1940 Masters Tournament

1940 Masters Tournament
Tournament information
Dates	April 4–7, 1940
Location	Augusta, Georgia; 33°30′11″N 82°01′12″W / 33.503°N 82.020°W
Course(s)	Augusta National Golf Club
Organized by	Augusta National Golf Club
Tour(s)	PGA Tour
Statistics
Par	72
Length	6,800 yards (6,220 m)
Field	59 players
Cut	none
Prize fund	$5,000
Winner's share	$1,500
Champion
	Jimmy Demaret
	280 (−8)
Location map
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The 1940 Masters Tournament was the seventh Masters Tournament, held April 4–7 at Augusta National Golf Club in Augusta, Georgia.

Jimmy Demaret won the first of his three Masters titles, four strokes ahead of runner-up Lloyd Mangrum,^[1]^[2] the largest margin of victory until 1948. The purse was $5,000 and the winner's share was $1,500.

Mangrum shot an opening round 64 (−8), a new course record by two strokes,^[3]^[4]^[5]^[6] and it stood for 46 years, until Nick Price's 63 in 1986,^[7] later equaled by Greg Norman in 1996. Although all three of these players won major titles, none won a Masters.

Field

1. Masters champions

Ralph Guldahl (2,9,10), Byron Nelson (2,9,10,12), Henry Picard (6,9,10,12), Gene Sarazen (2,4,6,9), Horton Smith (9,10,12)

2. U.S. Open champions

Tommy Armour (4,6,9,10), Billy Burke (9), Chick Evans (3,a), Johnny Farrell, Walter Hagen (4,6), Bobby Jones (3,4,5), Tony Manero (9), George Sargent

3. U.S. Amateur champions

Lawson Little (5,9)

4. British Open champions

5. British Amateur champions

Charlie Yates (8,9,a)

6. PGA champions

Johnny Revolta (10), Paul Runyan (9,10,12)

7. Members of the U.S. Ryder Cup team

Not held

8. Members of the U.S. 1938 Walker Cup team

Ray Billows (11,a), Chuck Kocsis (a), Tommy Suffern Tailer (9,a), Bud Ward (10,11,a)

Johnny Fischer (3,a), Johnny Goodman (2,3,5,a), Fred Haas (a) and Reynolds Smith (a) did not play. Tailer was a reserve for the team.

9. Top 30 players and ties from the 1939 Masters Tournament

Ed Dudley (10), Vic Ghezzi (10), Chick Harbert (a), Jimmy Hines (10), Ben Hogan, Ky Laffoon (10), Jug McSpaden (10), Frank Moore, Toney Penna, Felix Serafin (10), Sam Snead (10), Jimmy Thomson, Willie Turnesa (a), Frank Walsh, Al Watrous, Craig Wood (10)

Denny Shute (4,6,10) and Jess Sweetser (3,5,a) did not play.

10. Top 30 players and ties from the 1939 U.S. Open

Johnny Bulla, Sammy Byrd, Harry Cooper, Bobby Cruickshank, Jimmy Demaret, Jim Foulis, Dutch Harrison (12), Clayton Heafner, Dick Metz (12), Ed Oliver, Wilford Wehrle (a)

Olin Dutra (2,6), Matt Kowal and John Rogers did not play.

11. 1939 U.S. Amateur quarter-finalists

George Dawson (a), Art Doering (a)

Harry Givan (a), Ed Kingsley (a) and Don Schumacher (a) did not play.

12. 1939 PGA Championship quarter-finalists

Rod Munday

Emerick Kocsis did not play.

13. One amateur, not already qualified, selected by a ballot of ex-U.S. Amateur champions

Bill Holt (a)

14. One professional, not already qualified, selected by a ballot of ex-U.S. Open champions

Macdonald Smith did not play.

15. Two players, not already qualified, with the best scoring average in the winter part of the 1940 PGA Tour

Willie Goggin, Lloyd Mangrum

16 Foreign invitations

Enrique Bertolino, Jim Ferrier (a), Jules Huot, Martin Pose, Robert Sweeny Jr. (a)

Round summaries

First round

Thursday April 4, 1940

Place	Player	Score	To par
1	Lloyd Mangrum	64	−8
2	Jimmy Demaret	67	−5
T3	Harry Cooper	69	−3
T3	Byron Nelson	69	−3
T5	Lawson Little	70	−2
T5	Craig Wood	70	−2
T7	Tommy Armour	71	−1
	Willie Goggin
	Jug McSpaden
	Dick Metz
	Henry Picard
	Paul Runyan
	Sam Snead

