Danny Willett wins 2016 Masters
Danny Willett won the Masters on Sunday, becoming the second Englishman to win the golfing event, after three-time champion Nick Faldo.
Last year's winner, Jordan Spieth, was way ahead going into the back nine of his final round, then bogeyed the 10th and 11th holes and had a quadruple-bogey 7 on the 12th. Willett pulled ahead after making three birdies over the course of five holes. "It was tough," Willett said. "Every time we seemed to make ground, Jordan seemed to pull ahead. We were just trying to dig in and dig in and make birdie after birdie. It was just a very surreal day when you look at the ebbs and flows."
Willett had originally planned on skipping the Masters because his wife was due to give birth to their first child on Sunday, but their son was born two weeks early. Willett is the first European to win the Masters since Jose Maria Olazabal in 1999.
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Catherine Garcia has worked as a senior writer at The Week since 2014. Her writing and reporting have appeared in Entertainment Weekly, The New York Times, Wirecutter, NBC News and "The Book of Jezebel," among others. She's a graduate of the University of Redlands and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.
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