1991 Masters Tournament Winner and Scores
Three golfers reached Augusta National's 18th hole in the final round of the 1991 Masters at 11-under-par, but only one of them managed to stay there: the winner, Ian Woosnam. This was the 55th edition of the Masters Tournament.
Winner: Ian Woosnam, 276
Where it was played: Augusta National Golf Club, Augusta, Georgia
Tournament dates: April 11-14, 1991
Leader after first round: Lanny Wadkins, Mark McCumber and Jim Gallagher Jr., 67
Leader after second round: Tom Watson, 136
Leader after third round: Ian Woosnam, 205
What Happened at the 1991 Masters Tournament
Ian Woosnam outlasted Tom Watson and Jose Maria Olazabal to win the 1991 Masters. In so doing, Woosnam became the first Welshman to win one of golf's majors.Woosnam, playing partner Watson, and Olazabal were tied at 11-under as Woosnam and Watson reached the final tee. Up ahead, on the green, Olazabal bogeyed to fall out of the tie. He finished second, but later won two Masters of his own.
Then it was Watson's turn to fall out of the lead with a double-bogey. Watson (an 8-time major winner, including two Masters) was 41 years old, hadn't won on the PGA Tour since 1987, and won only twice more after this. He finished tied for third and had only one more Top 10 finish in a Masters afterward.
Only the 5-foot-4 Woosnam came up big, recording a 72nd-hole par to grab the Green Jacket.
Woosnam shot 71 in the first round, four strokes off the lead. But a second-round 66 moved him into a share of second place. Woosnam held the lead by one over Watson following a third round 67.
The 1991 Masters marked the final appearance in this tournament of Lee Trevino, who finished tied for 49th. Trevino never finished higher than a tie for 10th at The Masters, and even skipped the tournament a few times earlier in his career. He felt his game wasn't suited to Augusta National, and he also felt unwelcomed by Augusta National cofounder Clifford Roberts.
On the other end of his career was Phil Mickelson, who played The Masters for the first time this year, getting in on the strength of his 1990 U.S. Amateur victory. Mickelson was still a member of the Arizona State University golf team, but made the cut, and later in the 1991 PGA Tour season won the Northern Telecom Open as an amateur. Mickelson's 69 in the first round was the first-ever below-par round in The Masters by a lefthanded golfer.
Jack Nicklaus made the cut this year for the 30th time, the first golfer to reach that milestone.
1991 Masters Final Scores
| Ian Woosnam | 71-66-67-72—276 |
| Jose-Maria Olazabal | 68-70-69-70—277 |
| Lanny Wadkins | 67-71-70-71—278 |
| Steve Pate | 72-73-69-65—279 |
| Ben Crenshaw | 70-73-68-68—279 |
| Tom Watson | 68-68-70-73—279 |
| Andrew Magee | 70-72-68-70—280 |
| Jodie Mudd | 70-70-71-69—280 |
| Hale Irwin | 70-69-75-66—280 |
| Ian Baker-Finch | 71-70-69-70—280 |
| Nick Faldo | 71-73-67-70—281 |
| Tommy Nakajima | 74-71-67-69—281 |
| Fuzzy Zoeller | 70-70-75-67—282 |
| Mark Calcavecchia | 70-68-77-67—282 |
| Billy Mayfair | 72-72-72-66—282 |
| Craig Stadler | 70-72-71-69—282 |
| Larry Mize | 72-71-66-74—283 |
| Raymond Floyd | 71-68-71-73—283 |
| Peter Jacobsen | 73-70-68-72—283 |
| Mark McCumber | 67-71-73-72—283 |
| Jim Gallagher Jr. | 67-74-71-71—283 |
| Scott Simpson | 69-73-69-73—284 |
| Corey Pavin | 73-70-69-72—284 |
| Steve Elkington | 72-69-74-69—284 |
| Rocco Mediate | 72-69-71-72—284 |
| Seve Ballesteros | 75-70-69-70—284 |
| Mark O'Meara | 74-68-72-71—285 |
| Jay Don Blake | 74-72-68-71—285 |
| Jeff Sluman | 71-71-72-72—286 |
| John Huston | 73-72-71-70—286 |
| Morris Hatalsky | 71-72-70-73—286 |
| David Frost | 71-73-71-72—287 |
| Wayne Levi | 69-73-70-75—287 |
| Bernhard Langer | 71-68-74-74—287 |
| Jack Nicklaus | 68-72-72-76—288 |
| Jumbo Ozaki | 68-77-69-74—288 |
| Fred Couples | 68-73-72-75—288 |
| Ken Green | 70-74-71-73—288 |
| Scott Hoch | 72-70-73-73—288 |
| Mark Brooks | 69-72-74-73—288 |
| Mark McNulty | 72-74-75-67—288 |
| Davis Love III | 72-71-74-72—289 |
| Donnie Hammond | 72-73-73-71—289 |
| Curtis Strange | 72-74-72-71—289 |
| Billy Ray Brown | 74-65-77-73—289 |
| Joey Sindelar | 72-70-70-78—290 |
| Don Pooley | 72-71-69-78—290 |
| a-Phil Mickelson | 69-73-74-74—290 |
| Lee Trevino | 71-72-77-71—291 |
| Nick Price | 72-73-72-74—291 |
| Tommy Aaron | 70-74-73-74—291 |
| Paul Azinger | 72-73-67-80—292 |
| Brian Tennyson | 78-67-75-73—293 |
| Nolan Henke | 73-71-72-77—293 |
| Larry Nelson | 74-69-76-75—294 |
| Tom Kite | 71-75-78-71—295 |
| a-Manny Zerman | 71-71-77-80—299 |
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