After a tense final round at beautiful Augusta National, we have a champion to the 2020 LeanTossup Masters. After being outdueled by Jordan Spieth (and the very concept of slow play rules) at Royal Birkdale in 2017, Matt Kuchar finally gets the Major he deserves, after a final round 68. Kuchar, the winner at -11, outdueled Erik van Rooyen by a stroke for the title in a finish that came down to just the two men. For van Rooyen, he was unable to close the door despite a two stroke lead on Kuchar going into the day, and his pedestrian 71 just wasn’t enough on the whole. Still an extremely credible performance nonetheless, but obviously disappointing to be so close. Some other takeaways:

Finau Continues The T10 Grift

For years, the joke about Matt Kuchar was that he would rather get a paycheck than a championship. Now that he’s actually winning events, the ATM jokes are cheaper (although, to Kuchar’s caddy – check your pay stub buddy), but someone needs to take up the chalice. For the third straight year, Tony Finau has a Top 10 despite, and I mean this with full sincerity, quite literally never having a chance to win. With a solo 6th this year, Tony continues the Puerto Rico Curse – never winning, alas. At least the cash is good.

From Worst To First

After a field worst 80 on Saturday, Collin Morikawa came back to shoot a field best 66 on Sunday to salvage a respectable tournament. He beat fellow young gun Matthew Wolff, who missed the cut on the number, and he took advantage of the learning experience of Augusta. If not for a disastrous Saturday, he could have been in it. I suspect we’ll see him in Butler Cabin soon enough.

Tiger, Rory, Casey All Linger

The group of guys who came between third and 10th in this field is littered with both stars and randoms, with Tiger Woods (-4), Rory (-5), and Paul Casey (-7) snagging Top 10s, at the same time as Nate Lashley and Jason Kokrak. Tiger, Jon Rahm, and Patrick Reed shared 9th, amongst others, as Rory and Tommy Fleetwood were the only two at -5. For Fleetwood, his disappointing Sunday continued the trend of close but no cigar Majors.

A Tie Amongst The Baker’s Bay Boys

Despite holding a lead in the ever important bragging rights contest between the three, Rickie Fowler was unable to close out the victory over Justin Thomas and Jordan Spieth. Spieth’s 74 was enough to make him the sole loser of it, but Rickie and Justin tied at -1 for the week as Rickie sputtered after a solid Saturday. For Spieth, a T35 is his worst ever Augusta result, but still an improvement on his usual Tour finishing position. For Thomas, however, this has to be disappointing to once again be unable to finish well at Augusta, despite the fact that there’s no structural issues with his fit for the course

Most Disappointing Round Of Tne Day

This easily goes to Bryson DeChambeau. After a Saturday that suggests Bryson was going to go on a weekend run at the title, DeChambeau goes and shoots a useless 77 to weakly close out his tournament.



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