# 1975 Masters Tournament

The 1975 Masters Tournament was the 39th Masters Tournament, held April 10–13 at Augusta National Golf Club in Augusta, Georgia.
Jack Nicklaus won his fifth Masters and thirteenth major title, one stroke ahead of runners-up Johnny Miller and Tom Weiskopf. At age 40, Lee Elder became the first African-American to compete at the tournament, but missed the cut by four strokes.
The 1975 Masters is widely considered to be one of the greatest majors ever, with three great players at the peak of their games dueling in a thrilling Sunday finish.
Had a playoff been required, it would have been a full 18-hole round on Monday. Prior to the next Masters in 1976, a sudden-death format was introduced and was first used in 1979.
Nicklaus won his sixth green jacket eleven years later in 1986 at age 46.

## Course

| Hole | Name | Yards | Par | | Hole | Name | Yards | Par |
| 1 | Tea Olive | 400 | 4 | | 10 | Camellia | 485 | 4 |
| 2 | Pink Dogwood | 555 | 5 | | 11 | White Dogwood | 445 | 4 |
| 3 | Flowering Peach | 360 | 4 | | 12 | Golden Bell | 155 | 3 |
| 4 | Flowering Crab Apple | 220 | 3 | | 13 | Azalea | 475 | 5 |
| 5 | Magnolia | 450 | 4 | | 14 | Chinese Fir | 420 | 4 |
| 6 | Juniper | 190 | 3 | | 15 | Firethorn | 520 | 5 |
| 7 | Pampas | 365 | 4 | | 16 | Redbud | 190 | 3 |
| 8 | Yellow Jasmine | 530 | 5 | | 17 | Nandina | 400 | 4 |
| 9 | Carolina Cherry | 440 | 4 | | 18 | Holly | 420 | 4 |
| Out | Out | 3,510 | 36 | | In | In | 3,510 | 36 |
| Source: | Source: | Source: | Source: | Source: | Total | Total | 7,020 | 72 |

## Field
### 1. Masters champions

Tommy Aaron (12), George Archer, Gay Brewer (12), Billy Casper (12), Charles Coody, Doug Ford, Bob Goalby (8), Jack Nicklaus (2,3,4,8,9,10,11,12), Arnold Palmer (8,9,12), Gary Player (3,4,8,9,10,11), Sam Snead (8,10), Art Wall Jr.
* Jack Burke Jr., Jimmy Demaret, Ralph Guldahl, Claude Harmon, Ben Hogan, Herman Keiser, Cary Middlecoff, Byron Nelson, Henry Picard, and Gene Sarazen did not play.

### 2. U.S. Open champions (last five years)

Hale Irwin (8,9), Johnny Miller (8,11), Lee Trevino (3,4,10,11,12)

### 3. The Open champions (last five years)

Tom Weiskopf (8,9,11,12)

### 4. PGA champions (last five years)

Dave Stockton (8,11)

### 5. 1974 U.S. Amateur semi-finalists

John Grace (a), Gary Koch (7,a), Jerry Pate (6,7,a), Curtis Strange (7,a)

### 6. Previous two U.S. Amateur and Amateur champions

Dick Siderowf (a), Craig Stadler (a)

### 7. Members of the 1974 U.S. Eisenhower Trophy team

George Burns (a)

### 8. Top 24 players and ties from the 1974 Masters Tournament

Buddy Allin (9,11), Miller Barber (11), Frank Beard (9), Jim Colbert (9,11), Ben Crenshaw, Raymond Floyd (9), Hubert Green (10,11), Jerry Heard, Dave Hill (10,11,12), Ralph Johnston, Bobby Nichols (11), Phil Rodgers, Chi-Chi Rodríguez (12), Dan Sikes

### 9. Top 16 players and ties from the 1974 U.S. Open

Forrest Fezler (11), Lou Graham (12), Tom Kite, John Mahaffey, Mike Reasor, Tom Watson (11), Bert Yancey, Larry Ziegler (11)

### 10. Top eight players and ties from 1974 PGA Championship

Al Geiberger (11)

### 11. Winners of PGA Tour events since the previous Masters

Rod Curl, Terry Diehl, Lee Elder, Pat Fitzsimons, Gary Groh, Richie Karl, Gene Littler, Mac McLendon, Bob Menne, Allen Miller, Bob Murphy, J. C. Snead (12), Ed Sneed

