2013 Masters Golf Tournament By Brent Kelley Adam Scott erased his name from those "best golfers without a major" lists by winning the 2013 Masters in a playoff over Angel Cabrera. Scott also became the first Australian golfer to win The Masters , improving on his own second-place finish in 2011, and upending the history of Greg Norman 's near-misses and collapses at Augusta National Golf Club . For Scott, it was his ninth career PGA Tour victory, and his first major in his 49th time playing in one of the four professional majors. Cabrera had only two PGA Tour wins entering the tournament - but both of them were majors, including the 2009 Masters that he won in a playoff. But here, Cabrera was a playoff loser. Scott and Cabrera were tied at 8-under as both played the 72nd hole, Scott on the green and Cabrera in the fairway. So Cabrera had a great view of Scott's 20-foot birdie putt to finish at 9-under 279, and knew he had to birdie himself to force a playoff.

Cabrera played a fantastic approach to a couple feet from the pin and knocked in the short putt to tie Scott. continue reading below our video Understanding Baseball The two golfers proceeded to a sudden-death playoff, starting on Augusta's 18th hole. Both parred. They moved on to a second extra hole (Augusta's No. 10). Both hit great approach shots. Cabrera's 15-foot putt just missed, stopping about an inch from dropping into the cup. Scott then putted from 12 feet, and his putt was pure. When it dropped in the cup, he threw his arms in the air in celebration as the 2013 Masters champion. Two other things will be well-remembered about this Masters. First, a 14-year-old amateur not only played in the tournament, but made the cut , the youngest to accomplish both feats. Tianlang Guan, from China, opened with a 73 and added a 75 to make the cut on the number. Then he added weekend rounds of 77 and 75, finishing at 12-over 300, in 58th place.

Did we mention that he was 14 years old? He lowered the record for youngest to make the cut in a major by almost two years. And second: The Tiger Woods ruling. Woods was in contention, three behind midway leader Jason Day, after two rounds. He signed for a 71 in the second round. But a rules incident arose around his actions on the 15th hole in the second round. Woods' approach into the par-5 green hit the flagstick and bounced back into the water. He walked back to the spot of the shot and dropped to re-play the shot with a 1-stroke penalty. But Woods later revealed in a post-round interview that he dropped about two yards behind the original spot, rather than "as nearly as possible" the original spot as called for by Rule 26-1. That meant Woods played from a wrong spot, and a 2-stroke penalty. But Woods didn't realize his mistake on Friday, and nobody from The Masters' rules committee notified him of the problem until Saturday morning - long after he had signed what was, in retrospect, an incorrect scorecard.

A controvery arose over whether Woods would be disqualified , but in the end he was assessed the 2-stroke penalty and allowed to continue playing under Rule 33-7 (committee's discretion to waive disqualification). The penalty dropped Woods from three behind the leaders to five back. And although he shot two sub-par rounds on the weekend, he never threatened the leaders over the final two rounds. Cabrera and Brandt Snedeker were the third-round co-leaders, one stroke ahead of Scott. Cabrera shot 70 in the final round, Scott 69, but Snedeker faded with a 75. 2013 Masters Scores Results from the 2013 Masters golf tournament played at the par-72 Augusta National Golf Club in Augusta, Georgia (p-won playoff; a-amateur): p-Adam Scott 2013 Masters -- Adam Scott beats Angel Cabrera, wins green jacket comment AUGUSTA, Ga. -- Adam Scott barely had time to think about an Australian in a green jacket when a sudden roar from the 18th green and a quick look at the TV reminded him it's never been easy. Not for him in the majors.

And certainly not for the Aussies at Augusta National. He thought for a second it was over when he made a 20-foot birdie putt, the kind that always win the Masters. In the scoring room, one last cheer on a soggy Sunday caused Scott to look up at the television after Angel Cabrera produced a great shot of his own, a 7-iron to 3 feet for birdie to force a playoff. Not again. "The golf gods can't be this cruel to Australia," Greg Norman , the symbol of heartache at Augusta, said in a text to friends who were watching nervously. Scott knocked in a 12-foot birdie putt on the second playoff hole to win that green jacket, personal redemption for his own failure last summer in the Open Championship and an end to more than a half-century of Australian misery at the Masters. Aussie! Aussie! Aussie! "We like to think we're the best at everything. Golf is a big sport at home, and this is the one thing in golf we hadn't been able to achieve," Scott said. "It's amazing that it's my destiny to be the first Australian to win.

It's incredible." Halfway around the world on Monday morning, commuters cheered on buses going into Brisbane, the capital of Scott's home state of Queensland. A speech by the prime minister was interrupted to give an update on the playoff. The celebration was sweet, especially for the 32-year-old Scott. It was only last summer when Scott threw away the Open Championship by making bogey on his last four holes to lose by one shot to Ernie Els . He handled that wrenching defeat with dignity and pledged to finish stronger if given another chance. "Next time -- I'm sure there will be a next time -- I can do a better job of it," he said that day. Scott was close to perfect, and he had to be with Cabrera delivering some brilliance of his own. Moments after Scott made his clutch birdie on the 18th hole for a 3-under 69 to take a one-shot lead -- "C'mon, Aussie!" he screamed -- Cabrera answered with one of the greatest shots under the circumstances, setting up an easy birdie and a 2-under 70. They finished at 9-under 279.

They both chipped close for par on the 18th on the first playoff hole, and Cabrera's 15-foot birdie putt on the 10th grazed the right side of the cup. Scott hit his 6-iron into about 12 feet, leaving him one putt away from a green jacket. Under darkening clouds -- no sudden-death playoff at the Masters had ever gone more than two holes -- Scott said he could barely read the putt. That's when he called over caddie Steve Williams and asked him to take over. Williams was on the bag for 13 of Tiger Woods ' majors, and read the putt that helped Woods to the 1999 PGA Championship. With caddie Steve Williams in the background, Adam Scott celebrated in style at Augusta National as his long wait for a first major title ended with a playoff win over Angel Cabrera at the Masters. AP Photo/Darron Cummings "I said, 'Do you think it's just more than a cup?' He said, 'It's at least two cups. It's going to break more than you think,' " Scott said.

