Scottie Scheffler played his game while others made big mistakes in Sunday’s final round of the Masters. His 68 was good for a four-shot win and his second green jacket.
Romantics like to say the Masters starts on the back nine on Sunday. But this year it ended somewhere between the ninth green and the middle of Amen Corner, leaving Scottie Scheffler to stroll up the 18th fairway with a four-shot lead and some unexpected time to consider baby names.
Of course, it was very unlikely he went there, as his focus is legendary. “He never looks different,” observed CBS’ Ian Baker Finch, and that was never more true than watching him manage his game at Augusta National.
For one tantalizing moment, after rookie Ludvig Oberg rolled in the most unlikely right-to-left, downhill 36-foot birdie putt on No. 9, there was a four-way tie atop the Masters leaderboard. But not for long.
Scheffler almost holed his approach to that uphill, par-4 to grab a one-shot lead. He then stuck to the straight and narrow while Collin Morikawa made double-bogey from the bunker on 9, Aberg pulled an approach into the pond on 11 and Max Homa hid his ball in the thick ivy behind the green on the 155-yard 12th.
Scheffler never seemed to break a sweat all day.
