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The following is a chronology of some key dates in the history of The Masters and Augusta National. 1931 - Land is purchased for Augusta National Golf Club. Alister Mackenzie and Robert T. Jones are asked to design the course.1934 - Horton Smith sinks a 20-foot birdie on the 17th hole and makes par at 18 to edge Craig Wood by one stroke in the first Augusta National Invitational Tournament. 1935 - Gene Sarazen records the first double eagle in tournament history as he holes a 220-yard 4-wood at the 15th hole during the final round. He went on to win a 36-hole playoff with Wood. 1936 - Smith's second Masters victory is highlighted by a 50-foot chip for birdie on the 14th hole during the final round. Wood shoots a 16-over 88 in the opening round, but comes back with a 5-under 67 the following day. The 21-stroke improvement is the best in tournament history. 1939 - The tournament's name is changed to The Masters. Ralph Guldahl plays the final nine holes in 3-under 33 to earn a one-stroke victory over Sam Snead. 1941 - Wood becomes the first player in Masters history to lead outright after all four rounds and wins his first major title. 1942 - Byron Nelson edges Ben Hogan, 69-70, in an 18-hole playoff considered to be among the best ever. Nelson plays 6-under during an 11-hole stretch to pick up five strokes on Hogan. 1947 - Sarazen and George Fazio, the first players to tee off for the final round, finish 18 holes in one hour and 57 minutes. Sarazen shot a 70. 1948 - Claude Harmon becomes the first player in tournament history to shoot four sub-par rounds. 1950 - Jimmy Demaret becomes the first player to win The Masters three times. He gains seven shots on third-round leader Jim Ferrier over the final six holes. 1951 - Hogan wins his first Masters, beating Skee Riegel by two strokes. 1952 - Johnny Revolta records a Masters record 26 straight pars beginning with the ninth hole of the opening round. 1953 - Hogan shatters the then tournament record of 279 by five strokes en route to his second title. 1954 - Snead defeats Hogan, 70-71, in a memorable playoff for his third Masters title. Amateur Billy Joe Patton leads after the second round and finishes third, one stroke behind Snead and Hogan. 1956 - Jack Burke, Jr. comes from eight strokes back to edge then amateur Ken Venturi by a stroke. Venturi began the final round with an eight-stroke cushion, but shoots an 80 in difficult playing conditions. Burke shoots a 71 and wins with a 1-over 289, the highest winning score in tournament history. 1957 - Doug Ford shoots a final-round 66 to defeat Sam Snead by three strokes for his first Masters title. After putting his first tee shot in the water on the par-3 16th hole, Byron Nelson hits the flagstick with a 7-iron from the tee. The ball bounces off the stick and into the water. 1958 - 28-year-old Arnold Palmer wins the first of his four Masters titles. 1959 - Charles Coe sets the Masters 72-hole record for an amateur with a 7-under 281. 1960 - Palmer leads "wire-to-wire" en route to his second Masters title. George Bayer and Jack Fleck complete 18 holes in one hour and 52 minutes. Bayer shot a 72 and Fleck carded a 74. 1961 - South Africa's Gary Player becomes the first foreign-born entry to win The Masters. 1962 - Palmer defeats Player and Dow Finsterwald in the first three-way playoff at The Masters. 1963 - At the age of 23 years, 2 months and 16 days, Jack Nicklaus becomes the youngest winner in the 40-year history of The Masters. 1964 - Palmer becomes The Masters' first four-time winner, beating Dave Marr by a comfortable margin of six strokes. 1965 - Nicklaus shoots a tournament record 17-under 271 in capturing his second Masters title. 1966 - Nicklaus defends his title in a three-way playoff with Gay Brewer and Tommy Jacobs. 1967 - Bruce Devlin records a double eagle on the eighth hole during the first round using a 4-wood. 1968 - Roberto de Vincenzo, who was tied with Bob Goalby after 72 holes, inadvertently signs an incorrect scorecard and finishes second by a stroke. De Vincenzo made a birdie 3 on the 17th hole but recorded his score as a 4. Since he signed the card, the higher score stood. 1970 - Billy Casper wins The Masters in his 14th attempt, defeating Gene Littler in an 18-hole playoff. 1972 - Nicklaus is the only player to finish below par and joins Palmer as the only four-time winners of The Masters. Charles Coody scores a hole-in-one on the sixth hole during the opening round and proceeds to record a triple bogey on number seven. 1975 - Nicklaus wins his fifth Masters and Tom Weiskopf records his fourth runner-up finish. Johnny Miller becomes the first player to birdie six straight holes at The Masters. Miller's third-round streak begins at the second hole and ends at the seventh, enabling him to set the tournament record with a 30 on the front nine. 1976 - Raymond Floyd matches Nicklaus' tournament record of 17-under 271. 1978 - Player comes from seven shots off the lead with an 8-under 64 in the final round to win his third Masters. Tommy Nakajima of Japan shoots a 13 on the par-5 13th hole. 1979 - Fuzzy Zoeller birdies the second extra hole to defeat Ed Sneed in the first-ever sudden-death playoff at The Masters. 1980 - Seve Ballesteros of Spain becomes the youngest winner in Masters history as he claims the first of his two Green Jackets at the age of 23 years and four days.Weiskopf shoots a 13 on the par-3 12th hole. 1982 - Dan Pohl, playing in his first Masters, goes 6-under during a four-hole stretch of the third round. Pohl records back-to-back eagles on the 13th and 14th holes followed by birdies on the 15th and 16th. 1983 - Ballesteros wins his second Masters in a tournament marred by bad weather. Rain and darkness prevents the second round from being completed until Sunday morning. 