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| Masters 2016: Danny Willett claims first major after Jordan Spieth's meltdown |
Willett attempt a final-round 67 to end on five-under for the clash – three shots advanced of Spieth and Englishman Lee Westwood.
The achievement is 28-year-old Willett’s beginning major, and it came about in affecting actualization in an action-packed endure day at Augusta.
Overnight baton Spieth had a five-shot advance traveling into the 10th, but the afterward three holes brought about a huge beat in momentum.
The 22-year-old Texan bogeyed the 10th and 11th, afore scoring a quadruple-bogey on the 12th.
That accident handed apple amount 12 Willett the lead.
The Englishman, arena three groups advanced of Spieth, concluded with a superb final-round 67, demography him to five-under-par for the tournament, and his achievement was closed if Spieth bogeyed the 17th.
It was a arresting turnaround in fortunes, and gave Willett the aboriginal Masters win for an Englishman in 20 years, and the aboriginal for a European aback Jose Maria Olazabel in 1999.
Fellow Englishman Lee Westwood concluded with a three-under-par 69, to accomplishment joint-second with Spieth. Westwood was aural one attempt of the advance afterwards eagling the 15th but bogeyed the next aperture and accomplished with two pars to abatement abbreviate of Willett.
Willett’s win caps a affecting acceleration for the Englishman, whose accord at Augusta was in agnosticism afore the clash as his wife Nicola was due to accord bearing on the final day. However, their son Zachariah accustomed early, acceptation Willett was chargeless to compete.
His solid aperture three circuit of 70, 74 and 72 had put him aural blow of Spieth traveling into the endure day.
A superb final annular which included 5 birdies and no alone shots closed achievement for Willett in just his additional actualization at Augusta.
After the win, Willett said: "It's been crazy. You can't absolutely call the affections and feelings.
"We all try to play acceptable golf and anyone has to win and auspiciously today it was my day.
"It was a actual surreal day if you attending aback at the ebbs and flows."
Willett’s ablaze final day achievement should be lauded, but his achievement owed abundant to the usually unshakeable Spieth’s back-nine implosion.
Spieth looked agreed to become just the fourth man in history to win back-to-back Masters, but a adverse par-three 12th aperture put paid to his hopes.
After battlefront his tee attempt into Rae's Creek, he lobbed a abundant additional attempt into the water, afore award the alembic at the aback of the green.
Spieth managed to get assimilate the blooming and putt in for a quadruple bogey, and although he birdied the 15th to move to aural two shots of the lead, the bogey at the 17th meant he couldn’t bolt Willett.
Trying to explain the amazing turnaround in fortunes, Spieth said: "It was just a abridgement of conduct advancing off the two bogeys instead of realising I was still arch the Masters by a brace of shots."
"I accept no agnosticism about my adeptness to abutting majors, I just anticipate it was a actual boxy 30 account that hopefully I don't acquaintance again."
Elsewhere, apple amount three Rory McIlroy, behest to win the alone Above that has so far eluded him, carded a final annular 71, to leave him at one-over for the tournament.
World amount one Jason Day aswell accomplished at one-over, afterwards a final annular of 73.
A memorable final day’s play at Augusta aswell featured three holes-in-one at the par-three 16th – from Irishman Shane Lowry, American Davis Love, and a crazy ace from South African Louis Oosthuizen.
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