2003 Masters Tournament

Friday, April 11, 2003

With play canceled due to rain on Thursday, the first round started at 7 am Friday with players teeing off at the 1st and 10th holes. The round was dominated by Darren Clarke, who posted a six-under 66. The score was even more impressive considering only seven shot under par for the round. Sergio García shot 69 (−3), in a second place tie with 2002 U.S. Amateur champion Ricky Barnes. Three-time major champion, Nick Price, shot 70 (−2), for a fourth place tie with Canadian Mike Weir. Two-time defending champ and three-time Masters champion, Tiger Woods shot a disappointing 76 (+4), ten strokes back.[4]

Place	Player	Country	Score	To par
1	Darren Clarke	Northern Ireland	66	−6
T2	Ricky Barnes (a)	United States	69	−3
	Sergio García	Spain
T4	Nick Price	Zimbabwe	70	−2
	Mike Weir	Canada
T6	Toru Taniguchi	Japan	71	−1
	David Toms	United States
T8	Tim Clark	South Africa	72	E
	Jerry Kelly	United States
	Paul Lawrie	Scotland
	Jeff Maggert	United States

Friday, April 11, 2003
Saturday, April 12, 2003

Due to the postponement of play on Thursday, the second round started at 2 pm on Friday with players starting at the 1st and 10th tees. In what proved to be another very difficult round at Augusta, Weir took a four stroke 36-hole lead with a four-under 68 for 138 (−6). Only 16 of the 93 competitors finished with a round below par, and only four were under par at the halfway mark. First round leader Clarke came back to earth with 76 (+4) for solo second at 142 (−2). Phil Mickelson charged up the leaderboard with a two-under 70 into a tie for third place with amateur Barnes. (Two other amateurs also made the cut, Hunter Mahan and Ryan Moore.) Five were tied for fifth place at even-par 144, including two former Masters champions in Vijay Singh and José María Olazábal. The round was completed on Saturday morning and the 36-hole cut was set at 149 (+5). The biggest name to fail to make the weekend was Colin Montgomerie.

Place	Player	Country	Score	To par
1	Mike Weir	Canada	70-68=138	−6
2	Darren Clarke	Northern Ireland	66-76=142	−2
T3	Ricky Barnes (a)	United States	69-74=143	−1
	Phil Mickelson	United States	73-70=143
T5	Brad Faxon	United States	73-71=144	E
	Paul Lawrie	Scotland	72-72=144
	José María Olazábal	Spain	73-71=144
	Vijay Singh	Fiji	73-71=144
	David Toms	United States	71-73=144
T10	Jonathan Byrd	United States	74-71=145	+1
	K. J. Choi	South Korea	76-69=145
	Ernie Els	South Africa	79-66=145
	Jim Furyk	United States	73-72=145
	Charles Howell III	United States	73-72=145
	Jeff Maggert	United States	72-73=145
	Hunter Mahan (a)	United States	73-72=145
	Billy Mayfair	United States	75-70=145
	Nick Price	Zimbabwe	70-75=145
	John Rollins	United States	74-71=145
	Phil Tataurangi	New Zealand	75-70=145

Amateurs: Barnes (-1), Mahan (+1), Moore (+3), Larrázabal (+19), Zahringer (+23).

Saturday, April 12, 2003

Following the completion of the second round on Saturday morning, "Moving day" lived up to its name in the third round as Jeff Maggert charged to the 54-hole lead with a six-under 66 for 211 (−5). Second round leader Weir shot 75 (+3) to fall back to 213 (−3), in solo second place and the final Sunday pairing with Maggert. Singh moved into a tie for third with another major champion in David Toms at 214 (−2). Woods matched the round of the day with a 66 (−6) to ascend the leaderboard to keep his bid for three-straight Masters alive. Mickelson and Olazábal were tied with Woods at 215 for fifth place. Len Mattiace shot 69 (−3) to get to even-par 216, five strokes back in a tie for eighth. The third round was completed late on Saturday, and the tournament was finally back on schedule.[5]

Place	Player	Country	Score	To par
1	Jeff Maggert	United States	72-73-66=211	−5
2	Mike Weir	Canada	70-68-75=213	−3
T3	Vijay Singh	Fiji	73-71-70=214	−2
	David Toms	United States	71-73-70=214
T5	Phil Mickelson	United States	73-70-72=215	−1
	José María Olazábal	Spain	73-71-71=215
	Tiger Woods	United States	76-73-66=215
T8	Jonathan Byrd	United States	74-71-71=216	E
	Jim Furyk	United States	73-72-71=216
	Len Mattiace	United States	73-74-69=216

Source:[6]

