2005 Masters Tournament

The 2005 Masters Tournament was the 69th Masters Tournament, played from April 7-10 at Augusta National Golf Club. Tiger Woods won his fourth Masters after a thrilling playoff with Chris DiMarco. Rain was a factor the whole week, delaying much of the play. The purse was $7.0 million and Woods earned $1.26 million.

Field

1. Masters Tournament Champions (Lifetime)
2. U.S. Open Champions (Honorary, non-competing after 5 years)
3. British Open Champions (Honorary, non-competing after 5 years)
4. PGA Champions (Honorary, non-competing after 5 years)
5. Winners of The Players Championship (3 years)
6. Current U.S. Amateur Champion (6-A) (Honorary, non-competing after 1 year) and the runner-up (6-B) to the current U.S. Amateur Champion
7. Current British Amateur Champion (Honorary, non-competing after 1 year)
8. Current U.S. Amateur Public Links Champion
9. Current U.S. Mid-Amateur Champion for 2004
10. The first 16 players, including ties, in the 2004 Masters Tournament
11. The first 8 players, including ties, in the 2004 U.S. Open Championship
12. The first 4 players, including ties, in the 2004 British Open Championship
13. The first 4 players, including ties, in the 2004 PGA Championship
14. The 40 leaders on the Final Official PGA Tour Money List for 2004
15. The 10 leaders on the Official PGA Tour Money List published during the week prior to the 2005 Masters Tournament.
16. The 50 leaders on the Final Official World Golf Ranking for 2004.
17. The 50 leaders on the Official World Golf Ranking published during the week prior to the 2005 Masters Tournament

Round by round results

First round (Thursday, Friday)

Sixty-eight players were still out on the course when rain suspended the first round of the 69th Masters Tournament, so it had to be completed Friday morning. Chris DiMarco shot a five-under 67 to finish with the first round lead. Vijay Singh and Luke Donald each shot a four-under 68 to finish one stroke behind DiMarco in second. Tiger Woods struggled through much of his round ending at two over par. After the round, Woods was questioned by rules officials for an illegal putting stance on the 14th before getting the all-clear. Billy Casper shot the worst round in Masters history on Thursday with a 34-over par 106.

#	Player	Country	Score	To par
1	Chris DiMarco	United States	67	-5
T2	Luke Donald	England	68	-4
	Vijay Singh	Fiji
T5	Stuart Appleby	Australia	69	-3
	Mark Hensby	Australia
T7	Phil Mickelson	United States	70	-2
	Ryan Palmer	United States
T9	Thomas Bjørn	Denmark	71	-1
	Retief Goosen	South Africa
	Thomas Levet	France
	Ryan Moore (a)	United States
	Chris Riley	United States
	Adam Scott	Australia

Second round (Friday, Saturday)

Rain suspended much of the day with nearly all the golfers still on the course, so the second round spilled into Saturday. Chris DiMarco posted his second straight five-under 67 to take a four-stroke lead at the halfway point. Thomas Bjørn also shot a 67 to take second place by himself at -6. Tiger Woods recovered from his poor first round with a six-under 66 to put himself in third place.

#	Player	Country	To par
1	Chris DiMarco	United States	67-67=134	-10
2	Thomas Bjørn	Denmark	71-67=138	-6
3	Tiger Woods	United States	74-66=140	-4
T4	David Howell	England	72-69=141	-3
	Vijay Singh	Fiji	68-73=141
T6	Mark Hensby	Australia	69-73=142	-2
	Phil Mickelson	United States	70-72=142
	Ryan Moore (a)	United States	71-71=142
T9	Jim Furyk	United States	76-67=143	-1
	Kirk Triplett	United States	75-68=143

Amateurs: Moore (-2), List (+2), Eaton III (+14), Wilson (+20).

Third round (Saturday)

Chris DiMarco continued his hot ways shooting three-under before play was suspended due to darkness. His -13 was four strokes better than Tiger Woods who shot five-under through nine holes. Thomas Bjørn stayed in contention by shooting two-under through nine holes to place himself at -8 for the championship.

#	Player	Country	To par	Hole
1	Chris DiMarco	United States	-13	9
2	Tiger Woods	United States	-9	9
3	Thomas Bjørn	Denmark	-8	9
T4	Mark Hensby	Australia	-4	9
	Vijay Singh	Fiji		10
	Rod Pampling	Australia		12

Third round conclusion (Sunday)

Tiger Woods stormed into the lead by birdieing his first four holes and finished his round shooting a 7-under 65. Dating back to play on Saturday, Woods birdied seven straight holes, tying a record by Steve Pate. Chris DiMarco struggled in his morning round, making two double bogeys to finish his third round in 3-over 74. DiMarco's troubles began when his second shot at the 10th went into a bush. He had to take a drop, chipped onto the green and two-putted for the double bogey. That ended a streak of 44 holes without a bogey.

