 Masters Tournament
Tournament information
Dates	April 4–7, 1963
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	6,850 yards (6,264 m)
Field	84 players, 50 after cut
Cut	152 (+8)
Prize fund	$112,500
Winner's share	$20,000
Champion
	Jack Nicklaus
	286 (−2)
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The 1963 Masters Tournament was the 27th Masters Tournament, held April 4–7 at Augusta National Golf Club in Augusta, Georgia. 84 players entered the tournament and 50 made the cut at eight-over-par (152).

Jack Nicklaus, 23, won the first of his record six Green Jackets with a three-foot (0.9 m) par putt on the final hole to finish one stroke ahead of runner-up Tony Lema.^[3]^[2] Nicklaus shot a 66 (−6) in the second round, which was key in his victory.^[1]^[4] It was the second of his record 18 major titles; his third came three months later at the PGA Championship in July.

Gene Sarazen, the 1935 champion, made the cut at Augusta for the final time at age 61 and finished 49th.

It was the last Masters for Horton Smith, winner of the inaugural event in 1934 and again in 1936. He was the only competitor to have participated in every edition of the tournament, and had a lung removed in 1957. Battling Hodgkin's Disease, Smith was partly aided by a golf cart and shot 91 and 86; he died six months later in Detroit at age 55, shortly after attending the Ryder Cup matches in Atlanta.^[5]^[6]^[7]

George Bayer won the Par 3 contest with a score of 23.

Field[]

1. Masters champions

Jack Burke Jr. (4), Jimmy Demaret (8), Doug Ford (4,9,10,11), Claude Harmon, Herman Keiser, Cary Middlecoff (2), Byron Nelson, Arnold Palmer (2,3,8,9,11), Henry Picard, Gary Player (3,4,9,10), Gene Sarazen, Horton Smith, Sam Snead (8), Art Wall Jr. (9,11), Craig Wood

Ralph Guldahl and Ben Hogan (2,3) did not play.

The following categories only apply to Americans

2. U.S. Open champions (last 10 years)

Tommy Bolt, Billy Casper (8,11), Jack Fleck (8,10), Ed Furgol, Gene Littler (8,9,11), Dick Mayer, Jack Nicklaus (8,9,10)

3. The Open champions (last 10 years)

4. PGA champions (last 10 years)

Jerry Barber (8,11), Walter Burkemo, Dow Finsterwald (8,11), Chick Harbert, Jay Hebert (11), Lionel Hebert (8), Bob Rosburg (9)

5. U.S. Amateur and Amateur champions (last 10 years)

Charles Coe (6,8,a), (6,a), Labron Harris Jr. (6,7,a)

Deane Beman (6,9) and Harvie Ward did not play. Other champions forfeited their exemptions by turning professional.

6. Selections for the 1963 U.S. Walker Cup team

(a), Downing Gray (7,a), Billy Joe Patton (7,a), R. H. Sikes (a), Charlie Smith (a), Ed Updegraff (a)

7. 1962 U.S. Amateur quarter-finalists

Homero Blancas (a), Charles Coody (a), (a), (a), (a)

8. Top 24 players and ties from the 1962 Masters Tournament

Julius Boros, Gay Brewer (9), Jacky Cupit, Gardner Dickinson, Paul Harney (10), Don January, Billy Maxwell (9), Johnny Pott, Mike Souchak (9,11), Ken Venturi

9. Top 16 players and ties from the 1962 U.S. Open

Bob Goalby (9), Tommy Jacobs, Bobby Nichols (10), Phil Rodgers, Doug Sanders

10. Top eight players and ties from 1962 PGA Championship

George Bayer, Dave Ragan

11. Members of the U.S. 1961 Ryder Cup team

Bill Collins

12. Two players selected for meritorious records on the fall part of the 1962 PGA Tour

Tony Lema, Jerry Pittman

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

Bo Wininger

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

Wes Ellis

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

Bill Hyndman (a)

