2003 Masters Tournament

The 2003 Masters Tournament was the 67th Masters Tournament, held April 11–13 at Augusta National Golf Club in Augusta, Georgia. Mike Weir won his only major title in a one-hole playoff over Len Mattiace. He was the first Canadian male to win a major, and also the first left-handed player to win the Masters.^[1][2] He is also the only Canadian to win the tournament.^[3]

The start of the first round was delayed until early Friday morning due to successive days of heavy rain; the second round was started on Friday afternoon and completed on Saturday morning.^[4]

Field

1. Masters champions

Tommy Aaron, Seve Ballesteros, Charles Coody, Fred Couples, Ben Crenshaw, Nick Faldo (10,11), Raymond Floyd, Bernhard Langer (16,17), Sandy Lyle, Larry Mize, Jack Nicklaus, José María Olazábal (10,14,16), Mark O'Meara (3), Arnold Palmer, Gary Player, Vijay Singh (4,10,14,15,16,17), Craig Stadler, Tom Watson, Tiger Woods (2,3,4,5,12,14,15,16,17), Ian Woosnam, Fuzzy Zoeller

• George Archer, Gay Brewer, Jack Burke Jr., Billy Casper, Doug Ford, Bob Goalby, Herman Keiser, and Byron Nelson did not play.

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

Retief Goosen (10,14,16,17), Lee Janzen

3. The Open champions (last five years)

David Duval (16,17), Ernie Els (10,14,15,16,17), Paul Lawrie (16)

4. PGA champions (last five years)

Rich Beem (14,16,17), David Toms (14,16,17)

5. The Players Championship winners (last three years)

Davis Love III (14,15,16,17), Craig Perks (14)

6. U.S. Amateur champion and runner-up

Ricky Barnes (a), Hunter Mahan (a)

7. The Amateur champion

Alejandro Larrazábal (a)

8. U.S. Amateur Public Links champion

Ryan Moore (a)

9. U.S. Mid-Amateur champion

George Zahringer (a)

10. Top 16 players and ties from the 2002 Masters

Ángel Cabrera (16,17), Chris DiMarco (14,16,17), Brad Faxon (14,16,17), Sergio García (11,14,16,17), Pádraig Harrington (11,16,17), Miguel Ángel Jiménez, Shigeki Maruyama (14,16,17), Phil Mickelson (11,14,16,17), Colin Montgomerie (16,17), Adam Scott (16,17)

11. Top eight players and ties from the 2002 U.S. Open

Tom Byrum, Scott Hoch (14,15,16,17), Jeff Maggert, Billy Mayfair, Nick Price (14,16,17)

12. Top four players and ties from 2002 PGA Championship

Fred Funk (14,16,17), Justin Leonard (14,15,16,17), Chris Riley (14,16,17)

13. Top four players and ties from the 2002 Open Championship

Stuart Appleby (14,16,17), Steve Elkington, Thomas Levet

14. Top 40 players from the 2002 PGA Tour money list

Robert Allenby (16,17), Jonathan Byrd, K. J. Choi (16,17), John Cook, Bob Estes (16,17), Jim Furyk (15,16,17), Charles Howell III (16,17), Jerry Kelly (16,17), Steve Lowery (16,17), Len Mattiace, Scott McCarron (16,17), Rocco Mediate (16,17), Craig Parry (16,17), Pat Perez, Kenny Perry (16,17), Loren Roberts, John Rollins, Jeff Sluman (16,17), Kevin Sutherland, Phil Tataurangi

15. Top 10 players from the 2003 PGA Tour money list on March 30

Chad Campbell, Jay Haas (17), Mike Weir (16,17)

16. Top 50 players from the final 2002 world ranking

Michael Campbell (17), Darren Clarke (17), Niclas Fasth (17), Toshimitsu Izawa, Shingo Katayama, Peter Lonard (17), Eduardo Romero (17), Justin Rose (17), Toru Taniguchi, Scott Verplank (17)

• Thomas Bjørn (17) did not play.

17. Top 50 players from world ranking published March 30

Tim Clark, John Huston, Tom Lehman, Kirk Triplett

18. Special foreign invitation

All the amateurs were playing in their first Masters, as were Rich Beem, Jonathan Byrd, Chad Campbell, K. J. Choi, Thomas Levet, Peter Lonard, Pat Perez, Chris Riley, John Rollins, Justin Rose, and Phil Tataurangi.

Round summaries

First round

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	Score	To par
1	Darren Clarke	66	−6
T2	Ricky Barnes (a)	69	−3
	Sergio García
T4	Nick Price	70	−2
	Mike Weir
T6	Toru Taniguchi	71	−1
	David Toms
T8	Tim Clark	72	E
	Jerry Kelly
	Paul Lawrie
	Jeff Maggert

Second round

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

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

Third round

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

Source:^[6]

Final round

Sunday, April 13, 2003

Summary

External videos
Full final round coverage on CBS on YouTube

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 male 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.

