2002 Masters Tournament

DatesApril 11–14, 2002

LocationAugusta, Georgia
33°30′11″N 82°01′12″W / 33.503°N 82.020°W

Organized byAugusta National Golf Club

2002 Masters Tournament
Tournament information
Front cover of the 2002 Masters Journal
Dates	April 11–14, 2002
Location	Augusta, Georgia 33°30′11″N 82°01′12″W / 33.503°N 82.020°W / 33.503; -82.020
Course	Augusta National Golf Club
Organized by	Augusta National Golf Club
Tour(s)	PGA Tour European Tour Japan Golf Tour
Statistics
Par	72
Length	7,270 yards (6,648 m)^[1]^[2]
Field	88 players, 45 after cut
Cut	147 (+3)
Prize fund	US$5,600,000
Winner's share	$1,008,000
Champion
Tiger Woods
276 (−12)
Location map
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The 2002 Masters Tournament was the 66th Masters Tournament, held April 11–14 at Augusta National Golf Club. Tiger Woods won his third Masters, and second consecutive, with a score of 276 (−12), three strokes ahead of runner-up Retief Goosen.^[3] The course was lengthened by 285 yards (261 m) over the previous year.^[4] It was only the third successful defense of a Masters title, previously accomplished in 1966 by Jack Nicklaus and 1990 by Nick Faldo. Rory Mcilroy became the fourth person to do this in 2026. ^[5]

Hole	Name	Yards	Par	Hole	Name	Yards	Par
1	Tea Olive	435	4	10	Camellia	495	4
2	Pink Dogwood	575	5	11	White Dogwood	490	4
3	Flowering Peach	350	4	12	Golden Bell	155	3
4	Flowering Crab Apple	205	3	13	Azalea	510	5
5	Magnolia	435	4	14	Chinese Fir	440	4
6	Juniper	180	3	15	Firethorn	500	5
7	Pampas	410	4	16	Redbud	170	3
8	Yellow Jasmine	570	5	17	Nandina	425	4
9	Carolina Cherry	460	4	18	Holly	465	4
Out		3,620	36	In		3,650	36
Source:^[1]^[4]				Total		7,270	72

Field

1. Masters champions

Tommy Aaron, Seve Ballesteros, Charles Coody, Fred Couples, Ben Crenshaw, Nick Faldo, Raymond Floyd, Bernhard Langer (10,13,14,16,17), Sandy Lyle, Larry Mize, José María Olazábal (10,16,17), Mark O'Meara (3), Arnold Palmer, Gary Player, Vijay Singh (4,11,14,16,17), Craig Stadler, Tom Watson, Tiger Woods (2,3,4,5,14,16,17), Ian Woosnam (13), Fuzzy Zoeller

George Archer, Gay Brewer, Jack Burke Jr., Billy Casper, Doug Ford, Bob Goalby, Herman Keiser, Byron Nelson, Jack Nicklaus, and Sam Snead did not play.

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

Ernie Els (10,13,14,16,17), Retief Goosen (16,17), Lee Janzen

3. The Open champions (last five years)

David Duval (10,14,16,17), Paul Lawrie, Justin Leonard (14,16,17)

4. PGA champions (last five years)

Davis Love III (11,14,16,17), David Toms (14,16,17)

5. The Players Championship winners (last three years)

Craig Perks

Hal Sutton (14,16,17) withdrew with a pulled muscle on the first morning of the tournament.^[6]

6. U.S. Amateur champion and runner-up

Bubba Dickerson (a), Robert Hamilton (a)

7. The Amateur champion

Michael Hoey (a)

8. U.S. Amateur Public Links champion

Chez Reavie (a)

9. U.S. Mid-Amateur champion

Tim Jackson (a)

10. Top 16 players and ties from the 2001 Masters

Paul Azinger (11,14,16,17), Ángel Cabrera (11,16,17), Mark Calcavecchia (12,14,16,17), Chris DiMarco (14,15,16,17), Brad Faxon (14,15,16,17), Jim Furyk (14,16,17), Toshimitsu Izawa (16,17), Miguel Ángel Jiménez (13), Rocco Mediate (11,14,16,17), Phil Mickelson (11,12,14,16,17), Steve Stricker (14,16), Kirk Triplett (11,14,16,17)

11. Top eight players and ties from the 2001 U.S. Open

Mark Brooks, Stewart Cink (14,16,17), Tom Kite

12. Top four players and ties from 2001 PGA Championship

Shingo Katayama (16,17), Steve Lowery (14,16)

