The 1946 Masters Tournament was the tenth Masters Tournament, held April4–7 at Augusta National Golf Club in Augusta, Georgia. It was the first in four years because of World WarII. The purse was $10,000, double that of the previous Masters in 1942, with a winner's share of $2,500.

Herman Keiser won his only major title, one stroke ahead of runner-up Ben Hogan, the tour's money leader. Keiser and Hogan both three-putted the slick 18thgreen on Sunday; Keiser from , and a half-hour later Hogan from .

Hogan won the PGA Championship four months later in August for his first major title at age34. He later won the Masters in 1951 and 1953 and finished his career with nine wins in majors.

Field With only one major championship played in 1945, the invitation criteria were modified. Eight amateurs and eight professionals were selected by a committee in February and four further professionals were invited just before the event.

1. Masters champions Jimmy Demaret (7), Ralph Guldahl (2,7), Byron Nelson (2,6,7,8), Henry Picard (6,7), Horton Smith (7), Craig Wood (2,7) Gene Sarazen (2,4,6,7) did not play.

2. U.S. Open champions Billy Burke (7), Bobby Jones (3,4,5,7), Lawson Little (3,5,7)

3. U.S. Amateur champions Dick Chapman (a)

4. British Open champions Denny Shute (6,8)

5. British Amateur champions Charlie Yates (7,a)

6. PGA champions Vic Ghezzi (8), Bob Hamilton, Sam Snead (7)

7. Top 30 players and ties from the 1942 Masters Tournament Sammy Byrd (8), Jim Ferrier, Jim Foulis, Chick Harbert, Chandler Harper, Dutch Harrison, Ben Hogan, Herman Keiser, Gene Kunes, Jug McSpaden, Johnny Palmer, Toney Penna, Felix Serafin, Jimmy Thomson

Tommy Armour (2,4,6), Harry Cooper, Bobby Cruickshank, Willie Goggin, Paul Runyan (6) and Bud Ward (3,a) did not play.

8. 1945 PGA Championship quarter-finalists Claude Harmon, Ralph Hutchison, Ky Laffoon

Clarence Doser did not play.

9. Selected amateurs, not already qualified Bob Cochran (a), Fred Haas, Cary Middlecoff (a), Frank Stranahan (a)

Ray Billows (a), Harry Givan (a), Chuck Kocsis (a), Jim McHale Jr. (a) did not play. Haas turned professional before the event.

10. Selected professionals, not already qualified Herman Barron, Johnny Bulla, Ed Dudley, Jimmy Hines, Lloyd Mangrum, Dick Metz, Ed Oliver, Jim Turnesa

11. One amateur, not already qualified, selected by a ballot of ex-U.S. Amateur champions Tommy Suffern Tailer (a) did not play

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

13. Two players, not already qualified, with the best scoring average in the winter part of the 1946 PGA Tour Leland Gibson, George Schneiter

14. Additional invitations Clayton Heafner, Rod Munday, Buck White, Al Zimmerman

Round summaries First round Thursday, April 4, 1946 PlacePlayerScoreTo parT1 Chick Harbert 69 −3 Herman Keiser T3 Vic Ghezzi 71 −1 Fred Haas Toney Penna T6 Johnny Bulla 72 E Cary Middlecoff Byron Nelson Jimmy ThomsonT10 George Schneiter 73 +1 Clayton Heafner Source:

Second round Friday, April 5, 1946 PlacePlayerScoreTo par1 Herman Keiser 69-68=137 −72 Jimmy Thomson 72-70=142 −23 Clayton Heafner 74-69=143 −1T4 Bob Hamilton 75-69=144 E Chick Harbert 69-75=144 Ben Hogan 74-70=144 Toney Penna 71-73=144 T8 Jimmy Demaret 75-70=145 +1 Jim Foulis 70-75=145 Byron Nelson 72-73=145 Source:

