1941 Masters Tournament
The 1941 Masters Tournament was the eighth Masters Tournament, held April 3–6 at Augusta National Golf Club in Augusta, Georgia. Craig Wood won his first major title, three strokes ahead of runner-up Byron Nelson.
Wood opened with a 66 and led by five strokes after the first round. During the final round, Nelson caught him on the front nine and the two were briefly co-leaders. Wood scored a 34 over the final nine holes to secure the victory. The purse was $5,000 and the winner's share was $1,500.
Wood, 39, led the entire tournament, the Masters' first wire-to-wire champion. He also won the next major, the 1941 U.S. Open. Prior to his win at the Masters, Wood had lost in a playoff in all four of the modern major championships, a dubious distinction since matched by only one other, Greg Norman.
Through 2019, there have been only five wire-to-wire champions; Wood was followed by Arnold Palmer (1960), Jack Nicklaus (1972), Raymond Floyd (1976), and Jordan Spieth (2015).
Field
;1. Masters championsJimmy Demaret, Ralph Guldahl, Byron Nelson, Gene Sarazen, Horton Smith
- Henry Picard did not play.
Tommy Armour, Walter Hagen, Bobby Jones, Lawson Little, Tony Manero, Francis Ouimet, Sam Parks Jr.
;3. U.S. Amateur champions
Dick Chapman
;4. British Open champions
Denny Shute
;5. British Amateur champions
Charlie Yates
;6. PGA champions
Paul Runyan
;7. Members of the U.S. Ryder Cup team
- Not held
- Not held
Johnny Bulla, Sammy Byrd, Harry Cooper, Ed Dudley, Jim Foulis, Willie Goggin, Jimmy Hines, Ben Hogan, Lloyd Mangrum, Jug McSpaden, Dick Metz, Toney Penna, Sam Snead, Frank Walsh, Al Watrous, Craig Wood
- Johnny Farrell, Ed Oliver, Johnny Revolta and Bud Ward did not play.
Bruce Coltart, Vic Ghezzi, Andy Gibson, Jock Hutchison Jr., Gene Kunes, Ray Mangrum, Henry Ransom, Jack Ryan, Felix Serafin, Andrew Szwedko
- Al Huske, Eddie Kirk, Wilford Wehrle and Pat Willcox did not play.
George Dawson, Duff McCullough
- Ray Billows, John P. Burke and Johnny Fischer did not play
;13. One amateur, not already qualified, selected by a ballot of ex-U.S. Amateur champions
Art Doering
;14. One professional, not already qualified, selected by a ballot of ex-U.S. Open champions
Jimmy Thomson
;15. Two players, not already qualified, with the best scoring average in the winter part of the 1940 PGA Tour
Leonard Dodson, Clayton Heafner
;16 Foreign invitations
Jim Ferrier, Martin Pose
- ''Numbers in brackets indicate categories that the player would have qualified under had they been American.''
Round summaries
First round
Thursday, April 3, 1941| Place | Player | Score | To par | ||||||||||
| 1 |  |1912Second roundFriday, April 4, 1941
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