| 1982 Masters | |
If things had turned out differently - if Craig Stadler had lost the 1982 Masters in a playoff rather than winning it in a playoff - Stadler might be remembered for one of the biggest flops in major championship history. But that's the difference between winning and losing, isn't it?
Instead, Stadler is remembered as the 1982 Masters champion, beating Dan Pohl with a par on the first playoff hole.
Weiskopf blew up on the back nine with a couple triple-bogeys. Ballesteros and Kite failed to charge. But Pohl, playing three groups ahead of Stadler, carded a 67 to post 4-under.
Stadler still led by four strokes after his 11th hole, but then whittled away that lead. He bogied the 12th, the 14, and the 16th, reaching the 72nd hole with a 1-stroke advantage over Pohl. And then 3-putted for a bogey, dropping into the playoff.
Which was a bit anticlimactic - Pohl struggled, Stadler played solidly and won with a par.
1982 Masters Scores
Results from the 1982 Masters golf tournament played at the par-72 Augusta National Golf Club in Augusta, Ga. (x-won playoff; a-amateur):
| x-Craig Stadler | 75-69-67-73--284 | $64,000 |
| Dan Pohl | 75-75-67-67--284 | $39,000 |
| Seve Ballesteros | 73-73-68-71--285 | $21,000 |
| Jerry Pate | 74-73-67-71--285 | $21,000 |
| Tom Kite | 76-69-73-69--287 | $13,500 |
| Tom Watson | 77-69-70-71--287 | $13,500 |
| Raymond Floyd | 74-72-69-74--289 | $11,067 |
| Larry Nelson | 79-71-70-69--289 | $11,067 |
| Curtis Strange | 74-70-73-72--289 | $11,067 |
| Andy Bean | 75-72-73-70--290 | $8,550 |
| Mark Hayes | 74-73-73-70--290 | $8,550 |
| Tom Weiskopf | 75-72-68-75--290 | $8,550 |
| Fuzzy Zoeller | 72-76-70-72--290 | $8,550 |
| Bob Gilder | 79-71-66-75--291 | $6,700 |
| Yataka Hagawa | 75-74-71-72--292 | $5,850 |
| Jack Nicklaus | 69-77-71-75--292 | $5,850 |
| Gary Player | 74-73-71-74--292 | $5,850 |
| Jim Simons | 77-74-69-72--292 | $5,850 |
| David Graham | 73-77-70-73--293 | $5,000 |
| Peter Jacobsen | 78-75-70-71--294 | $4,300 |
| Bruce Lietzke | 76-75-69-74--294 | $4,300 |
| a-Jodie Mudd | 77-74-67-76--294 | |
| Jack Renner | 72-75-76-71--294 | $4,300 |
| Ben Crenshaw | 74-80-70-71--295 | $3,075 |
| Danny Edwards | 75-74-74-72--295 | $3,075 |
| Morris Hatalsky | 73-77-75-70--295 | $3,075 |
| Wayne Levi | 77-76-72-70--295 | $3,075 |
| Peter Oosterhuis | 73-74-75-73--295 | $3,075 |
| John Schroeder | 77-71-70-77--295 | $3,075 |
| George Archer | 79-74-72-71--296 | $2,475 |
| Calvin Peete | 77-72-73-74--296 | $2,475 |
| Ron Streck | 74-76-75-73--298 | $2,300 |
| George Burns III | 75-79-71-74--299 | $2,100 |
| Keith Fergus | 76-74-72-77--299 | $2,100 |
| Lanny Wadkins | 75-78-72-74--299 | $2,100 |
| Tommy Aaron | 78-72-77-73--300 | $1,875 |
| Greg Norman | 73-75-73-79--300 | $1,875 |
| Chi Chi Rodriguez | 78-75-73-75--301 | $1,667 |
| Bill Rogers | 77-77-77-70--301 | $1,667 |
| Lee Trevino | 75-78-75-73--301 | $1,667 |
| a-Jim Holtgrieve | 74-76-72-80--302 | |
| a-Willie Wood | 78-75-73-76--302 | |
| Hubert Green | 76-72-77-78--303 | $1,500 |
| Jay Haas | 76-74-76-78--304 | $1,500 |
| Gay Brewer | 73-80-72-80--305 | $1,500 |
| Bob Goalby | 81-72-78-77--308 | $1,500 |
| Arnold Palmer | 75-76-78-80--309 | $1,500 |
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