### 12. Members of the U.S. 1973 Ryder Cup team

Homero Blancas

### 13. Foreign invitations

Isao Aoki, Hugh Baiocchi, Maurice Bembridge (8), Bob Charles, Bobby Cole (10), Bruce Crampton (8), Roberto De Vicenzo, Bruce Devlin, Dale Hayes, Tony Jacklin (2), Lu Liang-Huan, Graham Marsh, Peter Oosterhuis, Masashi Ozaki, Victor Regalado (11)
* Numbers in brackets indicate categories that the player would have qualified under had they been American.

## Round summaries
### First round

Thursday, April 10, 1975
| Place | Player | Score | To par |
| 1 | Bobby Nichols | 67 | −5 |
| T2 | Allen Miller | 68 | −4 |
| T2 | Jack Nicklaus | 68 | −4 |
| T4 | Arnold Palmer | 69 | −3 |
| T4 | J. C. Snead | 69 | −3 |
| T4 | Tom Weiskopf | 69 | −3 |
| T7 | Billy Casper | 70 | −2 |
| T7 | Bob Murphy | 70 | −2 |
| T7 | Tom Watson | 70 | −2 |
| T10 | Tommy Aaron | 71 | −1 |
| T10 | Jerry Heard | 71 | −1 |
| T10 | Mac McLendon | 71 | −1 |
| T10 | Jerry Pate (a) | 71 | −1 |
| T10 | Sam Snead | 71 | −1 |
| T10 | Lee Trevino | 71 | −1 |
| T10 | Larry Ziegler | 71 | −1 |
* (a) = amateur
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### Second round

Friday, April 11, 1975
Snead, age 62, was one-over-par after 27 holes when he withdrew due to a back injury.
| Place | Player | Score | To par |
| 1 | Jack Nicklaus | 68-67=135 | −9 |
| T2 | Billy Casper | 70-70=140 | −4 |
| T2 | Arnold Palmer | 69-71=140 | −4 |
| T2 | Tom Watson | 70-70=140 | −4 |
| T5 | Homero Blancas | 72-69=141 | −3 |
| T5 | Pat Fitzsimons | 73-68=141 | −3 |
| T5 | Bobby Nichols | 67-74=141 | −3 |
| T5 | J. C. Snead | 69-72=141 | −3 |
| T5 | Lee Trevino | 71-70=141 | −3 |
| T5 | Tom Weiskopf | 69-72=141 | −3 |
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### Third round

Saturday, April 12, 1975
Nicklaus entered the weekend with a five-shot lead but struggled with a one-over 73 in the final pairing with Arnold Palmer. Weiskopf carded a 66 (−6) to take a one-stroke lead and Miller a 65 to climb into solo third. Nicklaus three-putted four times on Saturday and was three-over-par on the last four holes to lose the lead.
| Place | Player | Score | To par |
| 1 | Tom Weiskopf | 69-72-66=207 | −9 |
| 2 | Jack Nicklaus | 68-67-73=208 | −8 |
| 3 | Johnny Miller | 75-71-65=211 | −5 |
| 4 | Tom Watson | 70-70-72=212 | −4 |
| T5 | Billy Casper | 70-70-73=213 | −3 |
| T5 | Bobby Nichols | 67-74-72=213 | −3 |
| T7 | Buddy Allin | 73-69-73=215 | −1 |
| T7 | Hubert Green | 74-71-70=215 | −1 |
| T7 | Allen Miller | 68-75-72=215 | −1 |
| T7 | Arnold Palmer | 69-71-75=215 | −1 |
| T7 | Lee Trevino | 71-70-74=215 | −1 |
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### Final round

Sunday, April 13, 1975

#### Summary

Although Nicklaus was in solo second after 54 holes, he played with Tom Watson in the penultimate pairing, followed by Miller and leader Weiskopf. Nicklaus was three-under for the round and led Weiskopf by a stroke at the 14th tee, but he bogeyed while Weiskopf birdied for a two-shot swing and a lead change. On the par-3 16th hole, Nicklaus listened on the green as both Weiskopf and Miller birdied on the 15th green, as he had done. Nicklaus then sank a 40-foot (12 m) birdie putt, while Weiskopf and Miller watched from the 16th tee. Weiskopf left his tee shot 80 feet (24 m) short and bogeyed, while Miller made par and birdied 17.
Both were a stroke behind with makeable birdie putts on the 72nd green to tie Nicklaus, who had just missed his 12-foot (3.7 m) birdie attempt. Miller missed left and low from 18 feet (5.5 m) while Weiskopf's eight-footer (2.4 m) missed right.