Final leaderboard

Champion

Silver Cup winner (low amateur)

(a) = amateur

(c) = past champion

Top 10

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

Leaderboard below the top 10
Place	Player	Score	To par	Money ($)
T13	Tim Clark	72-75-71-71=289	+1	120,000
	Retief Goosen	73-74-72-70=289
T15	Rich Beem	74-72-71-73=290	+2	93,000
	Ángel Cabrera	76-71-71-72=290
	K. J. Choi	76-69-72-73=290
	Paul Lawrie	72-72-73-73=290
	Davis Love III	77-71-71-71=290
	Tiger Woods (c)	76-73-66-75=290
21	Ricky Barnes (a)	69-74-75-73=291	+3	0
22	Bob Estes	76-71-74-71=292	+4	72,000
T23	Brad Faxon	73-71-79-70=293	+5	57,600
	Scott McCarron	77-71-72-73=293
	Nick Price	70-75-72-76=293
	Chris Riley	76-72-70-75=293
	Adam Scott	77-72-74-70=293
T28	Darren Clarke	66-76-78-74=294	+6	43,500
	Fred Couples (c)	73-75-69-77=294
	Sergio García	69-78-74-73=294
	Charles Howell III	73-72-76-73=294
	Hunter Mahan (a)	73-72-73-76=294		0
T33	Nick Faldo (c)	74-73-75-73=295	+7	36,375
	Rocco Mediate	73-74-73-75=295
	Loren Roberts	74-72-76-73=295
	Kevin Sutherland	77-72-76-70=295
T37	Shingo Katayama	74-72-76-74=296	+8	31,650
	Billy Mayfair	75-70-77-74=296
T39	Robert Allenby	76-73-74-74=297	+9	27,000
	Craig Parry	74-73-75-75=297
	Kenny Perry	76-72-78-71=297
	Justin Rose	73-76-71-77=297
	Phil Tataurangi	75-70-74-78=297
44	Jeff Sluman	75-72-76-75=298	+10	23,400
T45	Ryan Moore (a)	73-74-75-79=301	+13	0
	Pat Perez	74-73-79-75=301		22,200
47	John Rollins	74-71-80-77=302	+14	21,000
48	Jerry Kelly	72-76-77-79=304	+16	19,800
49	Craig Stadler (c)	76-73-79-77=305	+17	18,600
CUT	Pádraig Harrington	77-73=150	+6
	Scott Hoch	77-73=150
	Shigeki Maruyama	75-75=150
	Eduardo Romero	74-76=150
	Toru Taniguchi	71-79=150
	Steve Elkington	75-76=151	+7
	Lee Janzen	78-73=151
	Tom Lehman	75-76=151
	Larry Mize (c)	78-74=152	+8
	Tom Watson (c)	75-77=152
	Stuart Appleby	77-76=153	+9
	Miguel Ángel Jiménez	76-77=153
	Chad Campbell	77-77=154	+10
	Niclas Fasth	81-73=154
	Toshimitsu Izawa	78-76=154
	Steve Lowery	78-76=154
	Colin Montgomerie	78-76=154
	Kirk Triplett	82-72=154
	Ian Woosnam (c)	80-74=154
	Michael Campbell	78-77=155	+11
	Ben Crenshaw (c)	79-76=155
	Fred Funk	79-76=155
	Jay Haas	79-76=155
	Bernhard Langer (c)	79-76=155
	Justin Leonard	82-73=155
	Sandy Lyle (c)	82-73=155
	Craig Perks	80-75=155
	Fuzzy Zoeller (c)	77-78=155
	John Cook	78-78=156	+12
	John Huston	73-83=156
	Thomas Levet	79-77=156
	Tom Byrum	82-75=157	+13
	Raymond Floyd (c)	77-80=157
	Peter Lonard	78-82=160	+16
	Seve Ballesteros (c)	77-85=162	+18
	David Duval	79-83=162
	Jack Nicklaus (c)	85-77=162
	Gary Player (c)	82-80=162
	Alejandro Larrazábal (a)	82-81=163	+19
	Charles Coody (c)	83-81=164	+20
	Arnold Palmer (c)	83-83=166	+22
	George Zahringer (a)	82-85=167	+23
	Tommy Aaron (c)	92-80=172	+28
WD	Chris DiMarco	82	+10

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
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]

Playoff

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

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

References

External links

• Masters.com – past winners and results
• Coverage on the European Tour's official site
• Augusta.com – 2003 Masters leaderboard and scorecards