Source:^[3]^[4]^[5]

Scorecard

First round, set course record 32-32=64 (−8), lasted until 1986

Hole	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18
Par	4	5	4	3	4	3	4	5	4	4	4	3	5	4	5	3	4	4
Mangrum	E	−1	−2	−2	−2	−2	−2	−3	−4	−3	−3	−4	−5	−5	−6	−6	−7	−8

Source:^[3]^[4]^[5]

Second round

Friday April 5, 1940

Place	Player	Score	To par
T1	Jimmy Demaret	67-72=139	−5
T1	Lloyd Mangrum	64-75=139	−5
3	Byron Nelson	69-72=141	−3
4	Henry Picard	71-71=142	−2
T5	Willie Goggin	71-72=143	−1
T5	Sam Snead	71-72=143	−1
T7	Harry Cooper	69-75=144	E
T7	Jug McSpaden	73-71=144	E
T9	Tommy Armour	71-74=145	+1
	Ed Dudley	73-72=145
	Dick Metz	71-74=145
	Paul Runyan	72-73=145
	Craig Wood	70-75=145

Source:^[8]^[9]

Third round

Saturday April 6, 1940

Place	Player	Score	To par
1	Jimmy Demaret	67-72-70=209	−7
2	Lloyd Mangrum	64-75-71=210	−6
T3	Sam Snead	71-72-69=212	−4
T3	Craig Wood	70-75-67=212	−4
5	Henry Picard	71-71-71=213	−3
6	Byron Nelson	69-72-74=215	−1
T7	Ed Dudley	73-72-71=216	E
	Willie Goggin	71-72-73=216
	Ben Hogan	73-74-69=216
T10	Harry Cooper	69-75-73=217	+1
T10	Paul Runyan	72-73-72=217	+1

Source:

Final round

Sunday April 7, 1940

Final leaderboard

Champion
Silver Cup winner (low amateur)
(a) = amateur
(c) = past champion

*Top 10*
Place	Player	Score	To par	Money (US$)
1	Jimmy Demaret	67-72-70-71=280	−8	1,500
2	Lloyd Mangrum	64-75-71-74=284	−4	800
3	Byron Nelson (c)	69-72-74-70=285	−3	600
T4	Harry Cooper	69-75-73-70=287	−1	400
	Ed Dudley	73-72-71-71=287
	Willie Goggin	71-72-73-71=287
T7	Henry Picard (c)	71-71-71-75=288	E	200
	Sam Snead	71-72-69-76=288
	Craig Wood	70-75-67-76=288
T10	Ben Hogan	73-74-69-74=290	+2	100
T10	Toney Penna	73-73-72-72=290	+2	100

Leaderboard below the top 10
Place	Player	Score	To par	Money ($)
T12	Paul Runyan	72-73-72-74=291	+3	50
T12	Frank Walsh	73-75-69-74=291	+3	50
T14	Sammy Byrd	73-74-72-73=292	+4
	Johnny Farrell	76-72-70-74=292
	Ralph Guldahl (c)	74-73-71-74=292
T17	Jug McSpaden	73-71-74-75=293	+5
T17	Charlie Yates (a)	72-75-71-75=293	+5
T19	Lawson Little	70-77-75-72=294	+6
T19	Ed Oliver	73-75-74-72=294	+6
T21	Johnny Bulla	73-73-74-75=295	+7
	Dick Metz	71-74-75-75=295
	Gene Sarazen (c)	74-71-77-73=295
	Bud Ward (a)	74-68-75-78=295
	Al Watrous	75-70-73-77=295
26	Jim Ferrier (a)	73-74-75-74=296	+8
T27	Jimmy Hines	75-76-74-72=297	+9
T27	Johnny Revolta	74-74-74-75=297	+9
T29	Jim Foulis	74-75-73-76=298	+10
T29	Tony Manero	75-75-73-75=298	+10
T31	Dutch Harrison	72-76-74-77=299	+11
T31	Frank Moore	76-72-73-78=299	+11
T33	Chick Harbert (a)	74-77-75-75=301	+13
	Jules Huot	78-76-70-77=301
	Jimmy Thomson	77-76-70-78=301
	Wilford Wehrle (a)	74-71-76-80=301
37	Martin Pose	77-76-74-75=302	+14
38	Tommy Armour	71-74-78-80=303	+15
T39	Vic Ghezzi	77-75-74-79=305	+17
	Bill Holt (a)	80-75-76-74=305
	Rod Munday	73-76-75-81=305
	Tommy Suffern Tailer (a)	79-74-74-78=305
	Robert Sweeny Jr. (a)	76-78-73-78=305
T44	Art Doering (a)	76-79-76-75=306	+18
T44	Chuck Kocsis (a)	76-79-74-77=306	+18
46	Felix Serafin	85-72-80-71=308	+20
T47	Horton Smith (c)	76-76-80-77=309	+21
T47	Willie Turnesa (a)	76-74-81-78=309	+21
49	George Dawson (a)	77-73-81-81=312	+24
50	Enrique Bertolino	80-80-78-75=313	+25
51	Chick Evans (a)	82-84-86-79=331	+43
WD	Billy Burke	72-81-74=227	+11
	Walter Hagen	77-78-73=228	+12
	Ray Billows (a)	75-83-71=229	+13
	Bobby Cruickshank	74-76-81=231	+15
	Ky Laffoon	78-76=154	+10
	Clayton Heafner	73-82=155	+11
	Bobby Jones	79-76=155	+11
	George Sargent

