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Sunday 12 April 1992Men’s majorsYear in Review

Couples wins Masters

Augusta National Golf Club, Augusta, Georgia · Thursday 9 to Sunday 12 April 1992 · purse $1,500,000 · winner's share $270,000

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 46 m

of daylight on the final day, the sun 65° up at noon, and that night a waxing gibbous moon (computed from the date and the place).

  1. R126°/10°C · wind 9 km/h SSW, gusts 28 · 0 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
  2. R228°/11°C · wind 14 km/h S, gusts 31 · 0 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
  3. R323°/15°C · wind 17 km/h SSE, gusts 35 · 7.3 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
  4. R426°/15°C · wind 6 km/h ENE, gusts 20 · 11.8 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.

, 63 (cut at 145) 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

Fred Couples

275Total
−13To par
2 strokesMargin

Runner-up: Raymond Floyd

The golfer

b. 1959-10-03, Seattle, Washington, USA; United States; age 32 at the win (year page); 1st major (card's count)

Fred Couples’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