Scottie Scheffler emerges as the dominant player in the 2024 Masters tournament, securing victory with a strong finish in the final holes.
Gavin Cooney IT WAS A finale to make a heresy of the old creed that the Masters only begins with the back nine on Sunday.
No sport is as volatile as golf and few of its stages are as capricious as Augusta National, but Scottie Scheffler is inevitable. And inevitable in a way the game hasn’t seen since Tiger Woods. This year he returned to the Masters, stood tall amid its toughest conditions for years, and – if you’re being very generous to the rest of the mere mortals in the field – had the tournament sewn up with four holes to go.
Advertisement As it turned out, there were a couple of screws jangling loose in Scheffler’s famously controlled irons across this week - he started his final round outside of the top-25 in the approach play stats – and he missed his first three greens on Sunday, but his chipping and putting bailed him out when he needed them.
This was the moment Scheffler took a look around him and decided, in the purest form of sporting dominance, enough of this nonsense. Scheffler took a bogey of his own on 11, but snuck a look at the scoreboard overlooking Amen Corner’s watery grave as he strode away. In the space of 20 minutes he saw his three closes challengers all card double bogeys and fall at his feet in the space of 20 minutes.Aberg was the only one of the trio to bounce back, birdieing 13 and 14, and then chucked away all momentum by snapping his tee shot on the par-five 15th way left.
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