1970 Masters Tournament

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Billy Casper defeated Gene Littler 69 to 74 in an 18-hole playoff on Monday to win his third major championship. It was the last 18-hole playoff at the Masters; the format was changed to sudden-death in 1976 and first used in 1979.[1] To get into the playoff, Casper scored a final round of 71 (−1), while Littler shot a 70 to tie at 279 (−9).[2]

Jack Nicklaus shot 69-69 on the weekend, but was hampered by a second round 75 and finished in 8th place. It was the final Masters tournament as a player for 1938 champion Henry Picard, who withdrew without finishing the first round.[3] Three-time Masters champion Sam Snead finished in a tie for 23rd place at the age of 57. It was the Masters debut of two-time champion Tom Watson, then a 20-year-old amateur from Stanford who shot 77-76 and missed the cut by three strokes.[4]

Harold Henning won the eleventh Par 3 contest on Wednesday with a score of 21.

Dick Schaap's The Masters: The Winning of a Golf Classic covered in detail the 1970 tournament.[5]

Field

1. Masters champions

George Archer (8,9), Gay Brewer, Jack Burke Jr. (8), Doug Ford, Bob Goalby, Ralph Guldahl, Herman Keiser, Cary Middlecoff, Jack Nicklaus (2,3,8,11), Arnold Palmer (9), Henry Picard, Gary Player (2.3,10), Gene Sarazen, Sam Snead, Art Wall Jr.

The following categories only apply to Americans
2. U.S. Open champions (last five years)

Billy Casper (8,11), Orville Moody (9,10)

3. The Open champions (last five years)
4. PGA champions (last five years)

Julius Boros (9), Raymond Floyd (9,10,11), Al Geiberger (8,9), Don January (8), Dave Marr (9)

5. The first eight finishers in the 1969 U.S. Amateur

Charles Coe (a), Vinny Giles (7,a), John Farquhar (a), Steve Melnyk (6,7,a), Allen Miller (7,a), Ed Updegraff (7,a), Tom Watson (a), Bob Zender (a)[6][7]

6. Previous two U.S. Amateur and Amateur champions
7. Members of the 1969 U.S. Walker Cup team

John Bohmann (a), Bill Hyndman (a), Joe Inman (a), Dick Siderowf (a), Lanny Wadkins (a)

8. Top 24 players and ties from the 1969 Masters Tournament

Tommy Aaron (11), Miller Barber (9,10,11), Frank Beard (11), Deane Beman (9), Charles Coody (9,10), Dale Douglass (9,11), Lionel Hebert, Dave Hill (9,11), Gene Littler (11), Mason Rudolph, Dan Sikes (11), Dave Stockton, Tom Weiskopf, Bert Yancey

9. Top 16 players and ties from the 1969 U.S. Open

Bunky Henry, Howie Johnson, Bob Murphy, Dean Refram, Phil Rodgers, Bob Rosburg, Kermit Zarley

10. Top eight players and ties from 1969 PGA Championship

Bert Greene, Terry Wilcox, Jimmy Wright, Larry Ziegler

11. Members of the U.S. 1969 Ryder Cup team

Ken Still

12. One player, either amateur or professional, not already qualified, selected by a ballot of ex-Masters champions.[8]

Bob Lunn

13. Leading six players, not already qualified, from a points list based on finishes in PGA Tour events since the previous Masters[8]

Homero Blancas, Larry Hinson, Grier Jones, Dick Lotz, Chi-Chi Rodríguez, R. H. Sikes

14. Foreign invitations

Maurice Bembridge, Roberto Bernardini, Michael Bonallack (6,a), Peter Butler, Bob Charles, Bruce Crampton (8,9), Roberto De Vicenzo (3), Bruce Devlin (8,9), Bernard Gallacher, Harold Henning (8), Hsieh Yung-yo, Tony Jacklin (3), George Knudson (8), Takaaki Kono (8), Sukree Onsham

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

Round summaries

First round

Thursday, April 9, 1970

Place Player Score To par
1 Template:Flagicon Tommy Aaron 68 −4
T2 Template:Flagicon Gene Littler 69 −3
Template:Flagicon Bert Yancey
T4 Template:Flagicon Charles Coody 70 −2
Template:Flagicon Bob Lunn
Template:Flagicon Chi-Chi Rodríguez
Template:Flagicon Dan Sikes
Template:Flagicon R. H. Sikes
T9 Template:Flagicon Frank Beard 71 −1
Template:Flagicon Jack Nicklaus