#### Final leaderboard

* Champion
* Silver Cup winner (low amateur)
* (a) = amateur
* (c) = past champion
Top 10 :
| Place | Player | Score | To par | Money (US$) |
| 1 | Jack Nicklaus (c) | 68-67-73-68=276 | −12 | 40,000 |
| T2 | Johnny Miller | 75-71-65-66=277 | −11 | 21,250 |
| T2 | Tom Weiskopf | 69-72-66-70=277 | −11 | 21,250 |
| T4 | Hale Irwin | 73-74-71-64=282 | −6 | 12,500 |
| T4 | Bobby Nichols | 67-74-72-69=282 | −6 | 12,500 |
| 6 | Billy Casper (c) | 70-70-73-70=283 | −5 | 7,500 |
| 7 | Dave Hill | 75-71-70-68=284 | −4 | 6,000 |
| T8 | Hubert Green | 74-71-70-70=285 | −3 | 4,500 |
| T8 | Tom Watson | 70-70-72-73=285 | −3 | 4,500 |
| T10 | Tom Kite | 72-74-71-69=286 | −2 | 3,600 |
| T10 | J. C. Snead | 69-72-75-70=286 | −2 | 3,600 |
| T10 | Lee Trevino | 71-70-74-71=286 | −2 | 3,600 |
Leaderboard below the top 10 :
| Place | Player | Score | To par | Money ($) |
| T13 | Arnold Palmer (c) | 69-71-75-72=287 | −1 | 3,250 |
| T13 | Larry Ziegler | 71-73-74-69=287 | −1 | 3,250 |
| T15 | Bobby Cole | 73-71-73-71=288 | E | 2,900 |
| T15 | Rod Curl | 72-70-76-70=288 | E | 2,900 |
| T15 | Bruce Devlin | 72-70-76-70=288 | E | 2,900 |
| T15 | Allen Miller | 68-75-72-73=288 | E | 2,900 |
| T15 | Art Wall Jr. (c) | 72-74-72-70=288 | E | 2,900 |
| T20 | Buddy Allin | 73-69-73-74=289 | +1 | 2,550 |
| T20 | Ralph Johnston | 74-73-69-73=289 | +1 | 2,550 |
| T22 | Hugh Baiocchi | 76-72-72-70=290 | +2 | 2,275 |
| T22 | Pat Fitzsimons | 73-68-79-70=290 | +2 | 2,275 |
| T22 | Gene Littler | 72-72-72-74=290 | +2 | 2,275 |
| T22 | Graham Marsh | 75-70-74-71=290 | +2 | 2,275 |
| T26 | Miller Barber | 74-72-72-73=291 | +3 | 2,000 |
| T26 | Maurice Bembridge | 75-72-75-69=291 | +3 | 2,000 |
| T26 | Jerry Heard | 71-75-72-73=291 | +3 | 2,000 |
| T26 | Dave Stockton | 72-72-73-74=291 | +3 | 2,000 |
| T30 | George Burns (a) | 72-72-76-72=292 | +4 | 0 |
| T30 | Ben Crenshaw | 72-71-75-74=292 | +4 | 1,950 |
| T30 | Forrest Fezler | 76-71-71-74=292 | +4 | 1,950 |
| T30 | Raymond Floyd | 72-73-79-68=292 | +4 | 1,950 |
| T30 | Gary Player (c) | 72-74-73-73=292 | +4 | 1,950 |
| T30 | Victor Regalado | 76-72-72-72=292 | +4 | 1,950 |
| T30 | Bert Yancey | 74-71-74-73=292 | +4 | 1,950 |
| 37 | Jerry Pate (a) | 71-75-78-69=293 | +5 | 0 |
| T38 | Tommy Aaron (c) | 71-75-76-72=294 | +6 | 1,850 |
| T38 | Gary Groh | 72-76-71-75=294 | +6 | 1,850 |
| T40 | Charles Coody (c) | 72-75-75-73=295 | +7 | 1,850 |
| T40 | Lou Graham | 72-72-77-74=295 | +7 | 1,850 |
