1957 Masters Tournament

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The 1957 Masters Tournament was the 21st Masters Tournament, held April 4–7 at Augusta National Golf Club in Augusta, Georgia. This was the first Masters played with a 36-hole cut; 101 players started and forty made the cut at 150 (+6).

Doug Ford won his only Masters, three strokes ahead of runner-up Sam Snead, a three-time champion.[2] Snead was the third round leader, but could only shoot even-par in a round that included six birdies and six bogeys. Ford was three strokes back after 54 holes,[3] but was bogey-free on Sunday. On the final hole, Ford holed out from the bunker for birdie for his 66 (–6).[1][4] This was Ford's second and final major title; he also won the 1955 PGA Championship.

This year was the Masters debut of Gary Player, age 21, and he tied for 24th. He won three Masters, in 1961, 1974, and 1978. Five-time British Open winner Peter Thomson was fifth, his best career finish in the Masters. Amateur Harvie Ward was fourth at even-par 288, five strokes behind Ford.

Two-time champion Ben Hogan had finished in the top ten in the last fourteen Masters that he had entered, but had 32 putts on Friday and missed the event's first-ever cut by a stroke.[5][6] It was the only cut he missed at Augusta; in nine more Masters he had three top ten finishes, including his final appearance at age 54 in 1967.

Field

This was the last year when professionals were invited based solely on qualification in amateur events.

1. Masters champions

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

The following categories only apply to Americans
2. U.S. Open champions

Julius Boros (8,9), Billy Burke, Jack Fleck, Ed Furgol (8,9,10), Lawson Little (5), Tony Manero, Lloyd Mangrum (8), Fred McLeod, Sam Parks Jr., Lew Worsham

3. The Open champions

Jock Hutchison (4), Denny Shute (4)

4. PGA champions

Walter Burkemo (8), Doug Ford (8,9,11), Vic Ghezzi, Bob Hamilton, Chick Harbert (11), Chandler Harper (11), Johnny Revolta, Paul Runyan, Jim Turnesa (8)

5. U.S. Amateur and Amateur champions

Dick Chapman (a), Charles Coe (a), Joe Conrad (6), Gene Littler (8), Billy Maxwell (9), Arnold Palmer (8,9), Skee Riegel, Frank Stranahan (8), Sam Urzetta (8), Bud Ward, Harvie Ward (6,7,a)

6. Members of the 1955 U.S. Walker Cup team

William C. Campbell (a), Don Cherry (a), Bruce Cudd (a), Jimmy Jackson (a), Ed Meister (a), Dale Morey (a), Billy Joe Patton (8,9,a), Hillman Robbins (8,a), Dick Yost (a)

  • Robbins and Meister were reserves for the team.
7. 1956 U.S. Amateur quarter-finalists

Rex Baxter (a), Arnold Blum (a), Joe Campbell (a), Sarg Fontanini (a), Ted Gleichmann (a), Chuck Kocsis (a)

8. Top 24 players and ties from the 1956 Masters Tournament

Jerry Barber (9,11), Tommy Bolt (9,11), Pete Cooper (9), Dow Finsterwald, Shelley Mayfield, Al Mengert, Johnny Palmer, Bob Rosburg, Mike Souchak, Ken Venturi (9)

9. Top 24 players and ties from the 1956 U.S. Open

Errie Ball, Johnny Bulla, Billy Casper, Wes Ellis, Fred Haas, Dutch Harrison, Jay Hebert, Bob Kay, Ted Kroll (10,11), Bill Ogden, Bob Toski

10. 1956 PGA Championship quarter-finalists

Fred Hawkins, Bill Johnston, Terl Johnson, Henry Ransom

11. Members of the U.S. 1955 Ryder Cup team

Marty Furgol

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

Mike Fetchick

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

Dick Mayer

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

Bud Taylor (a)

15. Two players, not already qualified, from a points list based on finishes in the winter part of the 1957 PGA Tour

Gardner Dickinson, Art Wall Jr.

16. Winner of the 1956 Canadian Open

Doug Sanders

17. Foreign invitations

Al Balding, Henry Cotton (9), Bruce Crampton, Stan Leonard (8), Jerry Magee (7,a), Moe Norman, Gary Player, Peter Thomson (8), Harry Weetman, Trevor Wilkes

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

Round summaries

First round

Thursday, April 4, 1957

Place Player Score To par
1 United States Jack Burke Jr. 71 −1
T2 Australia Bruce Crampton 72 E
United States Jimmy Demaret
United States Doug Ford
Australia Peter Thomson
United States Sam Snead
T7 Canada Al Balding 73 +1
United States Jerry Barber
England Henry Cotton
United States Ed Furgol
United States Marty Furgol
United States Arnold Palmer
United States Skee Riegel
United States Bud Ward
United States Harvie Ward (a)

Source:[7]

