Golf tournament
The 1941 Masters Tournament was the eighth Masters Tournament , held April 3–6 at Augusta National Golf Club in Augusta, Georgia . Craig Wood won his first major title , three strokes ahead of runner-up Byron Nelson .
Wood opened with a 66 and led by five strokes after the first round.[ 1] [ 2] [ 3] [ 4]
Wood, 39, led the entire tournament, the Masters' first wire-to-wire champion. He also won the next major, the 1941 U.S. Open . Prior to his win at the Masters, Wood had lost in a playoff (or extra holes) in all four of the modern major championships, a dubious distinction since matched by only one other, Greg Norman .[ 5]
Through 2019 , there have been only five wire-to-wire champions; Wood was followed by Arnold Palmer (1960) , Jack Nicklaus (1972) , Raymond Floyd (1976) , and Jordan Spieth (2015) .
Field
1. Masters champions Jimmy Demaret (9), Ralph Guldahl (2,9,10,12), Byron Nelson (2,6,9,10,12), Gene Sarazen (2,4,6,9,10,12), Horton Smith (10)
2. U.S. Open champions Tommy Armour (4,6,10), Walter Hagen (4,6), Bobby Jones (3,4,5), Lawson Little (3,5,9,10), Tony Manero (9), Francis Ouimet (3,a), Sam Parks Jr. (10)
3. U.S. Amateur champions Dick Chapman (11,a)
4. British Open champions Denny Shute (6)
5. British Amateur champions Charlie Yates (9,a)
6. PGA champions Paul Runyan (9,12)
7. Members of the U.S. Ryder Cup team 8. Members of the U.S. Walker Cup team 9. Top 30 players and ties from the 1940 Masters Tournament Johnny Bulla , Sammy Byrd , Harry Cooper , Ed Dudley (10), Jim Foulis (10), Willie Goggin , Jimmy Hines (10), Ben Hogan (10,12), Lloyd Mangrum (10), Jug McSpaden (10,12), Dick Metz (10), Toney Penna , Sam Snead (10,12), Frank Walsh (10), Al Watrous , Craig Wood (10)
10. Top 30 players and ties from the 1940 U.S. Open Bruce Coltart , Vic Ghezzi , Andy Gibson , Jock Hutchison Jr. , Gene Kunes , Ray Mangrum , Henry Ransom , Jack Ryan , Felix Serafin , Andrew Szwedko (a)
11. 1940 U.S. Amateur quarter-finalists George Dawson (a), Duff McCullough (a)
12. 1940 PGA Championship quarter-finalists 13. One amateur, not already qualified, selected by a ballot of ex-U.S. Amateur champions Art Doering (a)
14. One professional, not already qualified, selected by a ballot of ex-U.S. Open champions Jimmy Thomson
15. Two players, not already qualified, with the best scoring average in the winter part of the 1940 PGA Tour Leonard Dodson , Clayton Heafner
16 Foreign invitations Jim Ferrier (9,10), Martin Pose
Numbers in brackets indicate categories that the player would have qualified under had they been American.
Round summaries
First round
Thursday, April 3, 1941
Source: [ 1] [ 2]
Second round
Friday, April 4, 1941
Source: [ 6]
Third round
Saturday, April 5, 1941
Source: [ 7] [ 8]
Final round
Sunday, April 6, 1941
Final leaderboard
Sources:[ 9] [ 10]
References
^ a b c "Craig Wood's 66 leads Masters by five strokes" . St. Petersburg Times . Florida. United Press. April 4, 1941. p. 13.^ a b "Wood's 6-under 66 leads in Masters" . Pittsburgh Post-Gazette . Associated Press. April 4, 1941. p. 16.^ "Craig Wood wins Masters with 280" . Milwaukee Journal . Associated Press. April 7, 1941. p. 5-part 2.^ "Wood's 280 total wins Masters golf" . Pittsburgh Post-Gazette . April 7, 1941. p. 14.^ "Craig Wood, a study in major championship heartache" . Associated Press News . April 5, 2016. Retrieved April 12, 2016 .^ "Wood retains lead in Masters tourney" . Pittsburgh Post-Gazette . Associated Press. April 5, 1941. p. 12.^ Carver, Lawton (April 6, 1941). "Wood leads; Sam Byrd second" . St. Petersburg Times . Florida. INS. p. 9. ^ Boni, Bill (April 6, 1941). "Byrd challenges Wood with 68 in Augusta tourney" . Spartanburg Herald-Journal . South Carolina. Associated Press. p. 22. ^ "Masters – Past Winners & Results" . Augusta National Inc. Retrieved April 20, 2021 .^ "Past results – Masters tournament" . PGA Tour. Retrieved April 20, 2021 .
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