Masters 2024 recap: Scottie Scheffler wins second green jacket

It’s one of the best day’s in golf: Sunday at the Masters. Follow the action from the final round at Augusta National Golf Club:

88th Masters Tournament, final leaderboard:
1. Scottie Scheffler (-11)
2. Ludvig Åberg (-7)
T-3. Max Homa (-4)
T-3. Tommy Fleetwood (-4)
T-3. Collin Morikawa (-4)
T-6. Cam Smith (-2)
T-6. Bryson DeChambeau (-2)

How a champion does it:
Scheffler was struggling, 1 over for the day, and then he turned it on: birdies at Nos. 8, 9 and 10 to pull ahead. Then on Nos. 13, 14 and 16 to pull away. If one shot will be most remembered, it’s this near hole-out at the ninth, which gave him the outright lead, ultimatley for good.

Reversal of fortune:
A year ago, Scottie Scheffler put the green jacket on Jon Rahm. Today, Rahm put it back on Scheffler.

“I got greedy”:
Collin Morikawa tells CBS after shooting 74 with two double bogeys, “I got greedy on 9. I got greedy on 11.”

Team effort:
Scheffler wasn’t going anywhere without caddie Ted Scott.

It’s official:
Scottie Scheffler is the 88th Masters Tournament champion.

See you in 2025:
The top 12 and ties earn a return trip to next year’s Masters. Here’s the group who didn’t already have invites:

• Ludvig Åberg
• Tommy Fleetwood
• Max Homa
• Xander Schauffele
• Will Zalatoris
• Tyrrell Hatton
• Matthieu Pavon
• Adam Schenk
• Cam Davis

Backing up:
Collin Morikawa’s disappointing final round includes playing his second shot backwards on the par-4 18th after his tee ball finished underneath some limbs.

Heck of a debut:
Ludvig Åberg will finish runner-up in his maiden major start after a closing 69. Max Homa shoots 73 and is currently T-4, with the final group to finish.

To the 72nd hole:
Where Scheffler stands on the tee with a four-shot lead.

Welcome to another club:
Scheffler is on the verge of becoming the 18th player to win multiple Masters titles. Eight have won three or more, with Jack Nicklaus (6) having claimed the most.

Make it four with two to play:
Scheffler birdies the par-3 16th and is closing in on his second green jacket.

The countdown is on:
Scheffler leads by three with three to play. Åberg, alone in second place, has two holes remaining.

Near-perfect pitching wedge:
Scheffler expertly plays his approach shot to a foot on the par-4 14th. He’ll reclaim a three-stroke advantage with four to play.

Who’s away?
Let the tee decide.

Åberg trying to mount a comeback:
He birdies Nos. 13 and 14, while Scheffler birdies the 13th. Åberg’s deficit is 2.

Scheffler is …:
Safe and dry at No. 12.

Reset time:
After the debacles at No. 11 and Homa’s unfortunate double-bogey disaster at No. 12, where his tee shot bounded off the green and into an unplayable position in the bushes, here’s where we stand:

1. Scheffler: -8 (11)
T2. Åberg: -5 (12)
T2. Homa: -5 (12)
4. Fleetwood: -4 (15)
T-5. DeChambeau: -3 (12)
T-5. Morikawa: -3 (11)

Morikawa follows Åberg:
Into the water on No. 11. He makes his second double in three holes and drops to 3 under. Scheffler makes bogey to fall to 8 under.

Oh dear, Åberg:
Water on his over-hooked approach shot at the par-4 11th. He makes double to fall four back.

Three. Straight. Birdies.
Scheffler birdies the 10th, his third in a row, to go 2 up with eight to play.

Keep up, people!
Max Homa joins Åberg at 7 under, one back of Scheffler. We’re all on the second nine: the 88th Masters has officially begun.

Maybe lucky No. 11?
In his 10th attempt to complete the career Grand Slam, Rory McIlroy finishes at 4 over par and outside the top 20.

That looked like a hole-out eagle:
But it’s a tap-in birdie for Scheffler, who regains sole possession of the lead, at 8 under. Meanwhile, Morikawa makes double bogey and drops three back.

Things are heating up:
Åberg regains a share of the lead with a long, curling birdie at the ninth.

Matching birdies:
In the final pairing, Scheffler and Morikawa both birdie the eighth to get to 7 under. They are one clear of Homa and Åberg.

Make it four at the top:
Homa birdies the par-5 eighth to join the group at 6 under. Åberg, playing alongside Homa in the penultimate group, makes par.

Three tied for the lead:
A poor tee shot at the seventh leads to Scheffler’s second bogey of the day. He falls to 6 under, tied with Morikawa (who has seven pars) and Åberg (who has two birdies and no bogeys).

One and get it done?
Ludvig Åberg birdies the narrow par-4 seventh to get one back, at 6 under. This, as a reminder, is Åberg’s first major championship start. Max Homa, meanwhile, makes bogey to drop to 5 under.

Title defense complete:
Jon Rahm shoots 76 and finishes at 9 over, same as Brooks Koepka (75), whom he battled for last year’s green jacket. Next up: LIV Golf – Adelaide in two weeks.

Will pars win it for Homa?
Because birdies are really hard to come by. After missing an 11-footer at the sixth, he now has one birdie in his last 38 holes. Yet, he’s only one back after Scheffler fails to make an 11-foot birdie of his own at the fifth.

Finally costs him:
Scheffler has missed three of his first four greens and it caught up with him. He bogeyed the par-3 fourth to give back his birdie at the third. Scheffler is one up over Morikawa and Homa.

Short birdie for Scheffler:
The third hole has long been kind to Scottie and it was again this Sunday. He gets to 8 under par, two clear of Morikawa and Homa.

Two very different pair of pars:
Scheffler and Morikawa both parred the first two holes, with Scheffler scrambling for saves and Morikawa missing two birdie efforts.

Trying to redirect the ship:
After bogeys on Nos. 1 and 3, DeChambeau birdies the par-3 fourth. He’s five off the lead.

Tiger puts a cap on his 2024 Masters:
Woods set the record for most consecutive cuts made (24), shot his worst-ever score in a major (82) and finished last in the field after a closing 77. One poignant moment, however, occurred as Tiger was nearing the completion of his 100th round at the Masters.

Woods and Lundquist shook hands and exchanged a few words at the site of Woods’ memorable chip-in at the 2005 Masters.

At least there is one good moment:
It’s been a rough title defense for Jon Rahm but this hole-out for birdie on the seventh is a highlight.

Oh, Rory:
McIlroy bogeyed the first but had 20 feet for eagle at the par-5 second … and three-putted for par. He’s at 4 over.

Hole locations:

Will we see low scores?
The best round from the early groups is Tom Kim, 5 under through 13. A couple of others are 3 under on their rounds, but nothing explosive (thus far).

A legend bids farewell:

A few early items:

Here’s a look at the final-round tee times for the 88th Masters Tournament.

The Masters champion will take home $3.6 million of a $20 million purse.

Each Masters winner is presented with a green jacket. Here’s how the tradition began.