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The runner-up Scottie Scheffler, who came so close with that late charge, and will rue his second round of 74, speaks to Sky. \u201cI put up a good fight this weekend \u2026 starting 12 shots back on Saturday is not ideal \u2026 to give myself a good chance on Sunday was definitely a good fight \u2026 come up short \u2026 but proud of how I played \u2026 I did some good stuff this weekend.\u201d<\/p>\n
Share<\/a><\/p>\n A disappointed but stoic Justin Rose speaks to Sky Sports. \u201cI was right there \u2026 two untimely bogeys at 11 and 12 \u2026 played well \u2026 gave myself every opportunity \u2026 Amen Corner got me this time \u2026 people have followed my close calls \u2026 they were really good to me \u2026 I thank everyone for their support \u2026 I\u2019ll come back next year and give everything \u2026 I\u2019ll be excited to do it.\u201d<\/p>\n Share<\/a>The Butler Cabin<\/p>\n As Rory was the defending champion, there\u2019s no player to drape the Green Jacket over his shoulders. So that task will fall to Fred Ridley, the chairperson of Augusta National Golf<\/a> Club. What makes this win so special, Ridley asks McIlroy:<\/p>\n double quotation markI can\u2019t believe I waited 17 years to get one Green Jacket and now I get two in a row \u2026 all of my perseverance has really started to pay off \u2026 it was a tough weekend \u2026 I did the bulk of my work on Thursday and Friday \u2026 so happy to hang in there and get the job done \u2026 it felt pretty similar to last year \u2026 I made a double bogey at 4 \u2026 flawless golf after that \u2026 it\u2019s nice to have that two-shot cushion at 18 \u2026 I looked at the board after the bogey on 6 \u2026 if I can get to -14 I\u2019ve got a really good chance \u2026 I didn\u2019t quite get there but -13 was good enough standing on the 18th tee \u2026 the tee shot on 12 [was the most important shot] \u2026 the tee shot on 13 [set up going for the green in two] \u2026 birdie there following birdie on 12 was massive \u2026 it\u2019s the second major win my mum\u2019s been at \u2026 she was at Hoylake in 2014 \u2026 I\u2019m so glad they got to experience this \u2026 we\u2019re going to have a really good time tonight \u2026 some good play by me and fortunate the guys didn\u2019t really come at me this year!<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n So Rory joins Jack, Sir Nick and Tiger in the elite club of players to win consecutive Masters. He becomes the 15th man to win six or more majors, tying Faldo\u2019s second-place record as a European winner (behind Harry Vardon who had seven). Do we think he\u2019ll stop here? He\u2019s not going to want to stop here, is he.<\/p>\n 18: Jack Nicklaus Share<\/a><\/p>\n For the record, that was a bogey up the last. A round of 71. It looked like it was all getting away from him after double bogey at 4, three-putting from close range, and bogey at 6. He seemed bereft of ideas, unsure how to turn the tide, struggling as he did all day yesterday. But then he did what the true champions do: he dug deep for a birdie-birdie blast at 7 and 8, shifting the momentum back in his direction, and never let up from there. Even if he did cause a few hearts to flutter with his approach that only just got over the water at 15, the putt from the swale at 16, the chip up the bank at 17, and then the drive into the trees on 18. Throw in his shenanigans in the pines on 13 yesterday, an ersatz reworking of Jordan Spieth at Birkdale that stemmed some bleeding and inspired a birdie bounce-back, and he\u2019s been made to work for this title. Hey, he\u2019s made all of us work while watching him do it! And yes, really, we surely wouldn\u2019t have him any other way. It\u2019s all part of the charm.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n It was never going to be quite as emotional as last year \u2026 and yet it\u2019s not far off. The tears aren\u2019t far from the surface as he hugs every member of his family, all the generations, then the nearest Green Jacket. The entire gallery en fete! He made it tough for himself today \u2013 oh, and yesterday – but he got there in the end. Would we have him any other way? He becomes only the fourth player to retain his Masters title, after Jack Nicklaus, Nick Faldo and Tiger Woods. Oh, and it\u2019s major number six, for those counting!