Sunday, April 13, 2003

Despite one of the largest major championship final round comebacks by Mattiace, Mike Weir bested him in a sudden death playoff for his first major title. Weir became the first Canadian ever to win a major championship, and also became the first left-handed player to win the Masters. The sudden death playoff at the par 4 10th was the only extra hole needed, as Weir's bogey was good enough as Mattiace double-bogeyed the hole. Weir recovered from his disappointing third round with his second 68 of the tournament to force the playoff. To get into the sudden death playoff, Weir made a 7-foot (2 m) putt for par on the 18th green. Mattiace's only bogey (besides the playoff hole) of his tournament-low 65 (−7) was at the 18th hole. He teed off forty minutes and four groups ahead of the final pairing,[6] so Mattiace had about an hour between the completion of his round and the start of the playoff.

Third round leader Maggert shot a disappointing 75 (+3) to finish in solo fifth place. Maggert had no bogeys or double bogeys, but made a triple bogey 7 on the third hole and a quintuple bogey 8 on the twelfth hole. Mickelson's 68 (−4) was only enough for solo third, two strokes behind Weir and Mattiace. It marked Mickelson's third straight third-place finish at the Masters (he would win the green jacket in 2004, 2006, and 2010). Jim Furyk also shot a four-under 68 for a fourth-place finish which equaled his best Masters finish at 284 (−4). (He would win the next major, at the U.S. Open in June.) Ernie Els and Singh rounded out the under par finishers at 287 (−1), in a tie for sixth. Toms shot 74 and fell back to even-par 288, in a five-way tie for eighth. Woods' bid for his third straight Masters victory came up well short with a disappointing 75 (+3) for 290 (+2), nine strokes back. Amateur Barnes was the low-amateur, after being near the top of the leaderboard the first two rounds.

This was the last year the sudden-death playoff began on the 10th tee. Beginning in 2004, the playoff starting point was changed to the 18th hole, which then alternated with the 10th hole until a winner emerged;[7] the first use was in 2005.

Place	Player	Country	Score	To par	Money ($)
T1	Mike Weir	Canada	70-68-75-68=281	−7	Playoff
	Len Mattiace	United States	73-74-69-65=281
3	Phil Mickelson	United States	73-70-72-68=283	−5	408,000
4	Jim Furyk	United States	73-72-71-68=284	−4	288,000
5	Jeff Maggert	United States	72-73-66-75=286	−2	240,000
T6	Ernie Els	South Africa	79-66-72-70=287	−1	208,500
	Vijay Singh	Fiji	73-71-70-73=287
T8	Jonathan Byrd	United States	74-71-71-72=288	E	162,000
	José María Olazábal	Spain	73-71-71-73=288
	Mark O'Meara	United States	76-71-70-71=288
	David Toms	United States	71-73-70-74=288
	Scott Verplank	United States	76-73-70-69=288

Amateurs: Barnes (+3), Mahan (+6), Moore (+13).

Final round

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
Weir	−3	−4	−4	−4	−4	−5	−5	−5	−5	−5	−5	−5	−6	−6	−7	−7	−7	−7
Mattiace	E	−1	−2	−2	−2	−2	−2	−3	−3	−4	−4	−4	−6	−6	−7	−8	−8	−7
Mickelson	−1	−2	−2	−2	−2	−1	−2	−2	−2	−2	−2	−2	−3	−3	−4	−4	−4	−5
Furyk	E	−1	−1	−1	−1	−1	−1	−2	−2	−2	−2	−1	−1	−1	−3	−3	−4	−4
Maggert	−5	−5	−2	−2	−3	−3	−3	−3	−3	−4	−4	+1	+1	E	−1	−2	−2	−2
Els	E	E	+1	+1	+2	+1	+1	E	−1	−1	E	E	−1	−1	−1	−1	−1	−1
Singh	−2	−3	−3	−3	−2	−2	−2	−2	−2	−3	−4	−3	−2	−2	−1	−1	−1	−1
Toms	−1	−2	−2	−2	−2	−2	−1	−2	−2	−2	−2	−1	E	+1	+1	E	E	E
Woods	−1	−2	E	+1	+1	+1	+2	+3	+2	+2	+2	+2	+1	+2	+2	+2	+2	+2

Cumulative tournament scores, relative to par

Eagle

Birdie

Bogey

Double bogey

Triple bogey+

Source:[8]

Place	Player	Country	Score	To par	Money ($)
1	Mike Weir	Canada	5	+1	1,080,000
2	Len Mattiace	United States	x		648,000

• Sudden-death playoff began and ended on par-4 10th hole; Weir's bogey defeated Mattiace.[1]