The 1992 Masters Tournament was the 56th Masters Tournament, held April 9–12 at Augusta National Golf Club in Augusta, Georgia.

Fred Couples won his only major championship, two strokes ahead of 49-year-old runner-up Raymond Floyd, the 1976 champion. He was the first American winner in five years at Augusta, the longest run at the Masters without a winner from the U.S.; the previous four were won by players from Europe, all from the United Kingdom. Though he had yet to win a major, Couples entered this Masters at age 32 as the world's top-ranked player and the odds-on favorite.

The 36-hole cut at 145 (+1) eliminated only twenty competitors and 63 played on the weekend, the most since 1966. The Masters did not have a cut until its 21st edition in 1957. George Archer, the 1969 champion, made the cut in his final Masters at age 52 and finished in 51st place.

Less than an hour after the leaders teed off on Saturday afternoon, thunderstorms caused a delay of nearly three hours. Six players did not finish the third round due to darkness, but the pairing just ahead, Ian Baker-Finch and Jeff Sluman, ran between their shots on the final two holes and completed the round. The three pairings returned early on Sunday morning to complete the round; Couples and Floyd were in the penultimate pairing and had four holes remaining. Early in the final round, Mark Calcavecchia shot a record 29 (−7) on the back nine with birdies at 10 and the final six holes; he finished ten strokes back.

Davis Love III won the 33rd Par 3 contest on Wednesday with a score of 22.

Course

HoleNameYardsPar HoleNameYardsPar1Tea Olive4004 10Camellia48542Pink Dogwood555511White Dogwood45543Flowering Peach360412Golden Bell15534Flowering Crab Apple205313Azalea46555Magnolia435414Chinese Fir40546Juniper180315Firethorn50057Pampas360416Redbud17038Yellow Jasmine535517Nandina40049Carolina Cherry435418Holly4054Out3,46536In3,44036Source: Total6,90572

Field 1. Masters champions Tommy Aaron, George Archer, Seve Ballesteros (3,9), Gay Brewer, Ben Crenshaw (9), Nick Faldo (3,9,10), Raymond Floyd (9,10,11,12), Doug Ford, Bernhard Langer, Sandy Lyle (10), Larry Mize (9), Jack Nicklaus, Arnold Palmer, Gary Player, Craig Stadler (9,11,12,13), Tom Watson (9,10), Ian Woosnam (13), Fuzzy Zoeller (9,10)

Jack Burke Jr., Billy Casper, Charles Coody, Bob Goalby, Ben Hogan, Herman Keiser, Cary Middlecoff, Byron Nelson, Henry Picard, Gene Sarazen, Sam Snead, and Art Wall Jr. did not play.

2. U.S. Open champions (last five years) Hale Irwin (9,10), Scott Simpson (9,10), Payne Stewart (4), Curtis Strange

3. The Open champions (last five years) Mark Calcavecchia (9,12), Ian Baker-Finch (9,13)

4. PGA champions (last five years) John Daly (13), Wayne Grady, Larry Nelson (10), Jeff Sluman (13)

5. U.S. Amateur champion and runner-up Mitch Voges (a), Manny Zerman (a)

6. British Amateur champion Gary Wolstenholme (a)

7. U.S. Amateur Public Links champion David Berganio Jr. (a)

8. U.S. Mid-Amateur champion Jim Stuart (a)

9. Top 24 players and ties from the 1991 Masters Steve Elkington (12,13), Jim Gallagher Jr. (10,11,13), Peter Jacobsen, Andrew Magee (12,13), Billy Mayfair, Mark McCumber, Rocco Mediate (13), Jodie Mudd, Tsuneyuki Nakajima, José María Olazábal (10,12), Steve Pate (11,12,13), Corey Pavin (10,12,13), Lanny Wadkins (13)

10. Top 16 players and ties from the 1991 U.S. Open Fred Couples (12,13), Nolan Henke (13), Davis Love III (12,13), Craig Parry, D. A. Weibring (12,13)

Scott Hoch (13) did not play.

