1985 Masters Tournament

The 1985 Masters Tournament was the 49th Masters Tournament, held April 11–14 at Augusta National Golf Club in Augusta, Georgia.

Bernhard Langer won the first of his two major championships, both Masters, two strokes ahead of runners-up Seve Ballesteros, Raymond Floyd, and Curtis Strange. A 69 (−3) on Saturday put Floyd in the lead after 54 holes at 212 (−4); Strange was a stroke back, with Langer and Ballesteros two strokes back. Despite an opening round 80, Strange led by three strokes with six holes to play in the final round, but made key bogeys at 13 and 15 when his attempts to reach both greens in two shots found water instead and finished two strokes back. It was Strange's only top-5 finish at Augusta, but he won consecutive U.S. Opens in 1988 and 1989.

Langer, age 27 and dressed in red, birdied four of the last seven holes to win the green jacket. The second champion from Europe, he had consecutive rounds of 68 (−4) on the weekend to become the first winner of a major from Germany (then West Germany). Langer won a second green jacket eight years later in 1993.

Field
Tommy Aaron, George Archer (11,12), Seve Ballesteros (3,10,11), Gay Brewer, Billy Casper, Charles Coody, Ben Crenshaw (8,12,13), Raymond Floyd (4,8,13), Doug Ford, Bob Goalby, Jack Nicklaus (2,4,8,11,12), Arnold Palmer, Gary Player (8,10), Craig Stadler (11,12,13), Art Wall Jr., Tom Watson (2,3,8,9,11,12,13), Fuzzy Zoeller (2,9,11,13)
 * 1. Masters champions


 * Jack Burke Jr., Ralph Guldahl, Claude Harmon, Ben Hogan, Herman Keiser, Cary Middlecoff, Byron Nelson, Henry Picard, Gene Sarazen, and Sam Snead did not play.


 * The following categories only apply to Americans

Larry Nelson (4,8,11)
 * 2. U.S. Open champions (last five years)

Bill Rogers
 * 3. The Open champions (last five years)

Hal Sutton (9,10,12), Lee Trevino (9,10,12)
 * 4. PGA champions (last five years)

Jerry Haas (a), Sam Randolph (a), Randy Sonnier (7,a), Scott Verplank (6,7,a)
 * 5. 1984 U.S. Amateur semi-finalists

Jay Sigel (7,a)
 * 6. Previous two U.S. Amateur and Amateur champions

John Inman (a)
 * 7. Members of the 1984 U.S. Eisenhower Trophy team

Andy Bean (9,12), Ronnie Black (11), Rex Caldwell, Fred Couples (9,12), Danny Edwards, David Edwards (12), Jay Haas (9,13), Hale Irwin (9), Tom Kite (11,12,13), Wayne Levi (11,12), Mark Lye, Larry Mize (10), Gil Morgan (12,13), Calvin Peete (10,11,12,13), Jack Renner (12), Payne Stewart (12)
 * 8. Top 24 players and ties from the 1984 Masters Tournament

Lennie Clements, Peter Jacobsen (11,12), Mark McCumber (11), Johnny Miller, Mark O'Meara (11,12), Tom Purtzer, Tim Simpson, Curtis Strange (11,12,13), Jim Thorpe, Lanny Wadkins (10,11,12,13)
 * 9. Top 16 players and ties from the 1984 U.S. Open

Gary Hallberg (12), Scott Simpson (11,12)
 * 10. Top eight players and ties from 1984 PGA Championship

Woody Blackburn, Bob Eastwood (12), Hubert Green, Scott Hoch (12), Billy Kratzert, Corey Pavin (12), Joey Sindelar
 * 11. Winners of PGA Tour events since the previous Masters

Gary Koch, Bruce Lietzke, John Mahaffey
 * 12. Top 30 players from the 1984 PGA Tour money list

Bob Gilder
 * 13. Members of the U.S. 1983 Ryder Cup team

Isao Aoki (9), Ian Baker-Finch, Nick Faldo (8,11), David Graham (2,8), Bernhard Langer, Sandy Lyle, Tsuneyuki Nakajima, Greg Norman (9,11,12), José María Olazábal (6,a), Sam Torrance, Denis Watson (11,12)
 * 14. Foreign invitations


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

First round
Thursday, April 11, 1985 Source:

Second round
Friday, April 12, 1985 Source:

Third round
Saturday, April 13, 1985 Source:

Final round
Sunday, April 14, 1985

Final leaderboard
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Scorecard
Cumulative tournament scores, relative to par
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