1983 Masters Winner and Scores

The 47th edition of The Masters tournament was won by Seve Ballesteros with an early surge in the final round — he played the first four holes in 4-under-par. And after the third-round co-leaders stumbled, Seve won by four strokes.

Winner: Seve Ballesteros, 280

Where it was played: Augusta National Golf Club, Augusta, Georgia

Tournament dates: April 7-11, 1983

Leader after first round: Jack Renner, Raymond Floyd and Gil Morgan, 67

Leader after second round: Gil Morgan, 137

Leader after third round: Craig Stadler and Raymond Floyd, 210

What Happened in the 1983 Masters Tournament

Seve Ballesteros won his second Masters championship, but he had to wait until Monday to do it. Rain cancelled play during Friday's second round, pushing the tournament's finish back a day until Monday.

The wait was well worth it for Ballesteros, who finished four strokes in front of a stellar cast of chasers — Ben Crenshaw and Tom Kite, Raymond Floyd and Tom Watson and Hale Irwin. But Ballesteros took most of the drama out of the day early, starting his final round 4-under over the first four holes.

Ballesteros began the final round one off the lead shared by defending champ Craig Stadler and Floyd. But in his first four holes of Round 4, Ballesteros had birdies on Nos. 1 and 4 and an eagle on the second, surging into into the lead. He shot 31 on the front nine and finished with a 69. Stadler had a 76, Floyd a 75 and Watson a 73. Kite and Crenshaw were both sub-70, but started too far back to make a move on Ballesteros.

The 1983 Masters is also notable as the final Masters in which Arnold Palmer made the cut. Palmer, age 53, opened with a 68, just a stroke off the lead. He faded over the following three rounds, but this goes down as the last time he played the weekend in a Masters.

This was also the last major championship played by Sam Snead, who, at age 70, withdrew after an opening 79 — although Snead continued for many years as an honorary starter in The Masters. (Jack Nicklaus also withrew before the second round with back spasms.)

The 1983 Masters was the first one in which golfers were allowed to use their own caddies, rather than caddies provided by Augusta National. Twelve still chose to use Augusta National caddies. One golfer, George Archer, winner of the 1969 Masters, had his daughter caddie for him. That made 19-year-old Elizabeth Archer the first woman to caddie in The Masters.

Final Scores

Seve Ballesteros	68-70-73-69—280
Ben Crenshaw	76-70-70-68—284
Tom Kite	70-72-73-69—284
Raymond Floyd	67-72-71-75—285
Tom Watson	70-71-71-73—285
Hale Irwin	72-73-72-69—286
Craig Stadler	69-72-69-76—286
Gil Morgan	67-70-76-74—287
Dan Pohl	74-72-70-71—287
Lanny Wadkins	73-70-73-71—287
Scott Simpson	70-73-72-73—288
George Archer	71-73-71-74—289
Wayne Levi	72-70-74-73—289
Johnny Miller	72-72-71-74—289
J.C. Snead	68-74-74-73—289
Keith Fergus	70-69-74-77—290
Tommy Nakajima	72-70-72-76—290
Jack Renner	67-75-78-70—290
Isao Aoki	70-76-74-71—291
Nick Faldo	70-70-76-76—292
Mark Hayes	71-73-76-72—292
Peter Jacobsen	73-71-76-72—292
Peter Oosterhuis	73-69-78-72—292
Lee Trevino	71-72-72-77—292
Tom Weiskopf	75-72-71-74—292
Fuzzy Zoeller	70-74-76-72—292
Jay Haas	73-69-73-78—293
Scott Hoch	74-69-74-76—293
Hal Sutton	73-73-70-77—293
Greg Norman	71-74-70-79—294
Andy North	72-75-72-75—294
Chip Beck	71-76-76-72—295
Fred Couples	73-68-81-73—295
Gary Hallberg	71-71-75-78—295
Payne Stewart	70-76-78-71—295
Charles Coody	68-75-79-74—296
DannyEdwards	70-76-79-71—296
Yataka Hagawa	72-75-75-74—296
Arnold Palmer	68-74-76-78—296
a-Jim Hallet	68-73-78-78—297
John Mahaffey	72-75-74-76—297
Bruce Lietzke	69-75-82-72—298
Jodie Mudd	72-68-72-86—298
Bob Gilder	72-74-76-77—299
Mike Nicolette	73-74-78-74—299
David Graham	71-74-80-75—300
Gay Brewer	72-73-80-76—301
Bob Shearer	70-77-82-76—305
Calvin Peete	70-72-87-80—309

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