1958 Masters Tournament

Arnold Palmer, age 28, was the third round co-leader and eagled the 13th hole on Sunday to propel him to victory, as he three-putted on the final green.^[1][2] Three-time champion Sam Snead, age 45, was the other co-leader after 54 holes,^[3] but shot a 79 (+7) on Sunday to fall to 13th place.^[4] One stroke back entering the final round was 1955 champion Cary Middlecoff, who carded a 75 in the final round and tied for 6th.

Palmer's first Masters victory was not without some controversy. On the 12th hole of the final round, Palmer thought his tee ball was embedded behind the green but the on-site rules official would not give him relief. Playing that ball as it lay, Palmer made a double-bogey. Upset over the questionable ruling and the double-bogey, Palmer then played a second ball from behind the green and, after taking relief, made a par. Several holes later word came from the tournament officials that Palmer was entitled to relief and his par score on 12 would stand.^[5]

Palmer's caddy was Nathaniel "Iron Man" Avery.

Prior to the tournament, two stone arch bridges crossing Rae's Creek were dedicated, honoring two-time champions Ben Hogan and Byron Nelson. Hogan's is at the par-3 12th hole, and commemorated his record 72-hole score in 1953, his second win at Augusta and first of three consecutive majors that year. The other bridge departs the 13th tee; Nelson went birdie-eagle at these two holes in the final round in 1937, gained six strokes on the leader, and won the first of his five majors.^[6]

Sports Illustrated writer Herbert Warren Wind first used the term "Amen Corner" in a story to describe where the critical final day's action had occurred.^[7]

This was the first major to have a five-figure winner's share; six figures arrived at the 1983 PGA Championship and seven at the 2001 Masters.

During the first day of the tournament, a man named Allen W. Perkins gained entry to Augusta National by asking golfer Cary Middlecoff to share a ride from the hotel where they both were staying. As club staff assumed he was a player, Perkins proceeded to help himself to a spot in the locker room, practice on the putting green, and begin golfing on hole 1, Tea Olive. Perkins was forced by security to buy a ticket and remove his belongings from the clubhouse.^[8]

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1. Masters champions

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

• Ralph Guldahl (2) did not play.

The following categories only apply to Americans

2. U.S. Open champions

Julius Boros (9), Billy Burke, Jack Fleck, Ed Furgol (8,11), Tony Manero, Lloyd Mangrum, Dick Mayer (9,10,11), Fred McLeod, Sam Parks Jr., Lew Worsham

3. The Open champions

Jock Hutchison (4), Denny Shute (4)

4. PGA champions

Walter Burkemo (9,10), Vic Ghezzi, Chick Harbert (9), Chandler Harper, Lionel Hebert (10,11), Johnny Revolta, Paul Runyan, Jim Turnesa

5. U.S. Amateur and Amateur champions

Dick Chapman (7,a), Charles Coe (a), Hillman Robbins (7,a), Harvie Ward (8,a)

6. Members of the 1957 U.S. Walker Cup team

Rex Baxter (7,a), Arnold Blum (a), Joe Campbell (a), William C. Campbell (a), Bill Hyndman (9,a), Chuck Kocsis (a), Dale Morey (a), Billy Joe Patton (9,a), Mason Rudolph (7,a), Bud Taylor (7,8,a)

• Morey was a reserve for the team.

7. 1957 U.S. Amateur quarter-finalists

Gene Andrews (a), Phil Rodgers (a)

• Dick Yost did not play.

8. Top 24 players and ties from the 1957 Masters Tournament

Billy Casper, Mike Fetchick (9), Dow Finsterwald (9,10,11), Marty Furgol, Fred Hawkins (9,11), Jay Hebert (10), Al Mengert, Arnold Palmer, Henry Ransom, Ken Venturi (9)

• Johnny Palmer's wife was having a baby and he did not play.

9. Top 16 players and ties from the 1957 U.S. Open

Billy Maxwell, Frank Stranahan

10. 1957 PGA Championship quarter-finalists

Charles Sheppard, Don Whitt

11. Members of the U.S. 1957 Ryder Cup team

Tommy Bolt, Ted Kroll, Art Wall Jr.

