Golf Network News
Monday 11 April 1983Men’s majorsYear in Review
Ballesteros wins Masters
Augusta National Golf Club, Augusta, Georgia · Thursday 7 to Monday 11 April 1983 · purse $500,000 · winner's share $90,000
The headline is set by GNN from the record. Reports from the papers of the day are below as they are found.
The weather
12 h 42 m
of daylight on the final day, the sun 64° up at noon, and that night a waning crescent moon (computed from the date and the place).
- R124°/18°C · wind 10 km/h S, gusts 32 · 2.7 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R220°/17°C · wind 20 km/h S, gusts 53 · 13.9 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R324°/17°C · wind 26 km/h S, gusts 58 · 31.4 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R420°/8°C · wind 23 km/h W, gusts 48 · 0 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R522°/9°C · wind 21 km/h W, gusts 47 · 0 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
The name over time
- Masters
1934–2026 in our record, 90 editions.
The ones it got away from
Runners-up and the shots that cost them: not yet researched.
, 49 (cut at 147) made it
Same week
Nothing else in our record that week.
Men's major
Masters
Augusta National Golf Club, Augusta, Georgia
2 of 5 researched
Winner
Runner-up: Ben Crenshaw, Tom Kite
The golfer
b. 1957-04-09, Pedrena, Spain; Spain; age 26 at the win (year page); 3rd major (card's count)
Top 10
Not yet researched
What’s in the bag
No bag on file yet
From the papers
No clipping yet