Scottie Scheffler secured his second Masters Match victory in three years on Sunday, ending 11 below and 4 strokes up on his closest opponents.
The 27-year-old American was tied with Ludvig Aberg, Max Homa and Collin Morikawa coming into the eighth gap earlier than the world no. 1 hit three straight birdies to take the lead for good. Aberg ended up inserting second in his debut on the Masters.
Scheffler has been ranked No. 1 on the earth for greater than two years now and likewise gained the 2022 Masters event, which was his first main championship win.
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The event was marked by unruly climate and not less than one history-making second. Golf icon and returning Masters champion Tiger Woods opened the event’s final leg together with his one centesimal spherical on the main.
The Masters Match is an invitational occasion held yearly on the Augusta Nationwide Golf Membership, a non-public golf course in Augusta, Georgia. Since its institution in 1934, the event has grown to turn out to be one of many 4 most essential championships in males’s skilled golf. The event usually takes place throughout the first week of April, so they’re the primary main occasion of each season, adopted by the PGA Championships, the U.S. Open and the Open Championship, that are normally held in Could, June and July, respectively.
Scheffler and Morikawa held first and second on the 2024 Masters leaderboard, in that order, heading into the fourth spherical, on Sunday. They teed off within the afternoon because the final pairing of the day. Xander Schauffele and Bryson DeChambeau additionally started their play in a featured afternoon slot, with DeChambeau in fifth place on the leaderboard and Schauffele in sixth firstly of the spherical.
Spanish golfer Jon Rahm, the 29-year-old who gained the Masters event final yr, returned to the course Sunday to defend his title, though his performances throughout the previous rounds this weekend meant he was now not competing to win. Woods had fallen out of rivalry, too, by the event’s final day. After making his twenty fourth consecutive minimize on Friday, which was a brand new file on the championship, the star golfer went on to shoot a private worst throughout the subsequent and third spherical. At 48, Woods is a embellished {golfing} champion with 5 earlier wins on the Masters. He teed off Sunday morning with the 23-year-old beginner Neal Shipley, commencing his one centesimal Masters spherical.
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Scheffler will obtain an enormous money prize along with the standard inexperienced jacket, which is given to the Masters winner annually. The general purse for the 2024 Masters is $20 million, setting a brand new record-high and leaping $2 million from final yr’s prize fund.
The champion this yr will obtain $3.6 million from the purse, which can also be a brand new file and up from the $3.2 million payout that Rahm acquired for his Masters win in 2023. What remained of the full $18 million purse in that case was divided amongst 50 golfers who participated within the event, with their particular person scores figuring out how a lot prize cash they had been ultimately awarded.
