The 1988 Masters Tournament was the 52nd Masters Tournament, held April 7–10 at Augusta National Golf Club in Augusta, Georgia. Sandy Lyle won his second major title with a birdie on the 72nd hole to win by one stroke over runner-up Mark Calcavecchia.

Lyle led after 36 and 54 holes, but relinquished the lead on the final nine; he carded a double-bogey on the par-3 12th after his tee shot hit the bank and rolled back into Rae's Creek. Having failed to make birdie on either of the two par-5s on the back nine, he remained one stroke behind Calcavecchia at the par-3 16th. Lyle's tee shot found the green and left him with a putt for birdie, which he holed.

Tied for the lead on the 18th tee, Lyle's 1-iron tee shot found the fairway bunker. His 7-iron approach landed past the flag and up the slope of the tier running across the green, before gradually rolling back to finish around from the hole. After holing the birdie putt, Lyle danced up the green to claim his only green jacket.

From Scotland, Lyle was the first winner of the Masters from the United Kingdom, which had four consecutive with Nick Faldo's playoff wins in 1989 and 1990 and Ian Woosnam's one-stroke victory in 1991. Decades later, Lyle's approach shot from the bunker on the final hole is still regularly referred to by BBC commentators, particularly Peter Alliss, who almost without fail, remark that any shot rolling back to the pin on the 18th has 'shades of Sandy Lyle' about it.

Field 1. Masters champions Tommy Aaron, George Archer, Seve Ballesteros (3,8,9), Gay Brewer, Billy Casper, Charles Coody, Ben Crenshaw (8,9,10,11,12), Raymond Floyd (2), Doug Ford, Bernhard Langer (8,9,12), Larry Mize (9,12,13), Jack Nicklaus (8), Arnold Palmer, Gary Player, Craig Stadler (8), Art Wall Jr., Tom Watson (3,8,9,11,12), Fuzzy Zoeller (2)

Jack Burke Jr., Bob Goalby, Claude Harmon, Ben Hogan, Herman Keiser, Cary Middlecoff, Byron Nelson, Henry Picard, Gene Sarazen, and Sam Snead did not play.

2. U.S. Open champions (last five years) Larry Nelson (4,11,12,13), Andy North, Scott Simpson (11,12,13)

3. The Open champions (last five years) Nick Faldo (11), Sandy Lyle (8,11), Greg Norman (8,12)

4. PGA champions (last five years) Hubert Green, Hal Sutton (12,13), Lee Trevino, Bob Tway

5. 1987 U.S. Amateur semi-finalists Stephen Ford (a), Scott Gump (a), Billy Mayfair (6,7,a), Eric Rebmann (a)

6. Previous two U.S. Amateur and British Amateur champions Buddy Alexander (7,a), David Curry (a), Paul Mayo (a)

7. Members of the 1987 U.S. Walker Cup team Bob Lewis (a), Bill Loeffler (a), Len Mattiace (a), Brian Montgomery (a), Jay Sigel (a)

Billy Andrade, Chris Kite, Jim Sorenson forfeited their exemptions by turning professional.

8. Top 24 players and ties from the 1987 Masters Tournament Paul Azinger (11,12), Chip Beck (11,12), Mark Calcavecchia (12,13), Chen Tze-chung, John Cook (11,12), Jay Haas (11), Tom Kite (11,12,13), Gary Koch, Roger Maltbie, Mark McCumber (10,11,12), Jodie Mudd, Mark O'Meara (12), Nick Price (12), Curtis Strange (9,11,12,13), Bobby Wadkins (9,10,12), Lanny Wadkins (10,11,12,13), D. A. Weibring (10,11,12)

9. Top 16 players and ties from the 1987 U.S. Open Isao Aoki, Lennie Clements, Bob Eastwood, Tsuneyuki Nakajima, Mac O'Grady, Dan Pohl (12,13), Tim Simpson, Jim Thorpe

10. Top eight players and ties from 1987 PGA Championship Scott Hoch (12), Don Pooley (11,12)

11. Winners of PGA Tour events since the previous Masters Dave Barr, Ken Brown, Keith Clearwater, Fred Couples (12), Gary Hallberg, Steve Jones, Kenny Knox, Davis Love III, Steve Pate (12), Sam Randolph, Mike Reid (12), Joey Sindelar, J. C. Snead, Doug Tewell, Robert Wrenn

John Inman, the winner of the Provident Classic was not invited.