"He was my eyes on that putt." Added Williams: "The winning putt might be the highlight putt of my career. Because he asked me to read it." With that long putter anchored to his chest, the putt was pure. The Masters had been the only major that never had a champion use a long putter. Scott's win means four of the last six major champions used a putter pressed against their belly or chest, a stroke that might be banned in 2016. What mattered more to Scott was that the Masters had been the only major an Australian had never won. He was among dozens of golfers who routinely rose in the early hours of Monday morning for the telecast, only to watch a horror show. The leading character was Norman, who had four good chances to win, none better than when he blew a six-shot lead on the last day to Nick Faldo in 1996. There was also Jim Ferrier in 1952 and Bruce Crampton 20 years later. Scott and Jason Day tied for second just two years ago. Norman, though, was the face of Aussie failures at the Masters, and Scott paid him tribute in Butler Cabin before he slipped on that beautiful green jacket.

"Australia is a proud sporting nation, and this is one notch in the belt we never got," Scott said. "It's amazing that it came down to me today. But there's one guy who inspired a nation of golfers, and that's Greg Norman. He's been incredible to me and all the great golfers. Part of this belongs to him." Reached at his home in south Florida, Norman told The Associated Press, "I'm over the moon. Sitting there watching Adam, I had a tear in my eye. That's what it was all about. It was Adam doing it for himself, and for the country." Norman was so nervous watching TV that he went to the gym when the final group made the turn. He headed home for the last four holes -- Day, Scott and Marc Leishman all had a chance to win -- and was texting with friends as his emotions shifted with every putt. "I can only imagine how everyone else felt when I was playing," Norman said. Later, Norman posted on Facebook: "Adam is a great player and I'm confident this victory will catapult him to win more Majors.

It will not surprise me if he wins more major championships than any other Australian golfer in history." Scott was just as gracious in victory as he was last summer at Royal Lytham & St. Annes. He and Cabrera flashed a thumbs-up to each other after their shots into the 10th hole in the playoff, and they walked off the 10th green with their arms around each other when it was finished. "Such is golf," Cabrera said. "Adam is a good winner." It was a riveting conclusion to a week filled with several awkward moments. There was the one-shot penalty called against 14-year-old Tianlang Guan that nearly kept the Chinese teen from becoming the youngest player to make the cut. There was the illegal drop by Woods, who was given a two-shot penalty over questions and confusion about why he was not disqualified for signing an incorrect card. And at the end, there was shot-making at its finest. Scott didn't make a bogey after the first hole, and he really didn't miss a shot the rest of the day. He just couldn't get a putt to fall until it really mattered. Then, he made two of them.

Day closed with a 70, his second close call at the Masters in three years. This one hurt far more because he had a two-shot lead when he stepped to the 16th tee. He ran off three bold birdies down the stretch -- getting up-and-down from the back bunker on the 13th, a 10-foot putt on the 14th, and capitalizing on a break at No. 15 when his drive ricocheted out of the trees into the fairways, allowing him to reach the green in two. His lead vanished just as quickly, however. Day chose to hit putter from behind the 16th green, came up 5 feet short and missed the par putt. He hit into a bunker on the 17th for another bogey. "I think the pressure got to me a little bit," Day said. The tournament unfolded behind him, and it turned out to be quite a show. Scott hit the ball beautifully the entire day and watched one putt after another turn away from the hole.

But he also received perhaps the biggest break of the tournament when his shot into the par-5 13th spun back off the green and was headed down the slope into the tributary of Rae's Creek when it suddenly stopped, a blessing from a day spent in the rain. He got up-and-down for birdie, and he two-putted for birdie on the 15th. Cabrera wasn't so fortunate. Playing in the group behind, his approach hit the bank and tumbled down into the water, leading to a bogey that cost him the lead. Cabrera answered with a 15-foot birdie putt on the 16th, however, that gave him a share of the lead. And then came a one-two punch of birdies. For the fans who endured a soggy final round, this made up for it. Two players. Two clutch birdies. Two different celebrations. Scott screamed at the top of his lungs and clapped hands forcefully with his caddie after his 20-foot birdie putt curled around the left side of the cup -- just like Phil Mickelson 's winning putt in 2004 -- and dropped in the back.

Cabrera, going after a third major championship, started walking when he hit his 7-iron from 163 yards and pumped his left fist when it landed and the gallery erupted. He affectionately hugged his son and caddie, Angel Jr., as they walked off the green toward the scoring room. "It was a split second I thought I'd won," Scott said. "That was the putt we've seen so many guys make to win, and what I thought is it's time for me to step up and see how much I want this. To make a couple putts to win the Masters is just an amazing feeling." For Woods, it was another one that got away. Not even that two-shot penalty on Friday -- the product of a wedge that hit the flag and caromed back into the water -- would have mattered. Woods figured he would need a round of 65 to win, and he made two bogeys before his first birdie. Even a mild charge on the back nine wasn't going to help him, and he closed with a 70 to tie for fourth with Leishman (72).

Brandt Snedeker , tied with Cabrera for the lead going into the final round, closed with a 75 and finished five shots behind. "Any time you have a chance to win the Masters and you don't come through -- my lifelong dream -- you're going to be upset, you're going to cry," Snedeker said. "But I'll get through it." He could learn from Scott, who endured a collapse that might have scarred a lesser player for a lot longer than nine months. Information from The Associated Press was used in this report. Playoffs at The Masters Tournament Playoffs at The Masters Tournament Playoffs at The Masters Tournament Nick Faldo celebrates winning the 1990 Masters in a playoff against Raymond Floyd. David Cannon/Getty Images By Brent Kelley Updated April 05, 2016. Below is the list of playoffs that have taken place at The Masters . The winner of the playoff is listed first. Each player in the playoff is followed by his scores; those scores are listed by hole back to 1979, and prior to that, scores are by 18-hole total.