13. Top four players and ties from the 2001 Open Championship

Darren Clarke (16,17), Niclas Fasth (16,17), Billy Mayfair (14)

14. Top 40 players from the 2001 PGA Tour money list

Robert Allenby (16,17), Billy Andrade, José Cóceres (16,17), Joe Durant (16,17), Bob Estes (16,17), Sergio García (16,17), Scott Hoch (16,17), Jerry Kelly (17), Tom Lehman (16,17), Frank Lickliter (16), Shigeki Maruyama, Scott McCarron (17), Jesper Parnevik (16,17), Tom Pernice Jr., Kenny Perry (16,17), Jeff Sluman, Kevin Sutherland (15,17), Scott Verplank (16,17), Mike Weir (16,17)

15. Top 3 players from the 2002 PGA Tour money list on March 10

16. Top 50 players from the final 2001 world ranking

Stuart Appleby, Thomas Bjørn (17), Michael Campbell (17), Pádraig Harrington (17), Charles Howell III (17), Paul McGinley (17), Colin Montgomerie (17), Nick Price (17), Adam Scott, Toru Taniguchi, Lee Westwood (17)

17. Top 50 players from world ranking published March 10

John Daly, Matt Kuchar, Rory Sabbatini

18. Special foreign invitation

Greg Norman

All the amateurs except Tim Jackson were playing in their first Masters, as were Niclas Fasth, Charles Howell III, Jerry Kelly, Paul McGinley, Craig Perks, Adam Scott, Kevin Sutherland, and Toru Taniguchi.

Round summaries

First round

Thursday, April 11, 2002

Davis Love III, the 1997 PGA Championship winner, rolled out to the first round lead with a five-under 67. Sergio García who had little success prior to this year at the Masters, shot a four-under 68 to place him in a tie for second with Ángel Cabrera. 2001 U.S. Open champion, Retief Goosen, shot a three-under 69 to place him in a tie with Phil Mickelson and Pádraig Harrington for fourth. There was a massive eleven-way tie at -2 for seventh after the first round. Most notably in this group was two-time and defending Masters champion, Tiger Woods. This group saw two other Masters champions in Vijay Singh and José María Olazábal. Four others were in red figures at -1 with Greg Norman headlining that group.

Place	Player	Score	To par
1	Davis Love III	67	−5
T2	Ángel Cabrera	68	−4
T2	Sergio García	68	−4
T4	Retief Goosen	69	−3
	Pádraig Harrington
	Phil Mickelson
T7	Darren Clarke	70	−2
	Chris DiMarco
	Ernie Els
	Miguel Ángel Jiménez
	Justin Leonard
	José María Olazábal
	Jesper Parnevik
	Nick Price
	Vijay Singh
	Scott Verplank
	Tiger Woods

Second round

Friday, April 12, 2002
Saturday, April 13, 2002

Vijay Singh, the 2000 champion, headlined the second round with a dominant, seven-under 65 to bolt up to the top of the leaderboard at −9. The Fijian was not the only impressive player on the day, as four players shot five-under 67s, including Retief Goosen who moved into second at −8 and Ernie Els who moved into third at −7. Three-time Masters champion, Nick Faldo, also was among those who posted a 67. Tiger Woods headlined the five players tied for fourth at −5. Woods shot a three-under 69 to place him four strokes off the lead heading to the weekend. Also in this group was two-time champion José María Olazábal. Phil Mickelson was among the four players tied for ninth at −3. Because of the good deal of low scoring, the cut was set at +3, and Jim Furyk and David Duval headlined the list of notables to fail to make the weekend. Second round play was suspended due to weather and 38 golfers had to complete it Saturday morning.

Place	Player	Score	To par
1	Vijay Singh	70-65=135	−9
2	Retief Goosen	69-67=136	−8
3	Ernie Els	70-67=137	−7
T4	Ángel Cabrera	68-71=139	−5
	Sergio García	68-71=139
	Pádraig Harrington	69-70=139
	José María Olazábal	70-69=139
	Tiger Woods	70-69=139
T9	Thomas Bjørn	74-67=141	−3
	Chris DiMarco	70=71=141
	Miguel Ángel Jiménez	70-71=141
	Phil Mickelson	69-72=141

Amateurs: Hoey (+4), Dickerson (+6), Hamilton (+10), Jackson (+10), Reavie (+16).