Second round

Friday, April 5, 1957

Place Player Score To par
1 United States Sam Snead 72-68=140 −4
2 United States Jimmy Demaret 72-70=142 −2
3 United States Jack Burke Jr. 71-72=143 −1
T4 United States Ed Furgol 73-71=144 E
United States Harvie Ward (a) 73-71=144
T6 United States Doug Ford 72-73=145 +1
Australia Peter Thomson 72-73=145
T8 Canada Al Balding 73-73=146 +2
England Henry Cotton 73-73=146
United States Jay Hebert 74-72=146
United States Byron Nelson 74-72=146
United States Arnold Palmer 73-73=146

Source:[8][9]

Third round

Saturday, April 6, 1957

Place Player Score To par
1 United States Sam Snead 72-68-74=214 −2
T2 Canada Stan Leonard 75-72-68=215 −1
United States Arnold Palmer 73-73-69=215
United States Harvie Ward (a) 73-71-71=215
5 United States Ed Furgol 73-71-72=216 E
T6 United States Jack Burke Jr. 71-72-74=217 +1
United States Jimmy Demaret 72-70-75=217
United States Doug Ford 72-73-72=217
T9 England Henry Cotton 73-73-72=218 +2
Australia Peter Thomson 72-73-73=218

Source:

Final round

Sunday, April 7, 1957

Final leaderboard

Champion
Silver Cup winner (low amateur)
(a) = amateur
(c) = past champion
Top 10
Place Player Score To par Money (US$)
1 United States Doug Ford 72-73-72-66=283 −5 8,750
2 United States Sam Snead (c) 72-68-74-72=286 −2 4,375
3 United States Jimmy Demaret (c) 72-70-75-70=287 −1 2,625
4 United States Harvie Ward (a) 73-71-71-73=288 E 0
5 Australia Peter Thomson 72-73-73-71=289 +1 1,750
6 United States Ed Furgol 73-71-72-74=290 +2 1,313
T7 United States Jack Burke Jr. (c) 71-72-74-74=291 +3 1,138
United States Dow Finsterwald 74-74-73-70=291
United States Arnold Palmer 73-73-69-76=291
10 United States Jay Hebert 74-72-76-70=292 +4 1,006
Leaderboard below the top 10
Place Player Score To par Money ($)
T11 United States Marty Furgol 73-74-73-73=293 +5 941
Canada Stan Leonard 75-72-68-78=293
T13 England Henry Cotton 73-73-72-76=294 +6 853
United States Bud Taylor (a) 74-74-77-69=294 0
United States Ken Venturi 74-76-74-70=294 853
T16 Canada Al Balding 73-73-73-76=295 +7 779
United States Billy Casper 75-75-75-70=295
United States Mike Fetchick 74-73-72-76=295
United States Fred Hawkins 75-74-72-74=295
United States Byron Nelson (c) 74-72-73-76=295
T21 Australia Bruce Crampton 72-75-78-71=296 +8 729
United States Al Mengert 75-75-71-75=296
United States Henry Ransom 75-73-72-76=296
T24 United States Johnny Palmer 77-73-73-74=297 +9 700
South Africa Gary Player 77-72-75-73=297
T26 United States Jerry Barber 73-77-78-70=298 +10 500
United States Jack Fleck 76-74-75-73=298
T28 United States Bill Johnston 77-70-78-74=299 +11 300
United States Lawson Little 76-72-77-74=299
United States Lloyd Mangrum 77-71-74-77=299
T31 United States Skee Riegel 73-74-78-75=300 +12 300
United States Doug Sanders 76-72-75-77=300
United States Bud Ward 73-75-76-76=300
34 United States Rex Baxter (a) 79-71-73-78=301 +13 0
T35 United States Dick Mayer 80-70-75-77=302 +14 300
United States Henry Picard (c) 79-71-78-74=302
United States Sam Urzetta 74-73-78-77=302
T38 United States Don Cherry (a) 78-72-76-77=303 +15 0
United States Claude Harmon (c) 78-72-77-76=303 300
40 United States Hillman Robbins (a) 77-73-74-80=304 +16 0
CUT United States Tommy Bolt 74-77=151 +7
United States Bruce Cudd (a) 74-77=151
United States Ben Hogan (c) 76-75=151
United States Gene Littler 76-75=151
Canada Moe Norman 77-74=151
United States Bill Ogden 74-77=151
United States Bob Toski 78-73=151
United States Art Wall Jr. 79-72=151
South Africa Trevor Wilkes 75-76=151
United States Ted Gleichmann (a) 76-76=152 +8
United States Cary Middlecoff (c) 79-73=152
United States Bob Rosburg 76-76=152
United States Mike Souchak 78-74=152
United States Jim Turnesa 76-76=152
United States Errie Ball 75-78=153 +9
United States Arnold Blum (a) 79-74=153
United States Gardner Dickinson 77-76=153
United States Paul Runyan 74-79=153
United States Lew Worsham 77-76=153
United States Dick Yost (a) 74-79=153
United States Walter Burkemo 79-75=154 +10
United States Joe Conrad 78-76=154
United States Chick Harbert 79-75=154
United States Chuck Kocsis (a) 77-77=154
United States Denny Shute 75-79=154
United States Frank Stranahan 79-75=154
United States Pete Cooper 80-75=155 +11
United States Vic Ghezzi 79-76=155
United States Fred Haas 74-81=155
United States Shelley Mayfield 78-77=155
United States Ed Meister (a) 80-75=155
United States Gene Sarazen (c) 80-75=155
United States Dick Chapman (a) 79-77=156 +12
United States Dutch Harrison 75-81=156
United States Ted Kroll 79-77=156
Canada Jerry Magee (a) 77-79=156
England Harry Weetman 79-77=156
United States Joe Campbell (a) 78-79=157 +13
United States Wes Ellis 80-77=157
United States Terl Johnson 77-80=157
United States Sam Parks Jr. 81-76=157
United States Julius Boros 79-79=158 +14
United States William C. Campbell (a) 82-76=158
United States Chandler Harper 80-78=158
United States Herman Keiser (c) 80-78=158
United States Dale Morey (a) 80-78=158
United States Jimmy Jackson (a) 83-76=159 +15
United States Horton Smith (c) 77-82=159
United States Craig Wood (c) 82-77=159
United States Billy Joe Patton (a) 77-83=160 +16
United States Johnny Revolta 81-79=160
United States Johnny Bulla 80-82=162 +18
United States Tony Manero 78-84=162
United States Bob Kay 88-78=166 +22
United States Sarg Fontanini (a) 85-83=168 +24
WD United States Bob Hamilton 78 +6
United States Billy Maxwell 81 +9
United States Jock Hutchison 83 +11
United States Billy Burke 85 +13
United States Fred McLeod 88 +16
DQ United States Charles Coe (a) 86 +14