(The Masters required 36-hole playoffs in its earliest days, and then 18-hole playoffs prior to 1976. Since then, the Masters' playoffs have been sudden death.) 2013 • Adam Scott, 4-3 • Angel Cabrera, 4-4 Scott and Cabrera each birdied the 72nd hole to tie at 9-under 279. And both parred the first playoff hole. On the second extra hole (Augusta's No. 10), they matched great approach shots, and both hit great putts. Cabrera went first and missed by an inch. Scott followed by making his birdie putt of 12 feet to win. • Bubba Watson, 4-4 • Louis Oosthuizen, 4-5 Bubba Watson grabbed the Green Jacket with a spectacular wedge shot on the second playoff hole, hitting out of the woods with a huge amount of hook to about 15 feet from the pin. continue reading below our video How to Throw a Perfect Spiral in Football That helped Watson par the hole (the 10th), and he won when Oosthuizen bogied.

• Kenny Perry, 4-5 • Chad Campbell, 5 Kenny Perry could have won it in regulation, but bogied the 71st and 72nd holes to fall into the playoff. Chad Campbell went out on the first extra hole, missing a par putt. And then Angel Cabrera defeated Perry on the second playoff hole (No. 10) with a par to Perry's bogey. • Tiger Woods, 3 • Chris DiMarco, 4 This is the The Masters during which the famous chip-in on No. 16 occurred - you know the one, when Tiger Woods chipped away from the hole and the slope took the ball to the cup, where it hung on the lip before dropping in. That happened in the final round. Woods led by two after that chip-in, but bogied the last two holes to let Chris DiMarco tie. In the playoff, Woods won on the first extra hole (No. 18) with a birdie. • Mike Weir, 5 • Len Mattiace, 6 Mike Weir had a bogey-free final round, and then bogied the first playoff hole (No.

10) - but won anyway when Len Mattiace double-bogied. Weir thus became the first left-handed golfer and the first Canadian to win The Masters. • Nick Faldo, 4-4 • Raymond Floyd, 4-5 Nick Faldo won The Masters in a playoff for the second straight year. Faldo's victory came via a par on the second playoff (No. 11) when Raymond Floyd bogied. At 48, Floyd was attempting to become the oldest Masters winner. But Faldo came from four shots off the lead with six holes to play to force the playoff. • Nick Faldo, 5-3 • Scott Hoch, 5-4 Faldo's birdie on the second playoff hole (No. 11) earned him the first of his three Masters wins. Scott Hoch should have won it on the first extra hole, but missed a short (around 2- to 3-foot) birdie putt. • Greg Norman, 4-4 • Seve Ballesteros, 5 After Seve Ballesteros dropped out on the first extra hole, Larry Mize and Greg Norman continued to a second hole (No. 11).

And that's where Mize's famous chip-in for the win happened. Mize was short of the green, but his 140-foot chip shot bounded across the green an into the hole for the winning birdie. • Craig Stadler, 4 • Dan Pohl, 5 Craig Stadler won with a par on the first extra hole (No. 10). Stadler was only in the playoff because he blew a 6-shot lead with nine holes to play. • Ed Sneed, 4-4 • Tom Watson, 4-4 This was the first sudden-death playoff in Masters history, and it was won by Fuzzy Zoeller. Prior to this, playoffs had been a full 18 holes (or 36 holes, once). But in 1976, The Masters switched to a sudden-death playoff format. This tournament is perhaps better-known for the way Ed Sneed lost: he led by three with three holes to play, but bogied all three holes. Zoeller won with a birdie on the second extra hole when both Sneed and Tom Watson parred.

• Billy Casper, 69 • Gene Littler, 74 This was the final 18-hole playoff before The Masters switched to the sudden-death format. It paired two lifelong friends who grew up together in San Diego, Calif. It was Billy Casper 's second win of a major championship via playoff, and the third of his three majors; it was Gene Littler 's first of two playoff losses in majors. • Tommy Jacobs, 72 • Gay Brewer, 78 One year after Jack Nicklaus ran away with the title, he won again, but this time in a 3-way playoff. Nicklaus thus became the first back-to-back winner of The Masters. Gay Brewer could have won in regulation with a par on the 72nd hole, but bogied. Brewer returned to win the 1967 Masters, however. • Gary Player, 71 • Dow Finsterwald, 77 Arnold Palmer won his third Masters title in the first 3-man playoff in tournament history. It was revenge of a sort for Palmer against Gary Player , who one year earlier caught and passed Palmer on the final green to deny Arnie the win.

• Sam Snead, 70 • Ben Hogan, 71 This was Ben Hogan 's second loss in a Masters playoff, both losses by one stroke. And it was Sam Snead 's third Masters title and his seventh and final victory in a major championship. Hogan remains the only golfer to lose twice in Masters playoffs. • Byron Nelson, 69 • Ben Hogan, 70 In 1927, Byron Nelson , age 15, beat Hogan, age 15, for the caddie championship of Glen Garden Country Club in Fort Worth, Texas. Fifteen years later, they met in this playoff for a slightly more prestigious title, and Nelson was the winner again. It was the first of Hogan's two playoff losses at The Masters. And it was Nelson's second win of a major via playoff (the 1939 U.S. Open was his first such victory). • Gene Sarazen, 71-73--144 • Craig Wood, 75-74--149 The first playoff at The Masters was also its only 36-hole playoff.