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

Mike Souchak

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

Gene Littler

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

Don Cherry (a)

15. Two players, not already qualified, from a points list based on finishes in the winter part of the 1958 PGA Tour

Dave Ragan, Bo Wininger

16. Winner of the 1957 Canadian Open

George Bayer

17. Foreign invitations

Al Balding (8), Bob Charles (a), Bruce Crampton (8), Henri de Lamaze (a), Roberto De Vicenzo (9), Stan Leonard (8), Torakichi Nakamura, Koichi Ono, Frank Phillips, Gary Player (8), Peter Thomson (3,8), Flory Van Donck, Norman Von Nida, Nick Weslock (a)

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

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First round

Thursday, April 3, 1958

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Place	Player	Score	To par
1	Ken Venturi	68	−4
T2	Jimmy Demaret	69	−3
	Chick Harbert
	Norman Von Nida
	Bo Wininger
T6	Cary Middlecoff	70	−2
	Arnold Palmer
	Flory Van Donck
T9	Roberto De Vicenzo	71	−1
	Jack Fleck
	Claude Harmon
	Fred Hawkins
	Lionel Hebert
	Bill Hyndman (a)
	Billy Maxwell
	Byron Nelson
	Art Wall Jr.

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Second round

Friday, April 4, 1958

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Place	Player	Score	To par
1	Ken Venturi	68-72=140	−4
T2	Billy Maxwell	71-70=141	−3
	Billy Joe Patton (a)	72-69=141
T4	Stan Leonard	72-70=142	−2
	Bo Wininger	69-73=142
T6	Dow Finsterwald	72-71=143	−1
	Chick Harbert	69-74=143
	Cary Middlecoff	70-73=143
	Arnold Palmer	70-73=143
	Sam Snead	72-71=143
	Art Wall Jr.	71-72=143

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Third round

Saturday, April 5, 1958

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Place	Player	Score	To par
T1	Arnold Palmer	70-73-68=211	−5
	Sam Snead	72-71-68=211
3	Cary Middlecoff	70-73-69=212	−4
T4	Billy Maxwell	71-70-72=213	−3
	Al Mengert	73-71-69=213
	Art Wall Jr.	71-72-70=213
	Bo Wininger	69-73-71=213
T8	Fred Hawkins	71-75-68=214	−2
	Billy Joe Patton (a)	72-69-73=214
	Ken Venturi	68-72-74=214

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Final round

Sunday, April 6, 1958

Final leaderboard

Champion

Silver Cup winner (low amateur)

(a) = amateur

(c) = past champion

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Top 10

Place	Player	Score	To par	Money (US$)
1	Arnold Palmer	70-73-68-73=284	−4	11,250
T2	Doug Ford (c)	74-71-70-70=285	−3	4,500
	Fred Hawkins	71-75-68-71=285
T4	Stan Leonard	72-70-73-71=286	−2	1,969
	Ken Venturi	68-72-74-72=286
T6	Cary Middlecoff (c)	70-73-69-75=287	−1	1,519
	Art Wall Jr.	71-72-70-74=287
8	Billy Joe Patton (a)	72-69-73-74=288	E	0
T9	Claude Harmon (c)	71-76-72-70=289	+1	1,266
	Jay Hebert	72-73-73-71=289
	Billy Maxwell	71-70-72-76=289
	Al Mengert	73-71-69-76=289

