THE MASTERS | NUMBERS GAME
Masters in Review
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The number of majors Tiger Woods has won when trailing going into the final round. Woods, who has been stuck on 14 major titles since his triumph at the 2008 US Open, entered the final day at Augusta three shots behind the leaders, Angel Cabrera and Brandt Snedeker, and carded a 70 to earn a share of fourth.
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T he number of major championships won by players using anchored putters, which are due to be outlawed in 2016. Scott’s win completes the set after Keegan Bradley (2011 US PGA), Webb Simpson (2012 US Open) and Ernie Els (2012 Open Championship).
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T he number of shots Kevin Na and Bubba Watson took on the famous 12th hole, a par-3, on the
final day.
I t has been this many years since a European player won the Masters. José María Olazábal was the last to taste success in 1999. T he number of eagles made at the risk-reward 15th. This reachable par-5 played to an average of 4.63, ranking it the easiest hole on the course. But it still caused problems for many, including, most notably, Tiger
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Ted Potter, Jr’s winning score at the Masters Par 3 Contest. Eleven players have managed to win the Par 3 and the Masters itself, although not a single one of them has won both events in the same year.
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T he age of Bernhard Langer, who had dreams of becoming golf’s oldest major champion after starting the final round with three straight birdies to get within sight of the lead. Sadly for the German, a two-time Masters champion, he couldn’t sustain it and he wound up at two-over.
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T he number of players who ma d e th e hal f- way cut . Ian Poulter, Graeme McDowell and last year’s runner-up, Louis Oosthuizen,
were among the notable names to miss out on the weekend action.
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Was the highest score of the tournament – Japan’s Hiroyuki Fujita’s second round of 13-over included a quadruple bogey on the par-5 13th and three other double bogeys.
G u a n T i a n - l a n g ’s average driving distance, which was the shortest of the players that made the cut. Robert Garrigus, with 304.4 yards, was the longest driver in the field.
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Adam Scott’s winning share, in US dollars, of the tournament’s US$8 million prize purse. Inaugural Masters Tournament winner Horton Smith received US$1,000 for his win in 1934.
Clockwise from top: Guan Tian-lang, unsurprisingly, was the shortest driver on the weekend; Adam Scott had one of the longest putters; Tiger Woods and his caddie had plenty to talk about; Bernhard Langer got off to a brilliant start on Sunday; Bubba Watson needed 10 shots to finish the par-3 12th; while Hiroyuki Fujita carded 85 in the second round; José Maria Olazábal (1999) is still the last European player to win The Masters; the par-5 15th averaged as the easiest hole during the week
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T he number of shots needed by Jamie Donaldson at the par-3 sixth on Thursday. The Welshman’s ace, which came on his Masters debut, was the only hole-in-one of the week.
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T he stroke average of Augusta National’s par3 four th hole during the tournament, making it the hardest hole of the week. The fourth gave up only 10 birdies in four days, while the field also recorded 10 double bogeys and two dreaded “others” at the 240-yarder.
Woods, who made a triple bogey on Friday after he incurred a controversial two-shot penalty for taking an incorrect drop.
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