16. Two players, not already qualified, from a points list based on finishes in the winter part of the 1963 PGA Tour

Mason Rudolph, Dan Sikes

17. Foreign invitations

Al Balding (8), David Blair (a), Antonio Cerdá, Bob Charles, Chen Ching-Po, Bruce Crampton, , (a), Jorge Ledesma (a), Stan Leonard, Ángel Miguel, Kel Nagle, Koichi Ono, Chi-Chi Rodríguez, ,

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

Round summaries[]

First round[]

Thursday, April 4, 1963

Place	Player	Country	Score	To par
T1	Mike Souchak	United States	69	−3
T1	Bo Wininger	United States	69	−3
T3	Ed Furgol	United States	70	−2
	Jay Hebert	United States
	Sam Snead	United States
T6	George Bayer	United States	71	−1
T6	Gary Player	South Africa	71	−1
T8	Charles Coe (a)	United States	72	E
T8	Billy Maxwell	United States	72	E
T10	Downing Gray (a)	United States	73	+1
	Don January	United States
	Dick Mayer	United States
	Doug Sanders	United States

Source:^[8]^[9]

Second round[]

Friday, April 5, 1963

Place	Player	Country	Score	To par
1	Mike Souchak	United States	69-70=139	−5
T2	Jay Hebert	United States	70-70=140	−4
T2	Jack Nicklaus	United States	74-66=140	−4
T4	Ed Furgol	United States	70-71=141	−3
T4	Bo Wininger	United States	69-72=141	−3
T6	Tony Lema	United States	74-69=143	−1
	Dick Mayer	United States	73-70=143
	Sam Snead	United States	70-73=143
T9	Julius Boros	United States	76-69=145	+1
T9	Gary Player	South Africa	71-74=145	+1

Source:^[10]^[11]

Third round[]

Saturday, April 6, 1963

Place	Player	Country	Score	To par
1	Jack Nicklaus	United States	74-66-74=214	−2
2	Ed Furgol	United States	70-71-74=215	−1
3	Julius Boros	United States	76-69-71=216	E
T4	Tony Lema	United States	74-69-74=217	+1
T4	Sam Snead	United States	70-73-74=217	+1
T6	Chen Ching-Po	Taiwan	76-71-71=218	+2
	Mike Souchak	United States	69-70-79=218
	Bo Wininger	United States	69-72-77=218
T9	Stan Leonard	Canada	74-72-73=219	+3
	Gary Player	South Africa	71-74-74=219
	Mason Rudolph	United States	75-72-72=219

Source:^[12]

Final round[]

Sunday, April 7, 1963

Final leaderboard[]

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

*Top 10*
Place	Player	Score	To par	Money (US$)
1	Jack Nicklaus	74-66-74-72=286	−2	20,000
2	Tony Lema	74-69-74-70=287	−1	12,000
T3	Julius Boros	76-69-71-72=288	E	7,000
T3	Sam Snead (c)	70-73-74-71=288	E	7,000
T5	Dow Finsterwald	74-73-73-69=289	+1	4,000
	Ed Furgol	70-71-74-74=289
	Gary Player (c)	71-74-74-70=289
8	Bo Wininger	69-72-77-72=290	+2	2,400
T9	Don January	73-75-72-71=291	+3	1,800
T9	Arnold Palmer (c)	74-73-73-71=291	+3	1,800

