1982 Masters Tournament Winner and Scores
Craig Stadler won the 1982 Masters, the 46th edition of the tournament, beating Dan Pohl in a playoff for the Green Jacket. But he had to recover from a near-collapse to do it.
Winner: Craig Stadler, 284
Where it was played: Augusta National Golf Club, Augusta, Georgia
Tournament dates: April 8-11, 1982
Leader after first round: Jack Nicklaus, 69
Leader after second round: Curtis Strange and Craig Stadler, 144
Leader after third round: Craig Stadler, 211
What Happened in the 1982 Masters Tournament
If things had turned out differently — if Craig Stadler had lost the 1982 Masters in a playoff rather than winning it in a playoff — Stadler might be remembered for one of the biggest collapses in major championship history. Instead, Stadler is remembered as the 1982 Masters champion, beating Dan Pohl with a par on the first playoff hole.Stadler put himself into that playoff by blowing a six-stroke lead with nine holes to play. Stadler began the third round three strokes ahead of the quartet of Seve Ballesteros, Tom Kite, Tom Weiskopf and Pohl. Heading to the back nine, Stadler had increased his lead to six.
Weiskopf blew up on the back nine with a couple triple-bogeys. Ballesteros and Kite failed to charge. But Pohl, playing three groups ahead of Stadler, carded a 67 to post 4-under.
Stadler still led by four strokes after his 11th hole, but then whittled away that lead. He bogeyed the 12th, the 14th, and the 16th, reaching the 72nd hole with a 1-stroke advantage over Pohl. And then he 3-putted for a bogey there, dropping into the playoff.
But the sudden-death playoff was a bit anticlimactic: Pohl struggled, Stadler played solidly and won with a par on the first extra hole.
Ballesteros — who the Masters in 1980 and would win again in 1983 — and Jerry Pate finished tied for third place, one stroke out of the playoff.
Arnold Palmer made the cut and finished 47th; it was the second-to-last time Palmer made a Masters cut. And 1946 Masters winner Herman Keiser played the tournament for the final time, withdrawing during the first round.
Players in the Masters field had always been required to use caddies employed by Augusta National, rather than their own caddies they used elsewhere throughout the year. This was the last Masters at which that policy was in effect.
1982 Masters Final Scores
| Craig Stadler | 75-69-67-73—284 (4) |
| Dan Pohl | 75-75-67-67—284 (x) |
| Seve Ballesteros | 73-73-68-71—285 |
| Jerry Pate | 74-73-67-71—285 |
| Tom Kite | 76-69-73-69—287 |
| Tom Watson | 77-69-70-71—287 |
| Raymond Floyd | 74-72-69-74—289 |
| Larry Nelson | 79-71-70-69—289 |
| Curtis Strange | 74-70-73-72—289 |
| Andy Bean | 75-72-73-70—290 |
| Mark Hayes | 74-73-73-70—290 |
| Tom Weiskopf | 75-72-68-75—290 |
| Fuzzy Zoeller | 72-76-70-72—290 |
| Bob Gilder | 79-71-66-75—291 |
| Yataka Hagawa | 75-74-71-72—292 |
| Jack Nicklaus | 69-77-71-75—292 |
| Gary Player | 74-73-71-74—292 |
| Jim Simons | 77-74-69-72—292 |
| David Graham | 73-77-70-73—293 |
| Peter Jacobsen | 78-75-70-71—294 |
| Bruce Lietzke | 76-75-69-74—294 |
| a-Jodie Mudd | 77-74-67-76—294 |
| Jack Renner | 72-75-76-71—294 |
| Ben Crenshaw | 74-80-70-71—295 |
| Danny Edwards | 75-74-74-72—295 |
| Morris Hatalsky | 73-77-75-70—295 |
| Wayne Levi | 77-76-72-70—295 |
| Peter Oosterhuis | 73-74-75-73—295 |
| John Schroeder | 77-71-70-77—295 |
| George Archer | 79-74-72-71—296 |
| Calvin Peete | 77-72-73-74—296 |
| Ron Streck | 74-76-75-73—298 |
| George Burns III | 75-79-71-74—299 |
| Keith Fergus | 76-74-72-77—299 |
| Lanny Wadkins | 75-78-72-74—299 |
| Tommy Aaron | 78-72-77-73—300 |
| Greg Norman | 73-75-73-79—300 |
| Chi Chi Rodriguez | 78-75-73-75—301 |
| Bill Rogers | 77-77-77-70—301 |
| Lee Trevino | 75-78-75-73—301 |
| a-Jim Holtgrieve | 74-76-72-80—302 |
| a-Willie Wood | 78-75-73-76—302 |
| Hubert Green | 76-72-77-78—303 |
| Jay Haas | 76-74-76-78—304 |
| Gay Brewer | 73-80-72-80—305 |
| Bob Goalby | 81-72-78-77—308 |
| Arnold Palmer | 75-76-78-80—309 |
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