2016 Masters Tournament

Thursday, April 7, 2016

Defending champion Jordan Spieth shot a 6-under-par 66 to take a two-shot lead over Danny Lee and Shane Lowry. His bogey-free round was his ninth consecutive Masters round of par or better. World number one Jason Day was 5-under-par through the front nine but shot 5-over-par on the back nine, including a triple-bogey on the 16th hole, to end at even-par. Ernie Els scored a record-worst nine on the first hole after taking six putts from within three feet and ended his round at 8-over-par. The course played difficult due to windy conditions and the scoring average for the field was 74.16.[11][12][13]

Place	Player	Country	Score	To par
1	Jordan Spieth	United States	66	−6
T2	Danny Lee	New Zealand	68	−4
	Shane Lowry	Ireland
T4	Paul Casey	England	69	−3
	Sergio García	Spain
	Søren Kjeldsen	Denmark
	Ian Poulter	England
	Justin Rose	England
T9	Billy Horschel	United States	70	−2
	Rory McIlroy	Northern Ireland
	Scott Piercy	United States
	Danny Willett	England

Friday, April 8, 2016

Jordan Spieth led by as many as five shots but then carded four bogeys and a double bogey and needed a 14-foot par save at the 18th to preserve a one-shot advantage over Rory McIlroy. This was Spieth's sixth consecutive round with the lead at the Masters, tying the record set by Arnold Palmer in 1960–61. Amateur Bryson DeChambeau got to within a shot of the lead but suffered a triple bogey at the last to finish at even-par. Gusting winds led to difficult scoring conditions, with only four players (Daniel Berger, Dustin Johnson, McIlroy, and Troy Merritt) shooting under par, each shooting 71. The scoring average for the round was 75.02, the highest since 2007 and only seven golfers were under par after two rounds.[14] Tom Watson missed the cut in his 43rd and final Masters.

Place	Player	Country	Score	To par
1	Jordan Spieth	United States	66-74=140	−4
2	Rory McIlroy	Northern Ireland	70-71=141	−3
T3	Scott Piercy	United States	70-72=142	−2
	Danny Lee	New Zealand	68-74=142
T5	Søren Kjeldsen	Denmark	69-74=143	−1
	Hideki Matsuyama	Japan	71-72=143
	Brandt Snedeker	United States	71-72=143
T8	Kiradech Aphibarnrat	Thailand	72-72=144	E
	Daniel Berger	United States	73-71=144
	Bryson DeChambeau (a)	United States	72-72=144
	Sergio García	Spain	69-75=144
	Dustin Johnson	United States	73-71=144
	Shane Lowry	Ireland	68-76=144
	Danny Willett	England	70-74=144

Amateurs: DeChambeau (E), Langasque (+3), Bard (+9), Schmitz (+12), Cheng (+13), Chaplet (+21)

Saturday, April 9, 2016

Jordan Spieth held the lead at the Masters for the seventh consecutive round, a new tournament record, and the third straight year after 54 holes. After a double bogey at the 11th, Spieth rebounded with birdies on three of his next four holes to take a four-shot lead, but then bogeyed the 17th and carded another double bogey on the 18th to post 73 (+1) and drop the lead to one. Smylie Kaufman recorded the lowest score of the round with 69 (−3) and moved into second place. Two-time champion Bernhard Langer, at age 58 attempting to become the oldest major champion, shot a round of 70 and tied Hideki Matsuyama for third, two shots back of Spieth. Rory McIlroy entered the round a shot out of the lead but failed to make a birdie and carded 77 (+5).[15]

Place	Player	Country	Score	To par
1	Jordan Spieth	United States	66-74-73=213	−3
2	Smylie Kaufman	United States	73-72-69=214	−2
T3	Bernhard Langer	Germany	72-73-70=215	−1
	Hideki Matsuyama	Japan	71-72-72=215
T5	Jason Day	Australia	72-73-71=216	E
	Dustin Johnson	United States	73-71-72=216
	Danny Willett	England	70-74-72=216
T8	Søren Kjeldsen	Denmark	69-74-74=217	+1
	Brandt Snedeker	United States	71-72-74=217
	Lee Westwood	England	71-75-71=217

Sunday, April 10, 2016

Danny Willett came back from five shots down at the start of the back nine to win his first major title.[16] Jordan Spieth birdied his final four holes of the front-nine to open up a five-shot advantage. After bogeys at the 10th and 11th, Spieth put two balls in the water on the par-3 12th and made quadruple bogey, dropping him to a tie for fourth. Willett, meanwhile, made birdie at 13 and 14 to take the lead. Lee Westwood chipped in for eagle at the 15th to get within one of Willett, but then made bogey on 16 while Willett made birdie. Willett made par on the last two holes to post a round of 67 and five-under for the tournament.[17]

After rebounding with birdies on 13 and 15, Spieth needed to birdie two of his last three holes to tie but missed an 8-foot (2.4 m) birdie at 16 then bogeyed 17 to fall out of contention. Spieth's downfall in the final round capped one of the biggest collapses in Masters history, with many comparing it to the meltdown of Greg Norman at the 1996 Masters.[lower-alpha 1] Dustin Johnson also made birdie on 13 and 15 to get within two of Willett, but made double bogey on the 17th. Smylie Kaufman began the round a shot out of the lead but shot 81 (+9) and finished in 29th.[23] For the first time in Masters history, three players (Shane Lowry, Davis Love III, and Louis Oosthuizen) made a hole-in-one on the par-3 16th.[24]

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
Willett	E	E	E	E	E	−1	−1	−2	−2	−2	−2	−2	−3	−4	−4	−5	−5	−5
Spieth	−3	−4	−4	−4	−3	−4	−5	−6	−7	−6	−5	−1	−2	−2	−3	−3	−2	−2
Westwood	+2	+2	+2	+2	+2	+1	E	E	−1	E	E	E	−1	−1	−3	−2	−2	−2
Casey	+4	+3	+3	+3	+3	+3	+2	+2	+2	+2	+2	+2	+1	+1	E	E	E	−1
Holmes	+2	+3	+4	+5	+4	+4	+4	+3	+3	+3	+3	+2	+1	+1	+1	E	E	−1
Johnson	E	E	E	E	+2	+1	+1	E	−1	−1	−1	−1	−2	−2	−3	−3	−1	−1
Matsuyama	E	−1	−1	E	+1	+3	+3	+2	+2	+1	+1	+1	E	E	E	E	E	E
Day	E	E	E	E	+1	+1	+1	E	E	+1	+1	+1	+1	+1	E	E	E	+1
Langer	E	E	+2	+2	+3	+3	+3	+3	+3	+4	+4	+4	+4	+4	+4	+4	+5	+6
Kaufman	−2	−3	−2	−1	−1	−1	E	E	+1	+2	+3	+2	+3	+3	+3	+5	+6	+7

Cumulative tournament scores, relative to par