
(Golfweek File)
1995
Finish: T-41 (low amateur)
Scores: 72-72-77-72, 5-over 293
Buzz: Tiger Woods’ highly-anticipated Masters debut included a practice round with Arnold Palmer and Jack Nicklaus, and ended with the 19-year-old earning low amateur honors. Woods recalled, ” ‘Arnold comes up to me and says, ‘How about a little Skins Game today?’ I said, ‘Well, I don’t have any cash.’ He says, ‘Don’t worry about it. Just play hard.’ ” Palmer made a putt on 18 “for all the skins, basically,” Woods said. He earned his first Masters invitation with his victory at the previous year’s U.S. Amateur at TPC Sawgrass, his first of three consecutive U.S. Amateur titles.