Third round

Saturday, April 13, 2002

The defending champion, Tiger Woods, charged to a tie for the lead with a six-under 66 to move to -11. Woods, looking for his seventh major championship, was 6-0 going into the final round of a major championship with at least a share of the lead. South African Retief Goosen shot a three-under 69 to move from second place at the beginning of the day to a tie with Woods for the 54-hole lead. Vijay Singh shot a disappointing par 72 after his 65 in the second round to remain at -9 and in third place all by himself. Phil Mickelson charged up the leaderboard with a four-under 68 into a tie for fourth with Ernie Els and Sergio García. José María Olazábal shot a one-under 71 to move to -6 and sole ownership of seventh place. Two Europeans (Pádraig Harrington, Thomas Bjørn) sat six shots behind the lead in a tie for eighth at -5. Because the second round had to be completed Saturday morning, third round play began with golfers teeing off from the 1st and 10th holes to ensure the round would be completed by night fall.

Place	Player	Score	To par
T1	Retief Goosen	69-67-69=205	−11
T1	Tiger Woods	70-69-66=205	−11
3	Vijay Singh	70-65-72=207	−9
T4	Ernie Els	70-67-72=209	−7
	Sergio García	68-71-70=209
	Phil Mickelson	69-72-68=209
7	José María Olazábal	70-69-71=210	−6
T8	Thomas Bjørn	74-67-70=211	−5
T8	Pádraig Harrington	69-70-72=211	−5
10	Ángel Cabrera	68-71-73=212	−4

Final round

Sunday, April 14, 2002

Summary

External videos
Full final round coverage on CBS on YouTube

For the first time since Nick Faldo in 1990, a defending Masters champion successfully defended his title. Tiger Woods captured his third green jacket and seventh overall major championship with a one-under 71 to complete his tournament at -12. This was only the third time in Masters history that a player won back-to-back titles (Jack Nicklaus 1965–66, Faldo 1989–90). Woods set yet another Masters record for the best score by a golfer defending his championship.

Woods was not threatened during the final round as his 54-hole co-leader, Retief Goosen, shot a two-over 74 to fall to -9 and a second-place finish. Phil Mickelson, José María Olazábal, and Pádraig Harrington all shot one-under 71s to finish third, fourth, and tied for fifth respectively. Ernie Els and Vijay Singh spoiled great first and second rounds with scores over par in the final round. Els shot a one-over 73 to tie for fifth, and Singh shot a four-over 76 to finish in seventh. Sergio García had his best Masters finish in eighth place at -4. Overall, the scoring was much more difficult during the final round than it was in the other three rounds. The only score below 70 was by Shigeki Maruyama, who shot a five-under 67 to finish -1 for the tournament and a tie for 14th place.

Final leaderboard

Champion
(a) = amateur
(c) = past champion

*Top 10*
Place	Player	Score	To par	Money (US$)
1	Tiger Woods (c)	70-69-66-71=276	−12	1,008,000
2	Retief Goosen	69-67-69-74=279	−9	604,800
3	Phil Mickelson	69-72-68-71=280	−8	380,800
4	José María Olazábal (c)	70-69-71-71=281	−7	268,800
T5	Ernie Els	70-67-72-73=282	−6	212,800
T5	Pádraig Harrington	69-70-72-71=282	−6	212,800
7	Vijay Singh (c)	70-65-72-76=283	−5	187,600
8	Sergio García	68-71-70-75=284	−4	173,600
T9	Ángel Cabrera	68-71-73-73=285	−3	151,200
	Miguel Ángel Jiménez	70-71-74-70=285
	Adam Scott	71-72-72-70=285

