Augusta, the scene of traditions, revived this Sunday a beautiful moment that had four precedents and that speaks of the new great rivalry in world golf. Between 1951 and 1954 Ben Hogan and Sam Snead alternated in winning the Masters, just like Arnold Palmer and Jack Nicklaus did from '62 to '65. Phil Mickelson would help Tiger Woods put on his jacket in 2005 and the 'tiger' did the same. own the following year, the same scenario that would be experienced in 2013 and 2014 with Bubba Watson and Adam Scott.
A decade later there is another succession to the throne of many carats. Jon Rahm was crowned a year ago and it was Scottie Scheffler who helped him wear the long-awaited garment. Now it was New Jersey's second victory, which received the assistance of the Biscayan. They are the two aces of the moment, precisely in a framework in which the American remains faithful to the traditional PGA and Barrika's is the great source of pride of the groundbreaking LIV.
The experts, the betting houses and everyone who had followed the last months of competition agreed that Scheffler had no rival in this edition of the Masters, since Rahm dissolved as the days went by. Just take a simple look at his start to 2024. He has won The Players and the Arnold Palmer, he had just finished second in Houston and has only fallen out of the top ten in the American Express with a seventeenth place. He was third in Phoenix and fifth in The Sentry. An overwhelming superiority for the one who, after being tenth at Augusta in 2023, was second in the PGA Championship and third in the US Open. He failed in the fourth 'major', the British (23), the only blot for a player who yesterday had no rival to be crowned for the second time.
Non-rival
The number one in the world ranking already sent a warning to sailors on Thursday, when he finished with six strokes under par, only surpassed by Bryson DeChambeau's seven. He remained at a good level and reached the final day in the lead, with a -7 that in the outcome he extended to -11, one stroke more than Rahm last year. During the first half of the course, Max Homa, Collin Morikawa and especially the Swede Ludvig Aberg, second by four strokes, put him in trouble. But Scheffler accelerated after starting erratic at Amen Corner and imposed his law.
A great devotee of the Christian religion, the man from Ridgewood awaits the arrival of his first child. 27 years old, he married his high school sweetheart, Meredith Scudder, four years ago. “God is in control, the Lord always guides me,” he launched in 2022 at the ceremony of his first green jacket. He just got the second in just five appearances. He is the new Messiah of the ball.
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