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Sunday 15 April 1984Men’s majorsYear in Review

Crenshaw wins Masters

Augusta National Golf Club, Augusta, Georgia · Thursday 12 to Sunday 15 April 1984 · purse $612,900 · winner's share $108,000

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 52 m

of daylight on the final day, the sun 66° up at noon, and that night a full moon (computed from the date and the place).

  1. R123°/4°C · wind 15 km/h SE, gusts 27 · 0 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
  2. R227°/13°C · wind 14 km/h SSW, gusts 32 · 0.4 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
  3. R326°/13°C · wind 16 km/h WSW, gusts 38 · 3.5 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
  4. R422°/13°C · wind 18 km/h WSW, gusts 38 · 3.4 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis

The name over time

  1. 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.

, 47 (cut at 146) 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

Ben Crenshaw

277Total
−11To par
2 strokesMargin

Runner-up: Tom Watson

The golfer

b. 1952-01-11, Austin, Texas, USA; United States; age 32 at the win (year page); 1st major (card's count)

Ben Crenshaw’s player card · Source

Top 10

Not yet researched

What’s in the bag

No bag on file yet

From the papers

No clipping yet