1983 Masters Tournament

This was the first year that players were allowed to use their own caddies, rather than those of Augusta National. Twelve players continued to use caddies from the club, including Nicklaus. The first female caddie at the Masters appeared this year as George Archer, the 1969 champion, employed his 19-year-old daughter Elizabeth. She had carried the bag for her father for twenty previous events since the summer of 1980. Archer finished tied for twelfth, one of his better finishes at Augusta. ==Field==

;1. Masters champions Tommy Aaron, George Archer, Seve Ballesteros (3,8), Gay Brewer, Billy Casper, Charles Coody, Raymond Floyd (4,8,10,11,12,13), Doug Ford, Bob Goalby, Jack Nicklaus (2,3,4,8,9,11,12,13), Arnold Palmer, Gary Player (8), Sam Snead, Craig Stadler (8,11,12), Art Wall Jr., Tom Watson (2,3,8,9,12,13), Fuzzy Zoeller (8,9,12) • Jack Burke Jr., Jimmy Demaret, Ralph Guldahl, Claude Harmon, Ben Hogan, Herman Keiser, Cary Middlecoff, Byron Nelson, Henry Picard, and Gene Sarazen did not play. ;The following categories only apply to Americans ;2. U.S. Open champions (last five years) Hale Irwin (12,13), Andy North ;3. The Open champions (last five years) Bill Rogers (9,11,12,13) ;4. PGA champions (last five years) John Mahaffey, Larry Nelson (8,12,13) ;5. 1982 U.S. Amateur semi-finalists Rick Fehr (a), Jim Hallet (a), Jay Sigel (6,7,a), David Tolley (a) ;6. Previous two U.S. Amateur and Amateur champions Nathaniel Crosby (7,a) ;7. Members of the 1982 U.S. Eisenhower Trophy team Jim Holtgrieve (a), Bob Lewis (a) ;8. Top 24 players and ties from the 1982 Masters Tournament Andy Bean (12), Ben Crenshaw (13), Danny Edwards (9,12), Bob Gilder (10,11,12), Morris Hatalsky, Mark Hayes, Peter Jacobsen (12), Tom Kite (11,12,13), Wayne Levi (11,12), Bruce Lietzke (11,12,13), Jodie Mudd, Dan Pohl (9), Jack Renner, John Schroeder, Jim Simons (10), Curtis Strange (12), Tom Weiskopf (11,12) • Jerry Pate (12,13) did not play ;9. Top 16 players and ties from the 1982 U.S. Open Chip Beck, Bobby Clampett (11,12), Jay Haas (10,11,12), Gary Koch (11), Lyn Lott, Calvin Peete (10,11,12), Larry Rinker, Scott Simpson (12), J. C. Snead, Lanny Wadkins (10,11,12) ;10. Top eight players and ties from 1982 PGA Championship Fred Couples ;11. Winners of PGA Tour events since the previous Masters Keith Fergus (12), Gary Hallberg, Scott Hoch (12), Johnny Miller (12,13), Gil Morgan (12), Mike Nicolette, Tim Norris, Ed Sneed (12), Payne Stewart, Hal Sutton (12) ;12. Top 30 players from the 1982 PGA Tour money list George Burns ;13. Members of the U.S. 1981 Ryder Cup team Lee Trevino ;14. Foreign invitations Isao Aoki (11), Bruce Devlin (9), Nick Faldo, David Graham (2,4,8,9), Yutaka Hagawa (8), Hsieh Min-Nan, Sandy Lyle, Tsuneyuki Nakajima, Greg Norman (10), Peter Oosterhuis (8), Philippe Ploujoux (6,a), Bob Shearer (11), Martin Thompson (6,a) • Numbers in brackets indicate categories that the player would have qualified under had they been American. ==Round summaries==

First round Thursday, April 7, 1983 Source:six players did not finish the second round until Sunday morning. Third round Sunday, April 10, 1983 Source: Final round Monday, April 11, 1983 Final leaderboard Sources: Scorecard Cumulative tournament scores, relative to par Source:--> ==References==