12. Top 30 players from the 1987 PGA Tour money list David Frost, Corey Pavin, Jeff Sluman, Payne Stewart (13)

13. Members of the U.S. 1987 Ryder Cup team Andy Bean

14. Special foreign invitation Rodger Davis, Mark McNulty, Ian Woosnam

Round summaries First round Thursday, April 7, 1988 PlacePlayerScoreTo parT1 Larry Nelson 69 −3 Robert Wrenn T3 Mark Calcavecchia 71 −1 Bernhard Langer Sandy Lyle Don Pooley T7 Ben Crenshaw 72 E Gary Koch Tom Watson T10 Seve Ballesteros 73 +1 Andy Bean Chip Beck Ken Brown David Frost Gary Hallberg Tom Kite Davis Love III Source:

Second round Friday, April 8, 1988 PlacePlayerScoreTo par1 Sandy Lyle 71-67=138 −6 2 Mark Calcavecchia 71-69=140 −4 T3 Gary Hallberg 73-69=142 −2 Fuzzy Zoeller 76-66=142 T5 Chip Beck 73-70=143 −1 Fred Couples 75-68=143 Bernhard Langer 71-72=143 Don Pooley 71-72=143 Tom Watson 72-71=143T10 Hubert Green 74-70=144 E Robert Wrenn 69-75=144 Source:

Third round Saturday, April 9, 1988 PlacePlayerScoreTo par1 Sandy Lyle 71-67-72=210 −6 T2 Mark Calcavecchia 71-69-72=212 −4 Ben Crenshaw 72-73-67=212 T4 Fred Couples 75-68-71=214 −2 Bernhard Langer 71-72-71=214 Fuzzy Zoeller 76-66-72=214 T7 Seve Ballesteros 73-72-70=215 −1 Don Pooley 71-72-72=215 Craig Stadler 76-69-70=215 T10 Doug Tewell 75-73-68=216 E Tom Watson 72-71-73=216 Source:

