Scottie Scheffler wins 2024 Masters Tournament for 2nd win in 3 years

Scottie Scheffler secured his second Masters Event victory in three years on Sunday, ending 11 underneath and 4 strokes up on his closest rivals.

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 planet for greater than two years now and in addition received the 2022 Masters match, which was his first main championship win.  

The match was marked by unruly climate and at the very least one history-making second. Golf icon and returning Masters champion Tiger Woods opened the match’s final leg together with his one centesimal spherical on the main.

The Masters Event 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 match has grown to turn into one of many 4 most necessary championships in males’s skilled golf. The match 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 often 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 at first of the spherical. 

Spanish golfer Jon Rahm, the 29-year-old who received the Masters match 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 match’s final day. After making his twenty fourth consecutive lower 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 novice Neal Shipley, commencing his one centesimal Masters spherical.

Scheffler will obtain an enormous money prize along with the standard inexperienced jacket, which is given to the Masters winner every year. 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 match, with their particular person scores figuring out how a lot prize cash they have been finally awarded.