MASTERS TOURNAMENT | NUMBERS GAME
Masters in Review Compiled by Alex Jenkins
4.48
The stroke average of Augusta National’s par4 11th hole during the tournament, making it the hardest of the week. The 11th gave up only 10 birdies in four days, while the field also recorded 17 double bogeys and three dreaded “others” at the 505-yarder.
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15 17
It has been this many years since a European player won the Masters. José María Olazábal was the last to taste success, in 1999. T hank s to his vic tor y, Bubba Watson is now one of this many players to have more than one Masters title to his credit. Jack Nicklaus
leads the way with six victories at Augusta, with Arnold Palmer and Tiger Woods ranked second with four titles apiece.
18
Australia’s John Senden had this many birdies over the four rounds, the most of any player in the field. Jimmy Walker and Miguel Angel Jiménez shared second place in this particular category with 17. Bubba Watson totalled 15.
21
Ryan Moore’s winning score at the Masters Par 3 Contest. Eleven players have managed to win the
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The age of Miguel Angel Jiménez, the reigning Hong Kong Open champion, who had dreams of becoming golf’s oldest major champion after starting the final round just two shots behind co-leaders Bubba Watson and Jordan Spieth. Jiménez would card a 71 on Sunday to finish in solo fourth. 55-year-old Bernhard Langer (tied eighth) and 54-yearold Fred Couples (tied 20th) rounded out a great week for senior players.
51
The number of players who made the half-way cut. Phil Mickelson, Luke Donald, Sergio Garcia, Ernie Els and last year’s runner-up, Angel Cabrera, were among the notable names to miss out on the weekend action.
73.61
Best ball-striking of the week honours went to Jordan Spieth, the joint runner-up, who found this percentage of greens in regulation, the highest of the field. Spieth, 20, was also accurate off the tee, finding over 70% of the fairways. Miguel Angel Jiménez was the king of this category – the Spaniard found the cut grass 85.71% of the time.
85
Was the highest score of the tournament – t wo -time c h a m p i o n B e n C r e n s h a w ’s second round of 13-over included a triple bogey at the first and three double bogeys. He has since announced that the 2015 edition of the event will be his last.
305.62
Was Bubba W a t s o n ’ s average driving
distance, in yards, during the week, making him the longest hitter at Augusta this year. Larry Mize, with 258.62 yards, was the shortest driver of those who made the cut.
1,620,000
Bubba Watson’s winning share, in US dollars, of the tournament’s US$9 million prize purse, which was US$180,000 more than Adam Scott received in 2013. Inaugural Masters Tournament winner Horton Smith received US$1,000 for his win in 1934.
Clockwise from top: Two-time champion Ben Crenshaw; the demanding 11th hole; Australia’s John Senden; the long-hitting Bubba Watson; 55-yearold Bernhard Langer; José María Olazábal, the last European winner; the par-5 13th yielded eight eagles
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The number of eagles made at the risk-reward 13th. This reachable par-5 played to an average of 4.70, ranking it the easiest on the course. But it still caused problems for many, including Rory McIlroy
who made two bogeys there – on Friday and Sunday. McIlroy played all four par-5s at Augusta in level par; Bubba Watson, by contrast, played them in eight under.
Par 3 and the Masters itself, although not a single one of them has managed to win both events in the same year.
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