Source:[9]

Second round

Friday, April 10, 1970

Place Player Score To par
T1 Template:Flagicon Gene Littler 69-70=139 −5
Template:Flagicon Bert Yancey 69-70=139
T3 Template:Flagicon Billy Casper 72-68=140 −4
Template:Flagicon Bob Lunn 70-70=140
T5 Template:Flagicon Tommy Aaron 68-74=142 −2
Template:Flagicon Gary Player 74-68=142
T7 Template:Flagicon Dave Hill 73-70=143 −1
Template:Flagicon Takaaki Kono 75-68=143
T9 Template:Flagicon Charles Coody 70-74=144 E
Template:Flagicon Larry Hinson 72-72=144
Template:Flagicon Dave Stockton 72-72=144

Source:[10]

Third round

Saturday, April 11, 1970

Place Player Score To par
1 Template:Flagicon Billy Casper 72-68-68=208 −8
2 Template:Flagicon Gene Littler 69-70-70=209 −7
3 Template:Flagicon Gary Player 74-68-68=210 −6
T4 Template:Flagicon Tommy Aaron 68-74-69=211 −5
Template:Flagicon Charles Coody 70-74-67=211
Template:Flagicon Bert Yancey 69-70-72=211
T7 Template:Flagicon Dave Hill 73-70-70=213 −3
Template:Flagicon Dave Stockton 72-72-69=213
9 Template:Flagicon Takaaki Kono 75-68-71=214 −2
T10 Template:Flagicon Frank Beard 71-76-68=215 −1
Template:Flagicon Larry Hinson 72-72-71=215
Template:Flagicon Bob Lunn 70-70-75=215
Template:Flagicon Jack Nicklaus 71-75-69=215

Source:[11]

Final round

Sunday, April 12, 1970

Final leaderboard

Champion
Silver Cup winner (low amateur)
(a) = amateur
(c) = past champion
Top 10
Place Player Score To par Money (US$)
T1 Template:Flagicon Billy Casper 72-68-68-71=279 −9 Playoff
Template:Flagicon Gene Littler 69-70-70-70=279
3 Template:Flagicon Gary Player (c) 74-68-68-70=280 −8 14,000
4 Template:Flagicon Bert Yancey 69-70-72-70=281 −7 10,000
T5 Template:Flagicon Tommy Aaron 68-74-69-72=283 −5 6,667
Template:Flagicon Dave Hill 73-70-70-70=283
Template:Flagicon Dave Stockton 72-72-69-70=283
8 Template:Flagicon Jack Nicklaus (c) 71-75-69-69=284 −4 4,500
9 Template:Flagicon Frank Beard 71-76-68-70=285 −3 4,000
T10 Template:Flagicon Bob Lunn 70-70-75-72=287 −1 3,500
Template:Flagicon Chi-Chi Rodríguez 70-76-73-68=287

Sources:[12][13]

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
Template:Flagicon Casper −8 −8 −8 −9 −9 −9 −9 −7 −8 −8 −7 −7 −8 −8 −9 −9 −9 −9
Template:Flagicon Littler −7 −7 −7 −7 −8 −8 −8 −9 −8 −8 −8 −8 −9 −9 −10 −9 −9 −9
Template:Flagicon Player −6 −6 −6 −7 −6 −6 −6 −6 −7 −7 −7 −8 −9 −8 −8 −9 −9 −8
Template:Flagicon Yancey −5 −6 −7 −7 −8 −8 −8 −8 −8 −8 −8 −8 −8 −8 −8 −8 −8 −7

Cumulative tournament scores, relative to par

Birdie Bogey Double bogey

Playoff

Monday, April 13, 1970

Place Player Score To par Money ($)
1 Template:Flagicon Billy Casper 69 −3 25,000
2 Template:Flagicon Gene Littler 74 +2 17,500

Source:[14]

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
Template:Flagicon Casper −1 −1 −2 −2 −2 −2 −3 −3 −3 −2 −3 −2 −2 −1 −1 −2 −3 −3
Template:Flagicon Littler E +1 +1 +2 +2 +2 +2 +2 +2 +4 +4 +4 +3 +3 +2 +2 +3 +2

Source:[15]

References

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