The Masters 2024: Scottie Scheffler wins second major with four-shot victory at Augusta National | Golf News

Scottie Scheffler lived as much as his billing as pre-tournament favorite at The Masters by securing a second win in three years with a four-shot victory at Augusta Nationwide.

Scheffler took a one-shot benefit into the ultimate day and held a minimum of a share of the lead all through a tense Sunday, the place a number of gamers threatened main victory earlier than all fading away on the again 9 to offer the world No 1 management of the event.

The 2022 champion recovered from a gradual begin to fireplace three consecutive birdies across the flip and added three extra in a four-hole stretch on his solution to an excellent four-under 68, seeing him end on 11 beneath and comply with wins on the Arnold Palmer Invitational and The Gamers this season.

Ludvig Åberg marked his main debut with a surprising runner-up end, carding a three-under 69 to finish on seven beneath, with England’s Tommy Fleetwood ending in a share of third with Max Homa and Collin Morikawa.

Rory McIlroy’s newest bid to finish the profession Grand Slam resulted in a tied-22th end and Jon Rahm shared forty fifth spot in his disappointing title defence, as Tiger Woods marked his a centesimal aggressive spherical at The Masters by ending backside of these making the minimize.

Particular main Sunday for Scheffler

Scheffler scrambled pars on each of his first two holes then splashed out of the sand on the brief par-four third to make a close-range birdie, briefly placing him two clear, solely to go lengthy of the inexperienced off the tee on the par-three fourth and fail to stand up and down.

Åberg birdied two of his opening seven holes and Homa bounced again from a bogey on the seventh to benefit from the par-five subsequent, which briefly made it four-way tie on the high when Scheffler might save par from the sand on the par-four seventh.

Scheffler bounced again to choose up a shot on the subsequent to match the birdie of enjoying associate Morikawa, who misplaced his share of the lead when he took two makes an attempt out of the sand on his solution to a double-bogey on the ninth.

A 3-shot swing there noticed Scheffler virtually gap his second shot and go away himself a tap-in, with a 10-foot birdie to begin the second 9 doubling his benefit over Åberg, earlier than a number of of the chief’s closest challengers started continued to lose floor.

Morikawa double-bogeyed the eleventh, Homa double-bogeyed the twelfth and Åberg discovered the water to seek out the identical rating on the eleventh, the place Scheffler missed from 10 ft to avoid wasting par however noticed his lead enhance to a few pictures with seven to play.

Scheffler two-putted the par-five thirteenth and fired his method shut on the subsequent to publish back-to-back birdies and keep three forward of Åberg, who additionally picked up pictures on each holes, whereas an excellent tee shot into the par-three sixteenth arrange one other birdie to increase his cushion.

Åberg made pars on every of his final 4 holes to safe solo second, as Scheffler two-putted the par-four seventeenth and acquired up and down on the final to finish an emotional victory – his ninth in 26 months on the PGA Tour.

What in regards to the others?

Homa made a penultimate-hole bogey and Morikawa produced a formidable sand save to get away with one dropped shot on the final, having needed to pitch out from the timber after an errant tee shot, with Fleetwood finishing the group tied-third after a bogey-free remaining day.

Bryson DeChambeau secured his place in subsequent 12 months’s subject after ending tied-sixth, with the top-12 incomes an invitation to the 2025 contest, with fellow LIV Golf member Tyrrell Hatton doing the identical after a three-under 69 took him to a share of ninth.

McIlroy’s final-round 73 contained three birdies and 4 bogeys, leaving him 15 strokes behind the champion, whereas Woods adopted a major-worst 82 on Saturday by carding a five-over 77 on the ultimate day to complete the week on 16 over.

What’s subsequent?

The RBC Heritage begins Thursday and is the most recent of the PGA Tour’s Signature Occasions, the place England’s Matt Fitzpatrick returns as defending champion. Reside protection begins on Thursday with Featured Teams from 12.15pm on Sky Sports activities Golf, forward of full protection from 7pm.

Reside PGA Tour Golf

Thursday 18th April 12:15pm

The following males’s main is the PGA Championship at Valhalla from Could 16-19, the venue the place McIlroy claimed his most up-to-date main title, the place Scheffler will hope so as to add to his main tally.

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