Leaderboard below the top 10
Place	Player	Score	To par	Money ($)
T12	Chris DiMarco	70-71-72-73=286	−2	123,200
T12	Brad Faxon	71-75-69-71=286	−2	123,200
T14	Nick Faldo (c)	75-67-73-72=287	−1	98,000
	Davis Love III	67-75-74-71=287
	Shigeki Maruyama	75-72-73-67=287
	Colin Montgomerie	75-71-70-71=287
T18	Thomas Bjørn	74-67-70-77=288	E	81,200
T18	Paul McGinley	72-74-71-71=288	E	81,200
T20	Darren Clarke	70-74-73-72=289	+1	65,240
	Jerry Kelly	72-74-71-72=289
	Justin Leonard	70-75-74-70=289
	Nick Price	70-76-70-73=289
T24	Mark Brooks	74-72-71-73=290	+2	46,480
	Stewart Cink	74-70-72-74=290
	Tom Pernice Jr.	74-72-71-73=290
	Jeff Sluman	73-72-71-74=290
	Mike Weir	72-71-71-76=290
T29	Robert Allenby	73-70-76-72=291	+3	38,080
	Charles Howell III	74-73-71-73=291
	Jesper Parnevik	70-72-77-72=291
T32	John Daly	74-73-70-75=292	+4	32,410
	Bernhard Langer (c)	73-72-73-74=292
	Billy Mayfair	74-71-72-75=292
	Craig Stadler (c)	73-72-76-71=292
T36	Fred Couples (c)	73-73-76-72=294	+6	26,950
	Rocco Mediate	75-68-77-74=294
	Greg Norman	71-76-72-75=294
	David Toms	73-74-76-71=294
T40	Steve Lowery	75-71-76-73=295	+7	22,960
	Kirk Triplett	74-70-74-77=295
	Tom Watson (c)	71-76-76-72=295
43	Scott Verplank	70-75-76-75=296	+8	20,720
44	Lee Westwood	75-72-74-76=297	+9	19,600
45	Bob Estes	73-72-75-78=298	+10	18,480
CUT	Paul Azinger	75-73=148	+4
	Michael Campbell	74-74=148
	Joe Durant	74-74=148
	David Duval	74-74=148
	Michael Hoey (a)	75-73=148
	Tom Lehman	76-72=148
	Scott McCarron	75-73=148
	Larry Mize (c)	74-74=148
	Rory Sabbatini	73-75=148
	Kevin Sutherland	78-70=148
	Mark Calcavecchia	79-70=149	+5
	Toshimitsu Izawa	73-76=149
	Lee Janzen	74-75=149
	Paul Lawrie	75-74=149
	Mark O'Meara (c)	78-71=149
	Billy Andrade	75-75=150	+6
	Bubba Dickerson (a)	79-71=150
	Jim Furyk	73-77=150
	Shingo Katayama	78-72=150
	Tom Kite	77-73=150
	Matt Kuchar	73-77=150
	Kenny Perry	76-74=150
	Toru Taniguchi	80-70=150
	Niclas Fasth	76-75=151	+7
	Scott Hoch	76-75=151
	Steve Stricker	75-76=151
	Craig Perks	81-71=152	+8
	Fuzzy Zoeller (c)	75-77=152	+8
	José Cóceres	74-79=153	+9
	Raymond Floyd (c)	79-74=153	+9
	Robert Hamilton (a)	77-77=154	+10
	Tim Jackson (a)	76-78=154
	Sandy Lyle (c)	73-81=154
	Ian Woosnam (c)	77-78=155	+11
	Seve Ballesteros (c)	75-81=156	+12
	Tommy Aaron (c)	79-78=157	+13
	Ben Crenshaw (c)	81-77=158	+14
	Gary Player (c)	80-78=158	+14
	Stuart Appleby	80-79=159	+15
	Chez Reavie (a)	74-86=160	+16
	Charles Coody (c)	82-84=166	+22
	Arnold Palmer (c)	89-85=174	+30
WD	Frank Lickliter	73	+1

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
Woods	−11	−12	−13	−13	−12	−13	−13	−13	−13	−13	−12	−12	−12	−12	−13	−13	−12	−12
Goosen	−10	−10	−10	−9	−9	−9	−9	−8	−8	−8	−7	−7	−7	−7	−8	−9	−9	−9
Mickelson	−8	−9	−8	−7	−7	−8	−7	−7	−7	−7	−7	−7	−7	−7	−8	−8	−8	−8
Olazábal	−5	−6	−6	−6	−6	−5	−5	−5	−5	−5	−5	−5	−6	−6	−7	−7	−7	−7
Els	−8	−9	−9	−9	−9	−9	−9	−10	−9	−9	−9	−9	−6	−6	−6	−6	−6	−6
Harrington	−5	−5	−5	−5	−4	−4	−5	−5	−5	−4	−4	−3	−4	−4	−5	−5	−6	−6
Singh	−9	−9	−10	−10	−10	−10	−10	−9	−10	−10	−9	−9	−9	−8	−4	−5	−5	−5
Garcia	−6	−6	−7	−6	−7	−6	−6	−6	−6	−6	−5	−5	−5	−5	−5	−5	−5	−4

Cumulative tournament scores, relative to par

	Birdie		Bogey		Double bogey		Triple bogey+

Cumulative tournament scores, relative to par
Source:^[7]

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