Hideki Matsuyama holds off Schauffele, Zalatoris to win Masters

Japan's Hideki Matsuyama celebrates after winning The Masters at Augusta National Golf Club in Georgia on April 11, 2021.Hideki Matsuyama delivered golf-mad Japan the grandest and greenest prize of all.

Matsuyama closed with a 1-over 73 and a one-shot victory that was only close at the end, and never seriously in doubt after Xander Schauffele’s late charge ended with a triple bogey on the par-3 16th.Moments before Dustin Johnson helped him into the green jacket, Matsuyama needed no interpreter in Butler Cabin when he said in English, “I’m really happy.”

Matsuyama did well to walk away with bogey, and with Schauffele making a fourth straight birdie, the lead was down to two shots with three to play. Never mind that Matsuyama bogeyed three of his last four holes. All that mattered was that uphill walk to the 18th green, needing only to blast out of the bunker and take two putts for the victory.

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