Final round Sunday, April 10, 1988

Final leaderboard Champion Silver Cup winner (low amateur)(a) = amateur(c) = past champion Top 10PlacePlayerScoreTo parMoney (US$)1 Sandy Lyle 71-67-72-71=281 −7 183,8002 Mark Calcavecchia 71-69-72-70=282 −6 110,2003 Craig Stadler (c) 76-69-70-68=283 −5 69,4004 Ben Crenshaw (c) 72-73-67-72=284 −4 48,900T5 Fred Couples 75-68-71-71=285 −3 36,500 Greg Norman 77-73-71-64=285 Don Pooley 71-72-72-70=2858 David Frost 73-74-71-68=286 −2 31,000T9 Bernhard Langer (c) 71-72-71-73=287 −1 28,000 Tom Watson (c) 72-71-73-71=287 Leaderboard below the top 10PlacePlayerScoreTo parMoney ($)T11 Seve Ballesteros (c) 73-72-70-73=288 E 23,000 Raymond Floyd (c) 80-69-68-71=288 Lanny Wadkins 74-75-69-70=288T14 Nick Price 75-76-72-66=289 +1 18,500 Doug Tewell 75-73-68-73=289T16 Mark McNulty 74-71-73-72=290 +2 16,000 Dan Pohl 78-70-69-73=290 Fuzzy Zoeller (c) 76-66-72-76=290T19 Chen Tze-chung 76-73-72-70=291 +3 13,500 Hubert Green 74-70-75-72=291T21 Chip Beck 73-70-76-73=292 +4 11,200 Jack Nicklaus (c) 75-73-72-72=292 Curtis Strange 76-70-72-74=29224 Mark McCumber 79-71-72-71=293 +5 9,600T25 Isao Aoki 74-74-73-73=294 +6 7,975 Gary Koch 72-73-74-75=294 Payne Stewart 75-76-71-72=294 Robert Wrenn 69-75-76-74=29429 Rodger Davis 77-72-71-75=295 +7 7,100T30 Nick Faldo 75-74-75-72=296 +8 6,500 Steve Jones 74-74-75-73=296 Mac O'Grady 74-73-76-73=296T33 Tsuneyuki Nakajima 74-72-77-74=297 +9 5,667 Larry Nelson 69-78-75-75=297 Bob Tway 74-73-74-76=297T36 Ken Brown 73-78-69-78=298 +10 4,900 Andy North 74-74-75-75=298 Steve Pate 75-76-75-72=298T39 Mark O'Meara 74-76-74-76=300 +12 4,400 Jay Sigel (a) 77-72-73-78=300 0 Joey Sindelar 79-70-74-77=300 4,400T42 Gary Hallberg 73-69-80-79=301 +13 4,000 Corey Pavin 76-75-75-75=30144 Tom Kite 73-76-77-76=302 +14 3,700T45 Larry Mize (c) 78-71-76-79=304 +16 3,400 Jeff Sluman 80-71-78-75=304CUT Dave Barr 77-75=152 +8 Andy Bean 73-79=152 Jay Haas 81-71=152 Scott Hoch 79-73=152 Kenny Knox 75-77=152 Davis Love III 73-79=152 Sam Randolph 78-74=152 John Cook 77-76=153 +9 Bob Eastwood 77-76=153 Gary Player (c) 78-75=153 Charles Coody (c) 78-76=154 +10 David Curry (a) 74-80=154 Roger Maltbie 76-78=154 Mike Reid 78-76=154 Tim Simpson 80-74=154 George Archer (c) 80-75=155 +11 Paul Azinger 75-80=155 Keith Clearwater 82-73=155 Billy Mayfair (a) 80-75=155 Scott Simpson 79-76=155 Bobby Wadkins 79-76=155 Ian Woosnam 81-74=155 Lennie Clements 75-81=156 +12 Bill Loeffler (a) 77-79=156 Len Mattiace (a) 79-77=156 Eric Rebmann (a) 77-79=156 D. A. Weibring 79-77=156 Arnold Palmer (c) 80-77=157 +13 Hal Sutton 80-77=157 Buddy Alexander (a) 78-80=158 +14 J. C. Snead 79-79=158 Gay Brewer (c) 78-81=159 +15 Brian Montgomery (a) 78-81=159 Scott Gump (a) 83-77=160 +16 Paul Mayo (a) 81-80=161 +17 Doug Ford (c) 80-82=162 +18 Jodie Mudd 84-78=162 Stephen Ford (a) 83-80=163 +19 Lee Trevino 81-83=164 +20 Art Wall Jr. (c) 86-79=165 +21 Tommy Aaron (c) 83-83=166 +22 Billy Casper (c) 80-86=166 Bob Lewis (a) 87-83=170 +26WD Jim Thorpe

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Scorecard Hole 1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9 101112131415161718Par454343454 443545344 Lyle −6−7−7−8−8−7−7−7−8−8−7−5−5−5−5−6−6−7 Calcavecchia −4−5−5−4−4−3−2−3−4−4−5−5−6−6−6−6−6−6 Stadler −1−2−2−2−2−2−3−5−5−5−5−5−4−5−6−5−5−5 Crenshaw −3 −4 −5 −5 −5 −4 −3 −3 −3 −3 −3 −3 −3 −3 −4 −4 −4 −4 Couples −2−3−3−2−2−2−2−3−3−3−3−2−2−3−3−3−4−3 Norman +5+4+3+3+3+2+1E−1−1−1−1−2−2−3−3−3−3 Pooley −2−3−4−3−3−2−2−3−3−4−4−4−4−3−2−3−3−3 Frost +3+2+2+2+1EEEEEE+1E−1−1−1−2−2 Langer −2−3−3−2−2−2−2−2−2−3−3−3−4−3−2−1−1−1 Watson EEE+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1EE+1E+1E−1 Ballesteros EEEE−1−1−1E−1−1−1−1EE−1−1−1E Cumulative tournament scores, relative to par {|class="wikitable" span = 50 style="font-size:85%; |- |style="background: Red;" width=10| |Eagle |style="background: Pink;" width=10| |Birdie |style="background: PaleGreen;" width=10| |Bogey |style="background: Green;" width=10| |Double bogey |} Source:

References

External links Masters.com – Past winners and results Augusta.com – 1988 Masters leaderboard and scorecards