Hideki Matsuyama wins the U.S. Masters as Asia’s first green jacket winner

On April 12th, Beijing time, the 85th Masters Tournament ended at Augusta National Golf Club. The 29-year-old Japanese player Hideki Matsuyama won the championship with a total score of -10, becoming the first American Masters from Asia. champion. He is also the second Asian player to win the men’s Grand Slam after South Korea’s Yang Yong-eun. Hideki Matsuyama won the $2.07 million championship prize.

Hideki Matsuyama, who entered the final round with a four-shot lead, was not all smooth sailing at Augusta on Sunday.

“The American Masters really started from the last 9 holes of the final round.” Hideki Matsuyama, who bogeyed on the first hole of the opening, quickly gained a foothold and caught 3 birdies on the first 9 holes. Come to -13.

On the 10th hole, Chaser Will Zara Thors dropped a shot, and Hideki Matsuyama’s lead has reached 5 shots.

If you think that the game has lost the suspense, then you still underestimate Augusta’s twists and turns.

Zander Cheofele caught 4 consecutive shots on the 12-15 hole, while Hideki Matsuyama hit the ball on the 15th hole and swallowed a bogey, leaving only 2 shots in the lead!

3 holes are to be played, and the game becomes tense. Unexpectedly, Xie O’Fele kicked off on the 16th hole, hit the green with the third shot, and swallowed 3 bogeys on this hole.

Cheofele hit 1042 holes in the Grand Slam, this is his first 3 bogeys-at such a critical and deadly moment.

Although Hideki Matsuyama swallowed another bogey in this hole, he had to face only Zara Thors, who had finished the game at -9.

In other words, if he holds a 2-shot advantage, as long as he can’t lose 2 shots in the last 2 holes, the green jacket is his.

Hideki Matsuyama bogeyed on the 18th hole, but he was enough to make him win the championship by one shot!

　At the American Masters ten years ago, Hideki Matsuyama won the best amateur player. Today, ten years later, he has reached the highest peak!

　　This is the 33rd Grand Slam tournament that Hideki Matsuyama has participated in. His best record before this was the tied runner-up at the 2017 U.S. Open. His previous best record at the US Masters was 5th in 2015.

Spieth and Leishman congratulate Hideki Matsuyama

Zara Thors, who participated in the US Masters for the first time, won the runner-up with a score of -9.

Spieth and Cheofele tied for third place with a score of -7. Ram shot the lowest 66 in the final round and tied for fifth with Leishman at -6. Rose, who led the first two rounds, ranked seventh with a -5.

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