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1985 Masters Tournament

The 1985 Masters Tournament was the 49th Masters Tournament, held April 11–14 at Augusta National Golf Club in Augusta, Georgia.

Bernhard Langer won the first of his two major championships, both Masters, two strokes ahead of runners-up Seve Ballesteros, Raymond Floyd, and Curtis Strange. A 69 (−3) on Saturday put Floyd in the lead after 54 holes at 212 (−4); Strange was a stroke back, with Langer and Ballesteros two strokes back. Despite an opening round 80, Strange led by three strokes with six holes to play in the final round, but made key bogeys at 13 and 15 when his attempts to reach both greens in two shots found water instead and finished two strokes back. It was Strange's only top-5 finish at Augusta, but he won consecutive U.S. Opens in 1988 and 1989.

Langer, age 27 and dressed in red, birdied four of the last seven holes to win the green jacket. The second champion from Europe, he had consecutive rounds of 68 (−4) on the weekend to become the first winner of a major from Germany (then West Germany). Langer won a second green jacket eight years later in 1993.

Field

1. Masters champions

Tommy Aaron, George Archer (11,12), Seve Ballesteros (3,10,11), Gay Brewer, Billy Casper, Charles Coody, Ben Crenshaw (8,12,13), Raymond Floyd (4,8,13), Doug Ford, Bob Goalby, Jack Nicklaus (2,4,8,11,12), Arnold Palmer, Gary Player (8,10), Craig Stadler (11,12,13), Art Wall Jr., Tom Watson (2,3,8,9,11,12,13), Fuzzy Zoeller (2,9,11,13)

The following categories only apply to Americans
2. U.S. Open champions (last five years)

Larry Nelson (4,8,11)

3. The Open champions (last five years)

Bill Rogers

4. PGA champions (last five years)

Hal Sutton (9,10,12), Lee Trevino (9,10,12)

5. 1984 U.S. Amateur semi-finalists

Jerry Haas (a), Sam Randolph (a), Randy Sonnier (7,a), Scott Verplank (6,7,a)

6. Previous two U.S. Amateur and Amateur champions

Jay Sigel (7,a)

7. Members of the 1984 U.S. Eisenhower Trophy team

John Inman (a)

8. Top 24 players and ties from the 1984 Masters Tournament

Andy Bean (9,12), Ronnie Black (11), Rex Caldwell, Fred Couples (9,12), Danny Edwards, David Edwards (12), Jay Haas (9,13), Hale Irwin (9), Tom Kite (11,12,13), Wayne Levi (11,12), Mark Lye, Larry Mize (10), Gil Morgan (12,13), Calvin Peete (10,11,12,13), Jack Renner (12), Payne Stewart (12)

9. Top 16 players and ties from the 1984 U.S. Open

Lennie Clements, Peter Jacobsen (11,12), Mark McCumber (11), Johnny Miller, Mark O'Meara (11,12), Tom Purtzer, Tim Simpson, Curtis Strange (11,12,13), Jim Thorpe, Lanny Wadkins (10,11,12,13)

10. Top eight players and ties from 1984 PGA Championship

Gary Hallberg (12), Scott Simpson (11,12)

11. Winners of PGA Tour events since the previous Masters

Woody Blackburn, Bob Eastwood (12), Hubert Green, Scott Hoch (12), Billy Kratzert, Corey Pavin (12), Joey Sindelar

12. Top 30 players from the 1984 PGA Tour money list

Gary Koch, Bruce Lietzke, John Mahaffey

13. Members of the U.S. 1983 Ryder Cup team

Bob Gilder

14. Foreign invitations

Isao Aoki (9), Ian Baker-Finch, Nick Faldo (8,11), David Graham (2,8), Bernhard Langer, Sandy Lyle, Tsuneyuki Nakajima, Greg Norman (9,11,12), José María Olazábal (6,a), Sam Torrance, Denis Watson (11,12)

  • Numbers in brackets indicate categories that the player would have qualified under had they been American.

Round summaries

First round

Thursday, April 11, 1985

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Second round

Friday, April 12, 1985

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Third round

Saturday, April 13, 1985

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Final round

Sunday, April 14, 1985

Final leaderboard

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Scorecard

Cumulative tournament scores, relative to par

References

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