2023 Masters Tournament

The 2023 Masters Tournament is the 87th edition of the Masters Tournament and the first of the men's four major golf championships held in 2023. It is being played from April 6–9 at Augusta National Golf Club in Augusta, Georgia.

"2023 Masters" redirects here. For the snooker tournament, see 2023 Masters (snooker). For the darts tournament, see 2023 Masters (darts).

2023 Masters Tournament
Front cover of the 2023 Masters Journal
Tournament information
DatesApril 6–9, 2023
LocationAugusta, Georgia, U.S.
33.503°N 82.020°W / 33.503; -82.020
Course(s)Augusta National Golf Club
Tour(s)
Statistics
Par72
Length7,545 yards (6,899 m)
Field87 players
Location Map
Augusta National is located in the United States
Augusta National
Augusta National
Location in the United States
Augusta National is located in Georgia
Augusta National
Augusta National
Location in Georgia

Course
Main article: Augusta National Golf Club

The scorecard below is for the 2023 Tournament. Pictures from Eureka Earth had earlier shown a new, longer tee box on the Par 5 13th Azalea,[1] but the decision to lengthen the hole was not confirmed until the Club released its annual media guide in early February.

HoleNameYardsParHoleNameYardsPar
1Tea Olive445410Camellia4954
2Pink Dogwood575511White Dogwood5204
3Flowering Peach350412Golden Bell1553
4Flowering Crab Apple240313Azalea5455
5Magnolia495414Chinese Fir4404
6Juniper180315Firethorn5505
7Pampas450416Redbud1703
8Yellow Jasmine570517Nandina4404
9Carolina Cherry460418Holly4654
Out3,76536In3,78036
Source:[2]Total7,54572

Field

Participation in the Masters Tournament is by invitation only,[3] and the tournament has the smallest field of the major championships.[4] There are a number of criteria by which invitations are awarded, including all past winners, recent major champions, leading finishers in the previous year's majors, leading players on the PGA Tour in the previous season, winners of full-point tournaments on the PGA Tour during the previous 12 months, leading players in the Official World Golf Ranking, and some leading amateurs.[5]

Criteria

Throughout much of 2022, there had been discussion in the media about whether there would be changes to any of the major championship's exemption and qualification criteria following the launch of LIV Golf, and the subsequent response of the PGA Tour to suspend participants in the new series. On December 20, 2022, Augusta National announced that existing criteria for the Masters Tournament would remain unaltered and qualifying LIV players would be invited.[6] This list details the qualification criteria for the 2023 Masters Tournament and the players who have qualified under them; any additional criteria under which players qualified are indicated in parentheses.[5][7]

1. All past winners of the Masters Tournament

2. Recent winners of the U.S. Open (2018–2022)

3. Recent winners of The Open Championship (2018–2022)

4. Recent winners of the PGA Championship (2018–2022)

5. Recent winners of The Players Championship (2021–2023)

6. The winner of the gold medal at the Olympic Games[lower-alpha 1]

7. The winner and runner-up in the 2022 U.S. Amateur Championship

8. The winner of the 2022 Amateur Championship

  • Aldrich Potgieter (a)

9. The winner of the 2022 Asia-Pacific Amateur Championship

  • Harrison Crowe (a)

10. The winner of the 2023 Latin America Amateur Championship

  • Mateo Fernández de Oliveira (a)

11. The winner of the 2022 U.S. Mid-Amateur Golf Championship

  • Matthew McClean (a)

12. The leading 12 players, and those tying for 12th place, from the 2022 Masters Tournament

13. The leading four players, and those tying for fourth place, in the 2022 U.S. Open

14. The leading four players, and those tying for fourth place, in the 2022 Open Championship

15. The leading four players, and those tying for fourth place, in the 2022 PGA Championship

16. Winners of tournaments on the PGA Tour between the 2022 Masters Tournament and the 2023 Masters Tournament[lower-alpha 3]

17. All players who qualified for the 2022 Tour Championship

18. The leading 50 players on the Official World Golf Ranking as of December 31, 2022

19. The leading 50 players on the Official World Golf Ranking as of March 27, 2023

20. Special invitations

Par 3 Contest

Wednesday, April 5

Tom Hoge won the Par 3 Contest with a score of 21 (−6). Five holes-in-one were recorded, including one by Hoge on the eighth hole. Séamus Power recorded an ace on consecutive holes to finish his round, becoming the fourth player in the event's history with two holes-in-one in the same year.[10] Bubba Watson and defending champion Scottie Scheffler also made holes-in-one.[11]


Round summaries

First round

Thursday, April 6, 2023

Viktor Hovland, Brooks Koepka, and Jon Rahm shot rounds of 65 (–7) to take the first-round lead. Rahm began his round by four-putting for double bogey on the first hole, then went nine-under over the rest of his round including an eagle on the par-5 eighth hole and a closing birdie on the 18th. Hovland eagled the second hole from 25 feet and made a 37-foot birdie putt on the 11th as part of his bogey-free round. Koepka was five-under through 12 holes before a bogey at the par-5 13th after he hit his tee shot into the left trees, but he birdied three of his last four holes to tie for the lead.[12][13][14]

Cameron Young birdied his first three holes and shot 67 (–5) to join Jason Day in a tie for fourth place, two shots behind the leaders.[15]

Amateur Sam Bennett birdied his first hole, then made eagle on the second before closing with 12 straight pars on his way to a four-under round of 68. Bennett became the first amateur to be inside the top 10 after the first round since Ryan Moore in 2005. He was part of a seven-way tie for sixth place along with defending champion Scottie Scheffler, who also eagled the second hole and made only one bogey on his round.[16][17]

Fred Couples, the 1992 champion, shot 71 (–1) at the age of 63, as did 2020 champion Dustin Johnson and three-time champion Phil Mickelson. Rory McIlroy made five birdies but also three bogeys and a double-bogey on the seventh hole to finish at even-par 72. Tiger Woods bogeyed three of his first seven holes and was three-over on his round before birdies on the 15th and 16th got him back to one-over; he then made another bogey on the 18th to fall back to two-over after a round of 74, finishing in a tie for 54th place.[18][19]

PlacePlayerScoreTo par
T1Norway Viktor Hovland65–7
United States Brooks Koepka
Spain Jon Rahm
T4Australia Jason Day67–5
United States Cameron Young
T6United States Sam Bennett (a)68–4
United States Sam Burns
Republic of Ireland Shane Lowry
United States Xander Schauffele
United States Scottie Scheffler
Australia Adam Scott
United States Gary Woodland

Notes
  1. Players qualifying under this category are only eligible for the Masters Tournament following the Olympic Games.
  2. Zalatoris withdrew prior to his start time on Thursday due to injury.[8]
  3. Events must carry full-point allocation towards the FedEx Cup.

References
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