1947 Masters Tournament

Tournament information
Dates	April 3–6, 1947
Location	Augusta, Georgia 33°30′11″N 82°01′12″W / 33.503°N 82.020°W / 33.503; -82.020
Course(s)	Augusta National Golf Club
Organized by	Augusta National Golf Club
Tour(s)	PGA Tour
Statistics
Par	72
Length	6,800 yards (6,220 m) [1]
Field	58 players
Cut	none
Prize fund	$10,000
Winner's share	$2,500
Champion
Jimmy Demaret
281 (−7)
Location map
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The 1947 Masters Tournament was the 11th Masters Tournament, held April 3–6 at Augusta National Golf Club in Augusta, Georgia. The purse was $10,000 with a winner's share of $2,500. ^{[1] [2]}

Jimmy Demaret, the 1940 champion, was the co-leader after both the first and second rounds, and had a three-shot lead after 54 holes. ^{[3] [4]} He carded a 71 on Sunday and won by two strokes over Byron Nelson and amateur Frank Stranahan. ^[2] Demaret joined Horton Smith and Nelson as two-time winners of the Masters. ^[1] He was the first to score four sub-par rounds in the same Masters and later became the first three-time winner in 1950.

Field

1. Masters champions

Jimmy Demaret (9,10,12), Herman Keiser (9), Byron Nelson (2,6,9,10,12), Henry Picard (6,10), Gene Sarazen (2,4,6), Horton Smith (9), Craig Wood (2)

• Ralph Guldahl (2) did not play.

2. U.S. Open champions

Billy Burke, Johnny Farrell, Bobby Jones (3,4,5), Lawson Little (3,5,9,10), Lloyd Mangrum (9,10)

3. U.S. Amateur champions

Dick Chapman (8,a)

4. British Open champions

Denny Shute (6), Sam Snead (6,9,10)

5. British Amateur champions

Charlie Yates (a)

6. PGA champions

Vic Ghezzi (9,10), Bob Hamilton (9), Ben Hogan (9,10,12), Johnny Revolta

7. Members of the U.S. 1947 Ryder Cup team

• Team not selected in time for inclusion.

8. Members of the U.S. 1947 Walker Cup team

George Hamer (a), Skee Riegel (a), Frank Stranahan (9,a)

• Ted Bishop (3,11,a), Fred Kammer (11,a), Smiley Quick (11,a), Willie Turnesa (3,5,a) and Bud Ward (3,a) did not play.

9. Top 24 players and ties from the 1946 Masters Tournament

Johnny Bulla (10), Jim Ferrier, Jim Foulis, Fred Haas, Chick Harbert (10), Claude Harmon (10), Chandler Harper (10), Clayton Heafner (10), Ky Laffoon, Cary Middlecoff (11), Toney Penna (10), George Schneiter, Felix Serafin

10. Top 24 players and ties from the 1946 U.S. Open

Herman Barron, Ed Furgol, Dutch Harrison, Steve Kovach, Gene Kunes, Dick Metz, Ed Oliver (12), Harry Todd, Lew Worsham

• Henry Ransom and Paul Runyan did not play.

11. 1946 U.S. Amateur quarter-finalists

Babe Lind (a), Robert Willits (a)

• Maurice McCarthy (8,a) and Robert Sweeny Jr. (5,a) did not play.

12. 1946 PGA Championship quarter-finalists

Charles Congdon, Jug McSpaden, Frank Moore, Jim Turnesa

13. One amateur, not already qualified, selected by a ballot of ex-U.S. Amateur champions

• Johnny Dawson (a) did not play

14. One professional, not already qualified, selected by a ballot of ex-U.S. Open champions

Ellsworth Vines

15. Two players, not already qualified, with the best scoring average in the winter part of the 1947 PGA Tour

Johnny Palmer, George Schoux

16 Winner of the 1947 Inter-service Invitational tournament

Joe MacDonald (a)

17 Home club professional

Ed Dudley

18. Extra invitations

George Fazio (winner of the 1946 Canadian Open), Bobby Locke

Round summaries

First round

Thursday, April 3, 1947

Place	Player	Score	To par
T1	Jimmy Demaret	69	−3
	Byron Nelson
T3	Johnny Bulla	70	−2
	Jim Ferrier
	Fred Haas
	Ed Oliver
	Johnny Palmer
	George Schneiter
	Lew Worsham
T10	Herman Barron	71	−1
	Chick Harbert
	Lawson Little
	Cary Middlecoff
	Toney Penna
	George Schoux

Source: ^{[5] [6]}

Second round

Friday, April 4, 1947

Place	Player	Score	To par
T1	Jimmy Demaret	69-71=140	−4
	Cary Middlecoff	71-69=140
T3	Jim Ferrier	70-71=141	−3
	Byron Nelson	69-72=141
	Toney Penna	71-70=141
T8	Herman Barron	71-71=142	−2
	Claude Harmon	73-69=142
	Lawson Little	71-71=142
	Ed Oliver	70-72=142
	Horton Smith	72-70=142

Source: ^{[6] [7]}

Third round

Saturday, April 5, 1947

Place	Player	Score	To par
1	Jimmy Demaret	69-71-70=210	−6
T2	Byron Nelson	69-72-72=213	−3
	Jug McSpaden	74-69-70=213
T4	Jim Ferrier	70-71-73=214	−2
	Chick Harbert	71-72-71=214
	Ben Hogan	75-68-71=214
T7	Henry Picard	73-70-72=215	−1
	Frank Stranahan (a)	73-72-70=215
T9	Herman Barron	71-71-74=216	E
	Dick Metz	72-72-72=216
	Cary Middlecoff	71-69-76=216
	Ed Oliver	70-72-74=216
	Toney Penna	71-70-75=216