It's a playoff that many fans may not even realize happened - because this is the tournament in which Gene Sarazen struck his "Shot Heard 'Round the World." A common misconception is that Sarazen's hole-out for double eagle on the 16th hole won him the tournament. It didn't, it merely helped him get into a playoff against Craig Wood . And in the playoff, Sarazen was never really challenged. Sarazen's win here made him the first golfer to complete what we now call the career grand slam (wins in all four of the professional majors). This was Wood's third loss in extra holes at a major; he eventually became the first golfer to lose in playoffs at all four pro majors (although he did later win two of them, including the 1941 Masters). Adam Scott wins Masters 2013 at Augusta National in sudden death playoff | Golf.com Photo: Fred Vuich / Sports Illustrated Adam Scott birdied the second hole of sudden death to defeat Angel Cabrera and win the Masters. by Cameron Morfit Posted: Mon Apr. 15, 2013 Updated: Mon Dec. 1, 2014 Install App AUGUSTA, Ga.

-- The first 76 Masters gave us the storyline that no Australian had ever won even a green jacket. The 77th Masters was about three Aussies trying to win it at the same time, and then two, and finally only one, plus a battle-tested Argentine who had fallen to 269th in the world but wouldn’t go away. With darkness creeping over Augusta National, Australian Adam Scott emerged from the pack with a 12-foot birdie putt on the second hole of a playoff to dispatch Argentina's Angel Cabrera, a two-time major winner. “What an incredible day,” said Scott, whose game hit bottom just four years ago, when his countryman and mentor Greg Norman threw him a lifeline by making him a captain’s pick for the Presidents Cup at San Francisco’s Harding Park. “Everything fell my way in the end, I guess, and you just never know.” Scott got a break late Sunday when his second shot hung up on the bank above Rae’s Creek on 13, allowing him to chip up close and make his birdie putt. And he got help from caddie Steve Williams on the winning putt on 10. “I could hardly see the green in the darkness,” Scott said.

“I was struggling to read it, so I gave Steve the call-over. I said, ‘Do you think it’s just more than a cup?’ He said, ‘It’s at least two cups; it’s going to break more than you think.’” Fellow Australian Jason Day, 25, birdied three straight holes on the back nine but bogeyed 16 and 17 to finish third. The third Aussie with a shot at the green jacket, Marc Leishman, shot 72 to tie for fourth place with Tiger Woods (70), who never broke 70 in his bid for a fifth green jacket and 15th major title. “I thought I really played well,” Woods said. “I missed a few putts, but also I made my share as well. I made a bunch of 10- to 15-footers.

So overall it was a pretty good week.” Scott’s victory was so freighted that club member Craig Heatley, the New Zealand-born businessman who moderated the winner’s press conference, got choked up after saying he could hear the roar from “30 million people in Australia and New Zealand.” He was barely able to get out the words and laughed as he added, turning to Scott, “I can’t talk much, can you?” An Australian had finished second at Augusta eight times, including Norman’s three runner-up finishes. His final round blow-up and runner-up finish to Nick Faldo in 1996 was easily the most painful of the close calls. “Part of this is for [Norman] because I he’s given me so much time and inspiration and belief,” Scott said. “And I drew on that a lot today. I managed to stay in each shot.” It was the ninth Tour victory and first major for Scott, 32, a prodigy whose putting has never quite caught up to the rest of his game and whose results never quite matched his talent. He erased the memory of having bogeyed the last four holes to lose the British Open last July -- his best previous shot at winning a major.

“I played 14 really good ones last time,” he said, “but played 20 good ones today.” Scott and the 43-year-old Cabrera traded birdies on the 18th hole to force a playoff at 9 under. Scott’s came first, a roughly 20-foot, right-to-left putt that just barely curled in the low side as he thrust his fists and screamed, “C’mon, Aussie!” Cabrera matched him 10 minutes later when he stiffed his approach shot to within two feet of the pin, setting up an easy tap-in to force extra holes. They went back to the par-4 18th, where both men blistered drives that found the fairway but proceeded to leave their approach shots short of the green. Cabrera nearly chipped in, dashing the hopes of a nation one more time. “I thought, ‘Is this it? Really?’” Scott said. “These things can just as easily go in as go out.” Both players hit the fairway on 10, the next playoff hole, and each gave himself a good look at birdie as the light rapidly faded over Augusta. Cabrera missed, Scott made, and it was over.

An Australian had finally done it. “I was happy for him,” Cabrera said. “I knew that he deserved it, and that he was going to eventually win it like he did right now. It was just a matter of time.” Cabrera had dropped to 269th in the world and recently shot 80-77 to miss the cut at the Arnold Palmer Invitational before finishing T16 in Houston in his last start before the Masters. El Pato was no one's idea of a pre-tournament favorite, but there he was, his kid, Angel, Jr., on the bag, swinging from the heels at the tournament he had won in a playoff over Kenny Perry just four years earlier. When Cabrera failed to birdie either of the back-nine par-5s he seemed to be on his way out, but he still had something left on the 90th birthday of Roberto de Vicenzo, the father of Argentinean golf who would have won here had he not signed an incorrect scorecard in 1968. Cabrera rolled in a birdie at the par-3 16th hole to put himself right back into the lead along with Scott at 8 under par.

Brandt Snedeker, who had shared the 54-hole lead with Cabrera and had won more than all but one of the main players in the last year, kept himself in the mix with an even-par 36 on the front nine but never found any rhythm on the back. He signed for a final-round 75 and tied for sixth place, five back. Bernhard Langer, 55, made three straight birdies to start his round and got to within two of the lead, but began to show his age again with bogeys at No. 6 and No. 7 and shot 76 to finish 2 over. At least he didn’t make a 10 on the par-3 12th hole, a fate that befell both Kevin Na and defending champion Bubba Watson. “There’s a banana skin on every hole,” said the quirky Englishman David Lynn, who was in contention for two rounds (68-73) before a third-round 80.