<\/p>\n Share<\/a>Rory McIlroy wins the 2026 Masters!<\/p>\n Rory taps in, and it\u2019s two in a row! He tilts his head back and screams in delight! The crowd chant his name as he raises both arms in triumph!<\/p>\n -12: McIlroy McIlroy celebrates on the green on the 18th hole. Photograph: Kylie Cooper\/ReutersMcIlroy enjoys making it back to back wins. Photograph: Brian Snyder\/ReutersShare<\/a><\/p>\n Updated at\u00a018.59 EDT<\/p>\n Cameron Young rolls in his putt. A disappointing final round of 73 for the Players champion, who led for a while on Masters Sunday, but at least the par gives him a share of third. He finishes the week at -10.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n \u2026 and he very nearly holes it! The ball slides an inch wide right of the cup. He marks, waiting for his moment of glory. He allows himself a smile. After all that drama, that inevitable Rory drama, he\u2019s made it!<\/p>\n McIlroy reacts as he realises he\u2019s about to win. Photograph: Jared C Tilton\/Getty ImagesShare<\/a><\/p>\n Updated at\u00a018.55 EDT<\/p>\n Cameron Young\u2019s second ends up in the swale to the left of the green. He bundles a chip up to 12 feet. That putt for a share of third. Over to Rory, who once again isn\u2019t hanging around. He takes a read of his 12-footer \u2026<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n \u2026 thumps out to 15 feet. He\u2019ll have two putts from there for the Masters. Nothing certain. But he\u2019d have taken this outcome while watching his tee shot carve away into trouble.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n Rory finishes his route planning. It\u2019s time to act. He whips over the trees \u2026 but where\u2019s the ball?! The cameras haven\u2019t found it yet. Ah, after a fashion, it\u2019s sourced in the bunker front-left of the green. It\u2019s half-plugged. Rory doesn\u2019t fancy hanging about. He prowls around again, sizing everything up, before clambering into the green, and \u2026<\/p>\n McIlroy hits his approach from the pine straw on the 18th hole. Photograph: Mike Segar\/ReutersShare<\/a><\/p>\n Updated at\u00a018.51 EDT<\/p>\n Cameron Young\u2019s tee shot toys with the trees down the left, but stops near the bunkers. Meanwhile up on the green, Sam Burns pars for a final round of 73; he\u2019s -9. Shane Lowry bogeys for an 80 to end the week at -1. And back down the hole, Rory prowls around the trees trying to work out a route to the green. He puffs out his cheeks again and mutters an eff-me under his breath. He can\u2019t believe he\u2019s put himself through the ringer like this.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n Out comes the big stick. Rory takes a gulp, tees up his ball, and \u2026 sends a wild slice into the bushes and trees down the right. Oh my. His ball\u2019s ended up sitting cleanly on pine straw, but there\u2019s not an obvious route towards the green. Welcome to the world premiere of He Was Never Going To Do It The Easy Way II.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n Updated at\u00a018.42 EDT<\/p>\n Justin Rose\u2019s second into 18 falls off the false front. He chips up to six feet. In goes the putt. Par for a 70, and he\u2019ll finish the week at -10. Still no Green Jacket for Rose, and he won\u2019t be runner-up this year either. The best he can do is a tie for third. Meanwhile over on 17, Rory McIlroy<\/a> tidies up, and he\u2019ll have a two-shot lead coming up the last. That driver had better behave.<\/p>\n -13: McIlroy (17) Share<\/a><\/p>\n Just as he did on Friday afternoon, Rory McIlroy<\/a> pushes his approach at 17 to the right of the green and down the slope. He chipped in from here then \u2026 and he nearly does the same thing again. On Friday it was a scamper across the green; this one, with the flag a lot closer, was bumped into the bank and released to a couple of feet. He should save his par from a couple of feet \u2026 but then this is Masters Sunday, so let\u2019s not assume anything.