Dark Sun The 87th edition of the Masters is won by Jon Rahm
For the Green Jacket, they exchanged Maroon and Gold.
After shooting 12-under par and winning by four shots, Jon Rahm is the 87th Masters Tournament champion. In the four rounds, his cards read 65-69-73-69=276/-12. He has returned to the top of the world rankings after winning his second major tournament.
The 2016 Arizona State Bachelor of Arts in Communications is the second man in program history and the first Sun Devil to win the most prestigious golf championship since Phil Mickelson in 2010.
Rahm had the third-lowest scoring average in collegiate golf history during his junior year while a Sun Devil, winning a dismal 11 tournaments. He was a two-time first team All-American while wearing the Maroon and Gold, and he received the Ben Hogan Awards in 2015 and 2016 for being the nation’s finest collegiate golfer.
As a representative of Arizona State, he has now won 11 professional tournament victories, ranking second only to Mickelson’s 42 victories, including two majors, The 2021 US Open.
After shooting the lowest final round score of his long Masters career on Sunday—a 7-under 65—three-time champion Phil Mickelson tied for second place. He had a 71-69-75-65=280/-8 card, making him the oldest player to ever place in the top five at Augusta National.
After Ohio State’s 1975 pairing of Jack Nicklaus and Tom Weiskopf, Arizona State became just the second university in history to produce both the winner and runner-up in the same Masters Tournament. Along with Stanford, Texas, and Houston, ASU is currently one of just four universities with multiple Masters winners.
The leading contenders finished the third round on Sunday morning at Augusta National due to severe weather that severely affected scheduling all weekend. Rahm started the final round of play at 9-under par and was two shots back after 54 holes, trailing Brooks Koepka by four strokes going into the final day of competition.
Rahm reached 10-under par during the round when he birdied the fourth hole, a 495-yard, par-4. In addition to knotting the pair in front, Koepka bogeyed the fourth.
When Koepka bogeyed the sixth hole, Rahm made a clever putt to salvage par, putting the Sun Devil in the lead.
The par-5, 570-yard eighth hole was the next where Rahm’s advantage began to grow. After three strokes, he was barely off the green when he unleashed a magnificent wedge shot that resulted in a tap-in birdie. His final round score of 2-under brought him to 11-under overall, two strokes better than Koepka.
Both players made bogeys on the ninth, with Rahm finishing the front nine at 10-under par, one stroke better than Koepka and a revitalized Jordan Spieth, who completed at 8-under just before Rahm got to the green on 10.
Rahm made the final separation as he approached the back-nine’s midpoint. He moved to 12-under after making birdies on holes 13 and 14, four strokes better than Mickelson.
The spectators on the course cheered when he made a birdie on the par-4, 440-yard 14th hole.
The rest of the way, Rahm maintained his 12-under par, and Koepka never got any closer than three shots behind.
Wins at the Jon Rahm College Tournament (11)
2016 NCAA Regional in Albuquerque (May 16-18)
Pac-12 Championships of 2016 (Apr. 29-May. 1)
Thunderbird Invitational 2016 at ASU (Apr. 2-3)
Tavistock Invitational 2015 (Oct. 18-20)
2015 NCAA Regional in San Diego (May 14-16)
Thunderbird Invitational 2015 at ASU (Apr. 3-4)
Duck Invitational for 2015 (Mar. 23-24)
Bill Cullum Invitational 2014 (Oct. 20-21)
Thunderbird Invitational 2014 at ASU (Mar. 21-23)
San Diego Classic 2013 (Mar. 11-12)
Bill Cullum Invitational 2012 (Oct. 21-22)
WINS IN THE MOST SUN DEVIL MEN’S GOLF TOURNAMENT
Billy Mayfair (1984–88),
Phil Mickelson (1988–92),
Jon Rahm (2012–present), 16
From 2002 through 2006, Alejandro Canizares, 6
1962–1975: Charlie Gibson, 6
Paul Casey, six (1997–2000).
(1991-95) Todd Demsey, 5
LOWEST 54-HOLE SCORES FOR SUN DEVIL (1993-94 TO PRESENT)
Jonathan Rahm, 192/-21 (2014 ASU Thunderbird Invitational)
the 195/-15 Jon Rahm (2015 ASU Thunderbird Invitational)
Kennegard, Jesper, 197/-13 (2008 UH Hilo Invitational)
Alvarado, Benjamin, 198/-18 (2007 NCAA West Regional in Tempe)
Anthony Canizares, 200/-16 (2004 ASU Thunderbird Invitational)
Jeff Quinn, 211/15 (1999 ASU Thunderbird Invitational)
NCAA’S BEST SEASON STROKE AVERAGE
Wake Forest, 2003–04; Bill Haas; 68.93
69.05 Maverick McNealy, Stanford, 2014–15
69.15 Jon Rahm, Arizona State, 2014–15