Third round Saturday, April 6, 1946 PlacePlayerScoreTo par1 Herman Keiser 69-68-71=208 −82 Ben Hogan 74-70-69=213 −3 T3 Jim Ferrier 74-72-68=214 −2 Fred Haas 71-75-68=214 Clayton Heafner 74-69-71=2146 Bob Hamilton 75-69-71=215 −1 T7 Jimmy Demaret 75-70-71=216 E Byron Nelson 72-73-71=216T9 Jim Foulis 75-70-72=217 +1 Vic Ghezzi 71-79-67=217 Ky Laffoon 74-73-70=217 Source:

Final round Sunday, April 7, 1946

Final leaderboard Champion Silver Cup winner (low amateur)(a) = amateur(c) = past champion Top 10PlacePlayerScoreTo parMoney (US$)1 Herman Keiser 69-68-71-74=282 −6 2,5002 Ben Hogan 74-70-69-70=283 −5 1,5003 Bob Hamilton 75-69-71-72=287 −1 1,000T4 Jimmy Demaret (c) 75-70-71-73=289 +1 683 Jim Ferrier 74-72-68-75=289 Ky Laffoon 74-73-70-72=289T7 Chick Harbert 69-75-76-70=290 +2 356 Clayton Heafner 74-69-71-76=290 Byron Nelson (c) 72-73-71-74=290 Sam Snead 74-75-70-71=290 Leaderboard below the top 10PlacePlayerScoreTo parMoney ($)11 Jim Foulis 75-70-72-74=291 +3 250T12 Vic Ghezzi 71-79-67-76=293 +5 213 Cary Middlecoff (a) 72-76-71-74=293 0 George Schneiter 73-73-72-75=293 21315 Fred Haas 71-75-68-80=294 +6 175T16 Johnny Bulla 72-76-73-74=295 +7 138 Lloyd Mangrum 76-75-72-72=29518 Claude Harmon 76-75-74-71=296 +8 10019 Chandler Harper 74-76-73-74=297 +9 10020 Frank Stranahan (a) 76-74-73-75=298 +10 0T21 Lawson Little 74-74-78-73=299 +11 50 Toney Penna 71-73-80-75=299 Felix Serafin 76-75-79-69=299 Horton Smith (c) 78-77-75-69=299T25 Herman Barron 74-73-74-79=300 +12 Henry Picard (c) 79-73-71-77=300 Denny Shute 79-77-71-73=300 Jimmy Thomson 72-70-79-79=300T29 Gene Kunes 76-72-77-76=301 +13 Jug McSpaden 75-74-75-77=301 Al Zimmerman 76-76-74-75=301T32 Ed Dudley 76-76-76-74=302 +14 Bobby Jones 75-72-77-78=302 Dick Metz 77-75-71-79=302 Johnny Palmer 76-75-77-74=302 Al Watrous 80-76-72-74=302T37 Dutch Harrison 75-77-75-76=303 +15 Ed Oliver 79-73-71-80=303 Jim Turnesa 73-78-71-81=30340 Sammy Byrd 75-79-71-79=304 +16T41 Dick Chapman (a) 77-77-73-79=306 +18 Ralph Hutchison 79-78-75-74=30643 Leland Gibson 78-80-75-75=308 +2044 Rod Munday 78-77-76-78=309 +2145 Buck White 77-82-76-75=310 +2246 Billy Burke 80-80-77-75=312 +2447 Bob Cochran (a) 81-76-76-80=313 +2548 Ralph Guldahl (c) 85-76-78-76=315 +2749 Jimmy Hines 79-80-77-80=316 +2850 Charlie Yates (a) 78-79-78-86=321 +33WD Craig Wood (c) 83 +11

Sources:

Scorecard Hole123456789101112131415161718Par454343454 443545344 Keiser −7−8−8−8−7−8−7−8−7−7−7−7−7−7−7−7−7−6 Hogan −2−3−3−3−3−3−3−4−4−4−4−5−6−5−6−6−6−5 Cumulative tournament scores, relative to par

References

External links Masters.com – past winners and results GolfCompendium.com – 1946 Masters Augusta.com – 1946 Masters leaderboard and scorecards