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1972 Masters Tournament
The 1972 Masters Tournament was the 36th Masters Tournament, held April 6–9 at Augusta National Golf Club in Augusta, Georgia.

Jack Nicklaus opened with a 68 and led wire-to-wire to win the fourth of his six Masters titles, three strokes ahead of three runners-up. It was the tenth of 18 major titles as a professional for Nicklaus, who also won the U.S. Open in 1972 and was the runner-up at the Open Championship in Scotland, one stroke behind Lee Trevino.

It was the first Masters played without founder Bobby Jones, who died in December 1971 at age 69. This Masters was also the debut of twenty-year-old Ben Crenshaw of the University of Texas, a future two-time champion who was low amateur at 295 (T19).

Banned from the last five Masters, commentator Jack Whitaker returned to the CBS telecast in 1972. At the end of the 18-hole Monday playoff in 1966, he had referred to the portion of the gallery trailing the players as a "mob."

Nicklaus became the third wire-to-wire winner in Masters history, following Craig Wood in 1941 and Arnold Palmer in 1960. Through 2016, there have been five; the next were Raymond Floyd in 1976 and Jordan Spieth in 2015.

Field

1. Masters champions

George Archer (9,11), Billy Casper (8,10,11,12), Charles Coody (8,12), Doug Ford, Bob Goalby (11), Ralph Guldahl, Herman Keiser, Jack Nicklaus (2,3,4,8,9,10,11,12), Arnold Palmer (8,11,12), Gary Player (3,8,10,11), Gene Sarazen, Sam Snead, Art Wall Jr.

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

Orville Moody (8), Lee Trevino (3,9,11,12)

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

Julius Boros, Raymond Floyd (8,9), Don January (8), Dave Stockton (8,11,12)

5. The first eight finishers in the 1971 U.S. Amateur

Rick Bendall (a), Ben Crenshaw (a), Tom Culligan (a), Vinny Giles (7,a), Jim McLean (a), Eddie Pearce (a), Marty West (a)

6. Previous two U.S. Amateur and Amateur champions
  • Steve Melnyk (7,8) and Lanny Wadkins (7,9) forfeited their exemptions by turning professional but qualified in other categories.
7. Members of the 1971 U.S. Walker Cup team

William C. Campbell (a), John Farquhar (a), Jim Gabrielsen (a), Bill Hyndman (a), Tom Kite (a), Jim Simons (9,a)

  • Allen Miller forfeited his exemption by turning professional.
8. Top 24 players and ties from the 1971 Masters Tournament

Tommy Aaron, Frank Beard (11,12), Dave Eichelberger (11), Al Geiberger, Bert Greene, Hale Irwin (11), Dick Lotz, Steve Melnyk, Johnny Miller (9,11), Bobby Mitchell (11), Bob Murphy, Ken Still, Tom Weiskopf (11)

  • Gene Littler (11,12) had been diagnosed with cancer and did not play.
9. Top 16 players and ties from the 1971 U.S. Open

Jim Colbert, Jerry Heard (11), Larry Hinson, Jerry McGee, Bobby Nichols, Chi-Chi Rodríguez, Bob Rosburg (11), Lanny Wadkins, Bert Yancey

10. Top eight players and ties from 1971 PGA Championship

Miller Barber (11,12), Tommy Bolt, Gibby Gilbert, Dave Hill, Jim Jamieson

11. Winners of PGA Tour events since the previous Masters

Homero Blancas, Gardner Dickinson (12), Hubert Green, Paul Harney, Labron Harris Jr., Grier Jones, DeWitt Weaver

12. Members of the U.S. 1971 Ryder Cup team

Mason Rudolph, J. C. Snead

13. Foreign invitations

Harry Bannerman, Brian Barnes, Bob Charles (9), Bobby Cole (9), Gary Cowan (5,6,a), Bruce Crampton (8,11), Roberto De Vicenzo (3,8), Bruce Devlin (8), David Graham, Hsieh Yung-yo, Tony Jacklin (2,3,11), Takaaki Kono, Lu Liang-Huan, Peter Oosterhuis, Masashi Ozaki, Ramón Sota