1985 - Bernhard Langer of Germany becomes the third foreigner to win The Masters, finishing with consecutive rounds of 68. 1986 - Nicklaus becomes the oldest winner in tournament history as he records his sixth Masters victory at the age of 46.Nick Price sets the course record with a 9-under 63. Price shoots a 3-under 33 on the front, 6-under 30 on the back and sets a Masters single-round record with 10 birdies. 1987 - Augusta native Larry Mize holes an incredible chip shot to defeat Greg Norman on the second playoff hole. Ballesteros was part of the three-way playoff, but was eliminated on the first extra hole. 1988 - Scotland's Sandy Lyle records a one-stroke victory to become the fourth foreign player to win The Masters.Norman matches the tournament record by shooting a 30 on the front nine during the final round. 1989 - Nick Faldo of Britain wins the first of his back-to-back Masters titles and sinks the longest putt in Masters history, a 100-footer for birdie on the second hole during the third round. 1990 - Faldo defeats Floyd on the second hole of a playoff.Mike Donald shoots an 8-under 64 in the opening round, but follows with a 10-over 82. 1991 - Ian Woosnam of Wales makes it four in a row for golfers from the United Kingdom, nipping Jose Maria Olazábal of Spain by one stroke. 1992 - Fred Couples wins his first major title and temporarily ends the dominance of European golfers at The Masters.Mark Calcavecchia shatters the tournament record by shooting a 29 on the back nine during the final round. Calcavecchia birdied the final six holes, matching Johnny Miller's record set in 1975. 1993 - Thirteen different players led or shared the lead during the opening round, but Langer holds the lead for the final 34 holes en route to his second Masters title. 1994 - José Maria Olazábal of Spain breaks out of a three-way battle with Larry Mize and Tom Lehman with an eagle on the 15th hole during the final round and records a two-stroke victory.Jeff Maggert holes a 222-yard 3-iron for a double eagle on the 13th hole during the final round. 1995 - Four days after serving as a pallbearer at the funeral of long-time mentor and legendary golf instructor Harvey Pennick, Ben Crenshaw birdies the 70th and 71st holes to defeat Davis Love III by one stroke and earn his second Masters title.Phil Mickelson shoots a 6-under 66 in the opening round, the lowest round ever by a left-hander at The Masters. 1996 - Starting the day six shots off the lead, Faldo shoots a 5-under 67 and wins his third Green Jacket as third-round leader Norman balloons to a 6-over 78. The greatest collapse in major championship history ends with the winner and runner-up sharing a long and emotional embrace on the 18th green.Norman ties Price's course record with a 9-under 63 in the first round. Mickelson opens with a 7-under 65, the lowest round by a left-hander at a major championship. 1997 - Tiger Woods becomes the youngest Masters champion ever, breaking the tournament record by one stroke with an 18-under-par 270. His 12-stroke victory over Tom Kite is also a tournament record. 1998 - Mark O'Meara becomes the first player in a decade to win The Masters by birdieing the 72nd hole. O'Meara birdies the final two holes to edge Fred Couples and David Duval by one stroke.Six-time champion Jack Nicklaus, at the age of 58, finishes sixth at 5-under, tied with David Toms, who equals a tournament record with a final-round 64. Former champion Gay Brewer, at the age of 66, shoots an even-par 72 and stands three strokes off the first-round lead. 1999 - Gene Sarazen takes his final ceremonial first shot. Joe Durant wins the par 3 contest, but does not make the weekend cut. Despite a charge by perennial Masters contender Greg Norman, José Maria Olazábal hangs onto a one-shot lead for his second Green Jacket. It is an emotional victory for the Spaniard who has returned from a chronic foot ailment that nearly drove him from the game. 2000 - Vijay Singh proved his first major wasn't a fluke and that he is one of the game's premiere players, winning his first Green Jacket with a three-shot victory at the 2000 Masters. Singh, No. 8 in the world, fired a 3-under 69 to edge Ernie Els. David Duval and Loren Roberts finished third at 6 under. Tiger Woods finished alone in fifth, despite matching Singh's 69. 2001 - Tiger Woods won The Masters and his fourth consecutive major championship after shooting a final-round 4-under 68 to beat David Duval by two strokes. 2002 - Tiger Woods became only the third player to successfully defend at The Masters and the seventh to win at least three Green Jackets with his 2002 victory. 2003 - Mike Weir become the first left-hander to win at Augusta and the first Canadian to win a major after defeating Len Mattiace in a playoff at the 2003 Masters. 2004 - Phil Mickelson crafted a spectacular back-nine 31, finishing with a birdie on No. 18 to defeat Ernie Els by a stroke and win his first career major at the 2004 Masters. 2005 - Tiger Woods earned his fourth Green Jacket after edging out Chris DiMarco on the first playoff hole at the Masters Tournament. Woods claimed his first major title since winning the 2002 U.S. Open. 2006 - Phil Mickelson won his second Green Jacket in three years with a two-stroke victory over Tim Clark. 2007 - Zach Johnson shot 3-under 69 in the final round, outdueling Tiger Woods, Retief Goosen and Rory Sabbatini for his first major championship title. 2008 - Trevor Immelman won his first major title by three strokes, becoming the first South African since Gary Player to win the Masters.
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