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Leaderboard below the top 10
Place	Player	Score	To par	Money ($)
13	Sam Snead (c)	72-71-68-79=290	+2	1,125
T14	Jimmy Demaret (c)	69-79-70-73=291	+3	1,050
	Ben Hogan (c)	72-77-69-73=291
	Mike Souchak	72-75-73-71=291
T17	Dow Finsterwald	72-71-74-75=292	+4	975
	Chick Harbert	69-74-73-76=292
	Bo Wininger	69-73-71-79=292
T20	Billy Casper	76-71-72-74=293	+5	956
	Byron Nelson (c)	71-77-74-71=293
22	Phil Rodgers (a)	77-72-73-72=294	+6	0
T23	Charles Coe (a)	73-76-69-77=295	+7
	Ted Kroll	73-75-75-72=295		900
	Peter Thomson	72-74-73-76=295
T26	Al Balding	75-72-71-78=296	+8	900
	Bruce Crampton	73-76-72-75=296
	Bill Hyndman (a)	71-76-70-79=296		0
T29	George Bayer	74-75-72-76=297	+9	350
	Arnold Blum (a)	72-74-75-76=297		0
	Joe Campbell (a)	73-75-74-75=297
T32	Tommy Bolt	74-75-74-75=298	+10	350
	Lionel Hebert	71-77-75-75=298
	Flory Van Donck	70-74-75-79=298
T35	Marty Furgol	74-73-75-77=299	+11	350
	Dave Ragan	73-73-77-76=299
	Paul Runyan	73-76-73-77=299
	Jim Turnesa	72-76-76-75=299
T39	Julius Boros	73-72-78-77=300	+12	350
	Jack Fleck	71-76-78-75=300
41	Torakichi Nakamura	76-73-76-76=301	+13	350
42	Gene Littler	75-73-74-80=302	+14	350
43	Norman Von Nida	69-80-79-80=308	+20	350
CUT	Rex Baxter (a)	72-78=150	+6
	Henry Picard (c)	72-78=150
	Gary Player	74-76=150
	Jack Burke Jr. (c)	74-77=151	+7
	Roberto De Vicenzo	71-80=151
	Chuck Kocsis (a)	76-75=151
	Lloyd Mangrum	76-75=151
	Dale Morey (a)	74-77=151
	Henry Ransom	73-78=151
	Frank Stranahan	72-79=151
	William C. Campbell (a)	77-75=152	+8
	Mason Rudolph (a)	79-73=152
	Harvie Ward (a)	76-76=152
	Don Whitt	72-80=152
	Ed Furgol	75-78=153	+9
	Dick Mayer	74-79=153
	Nick Weslock (a)	76-77=153
	Walter Burkemo	74-80=154	+10
	Mike Fetchick	75-79=154
	Chandler Harper	79-75=154
	Johnny Revolta	74-80=154
	Gene Andrews (a)	73-82=155	+11
	Vic Ghezzi	78-77=155
	Koichi Ono	74-81=155
	Dick Chapman (a)	82-75=157	+13
	Bob Charles (a)	77-80=157
	Herman Keiser (c)	76-81=157
	Denny Shute	75-82=157
	Lew Worsham	75-82=157
	Sam Parks Jr.	78-80=158	+14
	Frank Phillips	75-83=158
	Gene Sarazen (c)	81-78=159	+15
	Craig Wood (c)	82-77=159
	Charles Sheppard	83-79=162	+18
	Bud Taylor (a)	79-83=162
	Billy Burke	80-83=163	+19
	Don Cherry (a)	76-87=163
	Tony Manero	82-82=164	+20
	Hillman Robbins (a)	80-84=164
	Henri de Lamaze (a)	84-81=165	+21
	Horton Smith (c)	80-86=166	+22
WD	Jock Hutchison
	Fred McLeod

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Scorecard

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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
Palmer	−5	−5	−5	−5	−4	−4	−4	−5	−5	−4	−4	−4	−6	−6	−6	−5	−5	−4
Ford	−1	−2	−2	−2	−2	−2	−2	−3	−3	−3	−3	−3	−3	−3	−3	−3	−3	−3
Hawkins	−2	−2	−2	−2	−2	−2	−2	−2	−3	−2	−1	−1	−1	−1	−2	−2	−3	−3
Leonard	−1	−1	−1	−1	−2	−2	−3	−3	−4	−3	−3	−3	−3	−2	−2	−2	−2	−2
Venturi	−3	−3	−3	−4	−4	−3	−3	−3	−3	−3	−3	−3	−4	−3	−2	−1	−1	−2
Middlecoff	−4	−5	−3	−3	−3	−3	−2	−2	−2	−1	−1	−1	−1	−2	−1	−1	−1	−1
Wall	−2	−3	−3	−3	−4	−4	−3	−3	−3	−3	−3	−2	−1	−1	−1	−1	−1	−1
Snead	−3	−3	−3	−4	−3	−2	−2	−3	−3	−2	E	E	E	+1	+1	+2	+2	+2

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Cumulative tournament scores, relative to par

Eagle

Birdie

Bogey

Double bogey