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n Up on the 17th green, Shane Lowry taps in for par. We\u2019ve neither seen nor heard from the 2019 Open champion for hours, and that\u2019s because his bid was pretty much kaput when he battered his ball into the face of a fairway bunker on 5. Since then, he\u2019s carded a couple of double bogeys, a couple of bogeys, and a couple of birdies. He\u2019s seven over for his round and away down the standings at -2. A day to forget. Bogey for his playing partner Sam Burns, whose slim hopes are now over at -9.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n \u2026 and in the meantime, Justin Rose chips up to three feet from the front of 17 \u2026 then misses the tiddler for par. It looks like yet more heartbreak for the three-time Masters runner-up. McIlroy then batters a fairway-splitter down 17, while Rose finds the second cut to the left of 18. If this was any old event on Tour, you\u2019d call the result. It\u2019s not, though, is it?<\/p>\n -13: McIlroy (16) Share<\/a><\/p>\n The pressure\u2019s on Rory McIlroy<\/a>. He\u2019s in the swale behind the 16th green, 45 feet away. But there\u2019s almost 30 feet of left-to-right break! He sends his putt almost at a right-angle away from the hole, up the slope, the ball then u-turning and rolling serenely, elegantly, to cup-side. In your life have you ever seen a putt like that?! He taps in for par, and that\u2019s a huge save in the circumstances. Cameron Young\u2019s birdie effort horseshoes out, and his face crumples in the manner of a man who knows his race is almost certainly run.<\/p>\n McIlroy walks on the 16th green. Photograph: Andrew Redington\/Getty ImagesShare<\/a><\/p>\n Updated at\u00a018.29 EDT<\/p>\n Scheffler signs for 68<\/p>\n Scottie Scheffler lobs up from the front of 18 to three feet. He taps in to become the first player since 1942 to play the entire weekend without dropping a single shot. It\u2019s a 68 and he\u2019s the new clubhouse leader at -11!<\/p>\n Scottie Scheffler walks off the 18th green after finishing the final day. Photograph: John Angelillo\/UPI\/ShutterstockShare<\/a><\/p>\n Updated at\u00a018.43 EDT<\/p>\n \u2026 and right on cue, Rory air-mails his tee shot over the green at 16! He\u2019s in the swale at the back. Plenty of work to be done from there. Cameron Young meanwhile lands in the centre of the green, the slope taking his ball down to 15 feet. It\u2019s far from done and dusted.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n Rory McIlroy rolls an almost perfectly weighted putt up the green to tap-in distance. Par, and an enormous banana skin avoided. Cameron Young can\u2019t get up and down from the back of 15, and he really needed that to apply some heat on the leader. See also Scottie Scheffler, whose approach at 18 falls off the false front \u2026 and Justin Rose, who makes a similar error at 17. But there\u2019s one last shy at glory from Sam Burns, who has followed up birdies at 13 and 14 with an outrageous 60-foot right-to-left swingers on 16! He\u2019s -10. Too late? Probably. But again, if Rory stumbles \u2026<\/p>\n -13: McIlroy (15) Share<\/a><\/p>\n Scottie Scheffler splits the 18th fairway. Justin Rose slices his drive at 17 into the trees down the right \u2026 but the ball comes clanking back off a tree and into the fairway! And on 15, Cameron Young sends his second from the middle of the fairway over the back of the green, but not too far down the bank. Then Rory, forced to punch out from the pines, wedges into the green \u2026 but only just gets over the water! Audible gasps as the ball arcs over the water \u2026 descending too early maybe?! \u2026 no, it keeps going and holds the green! But that was too close for comfort. McIlroy takes a huge lug of air. A puff of relief. So close to disaster. But now he\u2019s got two putts for par from 40 feet. Not ideal, but it could have been so much worse.<\/p>\n McIlroy hits his approach on the 15th hole. Photograph: Mike Segar\/ReutersShare<\/a><\/p>\n Updated at\u00a018.15 EDT<\/p>\n Justin Rose is left with a tricky downhill birdie putt on 16. A big left-to-right swing as well. He judges it almost to perfection, but the 27-footer stops one short. And in other Almost Perfect news, Scottie Scheffler\u2019s straight downhill birdie effort on 17 somehow stays up on the left. One dimple to the side, and it would have been three birdies on the bounce. But he, like Rose, remains at -11. That might prove costly. Such a thin line between success and failure. They may now be reliant on Rory stumbling over the closing stretch. Which, well, y\u2019know. We all remember last year. Anything could happen.