Seve Ballesteros won his second Masters and third major title, four strokes ahead of runners-up Ben Crenshaw and Tom Kite.

[2][5] During the postponement of Friday's round, the possibility was raised that the tournament would not complete the entire 72 holes,[6][7] as the southeastern U.S. was experiencing heavy rains and flooding and forecasts were not favorable.

[14] Five-time winner Jack Nicklaus 43, withdrew before his second round start time due to back spasms experienced while warming up.

[15] Nicklaus had missed only one cut in the previous 23 Masters and made ten consecutive after this year, including his record sixth green jacket in 1986.

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) Hale Irwin (12,13), Andy North Bill Rogers (9,11,12,13) John Mahaffey, Larry Nelson (8,12,13) Rick Fehr (a), Jim Hallet (a), Jay Sigel (6,7,a), David Tolley (a) Nathaniel Crosby (7,a) Jim Holtgrieve (a), Bob Lewis (a) 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) 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) Fred Couples 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) George Burns Lee Trevino 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) Thursday, April 7, 1983 Source:[1] Saturday, April 9, 1983 Sunday, April 10, 1983 Play on Friday was completely washed out due to rain and the second round started on Saturday;[20]six players did not finish the second round until Sunday morning.