Jon Rahm Wins the 2023 Masters

This weekend’s main event was the 2023 Masters Golf Tournament. This year marked the 87th Masters Tournament, which is a four-day tournament that takes place every year in early April. This year’s Masters Tournament has been filled with ups and downs from all different players.

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2023 Masters Champion

Jon Rahm was this year’s winner of the Masters, adding his first-ever Masters win and a green jacket to his collection.

Rahm is the fourth-ever player from Spain to win the Masters. The last Spanish winner was Sergio Garcia who won it in 2017. Before Garcia, the last Spaniard to win the Masters tournament dates back to 1999. With Rahm’s win, Spain now sits behind the United States for the most Masters Tournaments won.

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Injured Tiger Woods

The golf legend himself, Tiger Woods was unable to finish this year’s competition due to an injury that lead him to withdraw from the event.

Woods has won 15 major championship titles including 82 PGA Tour wins. Woods quickly came to Twitter to address fans on why he decided to withdraw from the competition on the last day of competing. In a recent Tweet from Woods, he stated that the reason he withdrew from the competition was due to reaggravating his plantar fasciitis.

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Masters Leaderboard

Last year’s winner, Scottie Scheffler tied for 10th in this year’s competition. The previous American winner tied with two other Americans as well as English golfer, Matt Fitzpatrick.

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Tying for second place behind Rahm, was Brooks Koepka and Phil Mickelson. Mickelson, another well-established American golfer, has won over 45 PGA tour events including three Masters titles.

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