All credit, the best applause and a well-deserved recognition for the new king of the golf world: scottie schefflerThe 25 -year -old, number 1 in the rankings in just three weeks, has won three PGA Tour tournaments in the last two months as a calling card for Augusta, and before Green jacket seems new masters champion then finish 71 strokes for 278 (-10). Anecdotally, you have to qualify four putts on the 18th hole to sign a double bogey-6. Never mind, it was a product of the emotion of that moment, you just had to see how his wife Meredith cried on the edge of the green.
Scheffler had to give him a good pinch of the 2.7 million dollars he received as prize money for his Caddy Ted Scottwho knew what it felt like to win the Masters, not in vain to have carried the bag in his day of Double Champion Bubba Watson.
He was the best of all the conditions that took place this week in Augusta, with four laps below par, he won with authority; his victory, unappealable, would not be late in a Grand Slam, for sure. He was a Grand Master without a doubt. He admitted that he began to think he could win on Friday afternoon. 48 hours later, on Sunday afternoon, Japanese Hideki Matsuyama imposed on him, according to tradition, the Green Jacket.
Scheffler finished three strokes lower than the British Rory McIlroyamazing with 64 shots (-8) and a birdie from the bunker on the 18th, and five on the British win in 2019 Shane Lowry and the Australian cameron smithwho wanted to add sauce to the sun, putting himself two shots on the 11th hole, but on the next one he sank into the water and drowned out his desires for Jacket.
Fifth is the American Colin Morikawa, who imitated his opposing partner (McIlroy) in another incredible shot from the sand on 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 last paddled to finish third ex aequo. The blow of the 12th knocked him out in the middle but then he recovered well.
Scheffler is the sixth number 1 in the world to win the Masters after that 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 Phoenix, Orlando and the World Macth Play in Austin, he has now won his first ‘major’, the 86th Augusta Masters, where the Spanish. Jon Rahm, world number 2 and has four consecutive top 10 finishes in this Grand Slam, finished 27th with 292 strokes. In 23rd place he did Sergio Garcia with fewer hits. Farther and painful, obviously lame, he finished a Tiger Woods Chapeau for how he competed throughout the week.
final standing
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/27th) 74-72-77-69
301 Tiger Woods (USA/47th) 71-74-78-78
Source: La Verdad
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