11. Top eight players and ties from 1991 PGA Championship David Feherty, Bob Gilder, John Huston, Kenny Knox, Bruce Lietzke (13), Steven Richardson, Hal Sutton

12. Winners of PGA Tour events since the previous Masters Fulton Allem, Billy Andrade (13), Chip Beck (13), Mark Brooks (13), Billy Ray Brown, Russ Cochran (13), John Cook (13), Brad Faxon, Bruce Fleisher, Mike Hulbert (13), Lee Janzen, Blaine McCallister, Mark O'Meara (13), David Peoples, Kenny Perry, Nick Price (13), Dillard Pruitt, Tom Purtzer (13)

13. Top 30 players from the 1991 PGA Tour money list Paul Azinger, Jay Don Blake, Ted Schulz

14. Special foreign invitation Rodger Davis, Colin Montgomerie, Greg Norman, Naomichi Ozaki

Round summaries First round Thursday, April 9, 1992

Larry Nelson, who scored 73, was disqualified after the first round for playing with non-conforming clubs. Nelson had played with irons which had a decorative design on the clubface. He reported himself, after being informed that they might be illegal.

PlacePlayerScoreTo parT1 Jeff Sluman65−7 Lanny WadkinsT3 Wayne Grady68−4 Mike Hulbert Davis Love III Ted SchulzT7 Fulton Allem69−3 Fred Couples Steve Elkington Raymond Floyd John Huston Bernhard Langer Bruce Lietzke Jodie Mudd Jack Nicklaus Craig Parry Steven Richardson Ian Woosnam

Second round Friday, April 10, 1992

PlacePlayerScoreTo parT1 Craig Parry69-66=135−9 Ian Woosnam69-66=1353 Fred Couples69-67=136−8T4 Raymond Floyd69-68=137−7 Ted Schulz68-69=137T6 Ian Baker-Finch70-69=139−5 Jeff Sluman65-74=139 D. A. Weibring71-68=139 T9 Fulton Allem69-71=140−4 Steve Elkington69-71=140 Davis Love III68-72=140 Greg Norman70-70=140 Lanny Wadkins65-75=140

Amateurs: Zerman (−3), Berganio Jr. (+3), Voges (+4), Wolstenholme (+7), Stuart (+14)

Third round Saturday, April 11, 1992 Sunday, April 12, 1992

PlacePlayerScoreTo par1 Craig Parry69-66-69=204−122 Fred Couples69-67-69=205−113 Raymond Floyd69-68-69=206−104 Ian Baker-Finch70-69-68=207−9T5 Nick Price70-71-67=208−8 Ian Woosnam69-66-73=208T7 Bruce Lietzke69-72-68=209−7 Ted Schulz68-69-72=209 Jeff Sluman65-74-70=20910 Mark O'Meara74-67-69=210−6

