1991 Masters Tournament

The 1991 Masters Tournament was the 55th Masters Tournament held April 11–14 at Augusta National Golf Club in Augusta, Georgia. Ian Woosnam won his only major title, one stroke ahead of runner-up José María Olazábal.

Woosnam, Olazábal, and two-time champion Tom Watson, age 41, were all tied at −11 going into the 72nd hole. Olazábal, a group ahead of the final pairing of Woosnam and Watson, went from fairway bunker to greenside bunker and failed to hole a 45 ft par putt. Watson, who had eagled both 13 and 15, missed the fairway right with his tee shot and then hit his second shot into a greenside bunker. He chipped out and three-putted for a double bogey. Woosnam then holed an 8 ft par putt for the green jacket.

It was the fourth consecutive year that the Masters champion was from the United Kingdom, which had no winners prior to Sandy Lyle's victory in 1988. Through 2017, Woosnam is the only winner at Augusta from Wales. Olazábal later won two Masters, in 1994 and 1999.

Phil Mickelson, a 20-year-old junior at Arizona State, was the low amateur at 290 (+2) and tied for 46th place.

Field
Tommy Aaron, George Archer, Seve Ballesteros (3,9), Gay Brewer, Billy Casper, Charles Coody, Ben Crenshaw (9,12), Nick Faldo (3,10), Raymond Floyd (2,9), Doug Ford, Bernhard Langer (9), Sandy Lyle, Larry Mize (9,10,13), Jack Nicklaus (9), Arnold Palmer, Gary Player (9), Craig Stadler (9,10), Tom Watson (9,14), Fuzzy Zoeller (9,10)
 * 1. Masters champions


 * Jack Burke Jr., Bob Goalby, Ben Hogan, Herman Keiser, Cary Middlecoff, Byron Nelson, Henry Picard, Gene Sarazen, Sam Snead, and Art Wall Jr. did not play.

Hale Irwin (12,13), Scott Simpson (9,10), Curtis Strange (9,14)
 * 2. U.S. Open champions (last five years)

Mark Calcavecchia (9,13,14), Greg Norman (10,12,13)
 * 3. The Open champions (last five years)

Wayne Grady (13), Larry Nelson (10), Jeff Sluman (10), Bob Tway (12,13)
 * 4. PGA champions (last five years)


 * Payne Stewart (11,12,13,14) was injured and did not play

Phil Mickelson (a,12), Manny Zerman (a)
 * 5. U.S. Amateur champion and runner-up

Rolf Muntz (a)
 * 6. The Amateur champion

Michael Combs (a)
 * 7. U.S. Amateur Public Links champion

Jim Stuart (a)
 * 8. U.S. Mid-Amateur champion

Bill Britton (11), Fred Couples (11,13,14), Donnie Hammond, Scott Hoch (10), John Huston (10,13), Steve Jones (10), Tom Kite (12,13,14), José María Olazábal (10,12), Masashi Ozaki, Ronan Rafferty, Lee Trevino, Lanny Wadkins (12,13,14)
 * 9. Top 24 players and ties from the 1990 Masters

Jim Benepe, Mark Brooks, Billy Ray Brown, Mike Donald, John Inman, Tom Sieckmann, Tim Simpson (11,12,13)
 * 10. Top 16 players and ties from the 1990 U.S. Open

Chip Beck (12,13,14), Billy Mayfair (13), Mark McNulty, Gil Morgan (12,13), Don Pooley, Loren Roberts (13)
 * 11. Top eight players and ties from 1990 PGA Championship

Paul Azinger (13,14), Jay Don Blake, Steve Elkington (13), David Frost, Jim Gallagher Jr. (13), Morris Hatalsky, Nolan Henke, Kenny Knox, Wayne Levi (13), Davis Love III (13), Andrew Magee, Rocco Mediate, Jodie Mudd (13), Mark O'Meara (13,14), Steve Pate, Corey Pavin (13), Ted Schulz, Joey Sindelar, Ian Woosnam
 * 12. Winners of PGA Tour events since the previous Masters


 * Peter Persons, the winner of the Chattanooga Classic was not invited.

John Cook, Ian Baker-Finch, Robert Gamez, Peter Jacobsen, Nick Price, Brian Tennyson
 * 13. Top 30 players from the 1990 PGA Tour money list

Ken Green, Mark McCumber
 * 14. Members of the U.S. 1989 Ryder Cup team

Frankie Miñoza, Tsuneyuki Nakajima
 * 15. Special foreign invitation

First round
Thursday, April 11, 1991

Second round
Friday, April 12, 1991

Amateurs: Mickelson (−2), Zerman (−2), Stuart (+9), Combs (+11), Muntz (+11)

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Third round
Saturday, April 13, 1991

Final round
Sunday, April 14, 1991

Final leaderboard
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Scorecard
Cumulative tournament scores, relative to par
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