The 1939 Masters Tournament was contested from March 30 to April 2 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 6th Masters Tournament.

Due to adverse weather conditions, Thursday's round was postponed due to rain. 36 holes were played on Sunday.

Ralph Guldahl

Ralph Guldahl

Ralph J. Guldahl was an American professional golfer who was one of the top players in the sport for three years in the late 1930s.-Early life until 1939:Guldahl was born in Dallas, Texas...

 won the tournament by one stroke over Sam Snead

Sam Snead

Samuel Jackson Snead was an American professional golfer who was one of the top players in the world for most of four decades. Snead won a record 82 PGA Tour events including seven majors. He failed to win a U.S...

. He had finished in 2nd the previous two years. The purse was $5,000.

Final leaderboard

#	Player	Country	Score	To par	Winnings ($)
1	Ralph Guldahl Ralph Guldahl Ralph J. Guldahl was an American professional golfer who was one of the top players in the sport for three years in the late 1930s.-Early life until 1939:Guldahl was born in Dallas, Texas...	United States	72-68-70-69=279	-9	1,500
2	Sam Snead Sam Snead Samuel Jackson Snead was an American professional golfer who was one of the top players in the world for most of four decades. Snead won a record 82 PGA Tour events including seven majors. He failed to win a U.S...	United States	70-70-72-68=280	-8	800
T3	Billy Burke	United States	69-72-71-70=282	-6	550
	Lawson Little Lawson Little William Lawson Little, Jr. was an American professional golfer who also had a distinguished amateur career....	United States	72-72-68-70=282
5	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...	United States	73-66-72-72=283	-5	400
6	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	72-73-71-68=284	-4	300
7	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	71-69-72-75=287	-1	250
8	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	71-71-76-71=289	+1	175
9	Ben Hogan Ben Hogan William Ben Hogan was an American golfer, generally considered one of the greatest players in the history of the game...	United States	75-71-72-72=290	+2	125
T10	Ed Dudley	United States	75-75-69-72=291	+3	100
	Toney Penna Toney Penna Toney G. Penna was an Italian-American professional golfer and designer of golf clubs and gear. He won four events on the PGA Tour between 1937 and 1947. He introduced new lines of golf clubs and was the holder of four patents for golf clubs. Many of these clubs are considered collectors' items:...	United States	72-75-72-72=291

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