Final round Sunday, April 12, 1992

Final leaderboard Champion Silver Cup winner (low amateur)(a) = amateur(c) = past champion Top 10PlacePlayerScoreTo parMoney (US$)1 Fred Couples 69-67-69-70=275 −13 270,0002 Raymond Floyd (c) 69-68-69-71=277 −11 162,0003 Corey Pavin 72-71-68-67=278 −10 102,000T4 Mark O'Meara 74-67-69-70=280 −8 66,000 Jeff Sluman 65-74-70-71=280T6 Ian Baker-Finch 70-69-68-74=281 −7 43,829 Nolan Henke 70-71-70-70=281 Larry Mize (c) 73-69-71-68=281 Greg Norman 70-70-73-68=281 Steve Pate 73-71-70-67=281 Nick Price 70-71-67-73=281 Ted Schulz 68-69-72-72=281 Leaderboard below the top 10PlacePlayerScoreTo parMoney ($)T13 Nick Faldo (c) 71-72-68-71=282 −6 26,500 Wayne Grady 68-75-71-68=282 Bruce Lietzke 69-72-68-73=282 Craig Parry 69-66-69-78=282 Dillard Pruitt 75-68-70-69=282 Scott Simpson 70-71-71-70=282T19 Billy Ray Brown 70-74-70-69=283 −5 17,550 John Daly 71-71-73-68=283 Mike Hulbert 68-74-71-70=283 Andrew Magee 73-70-70-70=283 Ian Woosnam (c) 69-66-73-75=283 Fuzzy Zoeller (c) 71-70-73-69=283T25 Bruce Fleisher 73-70-72-69=284 −4 11,467 Jim Gallagher Jr. 74-68-71-71=284 John Huston 69-73-73-69=284 Davis Love III 68-72-72-72=284 Craig Stadler (c) 70-71-70-73=284 D. A. Weibring 71-68-72-73=284T31 Paul Azinger 70-73-70-72=285 −3 8,717 Mark Calcavecchia 73-72-75-65=285 Brad Faxon 71-71-69-74=285 Bernhard Langer (c) 69-73-69-74=285 Steven Richardson 69-75-70-71=285 Curtis Strange 73-72-71-69=285T37 Steve Elkington 69-71-74-72=286 −2 6,800 Sandy Lyle (c) 72-69-70-75=286 Mark McCumber 72-70-76-68=286 Rocco Mediate 70-73-70-73=286 Colin Montgomerie 72-71-73-70=286T42 Bob Gilder 72-71-73-71=287 −1 5,450 Billy Mayfair 71-71-72-73=287 Jack Nicklaus (c) 69-75-69-74=287 José María Olazábal 76-69-72-70=28746 Ben Crenshaw (c) 72-71-71-74=288 E 4,70047 Hale Irwin 72-70-72-75=289 +1 4,400T48 Blaine McCallister 71-71-76-72=290 +2 3,933 Lanny Wadkins 65-75-76-74=290 Tom Watson (c) 73-70-76-71=29051 George Archer (c) 74-69-76-72=291 +3 3,700T52 Fulton Allem 69-71-78-74=292 +4 3,550 David Feherty 73-72-77-70=292T54 Tommy Aaron (c) 76-69-77-71=293 +5 3,440 Billy Andrade 73-71-73-76=293 John Cook 72-73-71-77=293 Lee Janzen 74-71-74-74=293 David Peoples 73-71-72-77=293T59 Seve Ballesteros (c) 75-68-70-81=294 +6 3,300 Manny Zerman (a) 70-71-76-77=294 0T61 Peter Jacobsen 72-70-77-76=295 +7 3,300 Tom Purtzer 76-69-75-75=29563 Rodger Davis 77-68-77-79=301 +13 3,200CUT Mark Brooks 73-73=146 +2 Kenny Knox 73-73=146 Tsuneyuki Nakajima 72-74=146 David Berganio Jr. (a) 76-71=147 +3 Jodie Mudd 69-78=147 Chip Beck 76-72=148 +4 Jay Don Blake 73-75=148 Russ Cochran 73-75=148 Naomichi Ozaki 77-71=148 Arnold Palmer (c) 75-73=148 Kenny Perry 72-76=148 Gary Player (c) 75-73=148 Mitch Voges (a) 73-75=148 Payne Stewart 74-75=149 +5 Hal Sutton 76-75=151 +7 Gary Wolstenholme (a) 72-79=151 Gay Brewer (c) 81-77=158 +14 Jim Stuart (a) 79-79=158 Doug Ford (c) 82-82=164 +20DQ Larry Nelson 73 +1

Sources:

Scorecard Hole 1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9 101112131415161718Par454343454 443545344 Couples −11−10−11−11−10−10−10−11−12−12−12−12−12−13−13−13−13−13 Floyd −9−9−9−9−9−10−10−11−11−10−10−9−9−10−11−11−11−11 Pavin −5 −5 −6 −6 −7 −7 −8 −8 −8 −8 −7 −7 −8 −8 −9 −10 −10 −10 O'Meara −6 −7 −7 −7 −6 −5 −5 −5 −5 −5 −4 −4 −6 −6 −7 −8 −8 −8 Sluman −7 −6 −6 −6 −6 −6 −6 −7 −7 −7 −6 −6 −8 −8 −8 −8 −8 −8 Baker-Finch −10−10−9−9−8−8−8−8−8−7−7−6−6−6−7−7−7−7 Parry −12−13−12−11−10−10−9−9−9−8−8−8−8−8−8−7−7−6 Faldo −6−7−7−7−7−7−7−8−8−7−7−5−5−5−6−6−6−6 Woosnam −8−8−7−7−6−6−5−6−6−5−5−3−5−6−7−6−6−5 Calcavecchia +4+4+4+4+5+5+5+4+4+3+3+3+2+1E−1−2−3 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

References

External links Masters.com – Past winners and results Augusta.com – 1992 Masters leaderboard and scorecards