Lynn’s wipeout was almost as spectacular as Dustin Johnson’s the day before when, having played his way all the way to the top of the leaderboard, he went six over par for his last five holes, never to be heard from again. Many of the game’s elite were largely missing in action. Rory McIlroy, who had hung around within striking distance over the first 36 holes (72-70) fell apart with a third-round 79, making his final-round 69 mostly meaningless. Phil Mickelson was way off, failing to break par after the first day and finishing tied for 54th place. “I just had an off year,” Mickelson said. Denmark’s Thorbjorn Olesen shot the second best round of the day Sunday, his second straight 68 to tie for sixth place with Snedeker. But it was Scott who stole the day. No longer will he have to answer to never having won a major. No longer will Australia pine for the one title it couldn’t seem to get its hands on. “We are a proud sporting country,” Scott said, “and we like to think we are the best at everything, like any proud sporting country.

Golf is a big sport at home. It may not be the biggest sport, but it’s been followed with a long list of great players, and this was one thing in golf that we had not been able to achieve. It’s amazing that it’s my destiny to be the first Aussie to win -- just incredible.” Masters playoffs unique | Masters Masters playoffs unique Tie would mean sudden death April 12, 2014 - 10:43 pm Photos MICHAEL HOLAHAN/FILE “When they put the green jacket on, I had goose bumps. I can’t even explain what was going through my body.” – 2009 Masters champion Angel Cabrera, after winning his second major title TODAY’S PLAYOFF FORMAT In 2004, the format was changed to begin at No. 18, move on to No. 10 if necessary and alternate between the holes until a winner is determined. No. 18 Holly Hole Gallery Click dropdown to select a hole FIRST PLAYOFF HOLE: In the four playoffs that have begun on No. 18, only one has ended there. Tiger Woods rolled in a 15-foot birdie putt to defeat Chris DiMarco in 2005.

Click dropdown to select a hole Second playoff hole: The long par-4 has been the deciding hole five times in Masters playoffs. In recent years, Bubba Watson is one of three players to win on this hole under the current format where playoffs begin at No. 18. By John Boyette | Sports Editor If the Masters Tournament ends in a tie today, a sudden-death format will decide the winner. For a tournament that is all about tradition, there is one aspect where the tournament abandons its old-school feel: playoffs. The Masters is the only major that employs sudden death to determine a winner in the event of a tie. Sudden-death playoffs used to begin at No. 10, but now the Masters starts them on No. 18. No sudden-death playoff has lasted more than two holes, including the 2013 showdown between Adam Scott and Angel Cabrera. Though some purists might prefer a longer format, it’s hard to deny the drama that has accompanied some of the sudden-death playoffs. A LOOK BACK PLAYERS: Gene Sarazen and Craig Wood HOW SARAZEN WON: In the tournament’s only 36-hole playoff, Sarazen won by five strokes.

OF NOTE: Sarazen made a double eagle on the par-5 15th to tie Wood and force the playoff. PLAYERS: Byron Nelson and Ben Hogan HOW NELSON WON: Nelson edged Hogan, 69-70, thanks to a fast start. OF NOTE: Nelson won his second Masters against good friend and rival Hogan. 1954: PLAYERS: Sam Snead and Ben Hogan HOW SNEAD WON: Snead nipped his main rival, 70-71, in a memorable duel thanks in part to a chip-in birdie at No. 10. OF NOTE: Snead became a three-time Masters champion and Hogan became the only player to lose two playoffs. PLAYERS: Arnold Palmer, Gary Player and Dow Finsterwald HOW PALMER WON: Palmer shot 68 to beat Player by three and Finsterwald by nine. OF NOTE: Palmer claimed his third Masters victory in the tournament’s first three-man playoff. 1966: PLAYERS: Jack Nicklaus, Tommy Jacobs and Gay Brewer HOW NICKLAUS WON: Nicklaus posted 70 to edge Jacobs by two shots and Brewer by eight.

OF NOTE: Nicklaus became the first champion to successfully defend his Masters title. PLAYERS: Billy Casper and Gene Littler HOW CASPER WON: Casper used a hot putter to shoot 69 and win by five. OF NOTE: Casper won the Masters in his 14th attempt, a record at the time. SUDDEN DEATH PLAYERS: Fuzzy Zoeller, Ed Sneed and Tom Watson HOW ZOELLER WON: After all three made pars on No. 10, Zoeller rolled in a short birdie putt on No. 11. OF NOTE: Zoeller, a first-time competitor, won the Masters in the first sudden-death playoff. PLAYERS: Craig Stadler and Dan Pohl HOW STADLER WON: He made par on No. 10 after Pohl missed his 6-foot par attempt. OF NOTE: It was the first one-hole playoff in Masters history. 1987: PLAYERS: Larry Mize, Seve Ballesteros and Greg Norman HOW MIZE WON: After Ballesteros was eliminated on the first playoff hole, Mize made a 140-foot pitch shot for birdie on the second playoff hole, No.

11. OF NOTE: Augusta native Mize was the underdog in this three-man playoff. 1989: PLAYERS: Nick Faldo and Scott Hoch HOW FALDO WON: After Hoch missed a 2-foot par putt on the first playoff hole, Faldo made a 25-foot birdie putt on the second playoff hole, No. 11. OF NOTE: Faldo shot 65 in the final round to get in the playoff. 1990: PLAYERS: Nick Faldo and Raymond Floyd HOW FALDO WON: He made par on the second playoff hole, No. 11, while Floyd found the water. OF NOTE: Faldo, the only champion to have won two playoffs and the second champion to successfully defend his title, won on No. 11 again. 2003: PLAYERS: Mike Weir and Len Mattiace HOW WEIR WON: Mattiace found trouble left of the green, and Weir needed only a bogey to win on the first playoff hole, No. 10. OF NOTE: Weir, the first left-handed champion, got the title in the only playoff to be won with a bogey.