Leaderboard below the top 10
Place	Player	Score	To par	Money ($)
T11	Billy Casper	79-72-71-70=292	+4	1,350
	Bruce Crampton	74-74-72-72=292
	Doug Ford (c)	75-73-75-69=292
	Mike Souchak	69-70-79-74=292
T15	Bob Charles	74-72-76-71=293	+5	1,100
	Chen Ching-Po	76-71-71-75=293
	Billy Maxwell	72-75-76-70=293
	Dick Mayer	73-70-80-70=293
	Mason Rudolph	75-72-72-74=293
	Dan Sikes	74-76-72-71=293
T21	Stan Leonard	74-72-73-75=294	+6	1,000
	Johnny Pott	75-76-74-69=294
	Art Wall Jr. (c)	75-74-73-72=294
T24	Wes Ellis	74-72-79-70=295	+7	1,000
	Gene Littler	77-72-78-68=295
	Bobby Nichols	76-74-73-72=295
27	Jay Hebert	70-70-81-75=296	+8	750
T28	George Bayer	71-75-84-67=297	+9	750
	Tommy Jacobs	78-74-73-72=297
	Doug Sanders	73-74-77-73=297
		79-72-75-71=297
T32	Labron Harris Jr. (a)	79-71-73-75=298	+10	0
T32	Dave Ragan	74-75-76-73=298	+10	750
34	Ken Venturi	77-74-77-71=299	+11	750
T35	Bill Hyndman (a)	74-72-80-74=300	+12	0
T35	Kel Nagle	75-74-76-75=300	+12	750
T37	Tommy Bolt	75-76-76-74=301	+13	750
T37	Charles Coe (a)	72-75-79-75=301	+13	0
T39	Homero Blancas (a)	75-77-76-74=302	+14	0
	Antonio Cerdá	75-71-78-78=302		750
	Lionel Hebert	75-74-77-76=302		750
42	Jack Fleck	74-77-77-75=303	+15	750
T43	Walter Burkemo	75-77-78-74=304	+16	750
T43	Jimmy Demaret (c)	75-75-81-73=304	+16	750
45	Herman Keiser (c)	75-77-79-74=305	+17	750
T46	Downing Gray (a)	73-76-81-76=306	+18	0
T46	R. H. Sikes (a)	76-76-77-77=306	+18
48	Billy Joe Patton (a)	80-72-74-81=307	+19
49	Gene Sarazen (c)	74-73-81-80=308	+20	750
CUT	Jerry Barber	80-73=153	+9
	Koichi Ono	82-71=153
	Phil Rodgers	77-76=153
	Bob Rosburg	77-76=153
		75-78=153
	Al Balding	82-72=154	+10
	Gay Brewer	82-72=154
	Jack Burke Jr. (c)	78-76=154
	Gardner Dickinson	78-76=154
	Chick Harbert	75-79=154
	(a)	80-75=155	+11
	Jorge Ledesma (a)	76-79=155
	Chi-Chi Rodríguez	80-75=155
	Bob Goalby	80-76=156	+12
	Byron Nelson (c)	79-77=156
	Charlie Smith (a)	80-76=156
	Ángel Miguel	78-79=157	+13
	Jerry Pittman	78-79=157
	Ed Updegraff (a)	82-75=157
	(a)	77-81=158	+14
	(a)	81-77=158
	(a)	81-77=158
	Bill Collins	82-77=159	+15
	(a)	78-82=160	+16
	David Blair (a)	83-79=162	+18
	(a)	79-84=163	+19
		87-76=163	+19
	Charles Coody (a)	80-84=164	+20
	Cary Middlecoff (c)	87-81=168	+24
	Horton Smith (c)	91-86=177	+33
WD	Paul Harney	75-77-78=230	+14
	Jacky Cupit	82	+10
	Claude Harmon (c)	82	+10
	Henry Picard (c)
	Craig Wood (c)

Sources:^[13]^[14]

