AUGUSTA, GEORGIA - APRIL 10: Scottie Scheffler is awarded the Green Jacket by 2021 Masters champion Hideki Matsuyama of Japan during the Green Jacket Ceremony after he won the Masters at Augusta National Golf Club on April 10, 2022 in Augusta, Georgia. (Photo by Andrew Redington/Getty Images)
Beam me up, Scottie. Or, at the very least, let me try on your green jacket!
World No. 1 golfer Scottie Scheffler made short work of the final three rounds of the 2022 Masters to win his first major on a 10-under (278) finish with a record $2.7 million payout. It was his fourth PGA Tour win this season—all of which have come in the last 57 days—after failing to win the first 70 PGA events of his career.
Tiger Woods came in lower on the leaderboard but his comeback was still considered a success after his major car crash last year.
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He joins Ian Woosnam (1991), Fred Couples (1992), Woods (2001, 2002) and Dustin Johnson (2020) as the only golfers to enter the Masters ranked 1 in the world and win.
Scheffler shot a 69 in Round 1 and 67, the second day for a five-stroke lead. A 71 on Saturday turned out to be a bump in the road, though, as he sank a three-foot double-bogey putt to finish his improbable day.
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