The 2001 Masters Tournament was the 65th Masters Tournament, held April 5–8 at Augusta National Golf Club in Augusta, Georgia. Tiger Woods won his second Masters and sixth major championship, two strokes ahead of runner-up David Duval.
This championship marked the completion of the "Tiger Slam," with Woods holding all four major titles, having won the U.S. Open, Open Championship, and PGA Championship in 2000. In addition to the four majors, he was also the reigning champion of the Players Championship (March) and the WGC-NEC Invitational (August, second of three consecutive).
This was the first major to award a seven-figure winner's share; the first major with a six-figure winner's share was the .
Course
Field
1. Masters champions
Tommy Aaron, Seve Ballesteros, Gay Brewer, Billy Casper, Charles Coody, Fred Couples (10,16,17), Ben Crenshaw, Nick Faldo (11), Raymond Floyd, Doug Ford, Bernhard Langer, Sandy Lyle, Larry Mize, Jack Nicklaus, José María Olazábal (12,16,17), Mark O'Meara (3), Arnold Palmer, Gary Player, Vijay Singh (4,11,14,16,17), Craig Stadler, Tom Watson, Tiger Woods (2,3,4,5,10,11,12,13,14,16,17), Ian Woosnam, Fuzzy Zoeller George Archer, Jack Burke Jr., Bob Goalby, Herman Keiser, Byron Nelson, Sam Snead, and Art Wall Jr. did not play.
2. U.S. Open champions (last five years) Ernie Els (10,11,13,14,16,17), Lee Janzen, Steve Jones
3. The Open champions (last five years) Paul Lawrie, Tom Lehman (10,13,14,16,17), Justin Leonard (14,16,17)
4. PGA champions (last five years) Mark Brooks, Davis Love III (10,14,15,16,17)
5. The Players Championship winners (last three years) David Duval (10,11,14,16,17), Hal Sutton (10,14,16,17)
6. U.S. Amateur champion and runner-up
James Driscoll (a), Jeff Quinney (a)
7. The Amateur champion
Mikko Ilonen (a)
8. U.S. Amateur Public Links champion
D. J. Trahan (a)
9. U.S. Mid-Amateur champion
Greg Puga (a)
10. Top 16 players and ties from the 2000 Masters
Carlos Franco (14,16,17), Jim Furyk (14,16,17), John Huston (11,14,16,17), Phil Mickelson (14,16,17), Greg Norman (16,17), Dennis Paulson (17), Chris Perry (14,16,17), Nick Price (14,16,17), Loren Roberts (11,14,16,17)
11. Top eight players and ties from the 2000 U.S. Open
Stewart Cink (14,16,17), Pádraig Harrington (16,17), Miguel Ángel Jiménez (16,17) Lee Westwood (16,17) did not play.
12. Top four players and ties from 2000 PGA Championship
Stuart Appleby (14,16,17), Thomas Bjørn (13,16,17), Greg Chalmers, Bob May (14,16,17)
13. Top four players and ties from the 2000 Open Championship
David Toms (14,16,17)
14. Top 40 players from the 2000 PGA Tour money list
Robert Allenby (16,17), Paul Azinger (16,17), Notah Begay III (16,17), Mark Calcavecchia (16,17), Chris DiMarco, Steve Flesch (16,17), Scott Hoch (16), Jonathan Kaye, Franklin Langham, Steve Lowery, Jeff Maggert (16), Shigeki Maruyama (16), Rocco Mediate (16,17), Jesper Parnevik (16,17), Rory Sabbatini, Tom Scherrer, Kirk Triplett (16,17), Scott Verplank (16,17), Grant Waite, Duffy Waldorf (16,17), Mike Weir (16,17)
15. Top 3 players from the 2001 PGA Tour money list on March 4
Joe Durant, Steve Stricker (17)
16. Top 50 players from the final 2000 world ranking
Ángel Cabrera (17), Michael Campbell (17), Darren Clarke (17), José Cóceres, Pierre Fulke (17), Sergio García (17), Retief Goosen (17), Dudley Hart (17), Colin Montgomerie (17), Eduardo Romero (17)
17. Top 50 players from world ranking published March 4
Brad Faxon, Toshimitsu Izawa
18. Special foreign invitation
Aaron Baddeley, Shingo Katayama
All the amateurs were playing in their first Masters, as were Greg Chalmers, José Cóceres, Chris DiMarco, Steve Flesch, Pierre Fulke, Toshimitsu Izawa, Shingo Katayama, Jonathan Kaye, Franklin Langham, Bob May, Eduardo Romero, Rory Sabbatini, and Tom Scherrer. Aaron Baddeley made his first appearance as a professional.