| 42 | Bob Murphy | 70-72-80-74=296 | +8 | 1,750 |
| T43 | Homero Blancas | 72-69-79-77=297 | +9 | 1,700 |
| T43 | Lu Liang-Huan | 73-74-78-72=297 | +9 | 1,700 |
| T43 | Masashi Ozaki | 73-73-83-68=297 | +9 | 1,700 |
| 46 | Richie Karl | 72-75-79-76=302 | +14 | 1,650 |
| CUT | Gay Brewer (c) | 77-72=149 | +5 | |
| CUT | Roberto De Vicenzo | 74-75=149 | +5 | |
| CUT | Mac McLendon | 71-78=149 | +5 | |
| CUT | Mike Reasor | 74-75=149 | +5 | |
| CUT | Phil Rodgers | 77-72=149 | +5 | |
| CUT | Chi-Chi Rodríguez | 74-75=149 | +5 | |
| CUT | Frank Beard | 76-74=150 | +6 | |
| CUT | Bob Charles | 76-74=150 | +6 | |
| CUT | Jim Colbert | 75-75=150 | +6 | |
| CUT | Terry Diehl | 72-78=150 | +6 | |
| CUT | Al Geiberger | 79-71=150 | +6 | |
| CUT | Ed Sneed | 74-76=150 | +6 | |
| CUT | Isao Aoki | 75-76=151 | +7 | |
| CUT | Dale Hayes | 77-74=151 | +7 | |
| CUT | Tony Jacklin | 77-74=151 | +7 | |
| CUT | Gary Koch (a) | 77-74=151 | +7 | |
| CUT | Peter Oosterhuis | 79-72=151 | +7 | |
| CUT | George Archer (c) | 80-72=152 | +8 | |
| CUT | Lee Elder | 74-78=152 | +8 | |
| CUT | Doug Ford (c) | 78-74=152 | +8 | |
| CUT | John Mahaffey | 77-75=152 | +8 | |
| CUT | Curtis Strange (a) | 75-77=152 | +8 | |
| CUT | Bob Goalby (c) | 81-72=153 | +9 | |
| CUT | Dick Siderowf (a) | 75-78=153 | +9 | |
| CUT | John Grace (a) | 79-75=154 | +10 | |
| CUT | Bruce Crampton | 76-79=155 | +11 | |
| CUT | Craig Stadler (a) | 80-76=156 | +12 | |
| CUT | Bob Menne | 76-82=158 | +14 | |
| CUT | Dan Sikes | 76-82=158 | +14 | |
| WD | Sam Snead (c) | 71 | −1 | |
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#### 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 |
| Nicklaus | −7 | −8 | −9 | −9 | −10 | −10 | −10 | −10 | −11 | −11 | −11 | −11 | −11 | −10 | −11 | −12 | −12 | −12 |
| Miller | −5 | −6 | −5 | −6 | −6 | −7 | −7 | −8 | −9 | −9 | −8 | −8 | −9 | −9 | −10 | −10 | −11 | −11 |
| Weiskopf | −9 | −9 | −10 | −10 | −10 | −11 | −11 | −11 | −11 | −11 | −10 | −10 | −10 | −11 | −12 | −11 | −11 | −11 |
| Irwin | +2 | +1 | E | −1 | −1 | −1 | −1 | −2 | −2 | −3 | −3 | −3 | −4 | −4 | −5 | −5 | −6 | −6 |
| Nichols | −3 | −3 | −4 | −4 | −4 | −4 | −4 | −5 | −5 | −5 | −5 | −6 | −6 | −6 | −6 | −6 | −6 | −6 |
| Watson | −4 | −4 | −4 | −4 | −4 | −4 | −5 | −5 | −6 | −6 | −5 | −5 | −6 | −6 | −6 | −2 | −2 | −3 |
Cumulative tournament scores, relative to par
    Eagle Birdie Bogey Double bogey Triple bogey+
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