Sources:[10][11]

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
United States Ford E E E E E E E −1 −1 −1 −1 −2 −2 −3 −4 −4 −4 −5
United States Snead −1 −2 −2 −3 −3 −3 −4 −4 −3 −2 −1 −1 E +1 E −1 −1 −2
United States Demaret +1 +1 +1 +1 +1 E E E E +1 +1 +1 E E −1 −1 −1 −1
United States Ward −1 −1 E E E −1 −1 −1 E E +1 +2 +1 +1 +1 +1 +1 E
Australia Thomson +2 +2 +1 +2 +2 +2 +2 +1 +1 +1 +1 +1 E E E E +1 +1
United States Furgol −1 E E −1 +1 +2 +2 +1 +1 +1 +2 +3 +3 +3 +2 +2 +2 +2
United States Palmer −1 −2 −2 −2 −1 E E −1 E E E E E E E +3 +4 +3
Canada Leonard −1 −1 −1 −1 −1 −1 −1 E E +2 +3 +3 +5 +5 +5 +5 +5 +5

Cumulative tournament scores, relative to par

Birdie Bogey Double bogey Triple bogey+

Source:[12]

References

  1. ^ a b "Doug Ford's 283 captures Masters golf". Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Associated Press. April 8, 1957. p. 1.
  2. ^ Bartlett, Charles (April 8, 1957). "Ford takes Masters! Posts 66 for 283". Chicago Daily Tribune. p. 1, part 4.
  3. ^ Bartlett, Charles (April 7, 1957). "Snead's Masters lead cut to stroke". Chicago Sunday Tribune. p. 1, part 2.
  4. ^ "Two shots that won the Masters". Sports Illustrated. April 15, 1957. p. 16.
  5. ^ Grimsley, Will (April 6, 1957). "Stutter putter Ben's downfall". Spokesman-Review. (Spokane, Washington). Associated Press. p. 13.
  6. ^ "Snead takes Masters golf lead with 140". Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Associated Press. April 6, 1957. p. 12.
  7. ^ Bartlett, Charles (April 5, 1957). "Masters interrupted; Burke's 71 leads". Chicago Daily Tribune. p. 1, part 4.
  8. ^ Bartlett, Charles (April 6, 1957). "Snead's 140 leads Masters; Hogan out". Chicago Daily Tribune. p. 1, part 2.
  9. ^ "Masters golf scores". Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. April 6, 1957. p. 12.
  10. ^ "Masters – Past Winners & Results". Augusta National Inc. Retrieved April 20, 2021.
  11. ^ "Past results – Masters tournament". PGA Tour. Retrieved April 20, 2021.
  12. ^ "Leaders' cards". Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. April 8, 1957. p. 26.

External links

  • Masters.com – past winners and results
  • Augusta.com – 1957 Masters leaderboard and scorecards
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