PLAYERS: Tiger Woods and Chris DiMarco HOW WOODS WON: He birdied the first playoff hole, No. 18. OF NOTE: In the first sudden-death playoff to begin on No. 18, Woods became a four-time champion. 2009: PLAYERS: Angel Cabrera, Kenny Perry and Chad Campbell HOW CABRERA WON: He made a par save from the trees on the first playoff hole, No. 18, and then won on the second playoff hole, No. 10, with par. OF NOTE: In the first three-man playoff since 1987, Cabrera became the first South American champion. 2012: PLAYERS: Bubba Watson and Louis Oosthuizen HOW WATSON WON: From the right trees, he hit a hook shot that found the green on the second playoff hole, No. 10. He two-putted for par. OF NOTE: Watson became the third left-handed golfer to win the Masters. 2013: PLAYERS: Adam Scott and Angel Cabrera HOW SCOTT WON: Scott rolled in a 15-foot birdie putt on the second playoff hole, No. 10.

OF NOTE: Scott became the first golfer from Australia to win the Masters. PLAYOFFS AT THE OTHER MAJORS U.S. OPEN The U.S. Open remains the only major championship that uses an 18-hole format to break ties. The oldest American major briefly used a 36-hole format but reverted to the 18-hole format in the late 1930s. Ties after 18 holes were then followed by another 18, but since 1990, when Hale Irwin beat Mike Donald, sudden death has determined playoff winners in the case of another tie. BRITISH OPEN Golf’s oldest major championship now uses a four-hole playoff if golfers are tied at the end of regulation. The format was introduced in 1986 and first used in 1989. Previously, British Open playoffs were 36 holes until 1964, then changed to 18 holes until 1986. In 1989, Mark Calcavecchia won the first four-hole playoff against Greg Norman and Wayne Grady.

PGA The PGA changed from match play to stroke play in 1958, and it used an 18-hole playoff to settle ties after 72 holes. The PGA of America decided after its 1976 tournament that it would use the sudden-death format, and in the late 1990s switched to an aggregate three-hole format for its playoffs. Tiger Woods defeated Bob May in 2000 in the first three-hole playoff. Australian Adam Scott wins the Masters in playoff round | Fox News Australian Adam Scott wins the Masters in playoff round Published April 14, 2013 Facebook 0 Twitter 0 Email Print April 14, 2013: Adam Scott, of Australia, celebrates with his green jacket after winning the Masters golf tournament in Augusta, Ga. (AP2013) April 14, 2013: Adam Scott, of Australia, celebrates after a birdie putt on the 18th green during the fourth round of the Masters golf tournament in Augusta, Ga.

(AP2013) Amateur Guan Tianlang, of China, tees off on the 10th hole during the fourth round of the Masters golf tournament Sunday, April 14, 2013, in Augusta, Ga. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel) (The Associated Press) Previous Next Adam Scott finished the job this time, and put an end to more than a half-century of Australian misery at the Masters. With the two biggest putts of his career, Scott holed a 20-footer for birdie on the 18th hole of regulation that put him into a playoff with Angel Cabrera, and then won his first major championship Sunday with a 12-footer for birdie on the second extra hole. Scott leaned back and thrust his arms in the air after the putt dropped on the 10th hole, a celebration for all of Australia and personal redemption for himself. It was only last summer when Scott threw away the British Open by making bogey on his last four holes to lose by one shot to Ernie Els. The 32-year-old handled that crushing defeat with dignity and pledged to finish stronger given another chance.

"Next time -- I'm sure there will be a next time -- I can do a better job of it," he said that day. Scott was close to perfect, and he had to be with Cabrera delivering some brilliance of his own. Moments after Scott made his 20-foot birdie putt on the 18th hole for a 3-under 69 to take a one-shot lead -- "C'mon, Aussie!" he screamed -- Cabrera answered with an approach that plopped down 3 feet from the cup, one of the greatest shots under the circumstances. That gave him an easy birdie and a 2-under 70. They both chipped close for par on the 18th in the first playoff hole, and Cabrera's 15-foot birdie putt on the 10th grazed the right side of the cup. With his long putter anchored against his chest, Scott's putt was true all the way. The Masters was the only major an Australian had never won, and Scott was among dozens of golfers who routinely rose in the early hours of Monday morning for the telecast, only to watch a horror show.

The leading character was Greg Norman, who had four good chances to win, none better than when he blew a six-shot lead on the last day to Nick Faldo in 1996. There was Jim Ferrier in 1952, Bruce Crampton 20 years later, and Scott and Jason Day only two years ago. Norman, though, was the face of Aussie failures at the Masters, and Scott paid him tribute in Butler Cabin before he slipped on that beautiful green jacket. "Australian is a proud sporting nation, and this is one notch in the belt we never got," Scott said. "It's amazing that it came down to me today. But there's one guy who inspired a nation of golfers, and that's Greg Norman. He's been incredible to me and all the great golfers. Part of this belongs to him." Scott was just as gracious in victory as he was last summer at Royal Lytham & St. Annes. He and Cabrera flashed a thumbs-up to each other after their shots into the 10th hole in the playoff, and they walked off the 10th green with their arms around each other when it was over. "Such is golf," Cabrera said.

"Adam is a good winner." It was a riveting conclusion to a week filled with some awkward moments. There was the one-shot penalty called against 14-year-old Guan Tianlang that nearly kept the Chinese teen from becoming the youngest player to make the cut. There was the illegal drop by Tiger Woods, who was given a two-shot penalty over questions and confusion about why he was not disqualified for signing an incorrect card. And at the end, there was shot-making at its finest. Scott didn't make a bogey after the first hole, and he really didn't miss a shot the rest of the day on a rainy Sunday at Augusta. Advertisement Adam Scott wins 2013 Masters, redeems himself and his country - CBSSports.com CBSSports.com Adam Scott wins 2013 Masters, redeems himself and his country Adam Scott wins 2013 Masters, redeems himself and his country Adam Scott on Sunday became the first Australian to win the Masters, as he scored a lengthy walk-off birdie putt on the second playoff hole at Augusta National. • 6 min read Adam Scott brings the green jacket to Australia.