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

Round summaries

First round

Thursday, April 6, 1972

Place Player Score To par
1 United States Jack Nicklaus 68 −4
2 United States Sam Snead 69 −3
3 United States Arnold Palmer 70 −2
T4 United States Paul Harney 71 −1
United States Jim Simons (a)
T6 United States Frank Beard 72 E
New Zealand Bob Charles
Australia Bruce Crampton
United States Gibby Gilbert
England Tony Jacklin
United States Jim Jamieson
United States Steve Melnyk
United States Bobby Nichols
United States Lanny Wadkins
United States Bert Yancey

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Second round

Friday, April 7, 1972

Place Player Score To par
1 United States Jack Nicklaus 68-71=139 −5
2 United States Paul Harney 71-69=140 −4
3 United States Bert Yancey 72-69=141 −3
4 United States Jim Jamieson 72-70=142 −2
T5 United States Charles Coody 73-70=143 −1
United States Bobby Nichols 72-71=143
T7 Argentina Roberto De Vicenzo 75-69=144 E
United States Jerry Heard 73-71=144
United States Steve Melnyk 72-72=144
United States Sam Snead 69-75=144
United States Lanny Wadkins 72-72=144

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Third round

Saturday, April 8, 1972

Place Player Score To par
1 United States Jack Nicklaus 68-71-73=212 −4
2 United States Jim Jamieson 72-70-71=213 −3
T3 United States Paul Harney 71-69-75=215 −1
United States Tom Weiskopf 74-71-70=215
T5 United States Homero Blancas 76-71-69=216 E
Australia Bruce Crampton 72-75-69=216
United States Jerry Heard 73-71-72=216
United States Bobby Mitchell 73-72-71=216
T9 United States Charles Coody 73-70-74=217 +1
United States Bert Yancey 72-69-76=217

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Final round

Sunday, April 9, 1972

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 Jack Nicklaus (c) 68-71-73-74=286 −2 25,000
T2 Australia Bruce Crampton 72-75-69-73=289 +1 15,833
United States Bobby Mitchell 73-72-71-73=289
United States Tom Weiskopf 74-71-70-74=289
T5 United States Homero Blancas 76-71-69-74=290 +2 6,200
Australia Bruce Devlin 74-75-70-71=290
United States Jerry Heard 73-71-72-74=290
United States Jim Jamieson 72-70-71-77=290
United States Jerry McGee 73-74-71-72=290
T10 South Africa Gary Player (c) 73-75-72-71=291 +3 3,600
United States Dave Stockton 76-70-74-71=291

Sources:

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 Nicklaus −4 −5 −5 −5 −5 −5 −4 −5 −5 −5 −4 −4 −4 −3 −2 −2 −2 −2
Australia Crampton −1 −1 E E E E +2 +2 +2 +2 +2 +1 +1 +1 +1 +1 +1 +1
United States Mitchell E E E E +1 +1 +2 +1 +1 +1 E +1 +1 +1 +1 +1 +1 +1
United States Weiskopf E E +1 +2 +2 +2 +1 +1 +1 +2 +3 +3 +3 +3 +2 +2 +1 +1
United States Blancas E E E +1 +1 +1 +1 +1 +1 +3 +3 +3 +2 +2 +1 +1 +2 +2
United States Heard −1 −1 E −1 E +1 +1 +2 +1 +1 +1 E +1 +1 +1 +2 +2 +2
United States Jamieson −2 −3 −2 −2 −1 −1 E E E E +1 +3 +2 +2 +1 +2 +1 +2
United States Harney E +1 +1 +2 +2 +2 +2 +2 +2 +1 +1 +1 +3 +4 +5 +7 +7 +8

Cumulative tournament scores, relative to par

Birdie Bogey Double bogey

References

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