2020 Masters Tournament (10Th of 50 Events in the 2020-21 PGA TOUR Season)

2020 Masters Tournament (10Th of 50 Events in the 2020-21 PGA TOUR Season)

2020 Masters Tournament (10th of 50 events in the 2020-21 PGA TOUR Season) Augusta, Georgia November 12-15, 2020 FedExCup Points: 600 (winner) Augusta National Golf Club Par/Yards: 36-36—72/7,475 Purse: TBD Third-Round Notes – Saturday, November 14, 2020 Weather: Partly cloudy. High of 74. Wind ENE 5-10 mph. Third-Round Leaderboard Dustin Johnson 65-70-65—200 (-16) Sungjae Im 66-70-68—204 (-12) Abraham Ancer 68-67-69—204 (-12) Cameron Smith 67-68-69—204 (-12) Dylan Frittelli 65-73-67—205 (-11) Things to Know • Dustin Johnson takes four-stroke lead, ties Masters Tournament scoring record for 54 holes (200) • Johnson ties Tiger Woods’ Masters Tournament record with 10th consecutive under-par score • Johnson is 0-for-4 with the 54-hole lead/co-lead in major championships to date • Abraham Ancer, Cameron Smith can become first player to record four scores in the 60s in one year at the Masters • Tiger Woods enters the final round T20 after an even-par 72 Third-Round Lead Notes 46 Third-round leaders/co-leaders to win the Masters Tournament (most recent: Patrick Reed/2018) 2 Third-round leaders/co-leaders to win in 2020-21 (Sergio Garcia/Sanderson Farms Championship, Martin Laird/Shriners Hospitals for Children Open) Dustin Johnson (1st/-16) Category Entering the week Age 36 (6/22/1984) FedExCup 17 OWGR 1 Major championship wins 1 Starts at the Masters 9 Wins at the Masters 0 Top-10s at the Masters 4 Career PGA TOUR starts 276 Career PGA TOUR wins 23 Career PGA TOUR top-10s 105 PGA TOUR starts in 2020-21 2 PGA TOUR wins in 2020-21 0 PGA TOUR top-10s in 2020-21 2 • At 16-under 200, ties the Masters Tournament scoring record for 54 holes, matching Jordan Spieth’s mark from 2015 • Records 10th consecutive under-par score at the Masters, tying Tiger Woods’ record for longest streak in tournament history (Woods’ streak: R3/2000 – R4/2002) • 22nd career 54-hole lead/co-lead in 72-hole events on the PGA TOUR; 10 wins in the previous 21 instances (2010 AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am, 2013 WGC-HSBC Champions, 2016 BMW Championship, 2017 The Genesis Invitational, 2018 Sentry Tournament of Champions, 2018 FedEx St. Jude Classic, 2018 RBC Canadian Open, 2019 WGC-Mexico Championship, 2020 THE NORTHERN TRUST, 2020 TOUR Championship) • 0-for-4 to date when holding 54-hole lead/co-lead in major championships Tournament Outright/co-lead Result 2020 Masters Tournament Solo (4) TBD 2020 PGA Championship Solo (1) T2 2018 U.S. Open Tied 3rd 2015 U.S. Open Tied T2 2010 U.S. Open Solo (3) T8 • Fifth 54-hole lead/co-lead in his last seven starts on TOUR Tournament Result Masters Tournament TBD TOUR Championship Won BMW Championship P2 THE NORTHERN TRUST Won PGA Championship T2 • Seven players (eight instances) have won the Masters Tournament following a runner-up finish the year prior Year Winner Previous year 2015 Jordan Spieth T2 1984 Ben Crenshaw T2 1972 Jack Nicklaus T2 1970 Billy Casper T2 1965 Jack Nicklaus T2 1962 Arnold Palmer T2 1942 Byron Nelson 2nd 1939 Ralph Guldahl T2 • One major championship title, which came at the 2016 U.S. Open; trailed Shane Lowry by four strokes entering the final round before recording a 1-under 69 to win by three • Four consecutive top-10s at the Masters (T6/2015, T4/2016, T10/2018, T2/2019; DNP/2017) • Holds the No. 1 spot in the Official World Golf Ranking entering the Masters for the third time in the last four years (No. 2 in 2019; regained the No. 1 position after the Masters) • Last World No. 1 to win the Masters Tournament: Tiger Woods, 2002 • Last World No. 1 to win on TOUR: Johnson, 2020 TOUR Championship • Finished T2 at last week’s Vivint Houston Open • Top-10s in each of his last six starts, including five results of T2 or better: T2/PGA Championship, Won/THE NORTHERN TRUST, P2/BMW Championship, Won/TOUR Championship, T6/U.S. Open, T2/Vivint Houston Open • Reigning FedExCup champion • Ranks 27th all-time with 23 PGA TOUR wins; would move into a tie for 26th with Gary Player with a victory • With a win, would extend his streak of consecutive seasons with a win to start his career to 14, tying Tiger Woods for third-longest all-time Additional Player Notes • No player has ever recorded four scores in the 60s in one Masters Tournament; Abraham Ancer (68-67-69) and Cameron Smith (67-68-69) can become the first with a final-round score in the 60s • Sungjae Im (T2) holds the best 54-hole position of his PGA TOUR career; previous-best position: 3rd/2018 Safeway Open (finished T4) • Abraham Ancer (T2) is looking to become the second player from Mexico to win on TOUR in as many weeks (Carlos Ortiz/Vivint Houston Open); Ancer, along with Tommy Fleetwood and Matthew Fitzpatrick, is one of three players in the top 25 of the Official World Golf Ranking without a PGA TOUR victory (last to earn first TOUR victory in a major: Danny Willett, 2016 Masters Tournament) • Two-time PGA TOUR winner Cameron Smith’s best result in 16 prior major championship appearances is T4 at the 2015 U.S. Open • World No. 2 Jon Rahm (72) and No. 3 Justin Thomas (71) fail to break 70 for the first time in three rounds; each player held a share of the 36-hole lead and enters the final round outside the top five • Tiger Woods enters the final round in a tie for 20th after an even-par 72 • Amateurs to make the cut: Andy Ogletree (T36/-2), John Augenstein (T50/E) Course Statistics Toughest Hole Easiest Hole R1: Par-4 10th (4.250) Par-5 2nd (4.489) R2: Par-4 18th (4.308) Par-5 2nd (4.422) R3: Par-4 18th (4.383) Par-5 2nd (4.533) Scoring Averages Front 9 Back 9 Total Cumulative R1: 35.478 35.935 71.413 -- R2: 35.844 36.022 71.811 71.610 R3: 36.117 35.650 71.767 71.649 Bogey-free rounds R1 (4): Paul Casey (65), Dustin Johnson (65), Webb Simpson (67), Tiger Woods (68) R2 (4): Rory McIlroy (66), Jon Rahm (66), C.T. Pan (66), Hideki Matsuyama (68) R3 (3): Dustin Johnson (65), Dylan Frittelli (67), Cameron Smith (69) .

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