Masters golf
After The Players Championship, American Scottie Scheffler has now won the prestigious Masters tournament in Georgia for the second time in his career. Only golf legend Tiger Woods did that before him.
Scheffler, the world number one, was at the top of the rankings from the start. During the first two days he had to tolerate fellow countrymen Max Homa and Bryson DeChambeau, among others. But on the final day at the Augusta National golf course he scored seven birdies and three bogeys on his scorecard.
With his round of 68 strokes, the second best round of the day, Scheffler brought his final score to 271 strokes, eleven under par. He left the 24-year-old Swede Ludvig Åberg behind by four strokes. With seven strokes more than Scheffler, the Englishman Tommy Fleetwood and the Americans Max Homa and Colin Morikawa followed.
For Scheffler, who already won the Masters in 2022, it is his ninth victory on the American PGA Tour. Since March 10, he has been the best in three tournaments, including victories in the Arnold Palmer Invitational and The Players Championship. Thanks to those three victories, he was able to credit a total of 12.1 million dollars (11.3 million euros) to his account.
With the exception of the American Express where he finished seventeenth, Scheffler finished in the top 10 eight times in the nine tournaments he participated in this year. Only Tiger Woods has previously managed to win The Player Championship and the Masters in the same season. to win. Woods, who made the cut in Georgia, finished in 60th place, 27 strokes ahead of Scheffler.
