1989 Masters Tournament Results and Winner

The 1989 Masters was the 53rd edition of this major championship, and the site of Nick Faldo's first Masters win. He won it on the second hole of a sudden-death playoff against Scott Hoch.

Winner: Nick Faldo, 283

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

Tournament dates: April 6-9, 1989

Leader after first round: Lee Trevino, 67

Leader after second round: Lee Trevino and Nick Faldo, 141

Leader after third round: Ben Crenshaw, 213

What Happened at the 1989 Masters Tournament

Scott Hoch should have won the 1989 Masters. On the first playoff hole against Nick Faldo, Hoch had a 2-foot putt for the win. Somehow, he missed it. That gave Faldo the opening he needed, and on the second playoff hole Faldo won it with a birdie. He was the first golfer from England to win a Masters. It was the first of Faldo's three Masters victories. He repeated as champ in 1990, becoming the first back-to-back winner since Jack Nicklaus in 1965-66. And Faldo won again in the 1996 Masters.

Faldo began the final round five strokes off the lead of Ben Crenshaw. Crenshaw shot 71 in the final round, Faldo shot 65 with eight birdies to finish one stroke ahead of Crenshaw. Hoch had a final-round 69 and tied Faldo at 5-under 283.

That final-round 65 by Faldo was the low round of the tournament. And he earned it with birdie putts of challenging lengths down the stretch. He made a 12-foot birdie on the 13th and a short one on the 14th, then a big-breaking 15-footer on the 16th. Finally, Faldo made a 30-foot birdie on the second-to-last hole of regulation. In the playoff, after Hoch missed the short one on the first extra hole, Faldo sank a 25-footer on the second playoff hole to win.

Crenshaw missed the playoff when he made bogey on the final hole. Greg Norman also bogeyed the final hole and missed the playoff by a stroke.

Forty-nine-year-old Lee Trevino was the surprise first-round leader, and shared the Round 2 lead, but carded an 81 in Round 3 to fall off the pace.

1989 Masters Final Scores

x-Nick Faldo	68-73-77-65—283
Scott Hoch	69-74-71-69—283
Ben Crenshaw	71-72-70-71—284
Greg Norman	74-75-68-67—284
Seve Ballesteros	71-72-73-69—285
Mike Reid	72-71-71-72—286
Jodie Mudd	73-76-72-66—287
Chip Beck	74-76-70-68—288
Jose Maria Olazabal	77-73-70-68—288
Jeff Sluman	74-72-74-68—288
Fred Couples	72-76-74-67—289
Ken Green	74-69-73-73—289
Mark O'Meara	74-71-72-72—289
Paul Azinger	75-75-69-71—290
Don Pooley	70-77-76-67—290
Tom Watson	72-73-74-71—290
Ian Woosnam	74-76-71-69—290
David Frost	76-72-73-70—291
Tom Kite	72-72-72-75—291
Jack Nicklaus	73-74-73-71—291
Jumbo Ozaki	71-75-73-72—291
Curtis Strange	74-71-74-72—291
Lee Trevino	67-74-81-69—291
Tom Purtzer	71-76-73-72—292
Payne Stewart	73-75-74-70—292
Bernhard Langer	74-75-71-73—293
Larry Mize	72-77-69-75—293
Steve Pate	76-75-74-68—293
Lanny Wadkins	76-71-73-73—293
Fuzzy Zoeller	76-74-69-74—293
Mark Calcavecchia	74-72-74-74—294
Steve Jones	74-73-80-67—294
Dave Rummells	74-74-75-71—294
Hubert Green	74-75-76-71—296
Peter Jacobsen	74-73-78-71—296
Bruce Lietzke	74-75-79-68—296
Bob Gilder	75-74-77-71—297
Tommy Aaron	76-74-72-76—298
Charles Coody	76-74-76-72—298
Raymond Floyd	76-75-73-74—298
Scott Simpson	72-77-72-77—298
Dan Pohl	72-74-78-75—299
George Archer	75-75-75-75—300
Mark McCumber	72-75-81-72—300
Greg Twiggs	75-76-79-70—300
Jay Haas	73-77-79-72—301
Bob Lohr	75-76-77-73—301
Mike Sullivan	76-74-73-78—301
D.A. Weibring	72-79-74-76—301
Corey Pavin	74-74-78-76—302
Andy Bean	70-80-77-77—304
T.C. Chen	71-75-76-84—306

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