2009 Masters Tournament

Infobox_Individual_Golf_Tournament
tournament_name = 2009 Masters Tournament


dates = April 9–12, 2009
location = Augusta, Georgia
course = Augusta National Golf Club
tour = PGA Tour
PGA European Tour
Japan Golf Tour
par = 72
yardage = TBD
field = TBD
cut = TBD
purse = $TBD
winners_share = TBD
Champion = TBD
Score = TBD

The 2009 Masters Tournament will be the 73rd Masters Tournament held at Augusta National Golf Club, and is scheduled to be played from April 9-12, 2009. This will be the first major of the 2009 season.

Field

The Masters has the smallest field of the major championships. Officially the Masters remains an invitation event but there is now a qualification process, although in theory the club could simply decline to invite a 'qualified' player. Here is a list of all 72 players who have qualified to play in the 2009 Masters Tournament. Each player is classified according to the first category by which he qualified, but other categories are shown in parentheses: [cite web|url=http://www.masters.org/en_US/bios/tournament_2009.html |title=2009 Tournament Invitees |publisher=masters.org |accessdate=2009-08-20]

1. Past Masters Champions
Fred Couples, Ben Crenshaw, Raymond Floyd, Trevor Immelman (10,16), Zach Johnson, Bernhard Langer, Sandy Lyle, Phil Mickelson (4,5,10,15,16), Larry Mize, José María Olazábal, Mark O'Meara, Gary Player, Vijay Singh (4,10,15,16), Craig Stadler, Tom Watson, Mike Weir (16), Tiger Woods (2,3,4,10,11), Ian Woosnam, Fuzzy Zoeller.

(Past champions not expected to compete: Tommy Aaron, Seve Ballesteros, Jack Burke, Jr., Billy Casper, Charles Coody, Nick Faldo, Doug Ford, Bob Goalby, Jack Nicklaus, Arnold Palmer.)

2. Last five U.S. Open Champions
Ángel Cabrera, Michael Campbell, Retief Goosen, Geoff Ogilvy.

3. Last five British Open Champions
Todd Hamilton, Pádraig Harrington (4,10,12,13).

4. Last five PGA Champions

5. Last two of The Players Champions
Sergio García (13,16).

Winners of the Players Championship get three years of Masters invitations. With the Players having moved from March to May, beginning 2007, there will be only two such champions in the Masters field in 2009. In 2010 and after, there will once again be three Players champions in the field.

6. Top two finishers in the 2008 U.S. Amateur
Danny Lee, Drew Kittleson.

7. Winner of the 2008 Amateur Championship
Reinier Saxton.

8. Winner of the 2008 U.S. Amateur Public Links
Jack Newman.

9. Winner of the 2008 U.S. Mid-Amateur
Steve Wilson.

10. The top 16 finishers and ties in the 2008 Masters Tournament
Stuart Appleby (16), Paul Casey, Stewart Cink (15,16), Steve Flesch, Miguel Ángel Jiménez (11), Robert Karlsson (11), Sean O'Hair, Andrés Romero (16), Brandt Snedeker, Nick Watney, Lee Westwood (11).

11. Top 8 finishers and ties in the 2008 U.S. Open
Rocco Mediate, John Merrick, Carl Pettersson (15,16), D. J. Trahan (16).

12. Top 4 finishers and ties in the 2008 British Open Championship
Greg Norman, Ian Poulter, Henrik Stenson (13).

13. Top 4 finishers and ties in the 2008 PGA Championship
Ben Curtis (16), Camilo Villegas (15,16).

14. Top 30 leaders on the 2008 PGA Tour [http://www.pgatour.com/r/stats/info/?109 official money earnings list]
"November 9"

15. Winners of PGA Tour events that award a full-point allocation for the season-ending Tour Championship, between the 2008 Masters Tournament and the 2009 Masters Tournament
Ryuji Imada (16), Anthony Kim (16), Justin Leonard (16), Kenny Perry (16), Chez Reavie, Adam Scott, Boo Weekley. (through the 2008 season)

16. All players qualifying for the 2008 rendition of The Tour Championship
Robert Allenby, Briny Baird, Chad Campbell, K.J. Choi, Tim Clark, Ken Duke, Ernie Els, Jim Furyk, Dudley Hart, Hunter Mahan, Billy Mayfair, Steve Stricker, Kevin Sutherland, Bubba Watson.

17. Top 50 on the final 2008 Official World Golf Rankings list
"December 28"

18. Top 50 on the Official World Golf Rankings list going into the tournament
"April 5, 2009"

19. International invitees

References

External links

* [http://www.masters.org/ Masters.org] - official site