1939 Masters Tournament
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The 1939 Masters Tournament was contested from March 30 to April 2 at Augusta National Golf Club
Augusta National Golf Club
Augusta National Golf Club, located in Augusta, Georgia, is a famous men's golf club. Founded by Bobby Jones and Clifford Roberts and designed by Alister MacKenzie on the site of a former indigo plantation, the club opened for play in January 1933. Since 1934, it has played host to the annual...

. It was the 6th Masters Tournament.

Due to adverse weather conditions, Thursday's round was postponed due to rain. 36 holes were played on Sunday.

Ralph Guldahl
Ralph Guldahl
Ralph J. Guldahl was an American professional golfer who was one of the top players in the sport for three years in the late 1930s.-Early life until 1939:Guldahl was born in Dallas, Texas...

 won the tournament by one stroke over Sam Snead
Sam Snead
Samuel Jackson Snead was an American professional golfer who was one of the top players in the world for most of four decades. Snead won a record 82 PGA Tour events including seven majors. He failed to win a U.S...

. He had finished in 2nd the previous two years. The purse was $5,000.

Final leaderboard

#PlayerCountryScoreTo parWinnings ($)
1 Ralph Guldahl
Ralph Guldahl
Ralph J. Guldahl was an American professional golfer who was one of the top players in the sport for three years in the late 1930s.-Early life until 1939:Guldahl was born in Dallas, Texas...

 
 United States 72-68-70-69=279 -9 1,500
2 Sam Snead
Sam Snead
Samuel Jackson Snead was an American professional golfer who was one of the top players in the world for most of four decades. Snead won a record 82 PGA Tour events including seven majors. He failed to win a U.S...

 
 United States 70-70-72-68=280 -8 800
T3 Billy Burke   United States 69-72-71-70=282 -6 550
Lawson Little
Lawson Little
William Lawson Little, Jr. was an American professional golfer who also had a distinguished amateur career....

 
 United States 72-72-68-70=282
5 Gene Sarazen
Gene Sarazen
Gene Sarazen was an American professional golfer, one of the world's top players in the 1920s and 1930s. He is one of five golfers to win all the current major championships in his career, the Career Grand Slam:U.S...

 
 United States 73-66-72-72=283 -5 400
6 Craig Wood
Craig Wood (golfer)
Craig Ralph Wood was an American professional golfer in the 1930s and 1940s, the winner of 21 PGA Tour titles including two major championships and a member of three Ryder Cup teams ....

 
 United States 72-73-71-68=284 -4 300
7 Byron Nelson
Byron Nelson
John Byron Nelson, Jr. was an American PGA Tour golfer between 1935 and 1946.Nelson and two other well known golfers of the time, Ben Hogan and Sam Snead, were born within seven months of each other in 1912...

 
 United States 71-69-72-75=287 -1 250
8 Henry Picard
Henry Picard
Henry Gilford Picard was an American professional golfer.Picard was born in Plymouth, Massachusetts, and learned to play golf while caddying at the Plymouth Country Club. Picard, already a talented player by his early 20s, came to prominence after coaching from the leading instructor Alex Morrison...

 
 United States 71-71-76-71=289 +1 175
9 Ben Hogan
Ben Hogan
William Ben Hogan was an American golfer, generally considered one of the greatest players in the history of the game...

 
 United States 75-71-72-72=290 +2 125
T10 Ed Dudley   United States 75-75-69-72=291 +3 100
Toney Penna
Toney Penna
Toney G. Penna was an Italian-American professional golfer and designer of golf clubs and gear. He won four events on the PGA Tour between 1937 and 1947. He introduced new lines of golf clubs and was the holder of four patents for golf clubs. Many of these clubs are considered collectors' items:...

 United States 72-75-72-72=291

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