Tiger Woods Wins Amazing Fifth Masters 14 Years After Last Green Jacket | sport

Tiger Woods wins the Masters. If ever five words did not do justice to a result …

Let's start the debate now on the place that this occupies in the pantheon of sports returns. Fourteen years after his last appearance in the Green Jacket, eleven years after his last win in a major tournament and twenty-four months after conceding to his friends "I finished," Woods has achieved an extraordinary triumph, even judging by its criteria.

It seemed poetic that the sensational act took place at Augusta, where Woods began modifying the shape of golf in 1997. Twenty-two years later, Woods, 43, was more celebrated than ever before in companionship of his mother and children. .

Tiger Woods: Five-time Masters Champion. The scene was hardly believable. That Woods won his 15th major from the back position after 54 holes – something he had never done before – was barely registered in the midst of chaos.

It would take the pagination of a phone book to properly record what happened this Sunday Masters. Woods' latest rounds out of 70 with an average of 13 under par 275 allowed Dustin Johnson, Xander Schauffele and Brooks Koepka to win. not that anyone seemed particularly concerned about the rough details. Superlatives rained from the sky.

Francesco Molinari, who has shown so much courage for three and a half days, has been shaking terribly during the last period of Augusta's closure. The most painful episode for the holder of the Claret Jug arrived on the 15th, where he found the middle of a pond while he was only 80 meters from the hole. The fifth part of Molinari does not illustrate at all his contribution to this major.

At 0920, the 445 yards of the first hole – with spectators at a depth of 10 in places – gave the impression that half of the state of Georgia was watching the last group. Woods, by his own admission, subject to terrible episodes of nervousness before the coup, sent off the fairway. While Molinari was shooting, his approach was pulling in length and leaving, the excitement of the gallery was growing; the champion of the Open had to save the normal of 13 feet.

A simple Woods bird at 3rd reduces Molinari's advantage to one. While the wind was blowing, Woods was under-hitting his tee shot for the first leg against normal three and was paying fine by bogey. Similarly, Woods at 5th, a hole that he played in a total of over four. Suddenly, Molinari was clear to three.

The impression that it was Molinari's day degenerated when Woods failed to convert from 11 feet to a birdie in the 6th. Molinari, having sent the green by mail, has scrambled brilliantly for the peer. Unbowed, Woods shot an approaching 7th to join the shot. Molinari dropped a shot, his first in 50 holes.

Woods produced a Masters shooting contender in 9th place, with a descent downhill putt from 70 feet. There was no such hi on the 10th when Woods paid a tee shot pushed through another bogey. Molinari's advantage was two for Woods and Koepka, the latter being seriously injured by the Rae's Creek discovery at the 12th start.

Koepka's mental error turned out to be a sign of the future. How this 12th hole, only 147 meters, torments the best players in the world in the final round. Ian Poulter had already followed Koepka into the water when Molinari and Woods had reached the 12th tee as gladiators. Perhaps Molinari's mind has slipped into the macabre results of Amen Corner's reputation; an abused iron shot bounced off the bank and into the most famous stream of golf. It was the least surprising Sunday act when Woods headed for the center of the putting green.

The double bogey Molinari allowed him to return to an advance of 11 points. He did not just have Woods as a company at this stage; Xander Schauffele's 13th green was tied for three. The rain has come down to add to the sense of theater.

Patrick Cantlay produced an eagle in 15th position to top the standings at 12 under. The final group had holes – including two par-five – on their side, but unfavorable weather could offset this advantage. Schauffele joined Cantlay with a birdie on the 14th. Molinari's approach to the 13th day would hang on to save his life, thus sparing him (temporarily) a second visit to Rae's Creek.

Cantlay's attack at 16 and Schauffele's failure to take advantage of 15th defenseless seemed significant. Cantlay still stumbled to the penultimate hole. Not so Johnson. Birdies in the 16th and 17th years allowed him to take the advantage – Koepka immediately joined the same group – while Woods started 234 yards from the 15th green.

The capitulation of Molinari, painful to see, was the next sensational sensation. Molinari was lucky that his fifth did not find water too. This did not have any particular importance; a double bogey was a decisive blow to his hopes as masters. On the 16th, where Woods was previous, the winner hit his tee shot at three feet. The lead was two. Tiger, young or old, do not waste that. Woods had two putts for the win in the 18th; adding to the drama, he used them.

The remaining non-professionals did the same with the leaders. Viktor Hovland won the honors for the amateur low. "I felt really calm there," said the 21-year-old Norwegian. He could have sold that emotion for some good dollars to higher status players.

Rory McIlroy, a "tiger geek" confessed himself, scored 68 for part of the 21st before finding a place to attend the denouement. "It's everyone," said McIlroy at this point. It was Tiger – Lazarus has competition.