Sources:^[10]^[11]

References

^ Bartlett, Charles (April 8, 1940). "Demaret's 280 wins Masters; Mangrum 2d". Chicago Daily Tribune. p. 21.
^ Ferguson, Harry (April 8, 1940). "Jimmy Demaret captures Masters Tournament". Youngstown Vindicator. Ohio. United Press. p. 10.
^ ^a ^b ^c "Lloyd Mangrum's 64 leads Augusta Open". Milwaukee Sentinel. Associated Press. April 5, 1940. p. 21.
^ ^a ^b ^c Bartlett, Charles (April 5, 1940). "Mangrum leads Masters golf on record 64". Chicago Daily Tribune. p. 33.
^ ^a ^b ^c "Lloyd Mangrum catches fire to set competitive golf scoring record". Spokesman-Review. Spokane, Washington. Associated Press. April 5, 1940. p. 14.
^ Ferguson, Harry (April 5, 1940). "Golf's Mr. Cinderella paces Masters play". Pittsburgh Press. United Press. p. 44.
^ "Norman leads but Price has 63". Sunday Star News. Wilmington, North Carolina. Associated Press. April 13, 1986. p. 1B.
^ Bartlett, Charles (April 6, 1940). "Mangrum and Demaret share Masters lead". Chicago Daily Tribune. p. 21.
^ "Ward shoots sparkling 68 to climb high among pros in golf tourney". Spokesman-Review. Spokane, Washington. April 6, 1940. p. 10.
^ "Masters – Past Winners & Results". Augusta National Inc. Retrieved April 20, 2021.
^ "Past results – Masters tournament". PGA Tour. Retrieved April 20, 2021.

External links

Masters.com – past winners and results
Augusta.com – 1940 Masters leaderboard and scorecards

[cdtdemwn-1] Bartlett, Charles (April 8, 1940). "Demaret's 280 wins Masters; Mangrum 2d". Chicago Daily Tribune. p. 21.

[jdcmt-2] Ferguson, Harry (April 8, 1940). "Jimmy Demaret captures Masters Tournament". Youngstown Vindicator. Ohio. United Press. p. 10.

[lm64lao-3] "Lloyd Mangrum's 64 leads Augusta Open". Milwaukee Sentinel. Associated Press. April 5, 1940. p. 21.

[cdtcbtlt-4] Bartlett, Charles (April 5, 1940). "Mangrum leads Masters golf on record 64". Chicago Daily Tribune. p. 33.

[cfire-5] "Lloyd Mangrum catches fire to set competitive golf scoring record". Spokesman-Review. Spokane, Washington. Associated Press. April 5, 1940. p. 14.

[ppcind-6] Ferguson, Harry (April 5, 1940). "Golf's Mr. Cinderella paces Masters play". Pittsburgh Press. United Press. p. 44.

[nlbphst-7] "Norman leads but Price has 63". Sunday Star News. Wilmington, North Carolina. Associated Press. April 13, 1986. p. 1B.

[cdtrd2-8] Bartlett, Charles (April 6, 1940). "Mangrum and Demaret share Masters lead". Chicago Daily Tribune. p. 21.

[wssetcl-9] "Ward shoots sparkling 68 to climb high among pros in golf tourney". Spokesman-Review. Spokane, Washington. April 6, 1940. p. 10.

[10] "Masters – Past Winners & Results". Augusta National Inc. Retrieved April 20, 2021.

[11] "Past results – Masters tournament". PGA Tour. Retrieved April 20, 2021.

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