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
Nicklaus	−2	−2	−2	−2	−2	−2	−2	−1	−1	−1	−1	E	−1	−1	−1	−2	−2	−2
Lema	+2	+1	+1	E	E	E	E	E	E	E	+1	+1	E	E	E	E	E	−1
Boros	+1	E	E	+1	+1	+2	+1	+1	+1	+1	+1	E	E	E	E	E	E	E
Snead	+1	E	E	E	E	E	−1	−1	E	E	E	E	E	−1	−2	−1	−1	E
Finsterwald	+3	+2	+3	+3	+2	+3	+3	+2	+2	+2	+2	+3	+3	+2	+1	+1	+1	+1
Furgol	−1	−1	−1	E	+1	+1	+1	+1	+1	+2	+3	+3	+3	+3	+2	+2	+1	+1
Player	+2	+2	+2	+2	+1	+1	+1	+1	+1	+1	+1	+1	E	E	−1	−1	E	+1

Cumulative tournament scores, relative to par

	Birdie		Bogey

References[]

^ ^a ^b "Souchak takes sole Masters lead". Pittsburgh-Post Gazette. Associated Press. April 6, 1963. p. 14.
^ ^a ^b "Nicklaus captures Masters golf crown". Pittsburgh-Post Gazette. Associated Press. April 8, 1963. p. 25.
^ Bartlett, Charles (April 8, 1963). "Nicklaus wins Masters title with 286". Chicago Tribune. p. 1, part 3.
^ Wright, Alfred (April 15, 1963). "Young Jack the Mighty Master". Sports Illustrated: 26.
^ "Horton Smith, winner of first Masters, dies". Reading Eagle. (Pennsylvania). UPI. October 15, 1963. p. 18.
^ "Golf champ Smith dies at age 55". Toledo Blade. (Ohio). Associated Press. October 15, 1963. p. 24.
^ "Ex-Masters king Horton Smith dies". Palm Beach Post. Florida. Associated Press. October 16, 1963. p. 15.
^ Bartlett, Charles (April 5, 1963). "Wininger, Souchak lead in Masters". Chicago Tribune. p. 1, part 3.
^ "Masters golf tournament scoreboard". Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. April 5, 1963. p. 22.
^ "Masters scoreboard". Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. April 6, 1963. p. 14.
^ Bartlett, Charles (April 6, 1963). "Nicklaus gets 66; trails Souchak by 1". Chicago Tribune.
^ Bartlett, Charles (April 7, 1963). "Nicklaus leads rain-soaked Masters". Chicago Tribune.
^ "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 – 1963 Masters
Augusta.com – 1963 Masters leaderboard and scorecards

[stsml-1] "Souchak takes sole Masters lead". Pittsburgh-Post Gazette. Associated Press. April 6, 1963. p. 14.

[ncmgc-2] "Nicklaus captures Masters golf crown". Pittsburgh-Post Gazette. Associated Press. April 8, 1963. p. 25.

[nwmtwtex-3] Bartlett, Charles (April 8, 1963). "Nicklaus wins Masters title with 286". Chicago Tribune. p. 1, part 3.

[yjtmm-4] Wright, Alfred (April 15, 1963). "Young Jack the Mighty Master". Sports Illustrated: 26.

[hsreegdi-5] "Horton Smith, winner of first Masters, dies". Reading Eagle. (Pennsylvania). UPI. October 15, 1963. p. 18.

[gcsmdaff-6] "Golf champ Smith dies at age 55". Toledo Blade. (Ohio). Associated Press. October 15, 1963. p. 24.

[pbphs-7] "Ex-Masters king Horton Smith dies". Palm Beach Post. Florida. Associated Press. October 16, 1963. p. 15.

[wslimst-8] Bartlett, Charles (April 5, 1963). "Wininger, Souchak lead in Masters". Chicago Tribune. p. 1, part 3.

[mgscresrd1-9] "Masters golf tournament scoreboard". Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. April 5, 1963. p. 22.

[mgscresrd2-10] "Masters scoreboard". Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. April 6, 1963. p. 14.

[ctngstsx-11] Bartlett, Charles (April 6, 1963). "Nicklaus gets 66; trails Souchak by 1". Chicago Tribune.

[nlrsm-12] Bartlett, Charles (April 7, 1963). "Nicklaus leads rain-soaked Masters". Chicago Tribune.

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

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

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