The 87th Masters – All The Facts & Figures From Augusta National

 

All the facts and all the figures from the 87th hosting of The Masters

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Final Leaderboard

Player R1 R2 R3 R4 Total
Jon Rahm 65 69 73 69 276 (-12)
Phil Mickelson 71 69 75 65 280 (-8)
Brooks Koepka 65 67 73 75 280 (-8)
Jordan Spieth 69 70 76 66 281 (-7)
Patrick Reed 71 70 72 68 281 (-7)
Russell Henley 73 67 71 70 281 (-7)

Masters champion Jon Ramn

Things to know

  • Jon Rahm wins the Masters Tournament by four strokes over Phil Mickelson and Brooks Koepka, earning his 11th career PGA TOUR victory and second major championship title (18th player to win the Masters and the U.S. Open)
  • Rahm, who has won four times on TOUR this season, becomes the second consecutive winner of the Masters to have entered the week No. 1 in the FedExCup standings and returns to No. 1 in the Official World Golf Ranking
  • Rahm ties Sergio Garcia for most PGA TOUR wins by a Spanish-born player and becomes the third player from Spain with multiple major titles, joining Seve Ballesteros (5) and José María Olazábal (2)
  • Four strokes marks the largest margin of victory in a men’s major since Dustin Johnson won the Masters by five strokes in 2020
  • Captures a sixth worldwide victory in 14 events, commencing six months ago at the Spanish Open

Jon Rahm (Winner/-12)

Category With the victory
Age 28 (November 10, 1994)
FedExCup No. 1
OWGR No. 1
Starts – wins – top-10s in PGA TOUR career 141-11-70
Starts – wins – top-10s on TOUR in 2022-23 10-4-7
Starts – wins – top-10s at the Masters 7-1-5

 

  • Wins the Masters Tournament by four strokes over Phil Mickelson and Brooks Koepka, earning his second major championship title and 11th win on the PGA TOUR at the age of 28 years, 4 months, 30 days
  • Only player with multiple major titles since the start of 2021 (2021 U.S. Open, 2023 Masters)
  • 18th player to win the Masters and the U.S. Open

Players to win the Masters Tournament and U.S. Open (bold did so in same year)

Player Masters Tournament win(s) U.S. Open win(s)
Jon Rahm 2023 2021
Dustin Johnson 2020 2016
Jordan Spieth 2015 2015
Angel Cabrera 2009 2007
Tiger Woods 1997, 2001, 2002, 2005, 2019 2000, 2002, 2008
Raymond Floyd 1976 1986
Fuzzy Zoeller 1979 1984
Tom Watson 1977, 1981 1982
Billy Casper 1970 1959, 1966
Jack Nicklaus 1963, 1965, 1966, 1972, 1975, 1986 1962, 1967, 1972, 1980
Gary Player 1961, 1974, 1978 1965
Arnold Palmer 1958, 1960, 1962, 1964 1960
Cary Middlecoff 1955 1949, 1956
Ben Hogan 1951, 1953 1948, 1950, 1951, 1953
Craig Wood 1941 1941
Byron Nelson 1937, 1942 1939
Ralph Guldahl 1939 1937, 1938
Gene Sarazen 1935 1922, 1932

 

  • Third player from Spain to win multiple majors, joining Seve Ballesteros (5) and José María Olazábal (2); Ballesteros, who passed away in 2011, was born April 9, 1957 (66 years ago Sunday)
  • Moves into a tie for 93rd on the all-time PGA TOUR wins list (106th player to reach 11 wins)
  • Has entered the final round trailing by at least two strokes in six of his 11 career PGA TOUR wins, including both majors

Jon Rahm wins on the PGA TOUR when trailing entering the final round

Tournament Strokes 54-hole leader(s)
2023 Masters Tournament 2 Brooks Koepka
2023 Sentry Tournament of Champions 7* Collin Morikawa
2021 U.S. Open 3 Russell Henley, Mackenzie Hughes, Louis Oosthuizen
2020 BMW Championship 3 Dustin Johnson, Hideki Matsuyama
2018 American Express 2 Austin Cook
2017 Farmers Insurance Open 3 Patrick Rodgers, Brandt Snedeker

* = largest 54-hole deficit overcome by a winner on TOUR this season

 

  • Largest margin of victory in a major since Dustin Johnson won the Masters by five in 2020
  • Ties Sergio Garcia for most PGA TOUR wins among players from Spain (11)
  • Fourth win of the season, two more than any other player
  • Sixth player to win four times, including a major, in a single season since 2010, joining Rory McIlroy (2012), Jordan Spieth (2014-15), Jason Day (2014-15), Justin Thomas (2016-17) and Scottie Scheffler (2021-22)
  • Wins in his seventh career start at the Masters
  • Fifth top-10 at the Masters, the most of any player since Rahm made his tournament debut in 2017
  • Made a double-bogey-6 at No. 1 in the first round and becomes the second player to win the Masters after making a double bogey or worse on his first hole of the tournament, joining Sam Snead (1952)
  • Improves to 4-for-12 with the 18-hole lead/co-lead on TOUR and 2-for-3 this season
  • Becomes the 18th 18-hole leader/co-leader to win the Masters and first since Dustin Johnson in 2020
  • Becomes the second player in the FedExCup era (est. 2007) to win the Masters after entering the week with the lead in the FedExCup standings, joining Scottie Scheffler (2022)
  • Returns to No. 1 in the Official World Golf Ranking and ties Brooks Koepka for 10th-most weeks at No. 1 (47)
  • This is the fifth time the World No. 1 position has changed since the start of the 2022-23 season
  • Scottie Scheffler enters the season No. 1 and Rory McIlroy takes over after winning THE CJ CUP in South Carolina
  • Scheffler wins the WM Phoenix Open, moves to No. 1
  • Rahm wins The Genesis Invitational, moves to No. 1
  • Scheffler wins THE PLAYERS Championship, moves to No. 1
  • Rahm wins the Masters, moves to No. 1
  • $13,288,540 in Official Money this season, the second-highest single-season total in PGA TOUR history (highest: $14,046,910, Scottie Scheffler, 2021-22)

Miscellaneous notes

  • Rahm and Phil Mickelson (T2) are the second pair from the same college to win/finish runner-up at the same PGA TOUR event this season (first: Russell Henley and Brian Harman, University of Georgia, World Wide Technology Championship)
  • Mickelson has 12 runner-up finishes in his career at majors, the second-most of any player (most: 19, Jack Nicklaus)
  • Brooks Koepka (T2) has finished first or second in eight major championships, the most of any player in the last 10 years
  • Jordan Spieth (T4) records his sixth top-five at the Masters, the most of any player since Spieth made his tournament debut in 2014
  • Spieth records nine birdies in the final round, his third career round at the Masters with nine or more birdies and second in the final round; all other players have combined to have three such rounds since Spieth made his tournament debut in 2014

Players to make nine or more birdies in the final round at the Masters on record (1983-present)

Jordan Spieth, 2023

Jordan Spieth, 2018

David Toms, 1998

  • Russell Henley (T4) earns his first career top-10 in a major (33rd career start)
  • Sam Bennett (T16) earns low amateur honors; Bennett, a senior at Texas A&M, entered the week No. 6 in the PGA TOUR University Ranking


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