Source: ^{[3] [4]}

Final round

Sunday, April 6, 1947

Final leaderboard

Champion

Silver Cup winner (low amateur)

(a) = amateur

(c) = past champion

Top 10

Place	Player	Score	To par	Money ( US$)
1	Jimmy Demaret (c)	69-71-70-71=281	−7	2,500
T2	Byron Nelson (c)	69-72-72-70=283	−5	1,500
	Frank Stranahan (a)	73-72-70-68=283		0
T4	Ben Hogan	75-68-71-70=284	−4	900
	Jug McSpaden	74-69-70-71=284
T6	Jim Ferrier	70-71-73-72=286	−2	625
	Henry Picard (c)	73-70-72-71=286
T8	Chandler Harper	77-72-68-70=287	−1	335
	Lloyd Mangrum	76-73-68-70=287
	Dick Metz	72-72-72-71=287
	Ed Oliver	70-72-74-71=287
	Toney Penna	71-70-75-71=287

Leaderboard below the top 10
Place	Player	Score	To par	Money ( $)
13	Johnny Bulla	70-75-74-69=288	E	225
T14	Dick Chapman (a)	72-71-74-72=289	+1	0
	Lawson Little	71-71-76-71=289		188
	Bobby Locke	74-74-71-70=289
T17	Herman Barron	71-71-74-74=290	+2	125
	Fred Haas	70-74-73-73=290
	Johnny Palmer	70-73-74-73=290
20	Denny Shute	73-75-72-71=291	+3	100
21	Vic Ghezzi	73-77-71-71=292	+4	50
T22	Horton Smith (c)	72-70-76-75=293	+5
	Sam Snead	72-71-75-75=293
T24	Herman Keiser (c)	74-75-73-72=294	+6
	Ellsworth Vines	75-71-75-73=294
T26	Claude Harmon	73-69-76-77=295	+7
	Gene Sarazen (c)	75-76-74-70=295
	George Schneiter	70-75-78-72=295
T29	Dutch Harrison	74-71-74-77=296	+8
	Clayton Heafner	75-73-75-73=296
	Cary Middlecoff	71-69-76-80=296
	Harry Todd	74-74-71-77=296
T33	Chick Harbert	71-72-71-83=297	+9
	Ky Laffoon	74-74-73-76=297
	Frank Moore	76-74-71-76=297
	Lew Worsham	70-76-71-80=297
37	Ed Dudley	72-75-73-78=298	+10
38	George Schoux	71-72-78-78=299	+11
T39	Charles Congdon	75-74-75-76=300	+12
	George Fazio	75-78-71-76=300
	Gene Kunes	74-73-78-75=300
T42	Bob Hamilton	72-78-74-77=301	+13
	Johnny Revolta	75-73-77-76=301
T44	Ed Furgol	77-73-71-81=302	+14
	Jim Turnesa	80-72-77-73=302
46	Babe Lind (a)	75-76-75-77=303	+15
T47	Steve Kovach	78-73-78-75=304	+16
	Felix Serafin	75-73-79-77=304
	Robert Willits (a)	76-78-75-75=304
T50	George Hamer (a)	77-77-77-74=305	+17
	Skee Riegel (a)	75-80-75-75=305
52	Jim Foulis	77-76-79-74=306	+18
T53	Johnny Farrell	80-76-76-79=311	+23
	Craig Wood (c)	78-80-75-78=311
T55	Bobby Jones	75-79-78-80=312	+24
	Charlie Yates (a)	77-75-81-79=312
57	Billy Burke	83-73-81-77=314	+26
WD	Joe MacDonald (a)	85-80-81=246	+30

Sources: ^{[8] [9]}

Scorecard

Hole	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18
Par	4	5	4	3	4	3	4	5	4	4	4	3	5	4	5	3	4	4
Demaret	−6	−7	−7	−7	−6	−6	−6	−6	−6	−6	−6	−6	−7	−7	−8	−7	−7	−7
Nelson	−3	−4	−4	−4	−4	−5	−5	−5	−4	−3	−3	−3	−4	−4	−5	−5	−5	−5
Stranahan	−1	−2	−2	−2	−2	−2	−2	−3	−3	−3	−3	−4	−4	−4	−5	−5	−5	−5
Hogan	−2	−3	−3	−3	−3	−3	−3	−4	−3	−3	−2	−2	−3	−3	−3	−3	−4	−4
McSpaden	−2	−3	−4	−4	−5	−4	−4	−4	−4	−4	−3	−3	−3	−4	−4	−4	−4	−4
Ferrier	−2	−3	−4	−5	−5	−5	−5	−6	−5	−4	−4	−2	−3	−3	−2	−2	−2	−2
Picard	−1	−2	−3	−2	−2	−2	−1	−1	−1	−1	−1	E	−1	−2	−2	−3	−3	−2
Harbert	−1	−2	−3	−2	−2	−2	−2	−2	−2	−2	−1	E	+1	+2	+3	+7	+9	+9

Cumulative tournament scores, relative to par

Birdie

Bogey

Double bogey

Triple bogey +

References

External links

• Masters.com – past winners and results
• Augusta.com – 1947 Masters leaderboard and scorecards