All the credit, the best applause and a well-deserved recognition for the new king of world golf: Scottie Scheffler25 years old, number 1 in the ranking for just three weeks, winner of three PGA Tour tournaments the last two months as a calling card for Augusta, and new Green jacket like brand new masters champion after finishing with 71 strokes for 278 (-10). Anecdotally, you have to qualify the four putts on the 18th hole to sign a double bogey-6. It didn’t matter, it was a product of the emotion of the moment, you just had to see how his wife, Meredith, cried on the edge of the green.
Scheffler will have to give him a good pinch of the 2.7 million dollars he received in prize money for his caddy Ted Scottwho already knew what it was like to win the Masters, not in vain carried the bag on his day of the Double Champion Bubba Watson.
He has been the best in all the conditions that have occurred this week in Augusta, with four laps below par, he has won with authority; his victory, unappealable, will not be the last in a Grand Slam, for sure. He is a Grand Master without a doubt. He acknowledged that he began to think that he could win on Friday afternoon. 48 hours later, on Sunday afternoon, the Japanese Hideki Matsuyama, as tradition dictates, imposed the Green Jacket on him.
Scheffler finished with three strokes less than the British Rory McIlroyspectacular with 64 shots (-8) and a birdie from the bunker in the 18th, and five over the winner of the British in 2019 Shane Lowry and the australian Cameron Smithwho wanted to add sauce to the day, placing himself two strokes away on the 11th hole, but on the next one he went into the water and drowned his aspirations for Jacket.
Fifth was the American Collin Morikawa, who emulated his match partner (McIlroy) with another incredible shot from the sand in the 18th. Smith, winner in January of the Tournament of Champions, and in March of the fifth ‘big’, The Players, and world number 6, he rowed last to finish third ex aequo. The blow of the 12th knocked him off center but then he recovered well.
Scheffler is the sixth number 1 in the world to win the Masters as such after Ian Woosnam (1991), Fred Couples (1992), Tiger Woods twice (2002 and 2002), and Dustin Johnson (2020). The one from Texas is without a doubt the fittest player on the circuit and after winning in Phoenix, Orlando and the World Macth Play in Austin, he now wins his first ‘major’, the 86th Augusta Masters, in which the Spanish Jon Rahm, world number 2 and with four consecutive top 10 finishes in this Grand Slam, finished 27th with 292 strokes. In 23rd place he did Sergio Garcia with one less hit. Farther and sore, with an obvious limp, he finished a Tiger Woods Chapeau for how he has competed all week.
final standings
278 Scottie Scheffler (USA) 69-67-71-71
281 Rory McIlroy (GBR) 73-73-71-64
283 Shane Lowry (Irl) 73-68-73-69
Cameron Smith (Aus) 68-74-68-73
284 Collin Morikawa (USA) 73-70-74-67
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291 Sergio Garcia (ESP/23rd) 72-74-74-71
292 Jon Rahm (ESP/27º) 74-72-77-69
301 Tiger Woods (USA/47º) 71-74-78-78