(USATSI) Adam Scott became the first Australian to ever win the Masters on Sunday, thrilling the world and beating Angel Cabrera with a lengthy walk-off birdie putt on the second playoff hole at Augusta. Not to overdo it, but Scott's victory was a tale of redemption, both for him and his country. "I'm a proud Australian, and I hope this sits really well back home," Scott said. "Even in New Zealand." More on the Masters Kyle Porter After a perplexing, rain-filled final round finally sorted itself out, Scott and Cabrera headed into the 72nd hold of regulation in different groups but on the same spot of the leaderboard at 8-under. Scott buried a long putt on 18 for birdie before erupting into an almost dangerous-looking celebration with his caddie, Stevie Williams. "That was the putt," Scott said in Butler Cabin after admitting he thought he'd won for a second.

"We've seen so many guys make it to win, and I thought it was time to step up and win." Scott didn't win right then; Cabrera answered with a birdie of his own after a dart of a second shot, and things went to overtime with Scott and Cabrera squaring off in sudden death for the green jacket at 9-under apiece. The pair both parred No. 18 in amazingly similar fashion; after Cabrera and Scott both hit strong drives on Holly, their respective second shots came up short of the green. A classic chip-off later and the pair headed to No. 10, where Cabrera won his first green jacket in 2009. The Argentine nearly outdrove his Australian competitor with an iron off the tee at No. 10, but it became irrelevant as both players put their second shots on the green. Cabrera was away and came within inches of sinking his putt, but it missed the hole by mere inches. Scott left nothing else to chance, though, burying the third-straight enormous putt of his day to win the 2013 Masters. "I don't know how that happens. It fell my way today," Scott said. "There was some luck there somewhere.

I don't know how to digest it all right now, but it was incredible. It's incredible to be in this position. It's an honor." Cabrera, having previously been where Scott is, embraced the 32-year-old Australian on the green, clearly feeling thrilled for Scott, who has struggled to finally close at a major. "I would've been happy if I would've won," Cabrera said through a translator. "He's a great person and a great player ... and I'm happy for him." It's hard not to be happy for Scott, who came up painfully short at the 2012 British Open (won by Ernie Els) as he choked away a lead down the stretch and continued to look like a guy who simply might never win a major. As I wrote at the time, that Open Championship wasn't about Els winning . It was about Scott losing, and it was a brutal, painful loss for an uber-talented golfer who never put it all together for four days during a major tournament. But he erased that notion on Sunday evening with a masterful performance down the stretch.

He drove the ball well, and his putter was on fire: Scott sunk a pair of birdie putts -- on No. 18 to force the playoff and No. 10 two holes later -- to win the tournament that combined for more pressure in the span of 30 minutes than most people see in their lives. His win wasn't just about erasing those personal bad memories, though. It was about shaking off the collective angst of Australia at Augusta, even if Scott declined to expound on his historical placement afterward. "I try not to think about anything today along those lines," Scott said. "The thing I did well out there today is just stay right where I was. Australia is a proud sporting nation, and this is one notch in the belt that we never got. Amazing that it came down to me, Jason Day and Mark [Leishman] . "There's one guy who inspired a nation of golfers, and that's Greg Norman. And part of this definitely belongs to him." Norman, a Hall of Fame golfer, has a well-documented history at Augusta. The Shark lost crippling shots at a green jacket in 1986, 1987 and 1996, all in pretty notorious fashion.

With Scott's struggles at the majors and success elsewhere, it was reasonable to wonder if he might be looking to take over the dreaded "Best Player to Never Win a Major" label from Sergio Garcia . Questions abounded about his ability to putt in the clutch, and it looked like a major might elude him; when Scott bogeyed the first hole on Sunday and didn't make another move on the front nine, that looked to be the case once again. "Everybody questioned whether he could do it," Norman said after Scott's victory. "We all knew it. The players know it." The players were right. Scott won the first green jacket for Australia. He shed years of struggles by Norman, a man whose golfing influence was shown by the trio of young down-underers atop the leaderboard during the final round. "He inspired a nation of golfers," Scott said of Norman. "Anyone near to my age, older or younger, he was the best player in the world and he was an icon in Australia. Everything about the way he handled himself was incredible to have as a role model. And just that was enough, but he's devoted so much time to myself and other young Australian players who came after myself, just incredibly generous.

"Most of us feel he could've slipped a green jacket on for sure. Part of this is for him because he's given me so much time and inspiration and belief. And I drew on that a lot today, and I somehow managed to stay on each shot when I needed to." Scott also dumped his own personal demons by the side of the road in a tiny Georgia town. If history's any indication, it's possible that Scott could rip off a strong run at the major tournaments soon. There's so much pressure on the "next" guy in golf; we always want to crown someone who can challenge the old guard (aka Tiger Woods ), and we always glare judgingly at a young golfer who can't close at a major. The only looks that Scott will get now are impressive ones. The way that he carried himself late against a tough field under the incredible pressure of fending off the conditions and the course and the history, it's impossible to fathom slowing down that much with all that going on and doing what he did to win. Though Scott's already 32 -- a bit older for golf success in this day -- the future's still bright, and no one would tell you otherwise.

"I think he'll go on and win more majors than any other Australian golfer," Norman said. More importantly the past is a lot less heavy than it was 24 hours ago. Adam Scott Wins Playoff, Becoming First Australian to Win Masters - The New York Times The New York Times Golf |Past Failures Vanish as Australian Wins Masters Search Continue reading the main story Photo Adam Scott after winning the Masters. Scott shot a three-under 69 on Sunday, with another Australian, Jason Day, finishing third, two strokes back. Credit Mark Blinch/Reuters AUGUSTA, Ga. — With two strokes using his long putter, once considered the dullest tool in his bag, Adam Scott expunged one bitter memory that was 266 days old and another that had lingered in a country’s consciousness for 17 years. Scott became the first Australian to win the Masters when he drained a 12-foot birdie putt on the second playoff hole Sunday and defeated Ángel Cabrera of Argentina, whose birdie bid moments earlier had died on the edge of the cup.