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n Scottie Scheffler, his tail up, sends his drive down the middle of 17. Then his second into the green. He\u2019ll have an 18-footer for birdie. Back on 16, Justin Rose sends an adrenaline-fuelled iron over the flag, only just holding the green. And even further back, on 15, Cameron Young splits the fairway but Rory McIlroy<\/a> deposits his tee shot in the trees on the right. Good luck predicting this, because Scheffler\u2019s late arrival on the scene has shaken everything up.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n Rory McIlroy\u2019s uphill putt has a big left-to-right swing. He reads it perfectly, but doesn\u2019t judge the distance so well. Well enough for a tap-in par, but that\u2019s a shame for the leader. Then Cameron Young does the opposite thing: a perfect read that\u2019s overhit. He leaves himself a tricky four-footer coming back, but in it goes for his par. Meanwhile over on 15, Justin Rose isn\u2019t done yet either. He carves his approach miles wide right of the green. Opting to putt instead of chipping, he rolls through the swale and up onto the putting surface, from 45 feet to four. He tidies up for his birdie. Meanwhile par for Russell Henley at the last: a 68 and he joins Tyrrell Hatton as clubhouse leader at -10. It\u2019s Masters Sunday, so of course everything is still up for grabs!<\/p>\n -13: McIlroy (14) Share<\/a><\/p>\n Scottie makes his birdie at 16! And all of a sudden the two-time champion, who couldn\u2019t get anything going for so long today, is making a belated move. Back on 14, Rory and Cam Young both find the heart of the green in regulation, but don\u2019t get particularly close. Rory will give Young a read.<\/p>\n -13: McIlroy (13) Share<\/a><\/p>\n Scottie Scheffler needs to keep the pedal to the floor now, if he\u2019s to force Rory to stumble. McIlroy sends his drive down the right of 14, all good, but Scheffler guides his tee shot at 16 to nine feet, and he\u2019ll have a straight look at another birdie. Meanwhile it\u2019s a par-par finish for Collin Morikawa, who came back in 31 for a final round of 68 and a -9 finish.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n That was one of the great Masters moments. Seconds between Scottie Scheffler sending the gallery at 15 into a frenzy and Rory McIlroy<\/a> ripping the space-time continuum with similar antics at 13. The trading of haymakers by golf\u2019s two biggest hitters.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n Scottie Scheffler makes his big birdie putt on 15! A 20-foot right-to-left slider! What an outrageous birdie after all that nonsense in the pines! The gallery erupts! But it\u2019s Bedlam Tennis, because seconds later, over on 13, Rory McIlroy<\/a> rolls in his eight-foot birdie putt, and he extends his lead to three \u2026 and maintains the same advantage over Scheffler! What a back-and-forth that was! Out of the top drawer. That\u2019ll live long as a proper Masters memory! Young, who has to make do with par, may feel this slipping away. But then we said that about Rory less than two hours ago, and now look!<\/p>\n -13: McIlroy (13) Share<\/a><\/p>\n McIlroy and Young take different approaches to their third shots from the swale at the back of 13. McIlroy putts. A mammoth right-to-left break. It rolls ten feet past, but that\u2019s not a bad result from there. Young opts to chip, and looks to have judged it perfectly. A right to left breaker as well, but not as pronounced. But the greens are baked, and the ball doesn\u2019t stop. His heart in his mouth as it rolls towards the creek! But it stops a few feet short. And he\u2019ll have an uphill look at birdie from 12 feet.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n Justin Rose sends an awful second miles left of 14. But he redeems himself with a lovely bump up to tap-in distance. He blows his cheeks out with relief. He remains at -10. Meanwhile up on 15, Scottie Scheffler flays his drive into the woods down the right, then clips a branch while attempting to chip out. His ball remains in the straw \u2026 but does it really matter?! Because he spots a window and fashions a fizzer though it, whipping the ball into the centre of 15, from where he\u2019ll have a look at birdie from 20 feet.