2016 Masters Tournament
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| Dates | April 7–10, 2016 |
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| Location | Augusta, Georgia, U.S. |
| Course(s) | Augusta National Golf Club |
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| Par | 72 |
| Length | 7,435 yards (6,799 m) |
| Field | 89 players, 57 after cut |
| Cut | 150 (+6) |
| Prize fund |
$10,000,000 €8,743,550 |
| Winner's share | $1,800,000 €1,573,839 |
 Danny Willett
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| 283 (−5) | |
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The 2016 Masters Tournament was the 80th edition of the Masters Tournament, held April 7–10 at Augusta National Golf Club in Augusta, Georgia. Danny Willett won his first major championship, three strokes ahead of runners-up Lee Westwood and defending champion Jordan Spieth. Spieth suffered one of the biggest collapses in Masters history. Spieth led the tournament from the first round and built a five-shot lead going to the back nine on Sunday, but lost six shots to par over the next three holes culminating in a quadruple-bogey on the 12th hole where he hit two balls into Rae's Creek. Willett shot a bogey-free 67 to overtake Spieth when the leader faltered on the back nine. Willett became the first European to win the Masters since 1999, and the first Englishman to do so since Nick Faldo in 1996.
This was the final Masters appearance for former champions Tom Watson and Ian Woosnam.
The course was formerly a plant nursery and each hole on the course is named after the tree or shrub with which it has become associated.
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, with other categories in which he qualified 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.
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