Key facts and figures about the 88th Masters Tournament

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AUGUSTA, Ga. - Here’s a look at the final day of the Masters on Sunday:

At a glance

VICTOR: Scottie Scheffler with a 4-under 68 to finish at 277.

SPOILS: Scheffler won $3.6 million, pushing his season total to over $15 million. He also gets to take home the Masters green jacket for a year.

RUNNER-UP: Ludvig Aberg in his first major shot 69 and finished four shots behind.

SAY A PRAYER: Aberg, Collin Morikawa and Max Homa all made a double bogey around Amen Corner to fall behind.

SHOT OF THE DAY: Scheffler hit a lob wedge into the ninth hole that spun back down the ridge to within a foot. It came in the middle of three straight birdies that gave him control.

ROUND OF THE DAY: Tom Kim had a 66.

TIGER TRACKS: Tiger Woods finished at 16-over 304, his highest 72-hole score of his career.

RETURNING: Tyrrell Hatton of LIV Golf and Adam Schenk, who played his last five holes in 1 under, finished in the top 12 to earn a trip back to the Masters next year.

KEY STATISTIC: Scheffler s Tiger Woods as the only players to twice win the Masters while ranked No. 1 in the world.

NOTEWORTHY: Two-time champion Jose Maria Olazabal closed with a 72 and tied defending champion Jon Rahm.

QUOTEWORTHY: “I hate shooting over par. I can’t tell you how much I hate shooting over par. It’s nice to not experience that yet this year.” — Scheffler, whose worst round in nine tournaments this year is an even-par on the toughest day at the Masters.

Detailed notes

This year marks the third Masters in the last 20 years in which the top two finishers were both ranked among the top 10 in the Official World Golf Rankings. That also happened in 2020 (Scheffler and McIlroy) and 2010 (Mickelson and Westwood).
Scottie Scheffler (27 years, 298 days old) and Ludvig Aberg (24 years, 166 days) are the second-youngest set of players to finish first and second at the Masters. In 1937, the top two finishers were Byron Nelson (25 years, 59 days) and Ralph Guldahl (25 years, 133 days).
This is just the fourth time in the last 25 years that a player won the Masters by four or more strokes. Jon Rahm won by four in 2023, Dustin Johnson won by five in 2020 and Jordan Spieth won by four in 2015. Prior to that, you have to go back to 1997, when Tiger Woods won by 12.
This was the first time since 2013 that there were no eagles on No. 13 in the final round. There had been at least two final round eagles on No. 13 in each of the last 10 years.
Scottie Scheffler ranked third in total putts, T-7 in greens-in-regulation and T-10 in fairways- in-regulation this week. The only other Masters champions over the last 25 years to rank in the top 10 in each category are Zach Johnson in 2007, Trevor Immelman in 2008 and Scheffler again in 2022.
Scottie Scheffler is the first Masters champion to make at least seven par breakers in the final round since Nick Faldo had eight in 1989.
Fuzzy Zoeller (1979) was the most recent first year player to win the Masters. Ludvig Aberg is the seventh first year player since then to finish second (outright or tied), ing Will Zalatoris (second, 2021), Sungjae Im (T-2, 2020), Jonas Blixt (T-2, 2014), Jordan Spieth (T-2, 2014), Jason Day (T-2, 2011) and Dan Pohl (lost in a playoff, 1982).
Scottie Scheffler s Tiger Woods (2001) as the only players to win the Players Championship and Masters in the same season.
Best finishes at the Masters among players representing Sweden: Ludvig Aberg (second, 2024), Jonas Blixt (T-2, 2014), Peter Hanson (T-3, 2012) and Henrik Stenson (T-5, 2018).
Most strokes under par through a player’s first 20 rounds at the Masters: Jordan Spieth (39- under), Jon Rahm (34-under), Scottie Scheffler (32-under), Brooks Koepka (18-under), Tony Finau (16-under) and David Duval (16-under).
The four defending major champions (Jon Rahm, Brooks Koepka, Wyndham Clark and Brian Harman) combined to shoot 35 strokes over par for the week. That is the highest such aggregate at one Masters since 1997 when Nick Faldo, Mark Brooks, Tom Lehman and Steve Jones combined to shoot 42 strokes over par.
The second nine (37.58) played more than a stroke higher for the week than the first nine (36.33). Since WWII, the only Masters in which the second nine played at least a stroke higher than the first nine over four rounds was in 1966.
For the first time since World War II, No. 17 played as the most difficult hole (4.40) in the final round.