“What an incredible day — everything fell my way in the end, I guess,” said Scott, who closed with a three-under-par 69 to finish deadlocked with Cabrera, who posted a 70, at nine-under 279. Another Australian, Jason Day, was alone in third, two strokes back, after a final-round 70. Brandt Snedeker, who began the day tied for the lead with Cabrera, shot a 75 and tied for sixth. “The only one thing in my head was winning,” Cabrera, who expected his last putt to fall, said, adding, “Sometimes you make those putts, sometimes you just miss them, but that’s golf.” Continue reading the main story Playing in the second-to-last group, Scott came to the 18th hole even with Cabrera. He hit his approach on the 465-yard par 4 to 25 feet and then sank the putt. “C’mon, Aussie,” he shouted as he raised his arms in the air and high-fived his caddie, Steve Williams, who had been on Tiger Woods ’s bag for 13 of his 14 major championships.

Advertisement Continue reading the main story Cabrera, who was in the fairway when Scott’s putt dropped, hit his approach inside 3 feet and made the putt to put Australia’s celebration on ice. After both players made pars on the first playoff hole, Scott, 32, coolly made the biggest putt of his career. In becoming the first player to win the Masters using a long putter with an anchored stroke, Scott exorcised memories of his final-round collapse at the British Open in July, where he held a four-shot lead with four holes to play, only to bogey in because of a balky putter. “It’s amazing that it’s my destiny to be the first Aussie to win, just incredible,” said Scott, who also avenged Greg Norman ’s collapse at the 1996 Masters, a loss so painful it became a nation’s freeze-framed portrait of the agony of defeat. “Australia is a proud sporting nation,” Scott said, “and this is one notch in the belt that we had never got.” He then paid tribute to Norman, his childhood idol. “It was one guy who inspired a nation of golfers, and that is Greg Norman,” Scott said.

“Part of this definitely belongs to him.” Woods, perhaps the only player on the tour with a purer swing than Scott’s, was the prohibitive favorite after winning three titles in his first five tour starts this year. He began the final round four strokes off the pace, which meant he was not operating from a position of strength; in his 14 major victories, Woods held at least a share of the lead heading into the final 18 holes. Woods would have been closer to the top, of course, if not for a two-stroke penalty he received retroactively Saturday for dropping the ball in the wrong place during his second round. He had to laugh Sunday to keep from sighing when he spoke of studying photographs that showed he had dropped the ball closer to his original divot than the “2 yards” estimate he gave. That estimate started the gears of golf justice grinding. Please verify you're not a robot by clicking the box. Invalid email address. Please re-enter. You must select a newsletter to subscribe to. Sign Up Privacy Policy “But it certainly was not as close as the rule says,” Woods said. In the end, none of it mattered.

Woods, whose putting was the key to his fast start this year, had trouble judging the speed of the greens, which were slowed by a steady rain that began falling right after the last group teed off. He played the first seven holes in two over. His back-nine 33, like many of his putts, came up short. Woods closed with a 70 and finished in a tie for fourth, four strokes behind Cabrera and Scott. “I thought 65 would win it outright today,” Woods said, although a 65 would have been two strokes better than his lowest final round at a Masters. His math, it turned out, was perfect. Advertisement Continue reading the main story Like growth rings on trees, the players on Sunday’s leader board at Augusta National revealed a cross section of age. From the start of the week, time’s passage had dominated the conversation. There was the low amateur, 14-year-old Guan Tianlang of China, whose swift rise was the talk of the tournament. So, though, was his slow play, which brought him a one-stroke penalty on his way to a 58th-place finish.

At the other end of the timeline was 53-year-old Fred Couples , who at 13th over all was the highest finisher in the seniors division. Led by Couples, three golfers in their 50s were in the 61-player field for the weekend. Bernhard Langer, 55, a two-time Masters champion, birdied the first three holes Sunday to vault up the leader board. He played the last 15 holes in seven over to finish in a tie for 25th at two-over 290. Sandy Lyle, also 55, played the final round with Guan, whose driving and short game he praised. “I think the way he’s going right now, progress-wise, if he can stay untouched with too many teachers and just play his natural game, I think he’ll be in good shape,” Lyle said. On the 25th anniversary of his victory here, Lyle showed that his game remained in good shape, closing with a 71 to finish in a tie for 54th, three strokes ahead of Guan, who posted a 75.

“I think he was quite surprised how well” we can play, Lyle said of the 50-something group. Until Scott’s putter got hot in the gloaming, it looked as if the winner would be Cabrera, a 43-year-old grandfather who in 2009 became the first golfer from South America to don the green jacket. Day held the lead, briefly, at nine under. He was the Guan of his time, a prodigy who at 19 became the youngest winner of a PGA-sponsored event with a win in Ohio in a Nationwide event. The responsibility of ending Australia’s Masters drought became Scott’s alone after Day made bogeys on Nos. 16 and 17. At the start of the day, Norman, who in 1996 was on the verge of becoming Australia’s first Masters champion before he blew a six-stroke lead in the final round, was interviewed on the Golf Channel from his home in South Florida. He said he would be cheering for an Australian victory. If one of them completed the journey that he nearly finished, “it would mean everything to me,” Norman said. “I don’t have a jealous bone in my body.

I’m a big fan of people stepping up to the plate and being a success.” A version of this article appears in print on April 15, 2013, on Page D1 of the New York edition with the headline: Past Failures Vanish in the Hole. Order Reprints | Today's Paper | Subscribe

Question: Which golfer won the 2013 US Master after a playoff?
Answer: Adam Scott