1935 Masters Tournament
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The 1935 Masters Tournament was contested from April 4 to April 8 at Augusta National Golf Club
Augusta National Golf Club
Augusta National Golf Club, located in Augusta, Georgia, is a famous men's golf club. Founded by Bobby Jones and Clifford Roberts and designed by Alister MacKenzie on the site of a former indigo plantation, the club opened for play in January 1933. Since 1934, it has played host to the annual...

. It was the 2nd Masters Tournament. The golf course nines were reversed for this tournament. Gene Sarazen
Gene Sarazen
Gene Sarazen was an American professional golfer, one of the world's top players in the 1920s and 1930s. He is one of five golfers to win all the current major championships in his career, the Career Grand Slam:U.S...

 holed an double eagle (235 yards, 4 wood) at the par 5, 15th hole to tie Craig Wood
Craig Wood (golfer)
Craig Ralph Wood was an American professional golfer in the 1930s and 1940s, the winner of 21 PGA Tour titles including two major championships and a member of three Ryder Cup teams ....

 and force a 36-hole playoff. This shot is referred to as the "shot heard 'round the world". Sarazen won the playoff 71-73=144 to 75-74=149. The purse was $5,000.

Final leaderboard

#PlayerCountryScoreTo parWinnings ($)
1 Gene Sarazen
Gene Sarazen
Gene Sarazen was an American professional golfer, one of the world's top players in the 1920s and 1930s. He is one of five golfers to win all the current major championships in his career, the Career Grand Slam:U.S...

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 United States 68-71-73-70=282 -6 1,500
2 Craig Wood
Craig Wood (golfer)
Craig Ralph Wood was an American professional golfer in the 1930s and 1940s, the winner of 21 PGA Tour titles including two major championships and a member of three Ryder Cup teams ....

 
 United States 69-72-68-73=282 800
3 Olin Dutra   United States 70-70-70-74=284 -4 600
4 Henry Picard
Henry Picard
Henry Gilford Picard was an American professional golfer.Picard was born in Plymouth, Massachusetts, and learned to play golf while caddying at the Plymouth Country Club. Picard, already a talented player by his early 20s, came to prominence after coaching from the leading instructor Alex Morrison...

 
 United States 67-68-76-75=286 -2 500
5 Denny Shute
Denny Shute
Herman Densmore "Denny" Shute was an American golfer who won three major championships in the 1930s.Shute was born in Cleveland, Ohio. His father was born in England. He attended Western Reserve University , and was a member of Phi Gamma Delta. He was married on March 20, 1930 to Hettie Marie Potts...

 
 United States 73-71-70-73=287 -1 400
6 Lawson Little
Lawson Little
William Lawson Little, Jr. was an American professional golfer who also had a distinguished amateur career....

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 United States 74-72-70-72=288 E 0
7 Paul Runyan
Paul Runyan
Paul Scott Runyan was an American professional golfer. He was among the world's best players in the mid-1930s, won two PGA Championships, and is a member of the World Golf Hall of Fame. Runyan was also a golf instructor....

 
 United States 70-72-75-72=289 +1 300
8 Vic Ghezzi
Vic Ghezzi
Victor J. Ghezzi was an American golfer. He won 11 times on the PGA Tour including one major championship, the 1941 PGA Championship. He was selected for three Ryder Cup teams, 1939, 1941, and 1943 but each was canceled due to World War II...

 
 United States 73-71-73-73=290 +2 250
T9 Bobby Cruickshank
Bobby Cruickshank
Robert Allan Cruickshank was a prominent Scottish professional golfer on the PGA of America circuit from the early 1920s to the mid-1930s. He was born in Grantown-on-Spey, Scotland.-Career:...

 
76-70-73-72=291 +3 138
Jimmy Hines
Jimmy Hines
James J. Hines was an American professional golfer.Hines was born in Mineola, New York. He won nine times on the PGA Tour and was selected to the 1939 Ryder Cup team but the event was cancelled due to World War II....

 
 United States 70-70-77-74=291
Byron Nelson
Byron Nelson
John Byron Nelson, Jr. was an American PGA Tour golfer between 1935 and 1946.Nelson and two other well known golfers of the time, Ben Hogan and Sam Snead, were born within seven months of each other in 1912...

 
 United States 71-74-72-74=291
Joe Turnesa  United States 73-71-74-73=291

Sarazen (71-73=144) defeated Wood (75-74=149) in a 36-hole playoff.

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