2012 Masters Tournament
| Dates | April 5–8, 2012 |
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| Location | Augusta, Georgia, U.S. |
| Course(s) | Augusta National Golf Club |
| Organized by | Augusta National Golf Club |
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| Par | 72 |
| Length | 7,435 yards (6,799 m) |
| Field | 95 players, 63 after cut |
| Cut | 149 (+5) |
| Prize fund |
$8,000,000 €6,124,726 |
| Winner's share | $1,440,000 €1,086,801 |
 Bubba Watson
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| 278 (−10), playoff | |
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The 2012 Masters Tournament was the 76th Masters Tournament, held April 5–8 at Augusta National Golf Club in Augusta, Georgia.Bubba Watson won the year's first major championship on the second hole of a sudden-death playoff, defeating Louis Oosthuizen. It was Watson's first major title and his fourth victory on the PGA Tour. He was the eighth consecutive first-time major champion, and the 14th different winner in as many majors.
Two pre-tournament favorites,Tiger Woods and Rory McIlroy, both finished at 293 (+5) in a tie for 40th place. Phil Mickelson was in the final pairing and in contention during the final round, but a triple-bogey six on the fourth hole knocked him back and he finished two strokes behind, in a four-way tie for third.Bo Van Pelt posted the lowest round of the tournament with a 64 (−8) early on Sunday, which propelled him up the leaderboard 35 places to tie for 17th.
It was the first playoff in three years at the Masters; Ángel Cabrera won on the second extra hole in 2009.
The Masters has the smallest field of the four major championships. Officially, the Masters remains an invitation event, but there is a set of qualifying criteria that determines who is included in the field. Each player is classified according to the first category by which he qualified, but other categories are shown in parentheses.
Golfers who qualify based solely on their performance in amateur tournaments (categories 6–10) must remain amateurs on the starting day of the tournament to be eligible to play.
Three players were appearing in their first major: Kelly Kraft, Corbin Mills and Randal Lewis. Twelve others were appearing in their first Masters: Keegan Bradley, Patrick Cantlay, Bryden Macpherson, Kevin Chappell, Robert Garrigus, Webb Simpson, Harrison Frazar, Kyle Stanley, Scott Stallings, Brendan Steele, Bae Sang-moon and Gonzalo Fernández-Castaño.
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