AUGUSTA, Ga. — Hideki Matsuyama won the 2021 Masters in Augusta, Georgia, on Sunday, making him the first male player from Japan to win one of golf’s major championships.
Matsuyama’s win also marks only the second major championship captured by a men’s golfer from an Asian nation, after Y.E. Yang of South Korea took the 2009 PGA Championship, CBS Sports reported.
Matsuyama, 29, took the coveted “Green Jacket” in the tournament’s 85th year, finishing at 10 under par and only one stroke ahead of runner-up Will Zalatoris, The New York Times reported.
Matsuyama, a five-time winner on the PGA Tour and the low amateur at the 2011 Masters, began Sunday’s fourth round with four-stroke advantage, closing with a one-over-par 73, the Times reported.
According to the network, Matsuyama achieved top-five finishes in four majors between 2015 and 2017, including a fifth-place positioning at Augusta National in 2015, and twice reaching No. 2 in the Official World Golf Ratings in 2017 after top-five finishes at both the U.S. Open and PGA Championship that year.