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Sunday 14 April 1991Men’s majorsYear in Review

Woosnam wins Masters

Augusta National Golf Club, Augusta, Georgia · Thursday 11 to Sunday 14 April 1991 · purse $1,350,000 · winner's share $243,000

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 48 m

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

  1. R124°/12°C · wind 17 km/h NE, gusts 37 · 0 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
  2. R222°/16°C · wind 20 km/h E, gusts 41 · 0 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
  3. R322°/15°C · wind 18 km/h ESE, gusts 39 · 0.6 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
  4. R426°/18°C · wind 13 km/h SE, gusts 28 · 1 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.

, 57 (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

Ian Woosnam

277Total
−11To par
1 strokeMargin

Runner-up: Jose Maria Olazabal

The golfer

b. 1958-03-02, Oswestry, Shropshire, England; Wales; age 33 at the win (year page); 1st major (card's count)

Ian Woosnam’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