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n Cameron Young\u2019s drive at 13 finds the second cut down the right. He sends his second over Rae\u2019s Creek and into the swale back-left of the green. Then Rory McIlroy<\/a>, having sent a 350-yard tee shot down the right side of the fairway, shapes to hit a 7-iron \u2026 then steps away as someone in the gallery coughs \u2026 then pulls his second into the same swale. He\u2019s a bit further from the flag and on the downslope, so there\u2019s a small advantage there for Young. McIlroy can be forgiven if he was thinking about what happened here last year, when he plopped his third into the water. Some fun matchplay shenanigans coming up!<\/p>\n Cameron Young of the U.S. hits his approach from the trees on the 13th hole. Photograph: Mike Blake\/ReutersShare<\/a><\/p>\n Updated at\u00a017.54 EDT<\/p>\n Scottie isn\u2019t giving up just yet. And having been forced to chop out from the trees down the left of 14, he uses the bowl shape of the green to bring his wedge from 57 yards to three feet. Par salvaged. Bogey would have surely put paid to his chances. But at -9, he\u2019s still got an outside chance of making one last run. Meanwhile Xander Schauffele ends his week at -8 after a final round of 68. A return to form for the two-time major winner, just in time for major season.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n Coming behind Scheffler, Justin Rose. He fires a stunning iron into the par-five 13th, over the creek from 208 yards to 30 feet. An outside chance for eagle \u2026 which he races eight feet past. He fails to get the one coming back, and that\u2019s a careless three-putt par. He remains two off the lead at -10.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n Scottie Scheffler hasn\u2019t taken full advantage of the par-fives this week. He\u2019s eagled the 2nd twice, and birdied the 8th twice. But he\u2019s yet to birdie either 13 or 15 this week, bogeying both on Friday, and the 13th costs him again today. He lays up in front of Rae\u2019s Creek, then wedges to 11 feet, but can\u2019t make the birdie putt. Slightly deflated, he then sends his drive at 14 into the trees down the left, and is forced to hack out. Right now, it doesn\u2019t look like the world number one has enough juice in the tank to make the final push. He remains -9 for now.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n Young\u2019s birdie effort is always kinking off to the right. A chance for McIlroy to put a bit of distance between himself and the field \u2026 and he rolls in the gentle left-to-right slider for birdie! After starting so shakily, he\u2019s regained control of this Masters. But if history teaches us anything \u2026 and it does \u2026 there is still an awfully long way to go, and there\u2019s many a slip, etc.<\/p>\n -12: McIlroy (12) McIlroy retrieves his ball after a birdie on the 12th. Photograph: David Cannon\/Getty ImagesShare<\/a><\/p>\n Updated at\u00a017.31 EDT<\/p>\n Forgive me, the distances aren\u2019t of a piece. Not quite. Rory is six feet 11 inches away, the closest to the hole at 12 today; Young is 14 feet and three inches away, which is still the sixth best result of this final round.<\/p>\n
15: Tiger Woods
11: Walter Hagen
9: Ben Hogan, Gary Player
8: Tom Watson
7: Harry Vardon, Bobby Jones, Gene Sarazen, Sam Snead, Arnold Palmer
6: Rory McIlroy, Lee Trevino, Nick Faldo, Phil Mickelson<\/p>\n
-11: Scheffler<\/p>\n
-11: Scheffler (F)
-10: Hatton (F), Henley (F), Rose (F), Young (17)<\/p>\n
-11: Scheffler (F)
-10: Hatton (F), Henley (F), Rose (17), Burns (16), Young (16)<\/p>\n
-11: Scheffler (11), Rose (16)
-10: Hatton (F), Henley (F), Burns (16), Young (15)<\/p>\n
-11: Scheffler (16), Rose (15)
-10: Hatton (F), Henley (F), Young (14)<\/p>\n
-11: Scheffler (16)
-10: Hatton (F), Henley (17), Rose (14), Young (13)<\/p>\n
-10: Hatton (F), Henley (17), Scheffler (15), Rose (14), Young (13)<\/p>\n
-10: Hatton (F), Henley (15), Rose (12), Young (12)
-9: Morikawa (16), Scheffler (13)<\/p>\n