1949 Masters Tournament
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The 1949 Masters Tournament was contested from April 7 to April 10 at Augusta National Golf Club
. It was the 13th Masters Tournament. This was the first year that the famous Green Jacket was awarded to the tournament winner.
Sam Snead
shot back-to-back rounds of 67 in the final round to win by three strokes. This would be Snead's first of three Masters victories.
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 13th Masters Tournament. This was the first year that the famous Green Jacket was awarded to the tournament winner.
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...
shot back-to-back rounds of 67 in the final round to win by three strokes. This would be Snead's first of three Masters victories.
Final leaderboard
# | Player | Country | Score | To par | Winnings ($) |
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1 | 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 | 73-75-67-67=282 | -6 | 2,500 |
T2 | Johnny Bulla Johnny Bulla John Guthrie Bulla was an American professional golfer.Bulla was born in Newell, West Virginia. He played on the PGA Tour, winning the 1941 Los Angeles Open, and finished runner-up three times in the majors, including twice to Sam Snead at the 1946 British Open and 1949 Masters... |
United States | 74-73-69-69=285 | -3 | 1,100 |
Lloyd Mangrum Lloyd Mangrum Lloyd Eugene Mangrum was an American professional golfer. He was known for his smooth swing and his relaxed demeanour on the course, which earned him the nickname "Mr. Icicle".Mangrum was born in Trenton, Texas... |
United States | 69-74-72-70=285 | |||
T4 | Johnny Palmer Johnny Palmer John C. Palmer was an American professional golfer.Palmer was born in Eldorado, North Carolina. A seven time winner on the PGA Tour in the 1940s and 1950s, he represented the United States on the 1949 Ryder Cup team.... |
United States | 73-71-70-72=286 | -2 | 440 |
Jim Turnesa Jim Turnesa James R. Turnesa was one of seven famous golfing brothers; Phil , Frank , Joe , Mike , Doug , Jim , and Willie... |
United States | 73-72-71-70=286 | |||
6 | Lew Worsham Lew Worsham Lewis Elmer Worsham, Jr. was an American professional golfer.Worsham was born in Pittsylvania County, Virginia. In 1947, he won the U.S. Open by defeating Sam Snead in an 18-hole playoff at the St. Louis Country Club in Clayton, Missouri after the two men had finished tied at 282 in regulation.... |
United States | 76-75-70-68=289 | +1 | 330 |
7 | Joe Kirkwood, Jr. Joe Kirkwood, Jr. Joe Kirkwood, Jr. is a former professional golfer on the PGA Tour, and a motion picture actor.Kirkwood was born in Melbourne, Australia. His father Joe Kirkwood, Sr., who was a golf pro and who taught him to play golf, is acknowledged as having put Australian golf on the world map. In 1948, he... |
73-72-70-75=290 | +2 | 330 | |
T8 | Jimmy Demaret Jimmy Demaret James Newton Demaret was an American professional golfer. He won 31 PGA Tour events in a long career between 1935 and 1957, and was the first three-time winner of the Masters.... |
United States | 76-72-73-71=292 | +4 | 311 |
Clayton Heafner | United States | 71-74-72-75=292 | |||
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 | 75-70-74-73=292 |