Phil Mickelson won his third Masters and fourth major title, three shots ahead of runner-up Lee Westwood.

Past Masters Champions Ángel Cabrera (2,11,15,17,18,19), Fred Couples, Ben Crenshaw, Trevor Immelman, Zach Johnson (15,16,17,18,19), Bernhard Langer, Sandy Lyle, Phil Mickelson (4,5,11,12,15,16,17,18,19), Larry Mize, Mark O'Meara, Vijay Singh (18,19), Craig Stadler, Tom Watson (13), Mike Weir (15,17,18,19), Tiger Woods (2,3,4,11,12,14,15,16,17,18,19), Ian Woosnam (Past champions who did not play: Tommy Aaron, Seve Ballesteros, Jack Burke Jr., Billy Casper, Charles Coody, Nick Faldo, Raymond Floyd,[4] Doug Ford, Bob Goalby, Jack Nicklaus, José María Olazábal,[5] Arnold Palmer, Gary Player, and Fuzzy Zoeller).

Top 8 finishers and ties in the 2009 U.S. Open Ricky Barnes, David Duval, Ross Fisher (18,19), Søren Hansen (18,19) 13.

Top 30 leaders on the 2009 PGA Tour official money earnings list Paul Casey (18,19), Brian Gay (16,17,18), Retief Goosen (17,18,19), Dustin Johnson (16,17,19), Jerry Kelly (16,17), Matt Kuchar (19), Justin Leonard (18), Kevin Na (17,19), Ian Poulter (16,18,19), John Rollins, Rory Sabbatini (16), John Senden (17), David Toms (17,18), Nick Watney (17,18,19) 16.

Winners of PGA Tour events that award a full-point allocation for the season-ending Tour Championship, between the 2009 Masters Tournament and the 2010 Masters Tournament Ben Crane, Ernie Els (17,18,19), Nathan Green, Bill Haas, Anthony Kim (18,19), Ryan Moore, Ryan Palmer, Heath Slocum (17) 17.

All players qualifying for the 2009 edition of The Tour Championship Luke Donald (18,19), Jason Dufner, Marc Leishman, Steve Marino, Scott Verplank 18.

Top 50 on the final 2009 Official World Golf Rankings list Robert Allenby (19), Ben Curtis, Simon Dyson, Anders Hansen, Yuta Ikeda (19), Ryo Ishikawa (19), Miguel Ángel Jiménez (19), Robert Karlsson (19), Martin Kaymer (19), Søren Kjeldsen, Graeme McDowell (19), Edoardo Molinari (19), Francesco Molinari (19), Adam Scott, Oliver Wilson (19) (Michael Sim (19) withdrew prior to the tournament with a shoulder injury)[6] 19.

Thursday, April 8, 2010 The day started very sunny, but clouds began accumulating later in the morning and thunderstorms were expected in the afternoon; however, the weather remained fair.

Phil Mickelson shot a 67, including a dramatic eagle-eagle-birdie on 13, 14 and 15, to move into second place, three strokes clear of the rest of the field.

[10] Sunday, April 11, 2010 Fred Couples mounted an early charge up the leaderboard with two birdies in his first three holes, but he quickly cooled off and ended up in sixth place.