Willett aces Masters after stunning Spieth collapse

It helped. For a while. “But listen, I had my “B-minus” game tee to green”.

The Masters victor touched down on United Kingdom soil after an overnight flight from NY and walked through the arrivals hall wearing his green jacket.

Spieth had four double bogeys or worse on the week, and he was upset that he followed up his 6-under opening round with three rounds over par. “I would think that he will be on the Ryder Cup team, I would think that he may play for the Olympic team”, Hobbs said. Everyone wants a green jacket in their closet!

“I’m not sure what really happened on the next shot”, said Spieth, ranked No. 2 in the world. His four-day score of one-over par was good enough to tie him for 10th at the Masters, where only six players finished under par for the tournament.

Danny Willett wasn’t even going to come to Augusta National if new son Zac had been born on his due date the same day his daddy won the Masters.

The last European to win at Augusta was Spaniard Jose Maria Olazabal, while the only other British champions have been Nick Faldo (1989, 1990, 1996), Sandy Lyle (1988) and Ian Woosnam (1991).

Sunday’s play was made all the more dramatic by Spieth’s late collapse, last year’s champion starting the day three under and powering his way to seven under by the turn. Willett’s came courtesy of Spieth, though the 28-year-old Englishman, who will move up to ninth in world ranking, did plenty to earn the victory, as well.

“So, the more times I can get in position to win this tournament, the more times I’ll learn and I’ll know what not to do”. A flawless closing 67 at Augusta capitalised on a shocking collapse from Spieth, who was five shots clear with nine holes remaining, and Willett revealed the secret of his success is as simple as working hard.

“And I feel like I learned a lot yesterday reflecting on it and that’s something that hopefully I’ll do things differently”.

Dustin Johnson, another extremely talented player who has dealt with personal issues, also got within a shot of the lead but couldn’t pull out his first major title.

“We’re going to try and enjoy a bit of normal time off and then get straight back to the job in hand of trying to achieve those goals”. He opened bogey-par-double bogey and was never heard from again. My ambition in my own mind has always been to be world No1 and this obviously gives me more belief that I can do it. To be able to get there you need to win big tournaments, such as the Masters. He might not have hit the best golf shot in the world but the punishment around there is massive. But Spieth missed a eight-foot birdie putt at 16 and a bogey at 17 sealed his fate.