#	Player	Country	Score	To par
1	Tiger Woods	United States	74-66-65=205	-11
2	Chris DiMarco	United States	67-67-74=208	-8
3	Thomas Bjørn	Denmark	71-67-71=209	-7
T4	Trevor Immelman	South Africa	73-73-65=211	-5
	Phil Mickelson	United States	70-72-69=211
T6	Mark Hensby	Australia	69-73-70=212	-4
	Vijay Singh	Fiji	68-73-71=212
T8	Chad Campbell	United States	73-73-67=213	-3
	Mike Weir	Canada	74-71-68=213
T10	Luke Donald	England	68-77-69=214	-2
	Tim Herron	United States	76-68-70=214
	Thomas Levet	France	71-75-68=214
	Rod Pampling	Australia	73-71-70=214

Final round (Sunday)

A thrilling final round came down to a two man duel between Tiger Woods and Chris DiMarco. DiMarco narrowed the three shot lead to one by the 11th with a second birdie in three holes after Woods had dropped a shot at the 10th. The lead stretched back to two when DiMarco bogeyed the 12th at the heart of Amen Corner, but a stunning approach on 14 set up a birdie for DiMarco and cut the gap back to one.

Both players birdied 15 and set up a dramatic and memorable 16th hole. With DiMarco sitting comfortably in the center of the green Woods pulled his tee shot just off the green. Woods made a sensational chip, aiming 20 feet to the left of the hole and using the sloping green to run the ball towards the hole. The ball crept towards the cup and appeared to stop on the lip of the hole before toppling in for a dramatic birdie. DiMarco missed his birdie putt and the lead grew back to two with just two to play. Woods pushed his drive on 17 leading to a bogey, cutting the lead to one as they went to the 72nd hole.

Woods approach on 18 ended up in the greenside bunker while DiMarco ended up just short of the green. DiMarco's chip for birdie hits the pin rebounds ten feet away when it could easily have jammed in the hole. Woods hit his chip to 14 feet, but missed his par putt to win. DiMarco calmly sank a ten foot putt to force a playoff.

Retief Goosen had the round of the day, firing a five under 67 which was the only round better than DiMarco's 68.

#	Player	Country	Score	To par	Winnings
T1	Chris DiMarco	United States	67-67-74-68=276	-12	Playoff
	Tiger Woods	United States	74-66-65-71=276
T3	Luke Donald	England	68-77-69-69=283	-5	$406,000
	Retief Goosen	South Africa	71-75-70-67=283
T5	Mark Hensby	Australia	69-73-70-72=284	-4	$237,300
	Trevor Immelman	South Africa	73-73-65-73=284
	Rod Pampling	Australia	73-71-70-70=284
	Vijay Singh	Fiji	68-73-71-72=284
	Mike Weir	Canada	74-71-68-71=284
10	Phil Mickelson	United States	70-72-69-74=285	-3	$189,000

Amateurs: Moore (-1), List (+6).

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Playoff (Sunday)

Tiger Woods defeated Chris DiMarco with a birdie on the first hole (hole 18) of the sudden death playoff clinching his ninth major and fourth Masters. Both players were in the fairway after their drives and Woods knocked his approach to 15 feet. DiMarco ended up just short of the green, the same spot he was at the end of regulation. DiMarco knocked his chip to five feet, but it didn't matter as Woods buried his birdie putt to win a thrilling final round. It marked the second consecutive major that DiMarco lost in a playoff.

#	Player	Country	Score	To par	Winnings
1	Tiger Woods	United States	3	-1	$1,260,000
2	Chris DiMarco	United States	4	E	$756,000

Quotes

"Here it comes ... Oh, my goodness! ... OH, MY! IN YOUR LIFE, have you seen anything like that?!" - CBS's Verne Lundquist's famous call of Tiger Woods' chip-in on the 16th hole.

"Chris is a tough competitor and a fighter. He's never going to back off and he proved that again." - Tiger Woods on the gutsy final round of runner up Chris Dimarco.

""I was just trying to throw the ball up there on the hill and let it feed down there and hopefully have a makeable putt. All of a sudden, it looked really good, and it looked like how could it not go in, and how did it not go in, and all of a sudden it went in." - Tiger Woods on his remarkable chip on 16.

"I went out and shot 68 around here on Sunday, which is a very good round, and 12-under is usually good enough to win. It was just that I was playing against Tiger Woods." - Chris DiMarco on his runner up finish.

"I would let it hurt if I gave it away but I didn't. I really didn't." - Chris DiMarco

"You know I played him as hard as I could down the stretch, birdieing a bunch of holes coming down the back nine and putting it on him really. And since I put that behind me and went out and put a good number on the back nine, I feel very good." - Chris DiMarco on his final round.

"That was a hard-fought week with the rain delays, I didn't get off to the greatest of starts. - Tiger Woods on the long week of golf.

External links

• Full results
• Masters official site
• BBC Coverage