Queenslander becomes first Australian to wear famous green jacket after dramatic play-off victory.

THE jinx is finished - Australia has a Masters champion.

Adam Scott ended 77 years of often agonising history today to win our first green jacket after an extraordinary final round and gripping two-hole playoff.

Scott, 32, made a birdie three on the par-four 10th, the second play-off hole, good enough to edge out gallant Argentine Angel Cabrera after a five-hour war.

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The Queenslander played a great iron approach to 3m right of the pin and slid in a putt that will live in Australian sports' fans memories forever, after Cabrera narrowly missed a birdie of his own.

There were scenes of immense celebration around the green, not least of which was a great hug between both combatants showing great sportsmanship.

The putt ended an agonising run of eight runner-up finishes by generations of Australian challengers who couldn't quite do what Scott did today.

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"I don't know how that happens, It seems a long way from a couple of years ago here (when he finished tied for second) and last July when I was trying to win the British Open," Scott said.

"It fell my way, I had some luck somewhere. I don't know how to express it."



Speaking from the Sanctuary Cove Golf Club, Scott's mother Pam said the family was beside themselves after the history-making win.

"It's something Adam has wanted so long, it was just a delight to watch," Pam Scott said.

"My daughter Casie and I watched it all morning and we just leapt in the air when he made that putt.

"It was a hard putt too, but he has worked so hard and deserves this."

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The man himself paid tribute to his idol and good mate Greg Norman for giving him the opportunity to create history.

"There was one guy who inspired a nation of golfers and that's Greg Norman .. and part of this belongs to him."

Speaking later, Norman said he believed Scott would "go on and win more majors than any other Australian golfer."

He also tweeted the following:

What happened today I observed in the eyes of Adam when he was 15. He deserves everything he gets from this win. Proud of him & #australia. — Greg Norman (@SharkGregNorman) April 15, 2013

Prime Minister Julia Gillard said "by any measure it is an historical day for Australian sport".

"Adam Scott's triumph at Augusta immediately joins the ranks of the truly great Australian sporting moments," she said in a statement.

The Governor-General, Quentin Bryce, also publicly congratulated Scott.

"I know all Australians join me in congratulating Adam for making sporting history today," she said.

"His exceptional skill and nerves of steel are a source of pride and inspiration throughout our country."

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Scott said he had tried to block the thoughts of breaking the Aussie jinx through the round.

"I tried not to think about anything along those lines, so the thing I did really well out there was to stay in the moment," he said.

"Australia is a proud sporting nation and this is one notch in the belt we've never got."

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On the first playoff hole, the 18th, both players left their approach shots short and their balls ran back down off the front of the green.

Cabrera's chip barely shaved the cup, but they each made safe pars to advance to the 10th.

They only got to the play-off after one of the most nail-biting regulation finishes in Masters history.

After they and Queenslander Jason Day fought tooth and nail through the back nine, Scott made a curling 5.5m birdie putt to reach nine under.

Scott, who roared "Come on Aussie" as the ball dropped into the cup, could barely believe his eyes a minute later when Cabrera, who needed a birdie to tie again, lasered his approach to within a metre.

The Argentine coolly knocked it in, delaying the Aussie celebration -- but only for 15 minutes.

"It was a split second when I thought I'd won then," Scott said.

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"That was the putt we'd seen so many times on that green ... and I just thought, 'It's time for me to step up and see how much I want this'.

"It's an amazing feeling."

Earlier, Queenslander Jason Day had looked the winner when he moved two shots clear midway through the back nine.

But he made consecutive bogeys on the 16th and 17th holes to slide two shots out of the play-off in outright third at seven under.

Victorian Marc Leishman was also in the hunt for a long time, but dunked his second shot to the par-five 15th in a bold attempt to make the eagle that would have put him level with Day at the time.

After a penalty drop, he pitched past the pin and couldn't make the par putt back down the hill, effectively ending a super challenge that he'd sustained for three days after leading through the first round.

Leishman rallied and finished with a 72 to be five under overall, good enough for a share of fourth with Tiger Woods.

Queenslander John Senden finished with a two-over-par 74 today to finish three over and in a tie for 35th.

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